Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

NORA SPRINGS, Iowa (AP) — The owner of a northern Iowa strip club says he’s not worried about efforts to change the city’s zoning and close his business because he considers it a “theater of performing arts.” Dale Peterson, who recently opened the Pole Barn Theater in downtown Nora Springs, told the Globe Gazette the city’s plan to change zoning for adult entertainment won’t stop him. The City Council will discuss the matter Thursday.

ELK RUN HEIGHTS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a northeast Iowa man has died after he dropped his handgun and was struck by a bullet. Deputies were dispatched to an Elk Run Heights home around 12:30 a.m. Friday and found someone giving CPR to 45-year-old Martin Lawrence. The Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office says he was taken to a Waterloo hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A Cedar Rapids man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a Waterloo man. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that a Black Hawk County jury handed over the guilty verdict Friday afternoon for 26-year-old James Robert Ernst the Second.

DECORAH, Iowa (AP) — Two doctors who testified for the prosecution at a man’s first-degree murder trial reached slightly different conclusions about how his wife died in her Boone home. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports Doctor Michelle Catellier conducted an autopsy on Emily Fazzino’s body, and Doctor Brad Randall reviewed the results. Both doctors testified Friday in a Winneshiek County court.

Police in Council Bluffs say a pickup and a motorcycle collided Friday evening at an uncontrolled intersection. The accident resulted in the operator of the motorcycle, 35-year old Steven Bascue, of Council Bluffs, being transported to Creighton Medical Center for treatment of critical injuries. Bascue was not wearing a helmet, and witnesses told Police his cycle may have been speeding prior to the crash, that happened at around 5:51-p.m., at the intersection of S. 19th Street and 4th Avenue.The posted speed limit in the area is 25-miles per hour.

Authorities say 51-year old Juan Ramos, of Council Bluffs, was driving a 2005
Dodge Ram pickup southbound on S. 19th Street, while Bascue was operating his 2003 Suzuki GSF1200 motorcycle and traveling eastbound on 4th Avenue. The motorcycle impacted the passenger side of the truck behind the passenger door.

Ramos was not injured in the crash. No citations were issued, pending the outcome of an investigation by the Council Bluffs Police Department Traffic Unit.

Officials with the Cass County Health System (CCHS) say a Public Hearing will be held next month on the Fiscal Year 2016-17 budget. The hearing takes place 7:30-a.m. March 15th, in CCMH Conference Room 1.

The proposed $50.6-million dollar budget is about $2.1-million dollars more than the Re-estimated budget for Fiscal year ending June 30th 2016, and includes more than $2.1-million raised through taxation. The proposed taxation rate is $2.50 per thousand dollars valuation.

During the March 15th Public Hearing, and resident or taxpayer may present objections to, or arguments in favor of, any part of the proposed budget.

Deputies in Page County, Thursday night, arrested a man wanted on a Missouri warrant. 26-year old Nathan Andrew Wilcoxsen, of Coin, was taken into custody at around 8:20-p.m. on a Nodaway County, Missouri warrant for Felony Attempted Burglary in the 2nd Degree, and property Damage in the 2nd Degree, a Class B Misdemeanor.

Wilcoxson was taken to the Page County Jail. He was unable to post the $15,000 bond and was held pending court proceedings for extradition to Missouri.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office today (Friday) issued a report on recent arrests. Officials say 36-year old Joshua James Mullen, of Atlantic, was arrested this (Friday) morning on a District Court warrant for Probation Violation. Mullen was taken to the Cass County Jail where he remains held on $10,000 bond.

On Wednesday (2/24), deputies arrested 24-year old Alex Michael Garside, of Atlantic, on a charge of Driving While Revoked. Garside was taken to the Cass County Jail and was released the following day on his own recognizance.

And on February 19th, 32-year old Matthew Wayne Echternach, of Atlantic, was arrested on a Montgomery County warrant. Echternach was taken to the Cass County Jail and later transferred to Montgomery County.