JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge has reversed the Missouri Department of Public Safety’s revocation of the peace officer license of a highway patrolman who was driving a boat when a handcuffed Iowa man fell out and drowned. Cole County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Green on Monday sent proceedings against trooper Anthony Piercy back to the public safety department for further action.

Piercy was driving 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson, of Clive, Iowa, for a breath test at the Lake of the Ozarks in 2014 when Ellingson fell off the boat and slipped out of an improperly secured life vest. Green ruled that public safety Director Drew Juden didn’t provide findings of fact and conclusions of law when revoking Piercy’s license.

Piercy was sentenced to 10 days in county jail for misdemeanor negligent operation of a vessel. He can’t return to the patrol without his peace officer license.

Members of the CAM and Nodaway Valley School District’s Boards of Education will hold a closed Special session beginning 7-p.m. Thursday, in the Nodaway Valley High School Media Center. Superintendent Dr. Casey Berlau said during the meeting, the Boards will review the information from 19 applicants, with hopes of narrowing the candidates for the first round of interviews to five-or seven-candidates.

The ultimate goal is to select an individual to succeed Berlau, who is leaving the District at the end of June, to become Superintendent for the Carroll Community School District.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa City man convicted of sexually assaulting a woman during a violent home invasion has been given 75 years in prison. A judge imposed the sentences last week on 26-year-old Sullivan Smith-Berry. He’d been convicted in March of burglary, three counts of robbery and one of sexual abuse. He and 30-year-old Earl Riley Jr. are accused of breaking into an Iowa City apartment on Nov. 3, 2017, and beating two men. Police say Smith-Berry dragged a sister of one of the men into a bedroom and assaulted her.

Riley has pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is scheduled to begin trial on July 16.

Two people were arrested on separate Driving While Revoked and Driving While Suspended charges Tuesday, in Creston. Authorities say 23-year old Kaylee Nelson, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Revoked. She was later released on a $2,000 bond. And, 20-year old Noah Wardlow, of Corning, was arrested in Creston for Driving While Suspended. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $300 bond.