CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Lottery officials say a ticket bought at a convenience store in Davenport is worth nearly $4.4 million. The ticket matched the six numbers in Saturday’s Lotto America drawing: 8-15-18-32-45 and the Star Ball number of 1. The ticket was generated free when the person bought a Powerball ticket at the store as part of an Iowa Lottery promotion for May.

The odds of winning the jackpot in Lotto America are around 1 in 26 million, with the odds of about 1 in 292.2 million of winning the Powerball jackpot and about 1 in 302.6 million of winning the Mega Millions jackpot. Jackpot prizes must be claimed at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett says stocks remain the best option for investors — not bonds, and especially not bitcoins. Buffett says he doesn’t think the stock market is overpriced compared with other options even though he’s had trouble finding entire businesses to buy at reasonable prices. Buffett appeared on CNBC Monday after spending Saturday answering questions before thousands of shareholders.

Buffett says cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are nonproductive assets similar to gold. So Buffett says anyone buying bitcoin is betting that someone else will pay more for it later. Buffett reiterated his standard advice that buying an index fund, such as the S&P 500 fund, regularly over time is the best option for most people. Roughly 40,000 people attended Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting on Saturday.

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) — A man convicted in 1970 of fatally shooting a gas station attendant during a robbery in Cedar Rapids has died in prison. The Iowa Corrections Department says Lacy Kelley died of natural causes Saturday at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. He was 66. He’d been housed in the hospice room at the prison because of a chronic illness. Kelley was convicted of first-degree murder for using a shotgun to kill 19-year-old Thomas Noethe.

A teacher in the Howard-Winneshiek School District has been arrested and charged with sexual exploitation by a school employee.

Tiffany Ranweiler-Oblander

The Howard County Sheriff’s Department says 29-year-old Tiffany Ranweiler-Oblander was charged after a complaint was filed Thursday. Authorities say Ranwiler-Oblander allegedly engaged in sexual contact with an 18-year-old numerous times during the current school year. She is in the Howard County Jail on a $5000 bond. Authorities say a no-contact order has been issued prohibiting the teacher from contacting the student.

(Radio Iowa)

The top-ranking Democrat in congress since 2003 says her party must focus on convincing the country Democrats have a “better deal” for Americans.  “Putting forth what our purpose is, how we connect with America’s working families and what we will do, together, to make sure they succeed.” That’s California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the current minority leader in the U.S. House. Pelosi was the keynote speaker at Sunday night’s Des Moines fundraiser for Polk County Democrats. “I have probably been to Iowa more times than any other member of congress who is not running for president,” Pelosi joked at the start.

Pelosi reminisced about her first trip to Iowa, when she was chairwoman of California Democrats and dispatched to speak with Iowa Democratic Party officials about the timing of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Caucuses. Pelosi’s main theme, focused on recalibrating the party’s message for the 2018 election. She concedes Democrats didn’t communicate well with voters in 2016 — and she recommends that Democrats “relentlessly hammer away the stark contrast” with Republicans in the months ahead. “Republicans are giving the people a raw deal,” Pelosi said. “Democrats believe the Americans deserve a better deal.”

Pelosi told the crowd in Des Moines she’s hoping Democrats win two of the three Iowa congressional seats that are currently held by Republicans and Pelosi asked Iowa Democrats to seek votes in “every corner” of the state. “People always ask: ‘Is it a tsunami or is it a wave?’ …Whatever that is, it’s a lot of small droplets of water, This is not going to be big margins,” Pelosi said. “This is going to be small margins, many places, because we’re going into Republican districts.”

Iowa Republicans held a news conference Sunday, calling Pelosi the face “of the failures of Democrats over the last several elections” and noting Pelosi’s often listed as the least popular member of congress. The chairman of Polk County Democrats says Pelosi is one voice among many in the “national conversation” about the Democratic Party’s path forward. Pelosi’s appearance helped raise about 40-thousand dollars for turn-out-the-vote efforts in Iowa’s largest county.

(Radio Iowa)

Davenport police have released the victim’s name in a fatal shooting.  Police responded early Friday morning to a shots-fired call in a north-central Davenport neighborhood. Upon arrival officers found a woman gunshot victim. She was treated at the scene and then taken to a hospital, where she died. She has been identified as 19-year old Destiny Orr-Clark of Davenport. Detectives are investigating the incident.

(Radio Iowa)

Red Oak Police, Sunday, were called to the 100 block of W. Reed Street, for an assault involving a minor. Officers cited a female juvenile into Juvenile Court, for Simple Assault. The girl was then released to a parent. No name was released because of the girl’s age.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that House Democrats have the fundraising, the issues and the political atmosphere on their side to win back the majority in November.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With majorities in both chambers, Iowa Republican lawmakers can point to plenty of accomplishments as they passed a conservative agenda that includes the nation’s strictest abortion restriction and a large tax cut. Lawmakers completed their work Saturday after finalizing a $7.4 billion budget and approving hundreds of millions in tax cuts. Earlier in the week, Republicans passed a six-week abortion ban that was quickly signed into law by Gov. Reynolds. It faces a series of court challenges.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — An agreement has been reached to demolish a decrepit greyhound track in northeast Iowa and develop the land. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the deal announced Sunday calls for the demolition of the idle dog track to begin by the end of May.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa lawmakers have adjourned their 2018 legislative session. Republicans with control of the Legislature held near simultaneous debate Saturday in order to approve a sweeping $2.1 billion tax cut bill that they hailed as the largest in state history and Democrats decried as unfairly favoring the wealthy. The legislative activity caps a marathon of votes in recent days to finalize spending bills that will make up the roughly $7.4 billion state budget that goes into effect in July.