A traffic stop at around 7:15-p.m. Monday in Adams County resulted in the arrest of a man on a drug charge. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports 18-year old Jackson Soll, of Corning, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance/marijuana – 1st offense. The charge stems from an incident that took place Feb. 25th. Soll was being held in the Adams County Jail on $1,000 bond.

A northwest Iowa woman, blamed for a 2015 traffic crash that injured two others, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison. Thirty-year-old Melissa Ebert of Cherokee pleaded guilty in April to felony charges of reckless driving. As part of a plea deal, attempted murder and second-offense OWI charges were dropped. Police said Ebert was slightly over the legal limit of .08 percent. Ebert was allowed to give her account of the events that led up to the crash. She said her boyfriend, Damian Johnson, was drunk when she picked him up in Sioux City. He insisted on meeting a friend at a bar.

“They continued to drink, they tried to get me to drink and I said ‘no’ because I was driving. Then, we went to his friend’s house and he kept yelling at me and calling me all sorts of names.” According to Ebert, Johnson continued to push her to drink. “So, I’d take a little sip to try and make him happy. He’d grab the end of the glass and push it up, so it was either going to go on me or in my mouth,” Ebert said.

Eventually, the friend told Ebert and Johnson to leave. Ebert said she repeatedly tried to convince Johnson that they should catch a ride with a sober driver. “And he said, ‘no, you’re going to get in the car or I’m going to hurt you. I’m going to kill you.’ So, he pretty much put me in the car,” Ebert said.

Ebert was behind the wheel when her car slammed into another vehicle southeast of Le Mars. Ebert and Johnson were injured, as was the driver of the other car, Dustin Boll of Le Mars. At her sentencing hearing, Ebert apologized to Bull’s family. Ebert has a daughter with Damian Johnson. “I just want to be back with my daughter as soon as I can,” Ebert said. “I love her to death, she’s everything to me.”

District Judge Duane Hoffmeyer sentenced Ebert to 10 years in prison.

(Radio Iowa)

The Iowa State Patrol reports a man from southeastern Iowa died during a tractor rollover accident Monday evening in Keokuk County. 21-year old Christian Little, of Hedrick, was operating a 1983 International Series 1954 tractor eastbound on Highway 22 just east of South English, when the tractor left the road and entered the south ditch. The tractor then rolled over and came to rest in the south ditch.

Little was ejected from the machine and also came to rest in the ditch. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The accident happened a little after 5-p.m.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 2:20 a.m. CDT

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — The western Iowa sheriff’s deputy who authorities say was killed by an inmate during a jail escape was remembered Monday, for the way he treated everyone with respect. Hundreds of law enforcement officers filled the floor of the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, to honor Pottawattamie County Deputy Mark Burbridge. Daughter Karley Burbridge says her dad was her hero not just for protecting the community but also for protecting her from the monsters under her bed.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police are investigating the shooting death of a man found in a south Des Moines home. Sgt. Paul Parizek says officers were called about 1 p.m. Monday to a reported shooting and after arriving found the body of an adult man. A woman believed to be the shooter was also at the home. Parizek says the shooting appeared to be a “domestic-related incident.” Police haven’t made any arrests and didn’t release the names of those involved.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice David Stras to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Stras once clerked for conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and believes in a limited role for the judiciary. The 42-year-old former University of Minnesota Law School professor was once on the Trump campaign’s short list of possible U.S. Supreme Court nominees.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — United Airlines says it has reached a satisfactory resolution with the British breeder of a giant rabbit that died after flying from the U.K. to Chicago. United declined to comment Monday on a threat of legal action from the new owners of Simon the rabbit, who live in Iowa. An attorney for the owners says the new owners are troubled that he was cremated without a post-mortem examination soon after his death April 20.

The funeral for a Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputy killed in the line of duty was held this morning (Monday). Mark Burbridge was 43. His son, Kaleb, said his father pointed him in a positive direction in life. (Click on the left side of the audio bar to listen)

Kaleb said his father gave him a “sense of respect” and taught him many skills.

A little levity was added, as Kaleb thanked his father for taking him to Hooters for his tenth birthday. Burbridge’s daughter Karley also shared some thoughts on her father.

While her father was a hero to the community, Karley said he was also her personal hero.

Burbridge was shot and killed last Monday by an inmate who escaped the jail in Council Bluffs before being captured in Omaha. Burbridge was a 12-year veteran of the sheriff’s department. (Radio Iowa w/thanks to Karla James in Omaha)

Deputy Mark Burbridge

No serious injuries were reported following a collision between a pickup truck and a dump truck Monday afternoon on Interstate 80. Authorities say a dump truck had just merged onto I-80 eastbound from the Elk Horn exit and was traveling in the right lane, when the driver of a pickup in the left lane became distracted and swerved into the right lane, causing his vehicle to hit dump truck. The driver of the pickup refused medical treatment at the scene of the crash, which happened at around 4:35-p.m. The pickup was a total loss.

No names were released.

FRASER, Mich. (AP) — Huge sinkholes that opened last week on streets in New York City, suburban Atlanta and San Francisco exemplify a phenomenon that is prompting growing alarm across the U.S., including Iowa.

Sudden-appearing caverns are happening in places where they once were rare. Unlike most earthen collapses in the past, the new cave-ins are being caused by crumbling water and sewer pipes rather than unstable geology.

A review by The Associated Press of recent media coverage showed that sinkholes related to failing infrastructure occurred at a rate of one every four days in places as varied as Chicago, Los Angeles, Hoboken, New Jersey, Sioux City, Iowa, and Seattle.

A San Antonio woman died in December when she drove into a sinkhole that opened when a sewer line ruptured.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – The western Iowa sheriff’s deputy who was killed during a jail escape was remembered today (Monday) for the way he treated everyone with respect. Hundreds of law enforcement officers filled the floor of an arena Monday in Council Bluffs to honor Pottawattamie County Deputy Mark Burbridge.

Burbridge was fatally wounded last Monday when an inmate returning from court grabbed a gun and shot Burbridge and another deputy. He was captured after a police chase in Omaha.

Burbridge’s three children shared memories of him and his regular trips to auto parts stores so he could fix up his beloved classic cars.  Daughter Karley Burbridge says her dad was her hero not just for his work protecting the community but also for protecting her from the monsters under her bed.

The Atlantic Police Department reports three arrests. On Sunday, 50-year old Rex McDermott, and, 25-year old Haley R. Anderson, both of Atlantic, were arrested on separate OWI charges. Both were booked into the Cass County Jail.

And, on Friday, 24-year old Curtis McCoy, of Atlantic, was arrested on a Cass County warrant for Theft in the 2nd Degree, and nine counts of Unauthorized Use of a Credit Card. McCoy was being held in the Cass County Jail.

Authorities said also, no injuries were reported following an accident Saturday afternoon on 5th Street, near the intersection of Spruce. A vehicle driven by Amanda Martin, of Atlantic was traveling west on 5th Street from Spruce. A vehicle driven by Lisa Shotwell, of Exira, was northbound in the alley between Spruce and Olive, when Shotwell failed to yield coming out of the alley. Her vehicle struck Martin’s vehicle on the left front, causing a total of $3,200 damage. Shotwell was cited for Failure to Yield upon entering a roadway.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – About 200 relatives of Nebraska and Iowa service members will be honored during a day of public and private events. The Omaha World-Herald reports the Gold Star families will be guests of the Honor and Remember Nebraska Chapter at a private commemorative dinner on Saturday.

Chapter President Jim Meier says the families will then be bused to TD Ameritrade Park for the seventh annual Families of the Fallen Walk, where they’ll march into the stadium before the beginning of a college baseball game.

After the game, the names of the service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting will display on the stadium’s jumbo screen. George Lutz says he started Honor and Remember and began distributing flags to Gold Star families to tell them their sacrifice is remembered.