(updated 12:33-p.m.) DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A man suspected of shooting a Davenport police officer has been charged with attempted murder, and a second man has been arrested in connection with the case. Scott County court records say 27-year-old Brett Dennis also is charged with being a felon in possession of a weapon. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.

The records say Dennis shot Officer Ryan Leabo twice on Thursday afternoon during a struggle following a foot chase. Scott County Sheriff Timothy Lane says Leabo managed to shoot Dennis in a leg. Dennis was treated at a hospital and released.

Police say Dennis originally fled Leabo when Leabo tried to stop Dennis and 27-year-old Nathaniel Viering. Viering remained at the scene and was later charged with several drug crimes. The court records don’t list an attorney for him.

The Creston Police Department reports the arrest on Thursday morning, of 22-year old Keegan Wayne Williams, from Creston. Williams was arrested on a Union County warrant for Operating a vehicle without the owners consent. He was later released on a $2,000 bond. And, two vehicle owners in Creston reported to Police that their vehicles had been vandalized sometime overnight Wednesday into early Thursday morning.

A man who resides in the 500 block of Levy St. said the back left side window on his vehicle was struck. And, a woman residing in the 900 block of W. Jefferson St. had a driver’s side front window on her vehicle broken. Both incidents happened while the vehicles were parked outside their owners’ residences. The damage amounted to around $600.

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(Radio Iowa) — The 2019 Iowa legislative session will likely end this weekend — and many lawmakers are farmers, itching to get out of Des Moines and into their fields. Senator Tom Costello of Imogene says the soil is warm enough for planting in southwest Iowa. “I’ve got about 250 acres of soybeans I need to get planted sometime here,” Costello says.

Representative Ross Paustian of Walcott farms 15-hundred acres of cropland with his son. “Hasn’t been dry enough to plant and…it was too windy to spray, so we’re not getting anything done,” Paustian says, “so I hope to be home — Saturday?” Senator Annette Sweeney says it’s calving season on her farm near Alden.  “It’s always exciting every time you see a new baby calf,” Sweeney says. “During the really bad and cold weather, we started calving then, so it’ll be great to go home and see those calves on green pastures and I can’t wait.”

The 2020 legislative session will begin 262 days from now, on Monday, January 13th.

(Radio Iowa) — The scorecard for the 2019 Iowa legislature is nearly complete, as lawmakers head into the weekend intending to conclude this year’s work. Republican House Speaker Linda Upmeyer of Clear Lake says a major accomplishment is the bill designed to give voters more information about their local property taxes. It also requires a two-thirds vote among local
elected officials to raise property taxes more than two percent. “I’m really satisfied with this year. I think we’ve gotten a lot of good work done. You know, we came in wanting to make sure we did something with mental health. Well, children’s mental health was a big deal and setting up the infrastructure is step one,” Upmeyer says. “We all get that’s not the end of the story, but it’s a really good beginning.”

Republicans hold a majority of seats in the Iowa House AND Senate, so Republicans like Upmeyer and Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver of Ankeny set the debate agenda. “Workforce is a huge issue here in the state of Iowa. Our unemployment’s the lowest in the country, so that creates problems in our workforce. Future Ready Iowa and the funding that we allocated for that will be extremely important,” Whitver said. “In the Senate, unfortunately it didn’t pass the House, but we started on welfare reforms to get people out of our welfare programs and into the workforce. I think that’s a conversation that we need to continue to have over the next year.”

House Republican Leader Chris Hagenow of Clive says after 16 weeks of work, the legislature has taken steps to improve broadband access, expand housing in rural areas and use future sales tax revenue for direct property tax relief. “There’s a lot of very practical things we’ve done…a lot of landmark legislation that may not grab as many headlines sometimes, either, but are really significant to the future of the state of Iowa,” Hagenow says. House Democratic Leader Todd Prichard of Charles City says Republians failed to address ongoing problems in the state’s privatized Medicaid program for both patients and health care providers. “We have missed an opportunity to even start the discussion,” Prichard said, “…so that’s going to fester.”

And Prichard says the spending increases Republicans approved for public schools aren’t keeping up with inflation.