DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A child was killed in a crash Tuesday on Interstate 80-35 near the Highway 69 exit to Ankeny. Three vehicles were involved, including a tractor-trailer. Traffic was backed up for a crash, and the tractor-trailer was unable to stop and hit an SUV, which slammed into another car. Inside were 42-year-old Luis Venales Graterol and 11-year-old Ian Venales. Ian Vanales was killed in the crash.

JOHNSON COUNTY, IA (IRN) – Johnson County Public Health is reporting the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the county. Monkeypox infections occur through skin-to-skin contact, body fluids, or touching shared items that have been in contact with bodily fluids and or monkeypox rashes/sores. The virus can also spread through respiratory secretions that occur during kissing, cuddling, or sex.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A former lottery computer technician convicted in a scheme to rig computers to win jackpots for himself, friends and family, has been paroled after serving more than five years in an Iowa prison. Eddie Tipton, 59, was released Friday.

MAHASKA COUNTY, IA (IRN) – The Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office and firefighters rescued a man from the Des Moines River near Oskaloosa on Tuesday evening. The Mahaska County Sheriff says the man was floating down the river for four hours. He survived, thanks to his life jacket. The 71-year-old man went to the hospital as a precaution and is expected to be OK.

HUMBOLDT, IA (IRN) – A pilot landed in a farmer’s soybean field in Humboldt County on Tuesday morning. The pilot was flying home to Colorado after attending a wedding in Wisconsin. He ran out of gas and had to make an emergency landing. Someone gave the pilot some gas and he took off again on a nearby gravel road. The pilot and passenger are OK. The pilot will pay back the farmer for the damage.