DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines police have made no arrests after a man was shot three times Tuesday in his car Tuesday. KCCI-TV reports police responded to “rolling gunfire” shortly before noon. The injured 20-year-old man drove a silver car that was found riddled with bullet holes. WEST DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – An investigation is underway in West Des Moines after a body was found in a ravine south of I-80. A worker discovered what appeared to be the remains of a middle-aged man. MUSCATINE, IA (IRN) – Authorities in Muscatine are warning the public of a man who has been pretending to be a police officer. He has been stopping cars and impersonating an officer throughout February. The man wears black clothing and a black stocking cap. Using a blue and red flasher system on his dashboard, he has been able to fool people into thinking he’s a cop. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A House sub committee advanced legislation that would prohibit the NCAA from penalizing Iowa college athletes from benefiting financially in their own name, image and likeness. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A beloved Des Moines theater teacher now has his job back for next year. Micheal Davenport was told last week that there would not be a full-time position offered to him for the 2020-2021 school year. A crowd of students walked out of class, megaphones and signs in hand, to protest Davenport’s situation and any cuts to the arts department in general.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – A Cedar Rapids man is facing charges after a criminal complaint shows he threatened and forced a woman to watch the miniseries ‘Roots’ so she could ‘better understand her racism.’ KCRG-TV reports Robert Noye, 52, is charged with first-degree harassment and false imprisonment. The woman told police that when she tried to move, Noye threatened her to stay seated or he would ‘kill her and spread her body parts across I-380 on the way to Chicago.’ The miniseries is based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel ‘Roots.’ DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines police are investigating a report of shots fired near East High School during the lunch hour yesterday. The school was put under lookdown, but police were unable to find a shooting scene or a suspect. There were no reports of injuries. DES MOINES, IA – Two bills in the Iowa legislature are seeking to expand Iowa’s medical cannabis program. The bills, one in the Senate and one in the House, seek to raise the current cap on THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana that causes a high. While THC can help with a variety of medical conditions, critics of the bill worry about the drug falling into the hands of teenagers. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Food Bank of Iowa recently received a $30,000 dollar donation from Tyson Foods that will support its BackPack program which sends food home with kids weekly all across Iowa. WHO-TV reports the Food Bank of Iowa provides items to more than 100 pantries in schools across the state and sends 5,400 bags of food home in backpacks every Friday. DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – Animal lovers had the chance to find their purrrr-fect match over the Valentine’s Day weekend. WQAD-TV reports the Humane Society of Scott County hosted their third annual “Speed Dating” Adoption event Saturday. Shelter volunteers played match-maker to pair an owner’s personality and lifestyle with a pet they would fit with. From cats and dogs to a little hedgehog, 20 pets in total were adopted through the event.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Office of Ombudsman released a report today saying another tragedy like the death of teenager Natalie Finn could happen again unless the state’s child-protection workers are given the resources and support they need. The 16-year-old girl was emaciated when emergency responders were called to her adoptive family’s West Des Moines home in October 2016. She died hours later at a local hospital. The report shows 14 child abuse reports had been made to DHS on behalf of the Finn children. The first three were made between 2005 and 2009. ANKENY, IA (IRN) – A West Des Moines man has been charged with sex abuse, according to KCCI-TV. Gregory Hettmann, 22, was arrested Friday by West Des Moines police after officials say he sexually abused a woman while she was intoxicated and incapacitated in an Ankeny residence during December 2018. CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – Trees prevented a car from plunging into the frigid Cedar River early Saturday morning. KGAN-TV reports Cedar Rapids police officers broke a window in the car to get the driver out to safety. That driver, Eduardo Gonzalez-Castaneda, 22, is now facing OWI charges. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A bill in the Iowa legislature would protect children from undergoing conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is a method used to try and change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual. It’s a scientifically discredited practice. A bill introduced Thursday would prohibit counselors, psychologists and health care professionals from performing conversion therapy on children. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A Des Moines community of students and parents is asking for the return of a high school theater director after he lost his job. Des Moines Public Schools said it’s not eliminating the role completely but it’s going to be half time. Theater director Michael Davenport says, “I can choose to remain at Roosevelt for half the pay and no benefits but just as much of the work.” He has been the theater director at Roosevelt High School for three years.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – A federal investigation at a Cedar Rapids home is connected to a missing person case. The Gazette reports federal investigators were digging in the backyard of a home owned by William L. Yancey. Yancey is facing charges in connection with the death and disappearance of James Booher. Booher, of Marion, went missing in 2014. In May 2019, Yancey, Matthew Robbins and Danielle Busch were indicted in the robbery and death of Booher. FREMONT, IA (IRN) – Snowy road conditions were the cause of a Saturday morning fatal crash in southern Iowa, according to the Iowa State Patrol. Troopers believe that a 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee, driven by Mallory Johnston, of Fremont, was traveling southbound on Highway 23 when it lost control on a curve near Fremont. Authorities think snow on the road surface caused the vehicle to go off the road, where it overturned and landed on its top. Johnston was killed in the crash. Her passenger, a 21-year-old from Oskaloosa, was injured and taken to a hospital. CLIVE, IA (IRN) – Public education in Iowa could be one step away from seeing an additional $108 million boost, but Iowa Democrats say that’s not good enough. The extra funding is still behind inflation, for the 9th out of the past ten years. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Democratic Party leadership gathered Saturday afternoon to vote on a new interim chairman. The party voted for Rep. Mark Smith from Marshall County. IDP Chairman Troy Price resigned Wednesday after the Iowa caucus chaos.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Board met Friday to look at recommendations to change Iowa’s medical marijuana laws. The board was asked to add two more qualifying conditions to those people who can be treated by CBD in Iowa, but both were turned down. Panic disorders and attention deficit disorder have been denied to be considered on the list of illnesses that qualify for medical cannabis. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A Drake University student is suing the university, the Theta Chi fraternity and multiple students after he said he had near-death injuries due to hazing, according to KCCI-TV. Marcus Shields said in 2018, during multiple instances, those listed in the lawsuit “engaged in hazing activities which included coercing and forcing him to drink excessive amounts of alcohol.” As a result of the hazing he became dangerously intoxicated and was vomiting and pleading with his fraternity brothers that he ‘didn’t want to die.’ DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Des Moines Police Department is asking for help identifying the suspects in a series of pharmacy robberies. The suspects wanted pharmaceuticals. They said they were armed, but no weapon was displayed. CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – Dozens of volunteers and gun violence survivors shared stories and met with state legislators while advocating for gun safety at the State Capitol this week. It was part of a “Week of Action” aimed at preventing gun violence. The effort was organized by the group “Moms Demand Action.” CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – Seventy-four new American citizens were naturalized at the National Czech and Slovak Museum in Cedar Rapids on Friday. KWWL-TV reports one of them was Farid Ahmad from Afghanistan. Ahmad worked as an interpreter for Iowan Kent Greiner, when he was deployed for the National Guard in Afghanistan in 2010. After getting a visa in 2013, Ahmad moved to Iowa and lived with the Greiners. Ahmad said, “I saw them hunting and farming and all that and I was like, ‘I’m going to make Iowa my home.” Greiner said Ahmad is now “living the dream.”