(Radio Iowa) – Recovery crews have ended their work looking in the rubble of the partially collapsed building in Davenport for survivors, and now the focus shifts to accountability for what happened. A Philadelphia-based structural collapse attorney Jeffery Goodman is representing former resident Dayna Feuerbach in the first lawsuit.

“By filing a civil lawsuit, we’re able to help get answers to what happened and why it happened. Able to determine who is accountable and hold them accountable. And hopefully by doing so to help inspire change,” Goodman says. Building owner Andrew Wold, the City of Davenport as well as prior owners have all been named in the lawsuit.

Goodman led the litigation team that resulted in the one-point-two billion dollar settlement to the families of the 98 people who died and the survivors of the Surfside, Florida Condo collapse in 2022. The city of Davenport says operations transitioned today (Tuesday) to the dismantling of the partially collapsed building. Crews have cleared the debris pile to the foundation floor and will continue removing debris from the site.

(Radio Iowa) – A new law requires the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services to come up with a formula to raise the Medicaid reimbursement rate for Iowa nursing homes that accept registered sex offenders.

The higher reimbursement would only be available to nursing homes that establish a separate unit for sex offenders. “This is a growing need in our state,” Representative Joel Fry, a Republican from Osceola, said during House debate of the plan. “I’ve been working on this for a number of years, so we will hopefully come back with a rate that we could house these offenders at.”

The Department of Health and Human Services is to present their proposed Medicaid reimbursement rate for sex offenders in nursing homes by January 1.

Six years ago lawmakers discussed whether the state should establish a facility to care for geriatric patients who are convicted sex offenders or are sexually aggressive. Hundreds of the nearly 6,600 people listed on the state’s sex offender registry need skilled nursing care. And some of those who’ve been committed to the state unit for sexually violent offenders are in declining health or have been diagnosed with dementia and need to be transferred to a nursing home.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Glenwood Police Department reports Ralph Springs, Jr., was arrested Monday on a Mills County warrant. The warrant charges Springs with Failure to Appear in court ($2,000 bond), Possession of Marijuana/3rd offense, Poss. of a Controlled Substance, and Poss. of Drug Paraphernalia. His total cash/surety bond was set at $9,300.  And, on Tuesday (June 6), 43-year-old Marc Farrell, of Pacific Junction, was arrested in Glenwood. He was wanted on a Mills County warrant for Harassment in the 3rd Degree. Farrell was being held without bond pending an appearance before a Magistrate Judge.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – A traffic stop Tuesday morning (June 6) in Red Oak, resulted in the arrest of a man from Pottawattamie County. According to Red Oak Police, 48-year-old Michael Adrian Kell,of Council Bluffs, was arrested at around 10-a.m., for Driving While Barred. Kell was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond.