DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced a lottery computer programmer to up to 25 years in prison for rigging a computer program to enable him to pick winning numbers in several lottery games over six years. Eddie Tipton pleaded guilty earlier this summer to ongoing criminal conduct, and on Tuesday he received the prison sentence. Judge Brad McCall also ordered Tipton to repay more than $2 million that the scheme paid Tipton and others.

Tipton’s brother, Tommy Tipton, is serving a 75-day jail sentence on a theft charge. A friend of Eddie Tipton’s, Robert Rhodes, of Sugar Land, Texas, will be sentenced Aug. 25 on a computer crime charge.

Tipton worked for the Multi-State Lottery Association in Iowa. He fixed lottery games in Colorado, Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa and Oklahoma between 2005 and 2011.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state official says Iowa’s individual health insurance market under the Affordable Care Act will collapse if the federal government doesn’t approve a short-term proposal aimed at stabilizing premium costs.

Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen told reporters Tuesday the state has communicated with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to finalize a proposed stopgap measure. The state submitted its final proposal on the measure Monday.

About 72,000 Iowans have individual ACA-compliant health plans. Ommen estimates up to 22,000 of them will drop coverage in 2018 if no action is taken to offset growing premium costs. The last insurance carrier to offer individual plans expects additional premium increases.

The stopgap measure reallocates federal money to help individuals priced out of subsidies that currently help pay for coverage.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Des Moines police officer who quit last year after being accused of planting drug evidence has been has been criminally charged in the case. The Des Moines Register reported Tuesday that 30-year-old Tyson Teut has been charged with felonious misconduct in office and perjury.

Teut resigned in December amid the allegations. Polk County Attorney John Sarcone says Teut turned himself in and was booked into Polk County Jail on Tuesday morning. Teut and another officer resigned in December, accused of planting evidence on New Year’s Day 2015 to implicate a then-21-year-old man in a drug case. The man was charged and convicted of possessing methamphetamine, but was later exonerated.

Authorities have not said how they learned that case was tainted.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports two recent arrests and an accident.

On Monday, August 21st Deputies arrested 45-year-old Bret Phillip Samuelson of Randolph, IA for Driving While Barred. Samuelson was arrested at 10:20pm on 189th Street. He was taken to the Mills County Jail and held on $2,000 bond.

On Tuesday, August 22nd Mills County Deputies arrested 28-year-old Jonanthan Lee Million of Emerson on a warrant for Burglary 2nd Degree and Theft 2nd Degree. He was arrested at the Page County Jail at 10:50am and held on $5,000 bond.

Mills County Sheriff’s Officials also report an accident took place on Friday, August 18th at 3:24pm at the intersection of 221st Street and Barrus Road. A 2015 Dodge drive by 37-year-old Beth Shain of Glenwood was traveling northbound on 221st Street near Barrus Road and was hit broadside by a 2001 Dodge driven by 25-year-old Fredy Rodriguez-Soriano of Omaha.  Rodriguez-Soriano failed to stop at a posted stop sign while traveling westbound on Barrus Road, causing the accident.  Two juvenile passengers were injured in the accident and were transported to UNMC by Silver City Rescue.

Rodriguez-Soriano was cited after the accident for No Valid Driver’s License, Failure to Provide Proof of Financial Liability, and Failure to Obey a Stop Sign.

No further details on the accident are known at this time.