Iowa Lottery spokesperson, Mary Neubauer, says they are sending out a reminder for you to be sure to check all of your tickets as a big prize in the Mega Millions game has not been claimed. “It’s starting to be a little unusual,  but there is certainly plenty of time for whoever won this prize to still come in and claim it,” Neubauer says. “But it has been more than a month now since somebody won a million-dollar Mega Millions prize here in Iowa, and whoever won hasn’t come forward yet.”

The winning ticket was  at a Kum & Go store on Ashworth Road in West Des Moines. “It won the million-dollar prize in the drawing on May 20th.  That ticket came just one number away from having a share of the jackpot that night,” Neubauer says. She says prizes sometimes go unclaimed, and they don’t want that to happen in this case.

Neubauer says if you have a ticket that you haven’t checked yet, you should take a look at it to be sure it is not the winner. Winners have one year to cash in a winning ticket after the drawing. The ticket was the third one purchased in Iowa to win a prize of at least one million dollars in 2016. The winner of the prize has to claim it at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.

(Radio Iowa)

LUCAS, Iowa (AP) – Authorities have released the name of a woman who died after a horse she was riding fell on her. The accident occurred Saturday afternoon at Stephens State Forest near Lucas in south-central Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says 58-year-old Carole Renaud, of Lacona, was riding with a friend when the horse lost its footing and fell. It landed on top of Renaud. Renaud was flown to a Des Moines hospital, where she later died.

A man and woman from Clarinda were arrested early this (Tuesday) morning on Theft charges, in Montgomery County. Sheriff’s officials say 27-year old Zachary Allan Colebank, of Clarinda, was arrested at around 2:40-a.m. for Theft in the 5th degree. His bond was set at $300. 26-year old Sara Ann Billie, of Clarinda, was arrested in the 300 block of E. Elm Street in Red Oak at around 3:35-a.m., on a valid Page County warrant for Theft in the 3rd Degree. Her bond was set at $2,000.

HAMBURG, Iowa (AP) – Roman Catholic officials say a priest charged with solicitation after a prostitution sting in southwest Iowa has been suspended from public ministry.
The Diocese of Des Moines says in a statement the Rev. Dominic Yamoah has discussed his arrest on Saturday in Hamburg with Bishop Richard Pates. The statement released Monday says Yamoah “very sincerely regrets his actions” and he and the diocese will fully cooperate with authorities.

The 40-year old Yamoah was pastor of churches in Clarinda, Bedford and Villisca. He’s since bonded out of jail. The diocese says it will make arrangement for a replacement pastor during the suspension which remains in place pending the outcome of the investigation and legal proceedings.