A teenager who went missing from a Council Bluffs foster care facility has been located in Montana. According to the Creston News Advertiser, 14-year old Dakota Cook and his sister Cheyenne were located by law enforcement in Anaconda, Montana, today (Friday). Dakota and his sister have been temporarily placed with Montana Department of Family Services.

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Dakota Cook was reported missing Tuesday afternoon after his mother Carolyn Cook of Prescott failed to return him to Children’s Square, U.S.A., a state placement organization, in Council Bluffs. Law enforcement have been searching for Dakota since Tuesday and believed his mother and possibly her boyfriend Jim Strohman, also from Prescott, had him in the Union and Adams County area.

An investigation into fires at three separate locations in Shelby County has resulted in one person being arrested on arson charges. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office reports 20-year old Collin Brus, of Manilla, was arrested Thursday afternoon on one count of 1st Degree Arson and two counts of 2nd Degree Arson. Brus was being held in the Shelby County Jail on $100,000 bond.

Officials say the investigation began May 28th, 2013, when a structure in the 2200 block of M-56 was intentionally burned. A second incident took place on March 8th, of this year, at Botna where again a structure was intentionally burned. The third intentionally ignited incident happened March 11th, in the 2300 block of 2200th Street. All three investigations were jointly investigated by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa State Fire Marshal’s Division.

A school bus with as many as 20 students on board overturned southwest of Treynor this (Friday) afternoon. KETV in Omaha reports the accident happened at the rural intersection of 290th and Delta Avenue around 2:30 p.m. No students were injured. There were concerns the school bus driver was trapped in the wreckage, but the driver made it out shortly after the accident.

Rescue crews from Oakland, Underwood, Lewis Township, Treynor, Carson and Minden responded to the scene. All units except for those from Treynor were ordered to return to quarters as it became clear there were no injuries, and Life Net helicopter, which had been put on stand-by, was told to “stand-down” at 2:38-p.m. Treynor Fire and Rescue returned to base at 3:20-p.m.

No other details are currently available.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a state law that allows sex offenders to remain under supervised release even if they’ve been found unlikely to engage in acts of sexual violence.
The law was challenged by 57-year-old Calvin Matlock, of Waterloo, who has three sex abuse convictions. He was released from prison in 2000 but confined to a Cherokee sex offenders unit as a sexually violent predator.

In 2013 he was released under supervision of a probation officer after he was found to have a mental abnormality but prosecutors failed to prove he was likely to reoffend.  Matlock claims the conditions violate his constitutional due process rights.

The Supreme Court, ruling Friday, affirmed Matlock’s release but ordered hearings on whether supervised release properly balances Matlock’s constitutional rights with public safety.

DENISON, Iowa (AP) – A 26-year-old Denison man has been sentenced to two consecutive terms of life in prison without parole for murdering two elderly people and trying to burn their bodies. A judge administered the sentence Friday to Michael Schenk, who was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of arson in January in the murders of 80-year-old Marvin Huesling and 81-year-old Alice Huisenga. Schenk received an indeterminate sentence of 10 years for the arson charge.

Another defendant, 19-year-old Jayden Chapman, also faces murder and arson charges and is scheduled to go to trial April 28. Authorities say Schenk and Chapman shot the pair at a trailer home in Deloit in March 2014 and then set it on fire. Investigators say the men were likely trying to steal scrap metal.