Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 4:40 a.m. CDT

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — New court documents show that Sioux City Community School District has paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the mother of a student sexually exploited by former educational specialist. The school board earlier this month approved a $20,000 settlement agreement. The Sioux City Journal reports that documents filed Thursday show the district’s insurance carrier will pay another $20,000. The insurance portion was not earlier disclosed by the district.

Superintendent Paul Gausman says the district’s share of the settlement will be paid from a taxpayer-funded budget section used to pay insurance premiums and legal settlements. Police say 30-year-old Erick Deleon had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student. He was sentenced to three years’ probation and a suspended five-year sentence.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police are looking for a man they say knocked out his father’s girlfriend with a package of frozen bratwurst. Police tell the Des Moines Register that officers were called to a hospital, where the 50-year-old woman was receiving staples to close a gash on the back of her head.

The woman told police that she kicked her boyfriend’s 44-year-old son out of their home around 2 p.m. Thursday. As he was preparing to leave, she said, she tossed a package of frozen brats belonging to the son into the yard. She says when she turned to walk back inside, the man hurled the sausages at the back of her head, knocking her unconscious.

An arrest warrant charging the man with assault has been issued.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A Des Moines woman convicted for smashing windows at a Nebraska defense contractor’s building has been ordered to pay more than $4,000 for the damage. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Sarpy County District Judge Patricia Lamberty ordered 34-year-old Jessica Reznicek to pay $4,126. She was also sentenced to time already served.

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Officials with TS Bank in Treynor have announced Tysen Christensen as the new Market President for the bank’s Corning branch. TS Banking Group recently entered into a purchase agreement with Blue Grass Bancorporation, Inc., Corning, Iowa, to acquire Okey-Vernon First National Bank, with banking assets of $85 million.

Christensen’s work experience includes nearly 12 years within the banking industry. He first served at Union Bank in Corning, then in 2006 was hired at Okey-Vernon First National Bank as the Assistant Vice President, and later in 2011 was named Vice President Senior Loan Officer.

Tysen Christensen

Christensen is a native of Lenox, Iowa, where he graduated from Lenox High School, then graduated from Buena Vista University with a Bachelor of Science degree in business management with a concentration in finance. He is also a 2014 graduate of the Iowa School of Banking. Christensen and his wife, Erin, reside in Lenox with their two daughters Hadlee and Jesa. In his free time he enjoys coaching his daughters’ sports teams and golfing.

Iowa’s third largest recreational area has a host of family-friendly events planned for this Memorial Day weekend. Conrad Kramer, executive director of the Whiterock Conservancy in Coon Rapids, says a Slow Sunday Drive is planned for tomorrow. Folks can bring an A-T-V or utility vehicle for a 13-mile guided tour through the forest, pastures and prairieland.

“We thought it would be great if people could just bring their vehicles and drive our new main loop trail,” Kramer says. “It circles our entire 5,000 acre landscape. It’s a double track and we lead you through with a pilot Gator. It’s a nice, slow 3-hour roll through some absolutely beautiful landscape, through the prairies, through the savannah, with some great scenic overlooks.”

It’s a particular treat as Whiterock is usually closed to private motorized vehicles. On Monday, events will include a fishing derby at the Garst Home Farm. The derby will be held at the old Garst family pond which has some seven decades of history. A few years back, the pond was cleaned completely out and restocked.

“It’s got all kinds of great fish in it, some great panfish, bass, catfish, and this particular pond even has some nice little surprises,” Kramer says. “It has walleye and even some northern pike in it.” Each participant will receive a dozen worms and there will be prizes with experts on-hand to guide angling novices. For more information on the weekend’s events, visit: www.whiterockconservancy.org

(Radio Iowa)

Police in Red Oak report a traffic stop for an equipment violation early this (Saturday) morning, resulted in the arrest of 44-year old Christopher David Draman, of Lenox. Draman was arrested for Driving While Barred and brought to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center, where his bond was set at $2,000. And, late Friday evening, 23-year old Bradina Sky Gary, of Red Oak, was arrested in Red Oak, on a charge of Harassment in the 3rd Degree. Her bond was set at $300.

One of the first ceremonies in Iowa on Memorial Day will be held at 8 a.m. at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Van Meter. Retired Colonel Robert King says “We have over 2900 of Iowa and America’s veterans and their eligible family members interred at the cemetery.” King leads the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs and he’ll be at the ceremony on Monday morning. King occasionally presides over burials at the cemetery.

“It’s an honor to serve in this capacity, to give back, to serve our veterans and to help the families through the difficult times that they have,” King says.The Iowa Veterans Cemetery opened in the summer of 2008. The first U.S. soldiers to be buried in Iowa are from the Civil War era. the Keokuk National Cemetery is the final resting place for 600 Union soldiers, eight Confederate soldiers and 27 unidentified soldiers.

The commander of the “Grand Army of the Republic” declared May 30th,1868 as “Decoration Day” to mark the graves of the Union soldiers who died in the Civil War with flowers, but ceremonial days to mark the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers had been occurring for a few years before that. In 1967, a federal law officially named the holiday “Memorial Day.”

(Radio Iowa)