ELDORA, Iowa (AP) — A man and woman who confined the man’s son in a basement in central Iowa have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The Des Moines Register reports that 31-year-old Alex Shadlow and his girlfriend, 40-year-old Traci Tyler, were sentenced Friday.

Shadlow had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree kidnapping and two counts of child endangerment causing serious injury. Tyler had pleaded guilty to three counts of child endangerment causing serious injury.

Prosecutors say Tyler and Shadlow locked his 8-year-old son in a space beneath the basement stairs of their Ackley home for at least nine hours a day in summer 2017. The boy told authorities he slept on concrete, had no access to a bathroom and food was withheld.

IDA GROVE, Iowa (AP) — A man Iowa authorities say was intoxicated when his vehicle crashed into another, killing three men, has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case.

The Sioux City Journal reports that 21-year-old Ryan Childers, of Odebolt, entered the written plea Friday in Ida County District Court to three counts of vehicular homicide and one count of serious injury by motor vehicle.

Authorities say Childers was driving a pickup truck the wrong way on Highway 59 just north of Holstein on March 16 when he hit a car head-on. The car burst into flames, killing its occupants, 21-year-old Francisco Joel Nicia Guerro, 25-year-old Jose Danilo Gonzalez Guerro, and 39-year-old Felipe De La Cruz Nava, all of Denison. Childers and his passenger were seriously injured.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A homeless shelter in downtown Des Moines is building a 24-unit, $4.3 million apartment building made out of shipping containers for the chronically homeless.
The Des Moines Register reports that Central Iowa Shelter and Services was recently awarded $2.7 million from the National Housing Trust Fund program and the Iowa Finance Authority to complete the project.

It will be built on stilts in the water retention basin just south of the shelter, where homeless have frequently set up tents. The furnished studios will be about 250-square-feet each. The apartments are reserved for the homeless who have completed the shelter’s housing program that teaches residents how to be good tenants. Officials expect to break ground by the end of the year, and open the building in November 2020.

(Radio Iowa) — State officials have approved incentives for a Wisconsin company that plans to move part of its manufacturing operation to Iowa. Seats Incorporated is based in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The company makes seats for construction equipment, emergency vehicles as well as heavy duty trucks and turf equipment. The company will relocated its metal fabrication to a facility outside of Chariton. The Iowa Economic Development Authority officials say 64 people will be employed at its new facility in south central Iowa. A state board has approved state incentives that will off-set SOME of the company’s capital investment of more than five million dollars.

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The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports at traffic stop at around 12:40-a.m. today (Saturday), resulted in the arrest on drug charges, of a woman and man from Polk County. Deputies pulled over a vehicle on Highway 25 near the Adams/Taylor County line, and upon further investigation placed the driver, Tracy Renee Lehmann, of Des Moines, under arrest for: Driving Under Supension; Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (Meth pipe); Open container-Driver; and Interference with Official Acts.

A passenger in the vehicle, Barrett Martin Driskill, of West Des Moines, was arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (Meth pipe), and he was cited for Open container- Passenger. Adams County Sheriff’s Deputies were assisted at the scene by the Creston Police Department’s K9 Unit, and Taylor County Sheriff’s Deputies.

A traffic stop in Red Oak at around 10:47-p.m., Friday, resulted in the arrest of a Red Oak man. Red Oak Police say 22-year old Michael Lee Hughes was taken into custody for Possession of a Controlled Substance/1st offense. Hughes was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Charles Grassley says farmers were “screwed” by the Trump administration’s decision to allow some refineries to not blend ethanol with gasoline as required under federal law. During a taping of Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press” program Friday, Grassley was asked his thoughts on 31 refinery exemptions the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued for 2018. He responded: “They screwed us.” President Donald Trump has promised farmers he would support ethanol production.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced the mastermind of the largest organic fraud scheme in U.S. history to 10 years in prison, saying he cheated thousands of customers into buying products they didn’t want. U.S. District Judge C.J. Williams says Randy Constant was responsible for a massive fraud that did “extreme and incalculable damage” to consumers and shook public confidence in the nation’s organic food industry.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — A grand jury has found no criminal wrongdoing by a Union Pacific railroad officer for the November shooting of a Mason City man. Cerro Gordo County Attorney Carlyle Dalen tells the Globe Gazette that the grand jury opted not to indict Union Pacific Special Agent Louis Miner after convening this week. State investigators say Miner stopped Nathan Lee Olson for trespassing on UP property on Nov. 29 and an altercation ensued before Miner shot Olson near a railroad crossing in Mason City.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — A grand jury has cleared a South Sioux City police officer of any criminal wrongdoing in a shootout that left the officer wounded and the suspect dead. Sioux City, Iowa, television station KCAU reports that the grand jury made the finding Friday. Investigators say Luis Quinones Rosa fired first at Officer Brian Van Berkum outside a bar, hitting the officer twice. Police say Van Berkum returned fire, fatally wounding Rosa.

(Radio Iowa) — Republican Congressman Steve King has taken to twitter to lash out at critics of his recent comments on abortion — and he’s sending fundraising email about the uproar. King backs an abortion ban that does NOT include exceptions for rape and incest. On Wednesday, King mused out loud at that given the pillaging of centuries past, there might not be any population of the world left if all the products of rape and incest were removed from family trees.

Iowa Republican Party chairman Jeff Kaufmann says the party platform opposes all abortion and aligns with King’s policy position, but King’s line of reasoning was offensive. “It’s the implications and how he put that,” Kaufmann said, “in terms of where our populations come from.” Four other Republicans have announced they plan to challenge King in next year’s primary.

The Iowa G-O-P’s chairman says the party is neutral in the primary – and it’s up to voters in the fourth congressional district to decide. “It is not up to the chair of the party to determine who should or shouldn’t be in congress,” Kaufmann said. “The fourth district is going to determine what they think of the congressman and what they don’t think of the congressman.”

Liz Cheney, the top-ranking woman among Republicans in the U.S. House, called on King to resign this week. King, on Twitter is demanding on apology from Cheney. King has also tweeted at several of the Democratic presidential candidates who condemned his remarks.

King accused Cory Booker of supporting the “killing of little black babies” and King tweeted at Joe Biden, saying: “Don’t look now, but Elizabeth Warren just passed you up in Iowa.”