ESTHERVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Funeral services have been scheduled for an Iowa soldier who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan earlier this month. Officials say 27-year-old Staff Sergeant Steven Blass of Etherville was one of five soldiers killed in the March 11th crash. A visitation for Blass will be held Monday from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Estherville High School Gym before an awards presentation at 8 p.m. The funeral will be held in the high school gym Tuesday at 2 p.m.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa lawmakers are continuing the effort to keep wrestling in the Olympics. The state House and Senate passed resolutions yesterday calling on the International Olympic Committee to reconsider the decision to drop wrestling from the 2020 games.

EARLY, Iowa (AP) — A trial has been delayed for a 21-year-old northwest Iowa man who’s accused of killing his mother and kidnapping another woman. Kirk Levin’s trial is now scheduled to begin on June 3rd. It had been scheduled to begin April 10th. Levin’s attorney asked for the delay so he could complete depositions and file pretrial motions.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mayors from Mississippi River communities are joining with members of Congress to draw attention to the waterway and the needs of communities dotting its banks. About a dozen mayors from communities big and small were in Washington D.C. yesterday to announce formation of the Mississippi River Platform.

HULL, Iowa (AP) — A 23-year-old driver received minor injuries when a steel pipe impaled her pickup’s windshield in northwest Iowa. The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred around 6 a.m. Tuesday, a mile north of Hull. Rebekah Jasmer, of Hull, says the 8-foot-long pipe just missed her. Jasmer says she’d been behind another pickup as she drove to work. She told deputies that the other pickup’s tailgate was down, so it lost several pieces of its scrap metal load when it drifted right and swerved back left.

Jasmer says she ducked to the left as the pipe came through her windshield, grazing her cheek. She was treated at Sioux Center Community Hospital. Deputies have been looking for the driver of the other pickup.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — No Powerball winner? It just means a bigger jackpot for the rest of us. Lottery officials say no ticket matched all the numbers in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, meaning the current $320 million jackpot could swell before the next drawing on Saturday. Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says the current jackpot is the sixth highest in history, but that it could grow depending on sales at the end of each day. No one has won the Powerball jackpot since early February.

The holders of two winning tickets — one purchased in Arizona and the other in Missouri — shared $587.5 million in November, the largest Powerball jackpot in history.