DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – A Dubuque man faces charges after allegedly assaulting his friend with golf club over stolen cigarettes. KWWL-TV reports 21-year-old Robert Robey and three friends were at a house late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning drinking, smoking and using meth. Robey first punched one of the men, then later, attacked another friend with a golf club after he admitted to taking two cigarettes. Robey also forced two men into the basement of the home threatened to shoot one of the men’s mother, and threatened to cut off another one of the men’s fingers.

PIERRE, S.D. (IRN) – A Minnesota woman has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for an identity theft and bank fraud scheme. KCRG-TV reports 27-year-old Angelica Hatch-Pequin and co-conspirator Jason Fagin would steal mail from mailboxes in Minneapolis to obtain personal banking information. They would use the information to create counterfeit checks they would cash at stores and casinos in Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa.

FORT MADISON, IA (IRN) – A Fort Madison man serving a 5-year sentence for theft has died in prison. The Iowa Department of Corrections says 30-year-old Adam Nolz had an “unexpected medical emergency,” and was pronounced dead Monday. No cause of death has been released. Nolz was in prison serving a sentence for a burglary in which a safe was stolen and later recovered in the Mississippi River.

AUDUBON COUNTY, IA (IRN) – Two hunters were injured while hunting in Audubon County Saturday. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reports 56-year-old Arthur Goupille of Michigan was hunting pheasants when his gun discharged, hitting two members of his hunting party. The group was taking a break when Goupille’s gun fell over, discharged, and struck the nearby hunters. They suffered non-life threatening injuries.

IOWA (IRN) – Iowa’s three state university presidents on Tuesday asked the governor for $12 million in additional state funding, all of which would be used for financial aid for resident undergraduate students. In addition, the presidents requested nearly $40 million that would pay for part of three major building construction projects. Overall, they are asking for a 2.5 percent increase in state appropriations.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Department of Public Health on Tuesday named the first company it plans to license to make the active elements in medical marijuana, commonly referred to as CBD. MedPharm Iowa will obtain intellectual property from MedPharm Colorado to manufacture CBD. The medical marijuana extract will be grown and manufactured on the Kemin Industries campus in Des Moines.