A motorcycle versus SUV collision Tuesday night in eastern Madison County has claimed the life of a Polk County man. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2001 Honda motorcycle operated by 51-year old Daniel LeRoy Conrad, of West Des Moines, was traveling west on G-14 at around 7:06-p.m., as a 2015 Jeep Cherokee driven by 41-year old Tiffany Sue Lensch, of Bettendorf, was traveling eastbound in the west bound lane.

As the motorcycle rounded a curve in the road, it struck the SUV, causing Conrad to suffer fatal injuries. Both vehicles came to rest in the south ditch. Lensch refused medical treatment at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.

The Iowa State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Madison County Sheriff’s Department, Madison County Fire, and Norwalk Ambulance.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa agency is keeping secret a list of about two dozen former criminal offenders who were improperly granted credentials to work for private security firms. The Iowa Department of Public Safety denied an open records request that sought the identities of those individuals whose security cards were recently revoked. The revocations came after the discovery that the department granted 5,800 private security workers credentials to work without undergoing mandatory background checks.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A northwest Iowa man has pleaded not guilty to charges related to the July death of a man injured in a car crash. The Sioux City Journal reports 38-year-old Darrick Toel, of Le Mars, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Woodbury County District Court to charges of vehicular homicide and operating while intoxicated. Toel was the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a tree on the evening of July 1. His passenger, 37-year-old Ryan Toel of Struble, was injured and died two days later.

PEOSTA, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says BP North America must pay a fine of more than $71,000 for a diesel spill last year in northeast Iowa. The EPA on Tuesday announced the fine for violations of the Clean Water Act. BP owns a 2.5 million gallon fuel storage tank at Peosta that leaked about 60,000 gallons of fuel onto the ground and into the South Fork of Catfish Creek in August 2018. The EPA is requiring BP to upgrade the secondary containment system at the site.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new report says an August survey of business supply managers suggests slow or no economic growth over the next several months in nine Midwest and Plains states. The report issued Tuesday says the Mid-America Business Conditions index dropped below growth neutral in August, hitting 49.3 compared with 52.0 in July. The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests growth. A score below that suggests decline.

In an update to our earlier reports, the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office said a man from Adair County was injured when the dump truck he was driving crashed into an unoccupied building in Guthrie Center, Tuesday morning. 41-year old James Livingston, of Greenfield, suffered suspected serious/incapacitating injuries during the crash that happened at around 9:34-a.m.

Authorities say Livingston was driving a 2006 Volvo dump truck westbound on State Street in Guthrie Center, when he failed to negotiate the turn. The truck struck a building owned by the City of Guthrie Center, and crashed through the wall before coming to rest. The building had served as the former location for the Guthrie Center Fire Department.

Livingston was flown by Life Flight to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. Damage from collision amounted to $115,000.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa and a group of doctors at University Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City will pay a Fairfield woman $2.5 million after she lost both legs to amputation and became paralyzed after what she claimed was a misdiagnosed spinal problem. The State Appeal Board on Tuesday approved a settlement with Isabeau Norwood.

Under the settlement, University of Iowa hospitals doctors will pay more than $833,000 and the state general fund will pay $1.67 million. Both say the settlement doesn’t mean they admitted wrongdoing.

Norwood, who is 55, began complaining of back pain in May 2014. She was seen by several doctors in Fairfield, at University of Iowa hospitals and the state-run Cherokee Mental Health Institute. She finally collapsed, prompting doctors to order a magnetic scan of her spine. They discovered a spinal abscess and other problems.

The settlement resolves her dispute with the state but the Jefferson County Hospital in Fairfield and four of its doctors go to trial next week. They claim they’re not at fault.

Red Oak Police arrested a 63-year old woman for Theft and Interference with Official Acts, Tuesday. Sheryl Lynne Franzen, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 5:45-p.m. in the 900 block of N. 4th Street, for Theft in the 5th Degree and the Interference charges, after she allegedly resisted arrest. Her bond was set at $300.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — In a story Sept. 3 about a northwestern Iowa man entering a plea in a driving-related death, The Associated Press reported erroneously in a headline that Darrick Toel had pleaded guilty. He pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular homicide and operating while intoxicated.
A corrected version of the story is below:

A northwest Iowa man has pleaded not guilty to charges related to the July death of a man injured in a car crash. The Sioux City Journal reports 38-year-old Darrick Toel, of Le Mars, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Woodbury County District Court to charges of vehicular homicide and operating while intoxicated. Toel was the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a tree on the evening of July 1. His passenger, 37-year-old Ryan Toel of Struble, was injured and died two days later.

Sheriff’s deputies in Montgomery County, arrested 42-year old Jerome Keith McCallum, Tuesday afternoon. The Emerson man was arrested at around 3:55-p.m. for Driving While Revoked. He was taken into custody following a traffic stop in Stanton. McCallum was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond.

The Harlan Police Department reports four recent arrests. Last Saturday, 34-year old Joseph Rheinhart Smith-Kidd, of Harlan, was arrested following a traffic stop. Smith-Kidd was transported to the Shelby County Jail where he was charged with driving while suspended and no seatbelt. On Friday, 29-year old Cameron Stuart Cunningham, of Harlan, was arrested following a call for service. Cunningham was transported to the Shelby County Jail where he was charged with public intoxication and supplying alcohol to a person under legal age. And, 37-year old Kristina Marie Namanny, of Harlan, was arrested following a call for service. Namanny was transported to the Shelby County Jail where she was charged with domestic abuse assault.

On Aug. 29th, 35-year old Aubree Jasmine Cline, of Council Bluffs, was arrested following a traffic stop, in Harlan. Cline was transported to the Shelby County Jail where she was charged with operating while intoxicated, driving while suspended, no insurance, and speed.