The Creston Police Department reports the arrest of 47-year-old Christopher McGinnis of Creston on Wednesday afternoon. At 4:05pm Officers arrested McGinnnis at his residence on a Union County Warrant for the charge of Intimidation with a Dangerous Weapon-Injure/Provoke Fear and additionally charged with Controlled Substance Violation, 2 counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance 1st Offense, Unlawful Possession of a Prescription Drug, Failure to Affix a Drug Tax Stamp, and Possession of Paraphernalia. McGinnis was booked into the Union County Jail on $23,300 bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines will pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit over the death of a man killed when the vehicle he was driving was struck by a car being chased by police.

On Monday the City Council approved settling the October 2017 lawsuit filed by the estate of Jason Hunt.

The 41-year-old Hunt was driving to a grocery store early on Aug. 14, 2016, when he was hit by a car that crossed into oncoming traffic. Police say the car driver was trying to evade Des Moines officers who’d attempted to stop him because his car didn’t have any license plates.

The lawsuit alleged police were partly at fault for Hunt’s death, because the defendants “acted in reckless disregard” for the safety of the public. Police spokesman Paul Parizek has said the officer who started the chase acted within department policy.

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A Shenandoah man was arrested early Thursday morning following a traffic stop in Red Oak. At 12:28am Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle at the intersection of Oakwood Avenue and 8th Street in Red Oak. Following investigation 30-year-old Cory James Schlup of Shenandoah was arrested for Driving While Revoked for OWI. Schlup was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $1,000 bond.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports two arrests on Wednesday.

At 2:03pm Deputies arrested 21-year-old Stephen Cody Esquivel of Red Oak in the 100 block of 1st Avenue in Red Oak. Esquivel was arrested on a Montgomery County Bench Warrant for Failure to Appear on an original charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance (Marijuana). He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.

At 4:03pm Deputies arrested 27-year-old Joslin Nicole Davies of Red Oak in the 100 block of East Washington Street in Red Oak. Davies was arrested on an Iowa State Patrol Warrant for Failure to Appear on an original charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance (Marijuana). She was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The city of Ames has announced that the personal information — including credit and debit card numbers — of some 1,500 people who used the city’s website to pay parking tickets this summer may be at risk.

The city says information submitted from July 30 to Sept. 12 was targeted in a data breach that also exposed the names, addresses and email addresses of customers. The city says no one who used the system has reported any suspicion activity to the city.

Ames uses Click2Gov to process parking ticket payments. The city also maintains its own web server to communicate with Click2Gov. The city says the breach occurred on the city’s web server, which has since been replaced.

In November 2018, the parking ticket system was compromised after Click2Gov experienced an attack, affected 4,600 people who paid Ames parking tickets.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds has appointed a northwest Iowa state district court judge to the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Reynolds announced the appointment of Julie Schumacher, of Schleswig, on Aug. 29 to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Chief Judge Gayle Nelson Vogel.

Schumacher is a district court judge in a six-county northwest Iowa judicial district. She has previously served as an associate judge, an assistant county attorney for Crawford County, and an assistant city attorney for Denison. She also was a lawyer in private practice in Denison for nearly 20 years.

The State Judicial Nominating Commission, which is responsible for selecting nominees for appointment to the Iowa Court of Appeals, is accepting applications for a new vacancy that will occur when Judge Amanda Potterfield retires Dec. 25.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — A man accused of being drunk when he ran his motorcycle into a car in Mason City last year, killing his passenger, has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide.

The Globe Gazette reports that 41-year-old Brandon Roy Kellar, of Mason City, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to vehicular homicide by reckless driving. In exchange, prosecutors dropped a charge of vehicular homicide while under the influence. Kellar faces up to 10 years in prison when he’s sentenced Nov. 19.

Kellar entered the plea just before jury selection in his trial was set to begin.

Police say Kellar was driving the motorcycle late on the night of Sept. 28, 2018, when he ran into the back of a car. He and the woman riding with him, 36-year-old Shawn True, were thrown off the bike. True died from her injuries.

ALBIA, Iowa (AP) — A jury has convicted a south-central Iowa woman of killing her husband, whose body was found in their burned home last year.

Monroe County District Court records say the jury handed up the arson and first-degree murder verdicts Wednesday morning at a courtroom in Albia. The 47-year-old is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 15 to life in prison without possibility of parole.

The badly burned body of 50-year-old Tim Pasa was found in a bed on May 5, 2018, and investigators determined the fire at the Centerville home was started intentionally. The Daily Iowegian reports that an autopsy determined his death was related to an injection of an anesthetic, propofol.

Barbara Pasa was a nurse in the surgery department at MercyOne Centerville Medical Center at the time of Tim Pasa’s death.

Investigators say Barbara Pasa had bought a $200,000 life insurance policy on her husband. They also say he’d told family members he believed his wife was poisoning him.

The Atlantic Community School Board of Directors are scheduled to meet this evening at the High School Media Center for a work session at 5:30pm. On their short agenda is discussion on Alternative Compensation Models, looking at a couple of other districts’ procedures. They will also discuss work session and annual organizational meeting dates in November and December.

Upcoming dates will be discussed as well, including the Athletic Facilities Project Bid Opening. That bid letting will be held in the High School Media Center at 2:00pm on Thursday, September 26th. The bond for the project was approved by voters earlier this year, and will include work on a number of different athletic facilities.