DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Department of Public Safety today (Thursday), said 35-year-old Richard Samuel Grylls, of Oskaloosa, was arrested without incident, Wednesday at his home. Grylls was charged with one count of Assault (a Class C Felony) and one count of Child Endangerment Causing Injury (a Class D Felony) against a non-relative infant.

Richard S. Grylls

The charges against him were the result of an investigation conducted by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s Major Crime Unit and the Oskaloosa Police Department. The investigation started October 16th, after a 10-month old was brought to the Mahaska County Hospital with multiple injuries. The infant is expected to make a full recovery. Grylls is currently in the Mahaska County Jail without bond.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — A city official says Marshalltown is moving ahead with plans to build a replacement hangar and terminal at the city airport. Public works director Justin Nickel told the Times-Republican that the Marshalltown Municipal Airport project is expected to cost $2.6 million and be finished by next summer. He says the Federal Aviation Administration will provide $600,000 for the hangar and the Iowa Transportation Department will hand over $470,000 for the terminal and site preparation. The city will pay for the remainder.

Nickel says construction of the replacement terminal is less certain but also says he’d “bet that both are happening.” The larger hangar will help the airport house corporate jets from businesses such as JBS, Lennox and Emerson Process Management. Nickel says the current hangar’s door isn’t tall enough so jets can be parked inside overnight.

A traffic stop on a speeding vehicle Wednesday evening in Adams County, resulted in the arrest of a man from Union County. Sheriff’s officials say Corry Johnston, of Thayer, initially refused to pull over for a deputy who had activated his emergency lights. Johnston turned north onto Mulberry Avenue and then east onto 220^th Street before his vehicle finally stopped at the intersection of Mulberry and 220^th Streets. Johnston was arrested for Driving While Revoked, and cited for speeding.

A Mississippi River ferry service connecting northeast Iowa with southwest Wisconsin has closed for the season. The Pride of Cassville Car Ferry service posted Tuesday on its Facebook page that it was closing because of the continued high water. The Telegraph Herald reports that the ferry usually ends the service in late October. The ferry runs from Cassville, Wisconsin, to a landing east of Millville, Iowa.

It was a short season for the ferry. It didn’t open until June 28, about two months past its normal opening in early May, and the high water frequently interrupted service. Heavier than normal snowmelt in the late winter and frequent and heavy rains through the spring led to flooding that approached record levels in several towns along the Mississippi.

A U-S Marshall in Omaha told television station KETV that a fugitive from Council Bluffs, 29-year old Jamie Kennedy, surrendered to authorities Wednesday night, at an apartment near 100th and and Crown Point plazas. Kennedy was taken into custody after 8 p.m. following an hour-long standoff. Officials say tips led investigators to Kennedy’s location at the apartment complex. Additional information was not immediately available.

Fugitive Jamie Kennedy

Kennedy, who used a vehicle to ram a Council Bluffs Police Officer’s vehicle during his initial apprehension attempt late Tuesday morning, abandoned his vehicle in Omaha and was not seen until late Wednesday afternoon. But he once again eluded officers and agents until he eventually surrendered peacefully.

(Radio Iowa) — The use of electronic cigarettes and “vaping” products are unsafe at any age, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and Iowa’s governor is exploring her policy options to respond to the problem. Governor Kim Reynolds and her top staff will meet today (Thursday) to review ideas — including an outright ban on e-cigarettes and vaping cartridges.

“I think something like eight states have banned, several by executive order,” Reynolds says. “We talked a lot about educating the public.” The board of health in the state of Washington banned the sale of flavored vaping products last week. Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New York and Rhode Island have all approved some form of an electronic cigarette ban. Some of those are being challenged in court. Reynolds told reporters she’s not afraid to use her executive authority to establish a ban in Iowa.

“But we’ll take a look at it and see if that makes the most sense and see if that makes the most sense there are other things we can do in the interim before we move to that step,” Reynolds said, “and maybe it’s a multi-stepped process, see if some of the things they’re recommending works in the short term and if we’re not seeing the results that we think we should, maybe that’s something we can look to in the future.”

A recent federal survey found 28 percent of high schoolers admitted to regularly using e-cigarettes. There have been 41 vaping-related illnesses reported in Iowa. Reynolds says 34 of those patients had used a vaping cartridge that contained T-H-C, which is an illegal drug.