DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A man was charged with shooting his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend in the leg Saturday in Des Moines. The Des Moines Register reports 34-year-old Jabre Tyrone Norwood was arrested in relation to the incident. Norwood is being charged with intimidation with a dangerous weapon and willful injury causing serious injury in relation to this incident. The victim is recovering. DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – Two people are in custody after a brief “stand-off” in Dubuque, according to KWWL-TV. Officers say they tried to arrest 28-year-old Kelshawn Marshall Sunday for several felony warrants. Officers say he wouldn’t listen and ran into a home. While police were trying to get him to come out, 48-year-old Polynesia Cowart came out and started yelling at police. Both were arrested, and police seized marijuana and crack cocaine from inside the home. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines is seeing a spike in violence. WHO-TV reports the city is averaging one homicide every ten days, and 15 people have been murdered already this year. Out of those cases, six remain unsolved. This follows the city’s latest homicide that left one person dead and three others injured after an early-morning shooting Sunday in a church parking lot in Beaverdale. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Iowa is on a list we don’t want to be on. KCCI-TV reports nine puppy breeders or brokers in the state are on the Humane Society of the United States list of the “Horrible Hundred” problematic commercial dog breeders. SIOUX CITY, IA (IRN) – A former U.S. Postal Service worker in northwestern Iowa has been sentenced to probation for stealing items from the mail he was supposed to deliver. KGAN-TV reports 42-year-old Kirk Baird, of Sergeant Bluff, was sentenced Friday. Baird admitted that from August to October, he removed cash and gift cards from items in the mail at least 22 times. DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – A Davenport college has unveiled plans for more than $50 million in improvements to student housing, buildings, athletic fields and other aspects of campus. The Quad-City Times reports Palmer College of Chiropractic is making the improvements in order to modernize the campus in an effort to retain and recruit more students.

BURLINGTON, IA (IRN) – A car vs train crash killed a woman in Burlington Saturday morning. The Iowa State Patrol reports the vehicle of 24-year-old Alysabeth Ferneau became stuck on the tracks. A BNSF train then struck the vehicle, killing Ferneau. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A man broke into a Des Moines home Saturday, stabbed a victim and then tried to carjack another person. KCCI-TV reports the victim suffered non life-threatening injuries and was able to call 911. Authorities quickly caught up with the man, who was a few blocks away trying to carjack another victim. 31-year-old Jovani Villalobos has been booked into the Polk County Jail. DAVENPORT, IA (IRN) – A Davenport man has been linked to multiple incidents of indecent exposure over the past two weeks, according to WQAD-TV. 22-year-old Matthew Pencil has been charged with third degree harassment and three counts of indecent exposure. Pencil confessed to exposing his genitals to women on three separate occasions. In each case, he summoned the female victim to his vehicle under the ruse of asking her a question. CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – An Iowa City man is celebrating his 70th birthday by biking to Minnesota. KCRG-TV reports Fritz Viner and a dozen of his friends started their 530 mile bike ride to Park Rapids Minnesota yesterday. He named it FRITZBRAI, which is a play off the popular Iowa bike riding event RAGBRAI. Viner is a physician, and wants to use his birthday to stress the importance of a healthy lifestyle. The group plans to get to Minnesota by Thursday.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA (IRN) – An Iowa man was sentenced Friday for possession of child pornography. KETV reports 41-year-old Mitchell Obrecht of Carter Lake was sentenced to over eight years in prison. The charge resulted from an investigation into the posting of a video and an image, each depicting child pornography, on a social networking site. A search of Obrecht’s home found two computers that contained over 1,000 of images of child pornography. SIOUX CITY, IA (IRN) – A Sioux City teen has been arrested and charged with a felony after police said he intentionally shot his 3-year-old sister twice in the face with a BB gun, severely injuring her. The Sioux City Journal reports that the 17-year-old shot the preschooler Wednesday, breaking her jaw and requiring surgery. Doctors say one BB was removed during surgery, but the other BB entered near her eye and lodged next to her brain. Doctors say it was too risky to remove, so has been left in place. IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – In a landmark sexual harassment case, the University of Iowa agreed to pay Tracey Griesbaum $1.5 million Friday to end a legal battle that began nearly three years ago with the firing of the former field hockey coach. In addition, the school will pay $2.3 million to Griesbaum’s partner, Jane Meyer, and $2.7 million to the Des Moines law firm that represented them both, bringing the total payment to $6.5 million. IOWA (IRN) – This weekend could be Terry Branstad’s final one as Iowa’s governor. On Monday, the U.S. Senate will vote on Branstad’s nomination to become the next U.S. Ambassador to China. With Branstad’s appointment, Kim Reynolds’ will become the first woman to serve as governor of Iowa. JANESVILLE, IA (IRN) – Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers helped an Iowa high school class get out of a final exam. ESPN reports the class made a deal with its teacher, who is a Rodgers fan, that a retweet from the quarterback would cancel the final in a sports literature class in the Janesville School District. Rodgers obliged, tweeting, “I’m sure a sports lit final is very important, but here you go….”

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The man accused of killing two Des Moines metro police officers in ambush-style attacks pled guilty and was sentenced today. KCCI-TV reports Scott Greene pled guilty to two charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of Des Moines police Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale Officer Justin Martin. Greene was sentenced on two counts of first-degree murder to consecutive sentences of imprisonment not to exceed two life sentences. OTTUMWA, IA (IRN) – An Ottumwa man is in jail accused of impregnating a teenage girl, according to KTVO-TV. 25-year-old Benevenuto Lopez-Alonzo allegedly had sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl in his home. A DNA analysis by the state crime lab determined that Lopez-Alonzo was responsible for the girl’s ensuing pregnancy. He also allegedly had naked photographs of the girl posted on his Facebook account. MUSCATINE, IA (IRN) – A woman’s body was pulled from the Mississippi River Wednesday in Muscatine, according to WQAD-TV. The woman has not been identified, and an investigation is underway. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Planned Parenthood says it’s closing four of its 12 clinics in Iowa after the Republican-led Legislature cut its state funding. KCCI-TV reports the closings will reduce Planned Parenthood facilities that provide health care and abortions in Iowa from eight to five. More than 30 employees will be laid off. The health centers slated for closing are in Sioux City, Bettendorf, Burlington and Keokuk. MASON CITY, IA (IRN) – Emergency crews have responded to a train derailment in Cerro Gordo County. KIMT-TV reports there are two different types of hazardous materials on the Union Pacific train. No one was injured and the cause of the derailment is not known. CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – Women in eastern Iowa are reporting issues with their Uber drivers using the app to make sexual advances. KCRG-TV reports women in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City say Uber drivers have been touching them, and texting them through the app asking for dates. Police say call 911 if your driver gets out of line.

WINTHROP, IA (IRN) – A worker has been killed in an accident at a grain facility in eastern Iowa. KCCI-TV reports first responders were sent to the Viafield co-op facility Tuesday. The man already had been pulled from a grain cart, and efforts were made to revive him. He died later at a hospital. His name and other information about the accident haven’t been released. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA (IRN) – A 32-year-old Missouri Valley woman has been sentenced to 16 years in prison in a sex abuse case, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Trudy Thomsen met a 14-year-old girl while working at a group home in Arkansas. After leaving the job, Thomsen and her co-defendant, John Thomsen, used social media to convince the teen and another girl to come live with them. The Thomsens then engaged in sexual acts with one of the girls. John Thomsen was sentenced in January to 20 years in federal prison. DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Police are preparing an arrest warrant for a man who two women say tried to run them off the road Tuesday. WHO-TV reports one of the women had an argument with her boyfriend earlier in the day. When he later tried to run the women off the road with his car, the girlfriend fired a shot into the car, hitting him in the knee. Police found him later sitting in his garage with a gunshot wound that revealed bone. He was taken to a hospital, but left before police could further question him. DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – Some state parks in Iowa might have to close, according to the DNR. That’s because they’re getting less money from the state. The budget the Republican controlled legislature and Governor Branstad approved for state parks is less than half what it was 10 years ago. IOWA (IRN) – Iowans are assessing storm damage today after severe weather pushed its way across the state. Strong storms moving through Des Moines knocked out power to about 20,000. Semi trucks flipped on I-35 and I-80, and one rolled near Parkersburg, killing its driver. A tornado was reported near Richland moving into Washington County. Southeast Iowa had outbuildings, trees and power lines knocked down. Wind gusts reached 67 miles per hour in the City of Washington. Damage reports are still coming in across the state.