ALBIA, Iowa (AP) — A jury has convicted a south-central Iowa woman of killing her husband, whose body was found in their burned home last year.

Monroe County District Court records say the jury handed up the arson and first-degree murder verdicts Wednesday morning at a courtroom in Albia. The 47-year-old is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 15 to life in prison without possibility of parole.

The badly burned body of 50-year-old Tim Pasa was found in a bed on May 5, 2018, and investigators determined the fire at the Centerville home was started intentionally. The Daily Iowegian reports that an autopsy determined his death was related to an injection of an anesthetic, propofol.

Barbara Pasa was a nurse in the surgery department at MercyOne Centerville Medical Center at the time of Tim Pasa’s death.

Investigators say Barbara Pasa had bought a $200,000 life insurance policy on her husband. They also say he’d told family members he believed his wife was poisoning him.

The Atlantic Community School Board of Directors are scheduled to meet this evening at the High School Media Center for a work session at 5:30pm. On their short agenda is discussion on Alternative Compensation Models, looking at a couple of other districts’ procedures. They will also discuss work session and annual organizational meeting dates in November and December.

Upcoming dates will be discussed as well, including the Athletic Facilities Project Bid Opening. That bid letting will be held in the High School Media Center at 2:00pm on Thursday, September 26th. The bond for the project was approved by voters earlier this year, and will include work on a number of different athletic facilities.

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Clarinda man on Thursday. Deputies arrested 41-year-old Jeremy Lynn Martin of Clarinda on a Page County Warrant for Driving While Barred. He was arrested in Clarinda and booked into the Page County Jail on $2,000 bond.

Creston Police report the arrest Tuesday of 57-year-old Stephen Clark of Redding on a Union County Warrant for the charge of Theft 2nd Degree. Clark was arrested at 3:30pm at the Law Enforcement Center and held in the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Injured Iowa workers seeking benefits from their employers are waiting longer to get their hearing dates as a state agency transitions to a new filing system.

Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Joseph Cortese told lawmakers in a letter Tuesday that a moratorium on scheduling new hearings will likely continue for another four to six weeks.

His agency imposed the moratorium in July when it launched a new online case management system to replace a legacy system that dated to the 1970s.

Shutting down the old system has temporarily prevented the agency from being able to schedule new hearings because that tool isn’t ready to be launched yet.

Sen. Nate Boulton, D-Des Moines, says there is growing frustration among lawyers, claimants and employers about the impact. He says workers “need to know when their date to get justice is” and that hearing deadlines can lead to settlements.

Cortese says the situation shouldn’t result in delays in deciding claims. He says it means only that cases that will go to hearing after June 30, 2020 will be scheduled later than normal.

AUBURN, Neb. (AP) — A southeast Nebraska man has been sentenced to jail and probation for stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of brass from his employer.

Nemaha County District Court records show 26-year-old Justin Heard, of Auburn, pleaded no contest to seven counts after prosecutors dropped seven others in return. He was credited at Monday’s sentencing hearing with three days already served and ordered to spend 87 more in jail. He was sentenced to 4½ years of probation and ordered to pay restitution of nearly $22,400.

A court document says a surveillance system showed Heard loading brass into a vehicle at Magnolia Metal in rural Auburn. Investigators say he sold the brass for nearly $14,000 to a recycler in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The records say the crimes began occurring in August last year.