CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) – Authorities are investigating a shooting in Cedar Rapids that killed a 19-year-old woman. Police say Latasha Roundtree of Cedar Rapids died at a hospital early yesterday morning several hours after the shooting around 10 p.m. Saturday. The shooting happened near Interstate 380 on 16th Avenue.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – A state push to bring felony charges against noncitizens who voted in recent Iowa elections could run into two key roadblocks: local prosecutors who do not want to pursue cases and jurors who may find no criminal intent. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation announced Thursday that three Council Bluffs residents – a couple from Canada and a Mexican citizen living legally in the U.S. – were charged with election misconduct.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa man will spend at least five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine in the northwest corner of the state. Federal prosecutors say 48-year-old Esmelin Belloso-Valle pleaded guilty last week to selling meth and conspiring with others to sell it.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa lawyer will be unable to work for 30 days because of problems with her record-keeping and the way she handled payments from her clients. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the Iowa Supreme Court suspended Sara Kersenbrock’s license. Kersenbrock had been accused of mishandling payments from clients and failing to deposit retainer payments into a client trust account.

The Audubon City Council will have a full agenda in front of them when they meet Monday evening. Most of the resolutions they will act on approving, pertain to the issuance of $620,000 in General Obligation Capital Loan Notes, Series 2012-A. The resolutions include: appointing a paying agent, note registrar, and transfer agent, and approving agreements with those same persons or entities; Approval of Tax Exemption and Continuing Disclosure Certificates; and Approving and authorizing a form of loan agreement and issuance of Capital Loan Notes, and the levying of a tax to pay for the notes.

On a related note, resolutions will be acted on, that pertain to the issuance of $965,000 in G-O Refunding Capital Loan Notes, Series 2012-B. In other business, the Audubon City Council will act on a Resolution approving the Road Use Tax Report. Their meeting begins at 7-p.m. Monday, in the Audubon City Hall.

EDNA IRENE BALCH, of Atlantic, died Sun., Sept. 23rd, at the Heritage House in Atlantic. Funeral services for EDNA BALCH will be held 10-a.m. Thu., Sept. 27th, at the Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic.

An open visitation will be held at the funeral home on Mon. (9/24) & Wed. (9/26), from 8am-to 5:30-p.m. Condolences may be left to the family at roland@iowatelecom.net

Burial will be in the Athelstan Cemetery, east of Bedford.

EDNA BALCH is survived by:

Her children – Linda Balch, Nancy Balch, Mike and wife, Joey [Jahsee), all of Atlantic; Margaret (Rick) Norman, of Stevensville, MT; Randy Balch & special friend Roxie Stuit, of Clive.

Her sister – Mary Smith, of NE.

7 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.