NEVADA, Iowa (AP) — A former teacher in the North Polk Community School District has been sentenced for having a sexual relationship with a teenage student. Court records show Kevin Muehlenthaler, of Ames, was given six years in prison at his sentencing Wednesday in Nevada. He also was fined $625 for each count. A jury had found the 30-year-old Muehlenthaler guilty in October of three counts of sexual exploitation by a school employee.

Authorities say a woman told police she had a relationship with Muehlenthaler between November 2013 and July 2014 when she was a student of 16 and then 17 years old. The district says Muehlenthaler was employed from August 2013 to June 2016 and that the district became aware of the allegations only after he left the district.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have recovered a male body from the Des Moines River. The Des Moines Police Department says the body was reported around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, south of the Grand Avenue bridge. Police are investigating. The person’s name hasn’t been released yet.

It was something similar to a scene from a popular movie Tuesday when two Woodbury County Supervisors forgot to turn off their microphones and went into the bathroom during a break in their meeting. Supervisors Jeremy Taylor and Rocky Dewitt went to the men’s room after finishing the budget portion of their meeting — but left their microphones on and their comments were broadcast on the county’s YouTube channel. Taylor is heard over sounds of a towel dispenser when Dewitt walks into the restroom. “Well, there’s a quorum in the bathroom,” Taylor says.

The two then talk about some of the discussion during the budget hearing and in-between bathroom sounds appeared to make fun of some of the people who spoke up at the hearing. Taylor ended the conversation appearing to again make fun of the people who where there to talk about budget cuts. “I didn’t know who was going to stand up last and say ‘this all started when I was six years old and had a dream’,” Taylor says and then laughs.

Taylor told K-S-C-J radio he was not making fun of those at the meeting and downplayed the significance of the comments. “If this is what our taxpayer watchdogs are paying attention to — then good on them — they finally got something to report,” Dewitt says. “You know, there is nothing in that conversation in the bathroom that wasn’t already taken place. There was not voting taking place, it was simply a microphone got left on.”  Dewitt is the chair of the supervisors and says he sees no reason why anyone would be upset by their conversation. “At worst I think it was a more cordial conversation that transpired in the bathroom that probably would have happened in a regular meeting. So, I’m just not seeing what the fuss is about,” Dewitt says.

Dewitt says he learned about the open microphones while he was driving home from Tuesday’s meeting and says no one from the public has called to complain to him.

(Radio Iowa)

Police in Red Oak arrested a 16-year old male from New Market on a drug charge early this (Thursday) morning. The unidentified teen was arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, a simple misdemeanor, and subsequently released to the custody of his parent(s). His arrest took place a little after 3-a.m., in the vicinity of N. 3rd and Oak Streets, in Red Oak.