Police in Council Bluffs say one person was injured after a vehicle rolled over early this (Friday) morning off of Interstate 480. The accident happened at around 2:40-a.m. on I-480 westbound. An investigation determined a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am driven by 32-year old Sophia Jenkins, of Council Bluffs, was traveling west on the north side of the interstate, when her vehicle traveled down an embankment, crashed through a fence, and ended up in a construction area.

Jenkins was transported to Creighton University Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries. Authorities say alcohol and speed appear to be contributing factors to the crash. Jenkins faces charges that include Failure to Maintain Control, Driving While Disqualified, and Failure to Provide Proof of Insurance.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Prosecutors say a Nebraska man who didn’t get the promotion he wanted at an Iowa college has been convicted of hacking without authorization into several of the university’s computers and email accounts. David Boyer pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Sioux City to unauthorized access to a protected computer. In a plea agreement, the 46-year-old Boyer admitted that from October 2009 through June 4, 2010, he accessed protected computers at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake.

Prosecutors say Boyer took the unauthorized actions because he was angry that he hadn’t been promoted to become head of the information technology department, losing the job to another person.  In the plea agreement, Boyer agreed to pay $100,000 in restitution. His sentencing date has not been set.

A woman from rural Red Oak was arrested Thursday evening, following a traffic stop. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says 25-year old Jessica Faye Davis was taken into custody on a valid Montgomery County Bench Warrant for Violation of Probation, and was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $5,000 bond.

The Iowa office of the U-S Small Business Administration reports a slight increase in the number of loans to new and expanding businesses in the state compared to last year, though there was a drop in the overall dollar amount. Jayne Armstrong took over as director of the state S-B-A office’s operations earlier this year and says she’s making a few course corrections. “We’re changing some of the ways we do business, particularly our marketing and outreach,” Armstrong says. “We’re trying to be much more visible within the community and to market ourselves more to the small business community in addition to the banking community.”

The S-B-A’s fiscal year ended at the end of September and during the year, loans were made to 444 Iowa businesses. That’s up from 440 loans the previous year. The total value of this year’s loans to Iowa businesses was nearly 135-million dollars, down from almost 150-million a year ago. “Our overall lending, the dollar volume dropped this past fiscal year,” Armstrong says. “You’re going to have fluctuations of some years bigger loans and smaller loans other years. You have no control over that. It’s really what the small business community, what the demand is.”

The dollar amounts aren’t a big concern, she says, but the number of loans is more significant. Other important figures are that this year’s S-B-A loans created more than 15-hundred jobs in Iowa and retained another three-thousand. Loans were made in 65 of Iowa’s 99 counties. By far, the most loans were made during the year in Polk County, the home of Des Moines and the state’s most populous metro area. Polk County had 106 loans, followed by Linn County with 56 loans, Black Hawk County with 29 and Scott County with 25.

“We feel there’s some untapped potential for SBA in the Sioux City, Davenport and Dubuque markets in particular,” Armstrong says. “You’re going to have a much stronger presence in those areas as we move forward.” During the fiscal year, loans to minority- and women-owned businesses in Iowa rose compared to the previous year, while the number of loans to veterans fell slightly. Access to capital is one of the biggest challenges facing small business, according to Armstrong. She adds, more than 95-percent of Iowa’s businesses are small businesses.

(Radio Iowa)