DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans to sell health insurance policies compliant with the federal Affordable Care Act in Iowa next year. The company announced Thursday plans to offer polices as long as there aren’t any significant changes to the 2010 law also known as Obamacare.

Wellmark, the state’s largest health insurer, announced last April it would stop selling ACA plans because of high costs, an uncertain future and the loss of $90 million over three years. It insured 21,400 individuals.

On Thursday the company said it believes the individual market can be functional again. Minnesota-based Medica is the only company selling ACA-compliant polices statewide this year. About 72,000 Iowans buy health insurance on the individual market.

Riverside School District Superintendent Tim Mitchell, Thursday afternoon, responded to a Des Moines Register report picked up by media outlets, including KJAN, that stated investigators found mechanical repair records for the bus involved in the fire that killed a student and the bus driver, were changed a week after a fatal bus fire in December.

In his statement released on the District’s website, Mitchell said “The Riverside Community School District rejects any characterization that inspection or maintenance records for bus #4 were altered.  Following the December 6 inspection of the bus, the District immediately completed all repairs noted for bus #4.  The District documented that these repairs were made, and this documentation is unchanged.

“The on-site inspector from the Iowa Department of Education instructed the District to additionally note the repairs in the Department’s online system, once the inspection report was available there.  The report did not become available until December 15, three days after the accident occurred.  In the ensuing weeks, the District noted repairs for all buses that had been repaired, including bus #4, in the online system as instructed by the Department.

There is no dispute that the necessary repairs for bus #4 were completed before the accident on December 12.  Our focus has always been, and remains, on the student and employee we lost that day and ensuring the safety of our students and staff.”

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — A dog handler accused of leaving four dogs inside a hot vehicle last year, killing three, has pleaded guilty to three counts of confining animals. The Ottumwa Courier reports that in exchange for Craig Eugene’s recent plea, a fourth count was dismissed. Eugene was fined $300.

Police say the dogs were found in Eugene’s car July 8 outside the American Kennel Club All Breeds Dog Show in Ottumwa. Two of the dogs were found dead in the car and a third died at a veterinary clinic. Police say Eugene, of Marengo, Illinois, told officers his vehicle was running when he put the dogs inside, but it wasn’t running when he returned. The National Weather Service says the Ottumwa temperature peaked at 89 degrees that day.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office today (Thursday), reports a man already in the Pott. County jail, was served Wednesday, with a Felony warrant for Conspiracy to Deliver Methamphetamine. The warrant was served on 49-year old Dennis Earl Page, of Council Bluffs. Page was remanded to the custody of jail staff and returned to his cell, once the charge was read.

A report of marijuana found Wednesday afternoon on the Jack Links property on Magnolia Road, in Pott. County, resulted in a citation for 26-year old Jose J. Sandoval, of Omaha. Sandoval was cited for Possession of a Controlled Substance (7 grams of marijuana), after a green leafy substance was found in a plastic baggie.

A Deputy working to serve civil papers Wednesday afternoon in Council Bluffs arrested a man on a Felony warrant for Theft in the 2nd degree. Authorities say a deputy was following a pickup into Bluffs Acres ran the vehicles’ license plate, which came back showing the owner of the truck, 44-year old Stacey Lynn Hollingsworth, of Council Bluffs, was wanted on the warrant.

And, 26-year old Dalton Joel Behrens, of Treynor, was arrested at around 2:20-a.m. today (Thursday), for OWI/2nd offense. Behrens was taken into custody after a Deputy was called to investigate an unknown injury accident at Highway 6 and Eagle Lane, where a 1998 Dodge Ram pickup had gone into the ditch.  No injuries were reported.