(Radio Iowa) — More than two MILLION Iowans are registered to vote in Iowa — a new milestone for this point in an election cycle. There have never been this many registered voters in Iowa at the beginning of December, heading into a General Election year. Secretary of State Paul Pate cites a variety of factors, like the new law that lets 17-year-olds register to vote if they’ll be 18 by Election Day next November. He also noted people can register online and victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking can register to vote now and keep their address confidential.

Here’s how the voter registration numbers break out for the political parties:

Democratic Party: 613,899
Republican Party: 640,180
No Party:                743,885
Other:                        16,262

TOTAL:               2,014,226

Independent or “no party” voters are the largest block of voters in three of Iowa’s four congressional districts. Democrats lead Republicans in voter registration totals in the first, second and third congressional districts. In the fourth district, Republicans hold a voter registration edge over both no party and Democratic voters.

The raw vote totals for each congressional district are listed on this map.

CENTER POINT, Iowa (AP) — Police say an eastern Iowa woman has died and a man was injured, when a sport utility vehicle hit them in a bar parking lot and sped away. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the incident happened around 1:30 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of Bully’s North in Center Point, about 20 miles north of Cedar Rapids.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office says 50-year-old Kimberley Swore, of Center Point, died at the scene. Another pedestrian suffered minor injuries in the hit-and-run. Police have information on a suspect, but no charges had been filed by late Monday.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City man has pleaded guilty in what authorities have called a human trafficking case in which a teenage Guatemalan girl was raped. The Sioux City Journal reports that 38-year-old Cristobal Francisco-Nicolas pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to a smuggling count and unlawful possession of identification documents. In exchange, a third smuggling count will be dropped.

Prosecutors say Francisco-Nicolas helped pay smuggling costs for the girl and her father to get from Guatemala to the U.S.-Mexico border and then travel to Sioux City. Francisco-Nicolas’ wife, 40-year-old Amy Francisco, pleaded guilty last week to helping her husband in the scheme.

The 17-year-old girl was found wandering Sioux City streets on June 5 and told authorities she had been repeatedly raped by Francisco-Nicolas before she escaped.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Police say a man injured in a shooting near the Coe College campus in Cedar Rapids has died from those injuries. Station KCRG reports that 20-year-old Levi Hunter Allen Holten, of Cedar Rapids, died Monday from injuries he received in a shooting on Nov. 25. Police say Holten was found in an alley around 5:15 a.m. that day with a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
Cedar Rapids police say an autopsy has been scheduled. No arrests in the shooting have been reported. An investigation into the shooting continues.

A man and woman from Lenox were arrested today (Tuesday) in Creston, on warrants out of Missouri. 29-year old Kristen Oliphant and 40-year old Thomas Lee Zelasko II, were taken into custody at around 12:27-a.m. at Highway 34 and Patriotic Avenue. Oliphant was wanted for Failure to Appear on an original, Felony, Possession of a Controlled Substance charge. She was being held in the Adams County Jail, while awaiting transfer to the Stone County, MO., Jail. Zelasko was wanted for Failure to Appear related to a Tampering with a Motor Vehicle charge. He was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting transfer to Clay County, MO.

And, 44-year old Misty Daughtery, of Lenox, was arrested Monday in Creston, for Driving While Barred. She was later released on a $2,000 bond.