CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have released the name of an employee who was killed at his Cedar Rapids workplace. Police identified the man as 46-year-old Daniel Heeren, who lived in Van Horne. He was run over by a semitrailer Wednesday morning at the DuPont Industrial Bioscience facility. Police say Heeren’s death didn’t result from a crime and say an industrial safety investigation is expected.

An accident in Creston at around 9:30-a.m. Thursday, happened because a driver wasn’t paying attention. According to Creston Police, 47-year old Brian Edward Nelson, of Blockton, was cited for Failure to Obey a Traffic Control Device, after the 2012 Ford F-150 he was driving went through a red light and struck a car driven by 19-year old Keigan Eugene Armstrong, of Fontanelle. The accident happened at the intersection of Adams and Sumner Streets, in Creston. Damage from the collision amounted to an estimated $1,500. Nelson told Police he had the red light, and “Just was not paying attention.”

Police in Council Bluffs this (Friday) morning, arrested a Nebraska man following the chase of a Ford Escape (an SUV) that had been reported stolen from Lincoln, Nebraska back on Nov. 27th.  Authorities say 25-year old Bukjiok Dobuony, of Lincoln, NE., was apprehended after the vehicle crashed, and a short foot pursuit began. Dobuony was charged with Theft 2nd, Eluding, Possession of Controlled Substance (Marijuana) and No Driver’s License.

Dobuony

According to the Council Bluffs Police Department, at around 2:30-a.m. today (Friday), Bluffs Police responded to the area of Highway 92 (Veteran’s Highway) after a broadcast was made Nebraska law enforcement officers had just terminated a pursuit of a stolen vehicle at the state line on Veteran’s Bridge. The vehicle was observed by a Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputy in the area of Highway 92 and Harry Langdon Blvd.

When the Deputy attempted to stop the vehicle, it fled westbound on Veterans. As the deputy followed the SUV, Council Bluffs Police joined in the pursuit. The stolen vehicle, after striking a set of Stop Sticks, eventually stopped after went out of control, drove over a curb, and struck a small tree in the parking lot of ECHO Electric (4325 Gifford Rd).

The driver (Dobuony) fled on foot and was apprehended by officers.

SWAN, Iowa (AP) — A man has been accused of using a cattle prod to discipline two children in south-central Iowa. Court records say 36-year-old Travis Coker, of rural Swan in Marion County, pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts of felony child endangerment causing injury. The records don’t show a trial date. Criminal complaints say the girls reported that Coker used the prod to shock them as a “form of discipline.”

Marion County Sheriff Jason Sandholdt says the 11- and 13-year-old girls weren’t doing their chores fast enough on the family farm, so Coker decided to use the prod — a hand-held rod that delivers an electric shock to control livestock. The court records also say Coker and his wife corroborated the girls’ statements.