SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa (AP) — City Officials in western Iowa’s community of Sergeant Bluff considering changing an ordinance on vicious animals to allow pit bulls within city limits. The Sioux City Journal reports that Sergeant Bluff’s city code currently prohibits residents from housing pit bulls in the city. The breed is banned in many cities because it’s believed to be predisposed to vicious behavior.

Mayor Jon Winkel says he’d support the change if there are proper steps in place to keep residents safe. The City Council is also considering requiring all dogs to undergo registration and microchipping. The potential ordinance changes will be reviewed by staff and committee members over the next few weeks.

The changes are expected to be discussed again at the council’s next meeting on Nov. 28.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature could face pressure next session over its decision earlier this year to reduce a key Medicaid benefit for poor and disabled people. Some GOP lawmakers have begun to question whether the cut to so-called retroactive eligibility, which helps new patients with recently incurred medical costs, was larger than intended. They’ve indicated the issue will be revisited when lawmakers return in January. It’s still unclear what Republicans may do, but the health care community is expected to lobby for some kind of action.

The benefit is a staple of Medicaid that helps newly eligible patients with medical bills that go back three months. The federal government recently approved a plan that reduces that benefit for everyone except pregnant women and children younger than 1 year old.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Police have identified a 21-year-old Ames man who died after two masked men burst into his apartment. Ames police say Xavier Jordan Shepley was killed early Saturday morning when he was shot during an apparent robbery. Police say Shepley was found around 3:40 a.m. Saturday when officers went to an apartment building to investigate a shooting. He had a gunshot wound in his chest.

Witnesses told police that two people wearing masks entered the apartment in what seemed like a robbery, and one of them shot the victim. Witnesses told police the suspects sped away in a black or blue pickup truck.

One person died, and another was injured during a single-vehicle accident this (Sunday) morning, in Taylor County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a passenger in the vehicle, 23-year old Clintin David Marshall, of Corning, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene. The driver, 30-year old Jody Dee Reed, of Corning, who was wearing a seat belt, was flown from the scene to the UNMC in Omaha, by LifeNet Helicopter.

The Patrol says Reed and Marshall were traveling eastbound toward the town of Gravity on J-35/200th Street, when for reasons unknown, the 2011 Lincoln MKS they were in, went out of control. The Vehicle left the road and entered the east ditch before it struck a tree in the ditch, and came to rest. The accident happened at around 12:45-a.m.

Red Oak Police arrested two men on separate charges, Saturday. At around 9:30-a.m., 93-year old Granville Earl Williams, of Red Oak, was arrested for Theft in the 5th Degree (Shoplifting), at the Red Oak Fareway Strore. His bond at the Montgomery County Jail was set at $300. And, at around 11:30-p.m., Saturday, 24-year old Timothy J. Temperley, of East Dubuque, IL., was arrested in Red Oak, for Public Intoxication. His bond was also set at $300.

Officials with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reported Saturday, that 25-year old Amanda Joy Williams, of Red Oak, was arrested just before 4-p.m that day, on two counts of assault on a peace officer and on a Fremont County warrant for Harassment in the 3rd degree. Williams was being held on $2,000 bond for the assault charges. She was also held without bond on the warrant.