WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder died Wednesday morning at a southeast Iowa hospital. 71-year old Everett Lyon was pronounced dead due to natural causes at 3:58 a.m. at Great River Medical Center in West Burlington. He’d been sent there for a suspected heart attack.

Lyon was convicted of first-degree murder in Marshall County. Prison records say Lyon had been serving his time at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. His incarceration began on April 10, 1979.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A third defendant has been convicted in the kidnapping and beating death of a man at a Burlington apartment complex. Des Moines County court records say a jury found Stanley Baldwin guilty Tuesday of willful injury. The two other defendants were convicted in August. The records say Majestic Malone and Markell Price forced Edward Breuer inside an apartment on March 17 last year after Baldwin accused Breuer of breaking into it.

The documents say Malone and Price carried Breuer back outside several minutes later and laid him in the dirt before Price poured a can of soda over Breuer’s head.

IA Governor Kim Reynolds & Lt. Governor Adam Gregg will hold “Invest in Iowa” Town Hall meetings next week, in Harlan & Council Bluffs. The Harlan meeting takes place Friday, March 6th, beginning at Noon, in the C.G. Therkildsen Activity Center (706 Victoria St.).  The Council Bluffs Town Hall takes place later that day. It will be held at the Hoff Family Arts and Culture Center (1001 S. 6th St., in Council Bluffs), beginning at 2:30-p.m.

Sheriff’s officials in Pottawattamie County report a man and a woman from Oakland were arrested late Tuesday night, following a reported physical disturbance at a residence in the 400 block of S. Chautauqua Avenue. An investigation resulted in 36-year old Richard Jack Franks and 44-year old Kathleen Marie Gerhardt being taken into custody at around 11:25-p.m., for Interference with Official Acts. Gerhardt was additionally charged with making False Reports to 9-1-1. Her bond was set at $600. Franks was being held on a $300 bond.

At around 11:36-p.m. Tuesday, Pott. County deputies were dispatched to the area near Weston Avenue and Railroad Highway, for a report of a vehicle in the ditch. 46-year old Gretchen Renee Cunningham was subsequently arrested for OWI/1st offense, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Possession of a Controlled Substance/1st offense – Marijuana, as a parent or guardian. A 17-year old male was arrested on similar charges.

Tuesday morning, 19-year old Stefanie Jenell Carona was arrested following a traffic stop in the area of Mahogany Road and the Old Lincoln Highway. Carona was charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Monday night, a Cass County man was arrested in Pott. County, for Driving While Barred. 30-year old Cam Christopher Jahnke, whose last known address was in Griswold, was taken into custody following a traffic stop in Oakland.

Monday evening, 39-year old Danny Joe Davidson, Jr. was arrested for Violation of Probation, following a traffic stop in Council Bluffs. And, 26-year old Mariah Lee Beckwith, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Courthouse, Monday, on a Pott. County felony warrant for an Iowa Lottery violation, and Theft in the 4th Degree. Her bond on those charges was set at $6,000.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Police are investigating the stabbing death of a man in Cedar Rapids. Authorities say officers and medics sent to a residence around 4:25 a.m. Wednesday found the 35-year-old man unresponsive, with a stab wound in the upper torso. The man was pronounced dead later at a hospital. His name hasn’t been released. No arrest has been reported.