CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — A state audit has found nearly $7,000 in improper and unsupported payments and undeposited collections at the University of Northern Iowa’s Study Abroad Center.

The audit found the problems from July 2011 to June 2014, when the program was run by Yana Cornish. Cornish left UNI in 2014 to become the director of education abroad at the University of Georgia.

Iowa State Auditor Mary Mosiman says the audit shows $5,768 in payments that did not comply with UNI policies, including hospitality and catering costs and a visa for a trip to Russia for Cornish’s daughter. The audit also found $922 in undeposited collections related to air travel costs that Cornish had paid with university procurement card. UNI withheld that amount from Cornish’s final salary payment.

The audit has been sent to various authorities, including the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and state and local prosecutors.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa judge has found that the state cannot deny two transgender women Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgery, declaring that denying their care policy violates the state’s Constitution and civil rights law.

Carol Ann Beal of northwest Iowa and EerieAnna Good of the Quad Cities in eastern Iowa filed the lawsuit last year after the Iowa Department of Human Services denied surgery requests recommended by doctors.

On Thursday Judge Arthur Gamble said the denial violated their rights concluding Iowa “has not kept pace with law and medicine.” An Iowa attorney general’s office spokesman says no decision has been made on an appeal.

American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa attorney Rita Bettis says the women, born male but identified as female since childhood, may proceed with surgeries.

The Audubon County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday, 32-year old Robert Lee Crawley, of Hamlin, was arrested May 25th and charged with two counts of Violation of Sex Offender Registry and five counts of Felon in possession of a firearm. Crawley appeared before the magistrate and was held until he later posted bond.

Audubon County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 31-year old Angela Dawn Foust, of Exira, on Monday June 4th. She was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant for possession of a controlled substance. Foust saw the magistrate, was held and later bonded out.

And, 31-year old Lisa Marie Riskowski, of Exira, was arrested Monday, on an outstanding warrant for violation of probation. She was also seen by the magistrate and held.

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Police in the central Iowa city of Ankeny have identified two people whose bodies were found earlier this week inside a mobile home. Police said in a news release Thursday that autopsies reveal 44-year-old Karen Jayne Edsinga and 45-year-old Lonnie Robert Perry died in the Autumn Ridge mobile home.

Their bodies were found Monday after officers were sent to check on their welfare. Police say it appeared the two had been dead for “an extended period of time.”

Police say the autopsy showed Edsinga died of a self-inflicted gunshot and that Perry also died of a gunshot wound. Police say they were unable to determine if Perry’s wound was self-inflicted or at the hands of Edsinga.

Investigators say evidence at the scene suggests both parties’ actions were consensual.

The Iowa Department of Transportation is sending the following information as a courtesy to the Nebraska Department of Transportation: Placement of pavement markings will require the temporary closure of the westbound Interstate 80 ramp to northbound I-480 beginning at 10 p.m. Friday, June 8, until 6 a.m. Saturday, June 9, weather permitting, according to the Nebraska Department of Transportation.

Hawkins Construction Company is the contractor on this project. Motorists are urged to drive cautiously through construction zones, along detours and selected alternate routes.

An investigation into a single-vehicle accident at around 11-p.m. Wednesday, north of Shambaugh, resulted in the arrest of a woman from Missouri. The Page County Sheriff’s Office says 34-year old Sarah Jean Carpenter, of Burlington Junction, MO., was traveling south on Highway 71, when her 2002 Chrysler Town and Country van left the road and entered the west ditch. Carpenter tried to get the vehicle back on the road, but the van became stuck in the mud.

When a Deputy arrived, Carpenter was operating the vehicle, spinning the tires attempting to get the van unstuck. The Deputy noticed smoke coming from under the hood of the van. He then assisted Carpenter out of the van and called for the Clarinda Fire Department to be dispatched for the fire. The Deputy then assisted Carpenter up the bank, as the engine compartment of the vehicle caught fire. The fire was extinguished by the Clarinda Fire Department.

Carpenter was arrested for OWI 1st Offense. She was transported to the Page County Jail where she was being held on $1000.00. She later posted bond and was released pending further court proceedings. The Page County Sheriff’s Office was assisted at the scene by the Clarinda Fire Department & the Clarinda Ambulance service.