ANKENY, IA (IRN) – The father of a 4-year-old Ankeny girl who fatally shot herself in the face with a handgun in May has been charged in the incident. Akeem Holmes, 33, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, making firearms available to a minor and neglect or abandonment of a dependent person.

CEDAR FALLS, IA (IRN) – A Mason City man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a February shooting that killed one man and left another with disabling injuries. 24-year-old Daniel Martez Judon IV is one of two people charged in the Feb. 6 shooting in Cedar Falls that killed 19-year-old Arthur Craig Lang III, of Clear Lake, and left another man with a partially severed spine. Judon was in a vehicle with others when they began arguing with a group of pedestrians, and the two groups began shooting at each other.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (IRN) – Iowa Democrats hope big changes to the caucus process will keep them first in the nation, as they make their case to the national party Thursday in Washington D.C.

URBANDALE, IA (IRN) – Monday, the Iowa Board of Regents met to consider higher tuition at the three public universities for the upcoming school year. This would impact students at the University of Iowa, Iowa State, and the University of Northern Iowa. The tuition at each of the three regents universities would rise 4.25% in the upcoming 2022-23 school year if approved by the board.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – The Cedar Rapids Fire Department jumped into rescue mode Saturday night after it received a call of a kitten caught in an 8-inch pipe. When crews arrived on-scene, they assembled an extra-long capture device, lowered it down and successfully secured the kitten, returning it to its delighted owner.