SUMNER, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say the pilot of a crop-dusting plane died Thursday when the aircraft crashed just short of a building in northeast Iowa’s Bremer County. The fiery crash occurred around 7:20-a.m. Thursday, a few yards north of Iowa Highway 93 in Sumner. Witnesses told authorities that a wheel came off the low-flying plane when it hit a power line, which knocked out electricity to part of Sumner. Officials say the wheel hit and shattered the glass front doors of a bank, but no other businesses were damaged. The plane then hit a tree and burst into flames. The pilot was identified as 56-year-old David Baker, who lived in Swedesburg.

The crash cause is being investigated.

A jury in Clarinda has returned a verdict of guilty, in the first-degree murder trial of 34-year old Toby Lee McCunn, of Red Oak. McCunn killed 33-year old Joshua Lyle Jordan April 22nd, in Shenandoah. According to reports, the jurors deliberated for about  2 1/2 hours Thursday, before announcing their verdict.

Over the three day trial, prosecutors called 15 witnesses to the stand. DCI Special Agent Phillip Kennedy testified that McCunn was obsessed over finding Jordan in the weeks leading up to the incident to recover some stolen property. The two men had previous encounters prior to the fatal shooting.

After the verdict was handed-down, McCunn was transported to the Page County Jail, where he was being held without bond. He faces a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole when McCunn is sentenced September 17th.

NEVADA, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have identified the woman whose body was found in the charred wreckage of her mobile home in central Iowa’s Story County. Authorities say 27-year-old Katelyne Pratt was alone in her home in Nevada when the fire started Tuesday. The home was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. Pratt’s body and that of a dog were found inside later.

Nearby homes suffered some heat damage, but no other injuries have been reported. Authorities are still trying to determine the cause of Pratt’s death.

Red Oak Police, Thursday night, arrested a man for possession of a controlled substance/1st offense, and OWI/1st offense. 31-year old James Douglas Lee, of Warsaw, Missouri, was taken into custody at around 8:45-p.m. in the 200 block of N. Broadway. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail, on a $1,000 bond.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:35 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock have opened the Iowa State Fair’s 2020 presidential blitz by blistering President Donald Trump and promising to push new gun restrictions. Biden says “everything the president’s said and done encourages white supremacists.” Bullock says Trump’s rhetoric and behavior are beneath the office he holds.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Across the early primary states, Democratic voters – who have seen a parade of more than two dozen presidential candidates march through their states for months – are starting to get exhausted with the primary field and are anxious to take on Donald Trump. Even some die-hard Democratic activists are getting restless.

EPWORTH, Iowa (AP) — State environmental officials are investigating a fish kill in a river in eastern Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says in a news release that thousands of dead fish _ mostly rough fish and minnows _ were found Thursday along a 10-mile stretch of the Little Maquoketa River starting north of Epworth and running downstream to Durango.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Pressure is mounting on former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to trade in his faltering presidential bid for a U.S. Senate run in his home state. But the decision will not be an easy one for the 67-year-old. Hickenlooper has repeatedly said he’s more interested in being an executive. A successful run for Senate would also take him out of the mix for potential Cabinet appointments should Democrats win the White House next year.