GRINNELL, IA (IRN) – Police say a shooting at an apartment complex in Grinnell was self-defense. Grinnell police arrested Cody McCall and Logan Moline in connection to the Dec. 29, 2022 shooting. They face assault and burglary charges. The two men allegedly broke into the victim’s apartment and attacked him, with McCall trying to stab the victim in the throat with a kitchen knife. That’s when the victim shot McCall twice in the chest. McCall and Moline ran from the apartment. Police say they caught Moline quickly after he slipped on ice. McCall told police he attacked the victim to keep him from using his gun.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – The Iowa State Medical Examiner’s office has identified the human remains found on December 30 as missing Cedar Rapids employee Erik Spaw. Hunters found the body in the Cedar River on Friday. Erik Spaw, an employee with the Cedar Rapids Water Division, was reported missing after his city-owned fleet vehicle was recovered from the Cedar River. Spaw’s family believes complications from Spaw’s Type 1 Diabetes contributed to his crash.

WASHINGTON, D.C (IRN) – The U.S. House of Representatives still has no speaker after 11 votes over the course of three days as Republicans in the chamber are in disarray. Frontrunner Kevin McCarthy continues to come up short with a small block of Republicans voting against him. All four of Iowa’s representatives have continued to vote for McCarthy.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The new legislative session in Des Moines starts next week, and there’s an effort by Iowa’s Democratic Rural Caucus to protect public schools from Governor Kim Reynold’s controversial school voucher plan. Organizers said they’re hearing rumors that lawmakers could bring the school voucher plan to a vote their first week back at the statehouse after it failed last session. One anti-voucher advocate says, “this is really just a tax break for parents wealthy enough to send their kids to private school.”

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Brenna Bird was sworn in as Iowa’s attorney general on Thursday. Bird, a Republican, defeated Democrat Tom Miller in the November election. Miller had held the office for nearly 40 years, making him the longest-serving state attorney general in the country. Bird says one of her biggest priorities is addressing what she calls ‘government overreach.’