SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A woman on probation for her role in a staged Sioux City bank robbery is now behind bars. The Sioux City Journal reports 19-year-old Heaven Zevenbergen, of Holstein, was ordered to spend 30 days in jail.

Zevenbergen admitted to smoking marijuana in August and quitting her job for two months — both violations of her probation. District Judge John Ackerman told her Thursday that she would likely go to prison if she violates her probation again.

Zevenbergen and her friend, 19-year-old Angelica Perez, were sentenced in February to five years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree theft, but had their sentences suspended in May. Prosecutors said Perez entered the bank in disguise and passed Zevenbergen, who was a bank teller, a note demanding cash.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Discount bus company Megabus has announced it will make its last trips between Omaha and Chicago early next year. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the five-year-old Omaha-to-Chicago route will end on Jan. 9. The New Jersey-based company says low gas prices have reduced demand for its services. The route also has stops in the Iowa cities of Des Moines, Davenport and Iowa City.

Tickets from Omaha to Chicago were priced Friday between $15 and $59 for rides over the next month. Burlington Trailways continues to offer bus service to Chicago from Omaha. Tickets with that line were priced Friday at $75.

Megabus says the route cancellation is part of a wider reorganization of Megabus’ Midwest hub, with job losses in Chicago and cutbacks in some other routes.

Police in Council Bluffs are investigating the death of an infant. Authorities say at around 4:37-a.m. Saturday, Officers of the Council Bluffs Police Department were dispatched to the 500 Block of 23rd Avenue to assist paramedics with an unresponsive infant in a vehicle on 23rd Avenue. Upon their arrival paramedics were unable to detect vital signs on the infant and began CPR. The infant was rushed to Jennie Edmundson Hospital where efforts to revive the child by emergency staff were unsuccessful and the infant was eventually pronounced dead at the hospital.

Holley Campbell who resides at 3618 Ronald Road in Council Bluffs, told investigators she woke up at around 4-a.m. to check on her two month old son, Donavon Hopkins, only to finding him unresponsive and not breathing. Campbell then loaded Donavon in a car and rushed off for the hospital.

While enroute to the hospital, Campbell experienced mechanical problems with the vehicle. The vehicle became disabled near South 5th Street and 23rd Avenue where she flagged down another motorist for help. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, and was being conducted by the Council Bluffs Police Department Criminal Investigation Division.

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Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports a Missouri man was arrested Friday night for multiple traffic violations and an OWI charge. Deputies responding to a report of a maroon Ford Mustang traveling in excess of 100-miles per hour on Interstate 29 near the Percival Exit, located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop.

Deputies identified the driver as 36-year old Danger Caballero, of Kansas City, Mo. Caballero was subsequently arrested for numerous traffic violations and OWI/3rd offense. He was brought to the Fremont County Jail and held on $5,000 bond.

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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The parents of a 14-year-old Iowa girl are asking a federal judge to stop a county prosecutor from charging their daughter with sexual exploitation of a minor or child pornography for sending suggestive photos of herself to a boy. The American Civil Liberties Union says it’s trying to protect the girl’s rights to free speech and free expression. Marion County Attorney Ed Bull has urged the federal court not to intervene in a state prosecution.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of protesters angry about Donald Trump’s presidential win blocked Interstate 80 in Iowa City for about a half-hour, backing up traffic for miles. The protests began Friday afternoon when about 200 high school students walked out of class and held a rally on the University of Iowa campus. University students joined the protest and listened to speeches before marching through downtown to the freeway. Police didn’t intervene in the protests.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Law enforcement officials in central Iowa have used ropes to drag three people from inside a 30-inch pipe _ part of continued protests over construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The Des Moines Register says the three entered the pipe after 2 a.m. Thursday near the Des Moines River in Boone County. Sheriff’s Detective Andy Godzicki says they managed to crawl 50 feet to 100 feet inside the pipe, taking food, sleeping bags and other supplies with them.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The new Republican-controlled Senate has selected leaders for the upcoming session. Members of the chamber met privately Friday at the Iowa Capitol and selected Sen. Bill Dix as majority leader and Sen. Jack Whitver as president. The selections will be official in January. Republicans flipped six Senate seats after Tuesday’s election and now have a 29-19 majority. There is one independent and one open seat.

(updated 11/29: The charge was dismissed by the court on Nov. 22nd)

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Villisca man on Friday afternoon on theft charges. At 3:20pm Deputies arrested 40-year-old Jason William McCollum of Villisca on a Montgomery County Warrant for Theft 5th Degree. He was taken to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center and held on $300 bond.

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — Officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources are investigating a manure spill near a small stream about three miles southeast of Le Mars in northwestern Iowa. The Sioux City Journal reports that the rollover crash of a tanker truck on Thursday dumped up to 9,000 gallons of swine manure near the stream, and at least some of the manure leaked into the stream.

A news release from the department says a pumping company was called to try to contain and pump the spilled manure back into the tanker. The DNR says it will monitor cleanup, give advice and consider enforcement actions.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The parents of a 14-year-old Iowa girl are suing a county prosecutor to try to stop him from filing criminal charges against the teen after she sent suggestive photos of herself to a boy.

Marion County Attorney Ed Bull has threatened to charge the Knoxville girl with sexual exploitation of a minor or child pornography. Bull has said she can avoid the charge if she signs an admission of guilt, performs community service and temporarily gives up her laptop and cellphone.

The lawsuit was filed in September and amended Thursday to add new arguments and to add the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa as attorneys for the girl. The ACLU says it’s seeking to protect the girl’s rights to free speech and freedom of expression. The ACLU says the photos don’t show nudity and are not obscene.

Bull has asked the federal court not to intervene in a state prosecution.