A team from Sioux City is expected to join in the continued search today (Tuesday), for a teen missing since an accident last Thursday morning. 15-year-old Yoana Acosta, of Denison, disappeared after the car she was riding in went out of control, through a field and entered the Boyer River north of Denison, at around 3-a.m., Thursday. Four other people in the vehicle were able to make it to the roof of the submerged vehicle and were rescued or made their way to safety.

Each day since the accident occurred, law enforcement personnel along with firefighters and other volunteers have assembled to resume the search along the Boyer River. A early 40 mile stretch of the waterway from Denison to Logan has been searched and will continued to be monitored or searched, until Yoana is found.

Representatives of university towns are back at the state capitol this year, trying to get relief from loud and drunken student parties that are disrupting life in residential areas. The so-called slob renters bill pits landlords against residents who want peace and quiet for their single-family neighborhoods. Some college towns have passed ordinances to limit occupancy to three unrelated adults, so students don’t crowd into houses in single family neighborhoods, contributing to traffic and noise. But Joe Kelly with the Landlords of Iowa says that costs property owners money.

” We think properties should be looked at one by one. The size of the property, can it meet the parking ordinances, or whatever,” Kelly says. “That’s the way we think it should be done. ” The landlords back a bill to throw out the limits on renters. Ames Mayor Anne Campbell says under her city’s ordinance only three unrelated adults can share a house, but in her neighborhood near campus police are still called to break up noisy parties at houses.

“Houses like that are a magnet for massive parties that are not contained inside — they’re contained outside,” Campbell says. She says Ames isn’t the only community with the problem. “This is common behavior I’m ashamed to say in university neighborhoods,” according to Campbell. Representatives of college towns say such neighborhoods are also plagued with traffic and parking issues. The Ames ordinance survived a constitutional challenge before the Iowa Supreme Court in 2007. Bills to throw out the ordinances have cleared the Republican-controlled House in the past but were not taken up in the Senate when Democrats were in control.

(Radio Iowa)

A senate committee has voted to let Iowa businesses get hair samples from employees, to test for possible drug use. Iowa law already lets companies demand blood or urine samples from workers, for random drug tests. Seven Republicans on the panel voted to advance the bill to the full senate Senator Michael Breitbach is a Republican from Strawberry Point.

“Forty-seven states currently allow the testing of hair for drugs,” Breitbach says. “It’s another tool in the employer’s tool box to make sure that they provide a safe and viable workplace.” Four Democrats on the committee voted no, arguing hair retains evidence of drug use for months, even years. Senator Tony Bisignano, a Democrat from Des Moines, says hair sometimes has a “long history.”

“I may have just started working with you this month…I’ve got long hair and you analyze my hair and it shows all kinds of fun,” Bisignano says. “You could go back two years, three years.” Bisignano says that’s not fair. Breitbach, the bill’s manager, says the industry standard is to test a hair sample that’s an inch and a half long — which would reveal potential drug use for up to three months.

(Radio Iowa)

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds won’t promise to immediately support legislation to improve oversight of the state’s child protective services. The discussion follows the October death of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly tortured and starved. The governor’s spokesman, Ben Hammes, says Branstad and Reynolds are open to “conversations” aimed at improvements to the current oversight system, but Hammes added that the two officials will wait on lawmakers to introduce proposals.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man who spent 32 days in jail has been exonerated after prosecutors admitted his conviction was based on misconduct by Des Moines police officers. Polk County Judge Gregory Brandt on Monday vacated the conviction of Kyle Jacob Weldon and issued an order exonerating him. Iowa’s Wrongful Conviction Division says the exoneration is the first connected to two Des Moines officers who resigned last month after they were accused of planting evidence on a suspect in at least one case

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in the Iowa Legislature have introduced their own plan for dealing with the state’s budget shortfall, and it proposes fewer cuts to state agencies than a plan originally backed by Gov. Terry Branstad. A GOP-led Senate panel approved a bill Monday proposing some Iowa departments cut about $88 million in spending for the budget year that began last July. Branstad had pushed a plan asking agencies to cut about $110 million.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Dubuque’s first community-owned grocery store has closed, less than three years since it opened in a historic area near the city’s downtown. The Telegraph Herald reports the Dubuque Food Co-op announced Monday it was permanently closed, less than two weeks after officials said it was going out of business because of poor sales. The co-op opened in May 2014 in a 6,000-square-foot space in the Millwork District. It specialized in local and sustainably produced food and other products.

The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports two separate arrests on Monday morning.

At 8:30am deputies arrested 43-year-old William Dean Petit of Creston at Highway 148 and Hunter Trail.  William was arrested for Driving While Revoked and Failure to File SR22 Insurance.  He was taken to the Adams County Jail and held on $1,000 bond.

At 11:11am deputies arrested 38-year-old Melissa Teeters of Bedford after a traffic stop for a cracked windshield. Teeters was charged with Possession of Marijuana 2nd Offense and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. She was taken to the Adams County Jail and held on $2,000 bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds won’t promise to immediately support legislation to improve oversight of the state’s child protective services, following news reports of a 16-year-old who was allegedly tortured and starved to death.

Spokesman Ben Hammes says Branstad and Reynolds are open to “conversations” about making improvements to the current oversight system. Hammes added that Branstad and Reynolds would wait on lawmakers to introduce proposals. Branstad was asked Monday about the October death of Natalie Finn, of West Des Moines. Prosecutors say the girl, who was homeschooled, was tortured and starved by her parents.

The Republican governor says it’s important for the Iowa Department of Human Services to investigate alleged child abuse. But he also says DHS must protect the rights of parents and families.