Police say a man has been charged with first-degree murder in a deadly Des Moines shooting. Police say in a news release that 39-year-old Wayne Jemerigbe, of Des Moines, was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Police believe Jemerigbe shot and killed 29-year-old Karlos Goldman Jr. Goldman was found Monday afternoon with a gunshot wound inside a pickup truck. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died a short time later.

An Illinois man has been sentenced in an Iowa federal courthouse to 50 years in prison for more than a dozen counts, including domestic violence, stalking and illegal bomb-making. Federal prosecutors for Iowa say 43-year-old Chad Eric Mink, of Rock Island, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday in Davenport’s federal courthouse. He had faced up to life in prison for the convictions. There is no parole in the federal system. Prosecutors showed that Mink had used a stolen truck to ram a vehicle carrying his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend and had planted a pipe bomb near the ex-girlfriend’s hotel room.

(Radio Iowa) — Democratic candidate Julian Castro — a former San Antonio mayor — has been criticizing the role Iowa and New Hampshire play in the presidential nominating process. He’s planning a town hall forum next Tuesday in Des Moines to discuss the issue. “There’s no reason that Iowa and New Hampshire that hardly have any black people or people of color should always go first,” Castro said.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker told Iowans yesterday that if he fails to get enough support in qualifying polls, there will be a billionaire on the stage for the televised debate later this month — but no black candidate since with California Senator Kamala Harris dropped out of the race this week. Castro hasn’t qualified for the debate either “My concern is not the presence of any one candidate on the debate stage only,” Castro said yesterday. “We need to change the whole game.”

Castro is not a fan of the caucus process.  “There’s no reason that a caucus system that makes it harder for working people and people with disabilities to participate should be what we begin with,” Castro said. “We need to work to reform how we elect a president in the first place.” Later today (Friday), Castro is among the candidates who will participate in a forum in Waterloo that’s sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The Iowa Farmers Union is hosting a forum in Grinnell this (Friday) afternoon.

Police in Creston say a Lenox man was arrested Thursday evening on charges of Harassment in the 3rd Degree, and Witness Tampering. 48-year old Michael Fry was taken into custody at the Creston McDonald’s store at around 6:45-p.m., and was being held in the Union County Jail on a $2,300 bond. And, 23-year old Paige Hedgepath, of Creston, was arrested at the Creston McDonald’s at around 9:05-p.m. Thursday, for Pubic Intoxication. She was being held in the Adams County Jail on a $300 bond.

Authorities said also, a man living in the 400 block of New York Avenue in Creston, reported Thursday night that someone broke into his home, went through the house and stole a bottle of alcohol.

A former Iowa law enforcement officer who fled the state after allegedly threatening to kill several family members has been charged with sexually abusing two young boys. The Des Moines Register reports that 35-year-old Jonathan Wayne Bailey has been charged with eight counts of child endangerment, seven counts of second-degree sexual abuse and one count of sexual exploitation. The newspaper says Bailey is a former Polk County Jail detention officer and former Eagle Grove police officer. Court documents say Bailey was arrested Nov. 21 in Georgia, where Grinnell police say he had fled after threatening to kill his wife and her parents.