DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — The Dubuque City Council has approved plans to add more features and improve a veterans memorial at Chaplain Schmitt Island in the Mississippi River. The Telegraph Herald reports that the $3.2 million project will include green space, landscaping and LED lighting in and around Veterans Memorial Plaza. The centerpiece will be a walkway spiraling out from the memorial over a pond, ending with a replica stack of the USS Oklahoma. The ship was where the island’s namesake, Chaplain Aloysius Schmitt, lost his life when it sank during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

The project costs will be covered by Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit license holder for the city’s two casinos. Project planning has been underway for more than two years. Work is expected start in late August or early September, with an opening set for Memorial Day 2020.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A jury is expected to resume deliberations on a 13-year-old eastern Iowa student accused of trying to kill his social studies teacher. Lawyers delivered their final arguments Tuesday in Davenport and the case went to the jury. The judge sent the jury members home around 4 p.m. and ordered them to continue their work Wednesday morning.

Prosecutors say the boy pointed a loaded .22-caliber handgun on Aug. 31 at Dawn Spring in a North Scott Junior High School classroom in Eldridge. It didn’t fire when he pulled the trigger because the safety was engaged. The teacher and a guidance counselor later tore the gun from him.

The boy is being tried as a youthful offender in adult court. He’s charged with attempted murder and two weapons crimes. (The Associated Press doesn’t generally name juveniles charged with crimes.)

A traffic stop at around 8-p.m. Tuesday in Creston, resulted in an arrest for drugs. The Creston Police Department reports 40-year old Dustin James Seley, of Creston, was arrested at Elm/Taylor Streets. A K9 was deployed and gave a positive alert to the odor of narcotics. A search of the vehicle resulted in Seley being arrested on charges of Possession of A Controlled Substance 3rd or Subsequent – Methamphetamine, Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd or Subsequent – Marijuana, and OWI 1st Offense. He was being held in the Adams County Jail on $8,000 bond.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a pilot was injured when his crop-dusting helicopter crashed in western Iowa. The crash occurred around 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, a couple of miles  south of the Council Bluffs Municipal Airport. Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker says the pilot was taken to a Council Bluffs hospital for treatment. The pilot’s name hasn’t been released. The crash cause is being investigated.