Red Oak Police arrested a woman Tuesday evening on a Theft charge. 31-year old Jennifer Rose Latham, of Red Oak, was arrested at the Red Oak Dollar General Store at around 5:24-p.m., on a charge of Theft in the 5th Degree. Latham was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.

Sheriff’s officials in Mills County report a motorcycle struck a deer Monday night, resulting in the motorcycle operator being sent to the hospital. 65-year old Steven Johnson, of Malvern, was riding a 2015 Indian Roadmaster northbound on 315th Street at around 9:45-p.m., when his cycle struck a deer a few miles north of Malvern. Johnson was transported by Malvern Rescue to the UNMC in Omaha.

Cass County ISU Extension and Outreach Director Kate Olsen reports the phones at the Extension Service in Atlantic were restored to operational status late Tuesday afternoon. The phones went down at around 12:15-p.m., leaving persons needing information or wishing to contact the Extension, no option but to stop-in or e-mail extension staff.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A man already in federal prison on gun convictions has been sentenced to another 20 years for trying to hire a hitman from behind bars to kill two northeastern Iowa people. Federal prosecutors say 45-year-old Jason Harriman was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Cedar Rapids.

Harriman was convicted in January of two counts of murder-for-hire. Prosecutors say Harriman began serving a 15-year federal sentence in 2011 on gun charges and made multiple phone and email contacts from prison with someone he thought was a hired killer. The person was actually an undercover federal agent.

Investigators say Harriman met with the agent in prison and agreed to pay the “hitman” $21,000 for the murder of two people — even signing a contract.

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — Police in Rhode Island have arrested an Iowa man they say intended to visit singer Taylor Swift’s beachfront mansion in the state and was carrying a backpack containing a baseball bat and items commonly used in burglaries. Westerly Chief Shawn Lacey tells The Sun of Westerly that 32-year-old David Page Liddle, of Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested Friday after residents reported a suspicious man at a boat yard near Swift’s home.

Lacey says Liddle told officers he was looking to “catch up” with Swift because he knew her personally and she had agreed to help his singing career. Security guards at Swift’s mansion told police they had seen Liddle earlier outside the front gate.

Liddle was being held on $10,000 bond.

FAIRFAX, Iowa (AP) — Linn County authorities identified a teen killed when a lawn mower he was operating overturned, pinning him beneath. Authorities say 17-year-old Alexander Wade Prochaska, of Cedar Rapids, died in the accident.

First responders were sent around 8:20 p.m. Monday to a site about a 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) east of Fairfax. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office says Prochaska was trapped under the mower, which had overturned while he was trying to mow a ditch.

The teen was pronounced dead at the scene.