COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A defense attorney says Iowa prosecutors have decided not to challenge a court decision overturning the conviction of a retired Catholic priest accused of invading the privacy of students in a western Iowa High School bathroom. The Iowa Appeals Court last week overturned the Rev. Paul Monahan’s conviction on five counts of invasion of privacy. Monahan’s attorney, Dan McGinn, told The Daily Nonpareil that he was informed Friday, that the Iowa attorney general’s office wouldn’t pursue a further review. The office spokesman, Lynn Hicks, said Wednesday that the case didn’t meet criteria for an appeal.

The Iowa Sex Offender Registry no longer lists Monahan, who’d been ordered to register as part of his sentence.The Appeals Court said in its decision that the students had no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public bathroom at Treynor High School.

Red Oak Police say no injuries were reported when a Red Oak Fire Department truck transporting a person to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, struck a cement pillar near the hospital garage. Officials say 60-year old Terrence Berigan, of Elliott, was driving the 2016 Ford F-550 owned by the City of Red Oak, when he took a turn too sharp on the entrance drive, and struck the cement post that was in-place to protect the hospital garage from getting hit. The accident happened at around 2-p.m., Tuesday. Damage to the pillar was estimated at $50. The truck sustained about $5,000 damage. No citations were issued.

CENTERVILLE, Iowa (AP) — State and local officers are investigating the death of man whose body was found by firefighters in southern Iowa’s Appanoose County. A Centerville Police Department news release sent Tuesday night says the body of 51-year-old Timothy Pasa was found Saturday in a fire-damaged Centerville house. One firefighter was injured battling the blaze but was released from a hospital Sunday morning.
The cause of Pasa’s death hasn’t been released. Investigators also are trying to determine how the fire started.

The Scott County Sheriff’s Office is releasing the name of a motorcyclist who died Monday in a traffic accident. The accident happened a little after 5 o’clock Monday evening on Highway 61 near Blue Grass. Deputies say 66-year-old James Stowe of Davenport collided with a turning SUV. He was thrown from his motorcycle and died at the scene. The other driver, a 73-year-old woman from Blue Grass, was not hurt. The accident remains under investigation.

(Radio Iowa)