Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

ELDORA, Iowa (AP) — A man and woman who confined the man’s son in a basement in central Iowa have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The Des Moines Register reports that 31-year-old Alex Shadlow and his girlfriend, 40-year-old Traci Tyler, were sentenced Friday. Prosecutors say Tyler and Shadlow in the summer of 2017 locked his 8-year-old son in a space beneath the basement stairs of their Ackley home, where he had no access to a bathroom and food was withheld.

IDA GROVE, Iowa (AP) — A man Iowa authorities say was intoxicated when his vehicle crashed into another, killing three men, has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case. The Sioux City Journal reports that 21-year-old Ryan Childers, of Odebolt, entered the written plea Friday in Ida County District Court to three counts of vehicular homicide and one count of serious injury by motor vehicle. Authorities say Childers was driving a pickup truck the wrong way in March when he hit a car head-on.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A homeless shelter in downtown Des Moines is building a 24-unit, $4.3 million apartment building made out of shipping containers for the chronically homeless. The Des Moines Register reports that Central Iowa Shelter and Services was recently awarded $2.7 million from the National Housing Trust Fund program and the Iowa Finance Authority to complete the project. It will be built in the water retention basin just south of the shelter, where homeless have frequently set up tents.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren and at least six other Democratic White House hopefuls are due to meet with tribal leaders and members in Iowa next week on issues of concern to Native American voters. Warren has sought to mend relations with these voters since apologizing to the Cherokee Nation early this year. That was after she pointed to DNA test results as evidence of her tribal heritage. Warren is expected to face scrutiny at the Sioux City forum over how she addresses that issue.

A collision Saturday morning in Fort Dodge has claimed the life of a 51-year old man. The Iowa State Patrol reports Sean Mannel, of Ft. Dodge, died from his injuries after being transported to Trinity/Unity Point Hospital, in Ft. Dodge. The Patrol says Mannel was driving a 2002 Honda motorcycle southbound on S. 19th Street at around 9:40-a.m., when the cycle collided with a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee that was traveling eastbound, on 7th Avenue South. When the vehicles entered the intersection at the same time, the cycle hit the left side of the Jeep.

The driver of the Jeep, 54-year old Kevin Thielen, of Ft. Dodge, was treated for his injuries at the scene.

ELDORA, Iowa (AP) — A man and woman who confined the man’s son in a basement in central Iowa have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The Des Moines Register reports that 31-year-old Alex Shadlow and his girlfriend, 40-year-old Traci Tyler, were sentenced Friday.

Shadlow had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree kidnapping and two counts of child endangerment causing serious injury. Tyler had pleaded guilty to three counts of child endangerment causing serious injury.

Prosecutors say Tyler and Shadlow locked his 8-year-old son in a space beneath the basement stairs of their Ackley home for at least nine hours a day in summer 2017. The boy told authorities he slept on concrete, had no access to a bathroom and food was withheld.

IDA GROVE, Iowa (AP) — A man Iowa authorities say was intoxicated when his vehicle crashed into another, killing three men, has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case.

The Sioux City Journal reports that 21-year-old Ryan Childers, of Odebolt, entered the written plea Friday in Ida County District Court to three counts of vehicular homicide and one count of serious injury by motor vehicle.

Authorities say Childers was driving a pickup truck the wrong way on Highway 59 just north of Holstein on March 16 when he hit a car head-on. The car burst into flames, killing its occupants, 21-year-old Francisco Joel Nicia Guerro, 25-year-old Jose Danilo Gonzalez Guerro, and 39-year-old Felipe De La Cruz Nava, all of Denison. Childers and his passenger were seriously injured.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A homeless shelter in downtown Des Moines is building a 24-unit, $4.3 million apartment building made out of shipping containers for the chronically homeless.
The Des Moines Register reports that Central Iowa Shelter and Services was recently awarded $2.7 million from the National Housing Trust Fund program and the Iowa Finance Authority to complete the project.

It will be built on stilts in the water retention basin just south of the shelter, where homeless have frequently set up tents. The furnished studios will be about 250-square-feet each. The apartments are reserved for the homeless who have completed the shelter’s housing program that teaches residents how to be good tenants. Officials expect to break ground by the end of the year, and open the building in November 2020.

(Radio Iowa) — State officials have approved incentives for a Wisconsin company that plans to move part of its manufacturing operation to Iowa. Seats Incorporated is based in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The company makes seats for construction equipment, emergency vehicles as well as heavy duty trucks and turf equipment. The company will relocated its metal fabrication to a facility outside of Chariton. The Iowa Economic Development Authority officials say 64 people will be employed at its new facility in south central Iowa. A state board has approved state incentives that will off-set SOME of the company’s capital investment of more than five million dollars.

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The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports at traffic stop at around 12:40-a.m. today (Saturday), resulted in the arrest on drug charges, of a woman and man from Polk County. Deputies pulled over a vehicle on Highway 25 near the Adams/Taylor County line, and upon further investigation placed the driver, Tracy Renee Lehmann, of Des Moines, under arrest for: Driving Under Supension; Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (Meth pipe); Open container-Driver; and Interference with Official Acts.

A passenger in the vehicle, Barrett Martin Driskill, of West Des Moines, was arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (Meth pipe), and he was cited for Open container- Passenger. Adams County Sheriff’s Deputies were assisted at the scene by the Creston Police Department’s K9 Unit, and Taylor County Sheriff’s Deputies.

A traffic stop in Red Oak at around 10:47-p.m., Friday, resulted in the arrest of a Red Oak man. Red Oak Police say 22-year old Michael Lee Hughes was taken into custody for Possession of a Controlled Substance/1st offense. Hughes was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond.