NEVADA, IA (IRN) – A Colorado man accused of killing his girlfriend’s two-year-old son at her Ames apartment in April is now behind bars in Iowa. Twenty-five-year-old Trevin Nicholson was booked into the Story County Jail on a charge of First Degree Murder on Thursday. WARREN COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A pedestrian was hit and killed on southbound Interstate 35 in southwestern Warren County Friday evening. The Iowa State Patrol said the pedestrian was hit west of New Virginia. WOODWARD, IA (IRN) – The Woodward City Council has approved a plan to allow a company to build a more than 1 million-square-foot warehouse. The name of the company has not been revealed. The warehouse will employ 1,000 people, and it could open up by September 2022. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Today’s football game between Drake and Stetson in Des Moines has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns among Drake personnel. Under the league’s rules, Drake will forfeit the game.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – Kimberly Dickey, who is the project director for NextEra Energy’s proposed 3,500 acre solar farm in Linn County, is a former chair for the same Linn County commission set to vote on her new development. Dickey also helped write Linn county’s comprehensive plan, which helps guide the county’s physical, social and economic development. AMES, IA (IRN) – Two Iowa State University crew club members were participating in their first practice on the water when they drowned in March after their boat capsized in strong winds. New findings released Wednesday report the pandemic had kept the club off the water for 18 months, and investigators concluded that team members’ excitement for a chance to return likely clouded their judgment about safety. Three other members made it to shore, two of them with help from bystanders. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Gov. Kim Reynolds says she may take legal action against President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate that goes into effect November 1. Reynolds says Biden is overreaching and she wants to protect Iowans who don’t want the vaccine. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Weeks ahead of the Nov. 1 mandate, 100% of employees at Broadlawns Medical Center became fully vaccinated. Five employees quit. JOHNSON COUNTY, IA (IRN) – The Iowa DOT is looking for public input in proposed improvements on Interstate 380 in Johnson County, including the proposed widening to six lanes for a portion of the highway.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency on Thursday released a second set of maps revising Iowa’s four congressional districts and legislative boundaries as redistricting moves to the next phase of the process. The Iowa Legislature is scheduled to meet in a special session on Oct. 28 to consider the maps. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Iowa State Patrol announced Wednesday that Trooper Ted Benda died from injuries sustained in a crash. The 37-year-old trooper was involved in a single-vehicle crash on Oct. 14. Benda was driving to assist Clayton County officials with a wanted suspect. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – An Omaha woman has died more than a week after she was shot at a Des Moines bar. Officers were called to a shooting at the High Dive Bar just before 1 a.m. Oct. 10 and found two people with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to a hospital. A 27-year-old man was treated and quickly released. IOWA, IA (IRN) – Unemployed Iowans would be required to meet weekly with state case managers, conduct twice as many weekly work searches and undergo audits to prove they’re actively looking for work under a new proposal announced by Gov. Kim Reynolds. Unemployment payments could be frozen if jobless workers fail to meet the new criteria. ANKENY, IA (IRN) – U.S. Agriculture Secretary and former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack visited with workers striking against John Deere today. Standing at the picket line outside a Deere & Co equipment plant in Ankeny, he shook hands and lent support to workers he said he’s “never forgotten.”

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and former Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack is expected to visit union workers picketing against John Deere in Iowa. Vilsack is expected to visit picket lines at John Deere Des Moines Works. Workers have been on strike since last Thursday. It comes after the United Auto Workers Union and the company failed to reach a contract agreement. NEW SHARON, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation confirmed Tuesday that a search warrant has been executed at a home in New Sharon related to the Xavior Harrelson case. On Friday, The Poweshiek County Sheriff Office confirmed that remains found north of Montezuma belong to Harrelson. On May 27, 10-year-old Xavior Harrelson was reported missing by a family friend. He was last seen in Montezuma, where he lived with his mother. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A woman shot in the neck earlier this month at an embattled bar south of downtown Des Moines has died of her injuries. The shooting happened early Oct. 10 at the High Dive bar on Indianola Road. Police say they’ve responded to the location more than 80 times so far this year. IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) – A North Liberty man has been arrested after police say he raped a woman on an Iowa City rooftop in July. 33-year-old Fitsum Russell allegedly grabbed a woman outside a bar and guided her to a rooftop where he raped her. SIOUX CITY, IA (IRN) – Dozens of Iowa National Guard members are being deployed to help resettle Afghan refugees. About 30 members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City are being deployed, and 35 others are from the 132nd Wing in Des Moines. The Iowa members will be assigned to an undisclosed location in the U.S. to assist with Operation Allies Welcome, an effort to bring U.S. citizens home from Afghanistan and to resettle vulnerable Afghan refugees.

AMES, IA (IRN) – Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn received multiple threats, including one of lynching, after he wrote an opinion piece critical of former President Donald Trump in the Des Moines Register. Wilburn, a state representative from Ames, is the first Black chair of the Iowa Democratic Party. HAZLETON, IA (IRN) – A crash involving three vehicles along Iowa Highway 150 near Hazleton in Buchanan County on Monday killed two people. A 2005 Mercury Grand Marquis, operated by Nicholas Johnson, 40, of Oelwein, was traveling southbound on the highway and crossed the centerline. It collided with a 2006 Toyota Sienna, driven by John Friend, 70, of Davenport, head-on. Both were killed. IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – Iowa City police say a man was found unconscious and suffering from a gunshot wound after a vehicle crash. He’s in critical condition. NEWTON, IA (IRN) – An anticipated round of layoffs in Newton is now official. TPI Composites will lay off 710 employees. The company was founded in 1963 and has been producing wind blades since 2001. The Newton plant employs about 800 people. WAVERLY, IA (IRN) – Wartburg College is adding a women’s wrestling program to start competing in the 2022-2023. It will be the only Division III school in Iowa to offer women’s wrestling and the first American Rivers Conference school to do so.This comes nearly a month after the University of Iowa announced plans to add women’s wrestling.