Police in Council Bluffs were called just before 9-a.m. today (Monday), to the area of South 9th Street and 2nd Ave. in Council Bluffs for a possible dead body that had been found wrapped in a sheet. Officers arrived on scene and confirmed the report.

Authorities say at this time this suspicious death investigation is in its beginning stages and as updates arise they will be sent out. No names will be released until the victim’s family is contacted.

If anyone has information on this incident please contact the Council Bluffs Police Department at 712-328-4765 or contact Crime Stoppers at 712-328-7867.

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman killed in a pipe bomb explosion at a gender reveal party in Iowa. The Marion County sheriff’s office says 56-year-old Pamela Kreimeyer died instantly after debris struck her in the head Sunday in rural Knoxville. Authorities say the Kreimeyer family had been experimenting with different types of explosives in hopes of recording a gender reveal ceremony that could be posted on social media for friends and family.

They say family members used gunpowder to create a homemade stand that was supposed to blow colorful powder indicating the child’s sex, but tape over the top of the metal tubing inadvertently created a pipe bomb that sent shrapnel flying. Kreimeyer was standing 45 feet from the device when it exploded.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Flooding along the Missouri River has stretched on for seven months in some places and could endure through the winter. That could leave some Upper Midwest farmland and possibly some homes encased in ice. The icy flooding is possible due to a still-high river, saturated ground, broken levees and a forecast for a wetter-than normal winter. It’s possible some flooding could continue into spring.

In places along the lower Missouri River where levees broke in the spring, large areas of mostly farmland remains underwater. Fixing the broken levees will take several years. Tom Bullock says there’s no end in sight to flooding in northwestern Missouri, where he is Holt County’s emergency management director. Roughly 30,000 acres remain underwater in Holt County, and some of that floodwater is likely to freeze in place.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports deputies responded at around 2:05-a.m. Sunday, to a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Highway 71 and Jasper Road. Authorities say a 2012 Buick Enclave owned and driven by 30-year old Ross Milton Campbell, of Omaha, was northbound on Highway 71, when his vehicle struck a southbound 2008 Mercury Milan, owned and driven by 56-year old Lynn Marie Maurer, of Griswold.

Campbell was transported by Medivac Ambulance to Cass County Memorial Hospital, for minor injuries. Upon further investigation, deputies arrested Campbell for OWI 2nd Offense. He was also cited for Failure to Maintain Control and Driving on Wrong Side of Two Way Highway. Campbell was taken to the Cass County Jail and released later that day on $2,000 bond. Damage from the collision amounted to $16,000.

And on Saturday, October 26th, Cass County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 29-year old Jessica Lynn Pierce, of Omaha, for OWI 1st Offense, and Carrying a Weapon While Intoxicated. Pierce was taken to the Cass County Jail and released later that day on $2,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) — Governor Kim Reynolds says due to legal challenges of executive action in other states, she’s ruled out issuing an executive order that would restrict electronic cigarette sales. Reynolds met Friday with key staff to discuss ways to address underage “vaping” and the illness that’s been associated with the use of e-cigarettes. “Right now I’m not going to do an executive order. I’m not going to look at a ban,” Reynolds syas. “We’re going to continue to raise awareness both in our schools and our universities and just in the public in general.”

Public health officials have identified more than 40 vaping-related illnesses in Iowa and Reynolds says the majority of those involved the use of a vaping cartridge that was laced with T-H-C, the chemical in marijuana that causes the “high.” “We’ve seen it stabilize just a little, but we know like anything else it could escalate tomorrow, so I’m not saying that it’s even close to being addressed,” Reynolds says.

The president of the state Senate this past spring proposed raising the age for buying products that contain nicotine from 18 to 21, but the proposal was not adopted by the 2019 Iowa legislature. The governor says she’s willing to consider raising the age. “I think that would be maybe something that might help, moving forward,” Reynolds says. “…We need to look at everything, so I would say for the most part we’re not going to take things off the table until we evaluate what’s making a difference.”

The governor says she’s asked the Departments of Education, Human Services and Public Health to coordinate a social media campaign talking about the dangers of vaping, especially among minors.