IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A white man who deliberately sped his car through a crowd of racial injustice protesters in Iowa City, striking many, will avoid prison and have the incident erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for three years.

This undated photo provided by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Iowa City, Iowa, shows Michael Stepanek after his arrest on Aug. 25, 2020. Stepanek will avoid prison and could have the case dismissed under a plea agreement resolving charges related to his decision to intentionally drive through a crowd of racial injustice protesters in Iowa City, striking several. (Johnson County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

A judge has granted a deferred judgment for 45-year-old Michael Ray Stepanek, who told police he drove his Toyota Camry through the crowd in August because protesters needed “an attitude adjustment.” The sentence means Stepanek will have a felony charge of willful injury resulting in bodily injury dismissed and expunged if he doesn’t commit a crime during a three-year term of probation.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa trash collection official has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of more than $1.6 million. Federal prosecutors in Des Moines say Jeffrey Dworek, of Urbandale, was sentenced Friday to 57 months in prison after pleading guilty last August to one count of federal mail fraud. Dworek had been the director of operations for Metro Waste Authority from 1996 until he resigned in 2017.

He was arrested and indicted in 2019. Prosecutors say he set up a shell company purported to provide services to Metro Waste Authority, then paid out company funds for his own use between 2012 and 2017. He also took kickbacks from various vendors.

The Audubon County Sheriff’s Office said Friday (Today), 49-year-old Rodney Doss, of Exira, was cited Tuesday (January 5), for Driving While Barred. Doss appeared before the magistrate on Thursday (Jan. 7), and was released on his own recognizance.

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports Deputies responded Thursday, to a Domestic Disturbance. The incident took place at a residence in the 2400 block of 280th Street, or about one-mile north of College Springs.

Jackie Lynn Olson (Page County S/O photo)

During the investigation, 39-year-old Jackie Lynn Olson, of rural College Springs, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault. Olson was transported to the Page County Jail where she was held without no bond until seen by a Magistrate.

And, 40-year-old Travis Lamar Kellogg, of Omaha, NE, was arrested Thursday in Page County, following a traffic stop on Highway 59, about four-miles north of Shenandoah. Kellogg was arrested on a Pottawattamie County Warrant for Probation Violation. He was unable to post the $2,000 bond. Kellogg was turned over to a Pottawattamie County Deputy and transported to the Pott. County Jail. Shenandoah Police assisted with the arrest.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Police say one man has died and two other men were critically injured in a three-vehicle crash in Papillion. Omaha television station KETV reports that the crash happened Thursday afternoon on Nebraska Highway 50. Investigators say a northbound pickup truck crossed the center line and hit two southbound cars. Police say the truck landed on top of one of the cars, killing the car’s driver identified as 63-year-old Bruce Hawkins, of Weeping Water. Police say the 57-year-old driver of the truck was taken by ambulance to an Omaha hospital with critical injuries, while the driver of the third car — a 32-year-old man from Carter Lake, Iowa — was flown to another Omaha hospital in critical condition.

Creston Police today (Friday), said Officers responded at around 2:23-a.m. Monday, to an alarm call at Medicap Pharmacy, 405 S Sumner Street, in Creston. Upon arrival, officers found an attempted burglary had taken place. There was an unknown amount of damage to the building. The incident remains under investigation.