A large number of police officers from across the county are expected to attend the funeral for the slain Des Moines police officer today (Monday). Hundreds of officers from across the country turned out in April for the funerals of two Des Moines officers who were killed in an accident with a drunk driver.  Des Moines Police Department spokesman, Sergeant Paul Parizek, says they are expecting many more officers for the funeral of Sergeant Tony Beminio today because of they way he died. Parizek says more departments send honor guards in these types of situation were officers are shot and killed in the line of duty.

Beminio’s funeral is at 11 a-m in West Des Moines, and then a long procession of police cars will escort his body across town to a Des Moines cemetery for burial.

(Radio Iowa)

Police in Red Oak arrested a woman from Pottawattamie County, Sunday night. 27-year old Heather Lynn Lear, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at around 9:50-p.m., for Driving While License Suspended. Lear was being held at the Montgomery Law Enforcement Center on a $300 cash bond.

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

ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa (AP) — Some Iowa landowners are raising concerns about the way workers are building an oil pipeline across their land, but backers of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline say the complaints don’t represent major problems with the project. The Des Moines Register reports some landowners along the pipeline route have filed complaints with local or state officials about things such as debris left behind after construction or cattle being released.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republicans say they’ll have the pieces in place on Election Day to take control again of the Legislature. That is a long-standing goal that would enable them to alter Iowa’s legislative priorities next year and move unhindered on a conservative agenda. State GOP leaders are pointing to their party’s voter registration numbers in key district races as a sign of possible success on Tuesday to flip the state Senate. The party has been trying to take back the Senate for several years.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Briar Cliff University is dropping its plan to buy part of a Sioux City park for practice fields after some neighbors opposed the idea. University officials say it is putting its plan to use the park on hold because of the neighborhood concerns.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Officials say that since a new recycling program began in August in Davenport and Bettendorf, the amount of recyclables collected has increased more than 70 percent from the same three-month period last year. The Quad-City Times reports that officials are crediting a switch to the “Go All In” program that allows more types of plastic and paper containers to be recycled. Also, the system no longer requires sorting of recycled materials _ it all goes in one cart.