DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by two women once held at a state-run juvenile home for nearly $700,000. The Iowa State Appeal Board has agreed to the settlement which pays Laera Reed and Paige Ray-Cluney more than $170,000 each and their lawyers more than $340,000. The women were held at the Iowa Juvenile Home at Toledo until former Gov. Terry Branstad ordered it closed in 2014 after allegation surfaced that some girls were held in seclusion cells.

Iowa then sent Reed and Ray-Cluney to the Copper Lake School for Girls in Wisconsin where they claim in court documents they were held in isolation cells and subjected to other treatment that led to suicide attempts.

Iowa taxpayers will pay the settlement from the state’s general fund. Wisconsin officials in June agreed to pay $1.95 million apiece to Reed and Ray-Cluney to settle a lawsuit filed against the state for their treatment at the Copper Lake facility.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state panel that approves payment for lawsuits and legal settlements for the state of Iowa has approved payment of $315,000 to the parents of an Iowa State University student who died by suicide in November 2015. A jury in August found the state partially liable for the death of Dane Schussler. The lawsuit alleged the state failed to provide adequate mental health services.

Schussler had received counseling at the university for anxiety and depression before he was found dead on railroad tracks in Ames. The Iowa attorney general’s office recommended no appeal and payment of the jury verdict. It was approved by the Iowa State Appeal Board on Monday.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports six arrests. Early this (Monday) morning, 29-year old Cam Christopher Jahnke, of Oakland, was arrested on charges of Driving While Barred (Aggravated) and OWI 1st Offense (Serious). Jahnke was taken to the Cass County Jail and later released on his own recognizance.

Last Saturday, 30-year old Brandon Michael Harry, of Griswold, was arrested on a charge of OWI 2nd Offense (Aggravated). Harry was taken to the Cass County Jail and released later that day on his own recognizance. And, 20-year old Austin Michael Boggs, of Atlantic, was arrested for Driving While Barred (Aggravated). Boggs was taken to the Cass County Jail and released later that day on $2,000 bond.

On Oct. 3rd, 29-year old Norrin Blake Bishop, of Council Bluffs, turned himself in at the Cass County Sheriff’s Office on an Atlantic Police Department warrant for felony two Class-D Felony counts of Conspiracy to Commit a Nonforcible Felony. Bishop was booked at the Cass County Jail and remains held on $10,000 bond. 30-year old Michael H. Hansen, of Waukee, was arrested on a charge of Contempt Violation No Contact Order. Hansen was taken to the Cass County Jail where he remains held on $1,000 bond.

And, on September 27th, 2019, Cass County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 23-year old Blake Michael Zweck, of Madison, WI, on a District Court warrant for Violation of Probation. Zweck was taken to the Cass County Jail where he remains held on $1,000 bond.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports one arrest. 40-year old Jon Dawson Roberts, of Imogene, was arrested at around 3:20-a.m. Sunday, for Driving While Barred, and on a warrant for Violation of Probation. His bond was set at $4,000.