DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A driver has been given probation and suspended prison time for the crash death of another driver in Des Moines. Polk County District Court records say 35-year-old Grant Uhe was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation and a suspended sentence of 10 years in prison. He’d pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide by reckless driving.

Police say Uhe was driving more than 75 mph (121 kph) in a 30 mph (48 kph) zone on April 19 last year before his pickup truck crashed into a car driven by 19-year-old Tyler Wilcox. Police say Wilcox died later at a hospital.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Democrat Theresa Greenfield raised more than $1.1 million from July through September in her campaign for the seat held by Republican Sen. Joni Ernst.
Greenfield, a Des Moines-area businesswoman, ended the quarter with more than $1.2 million cash on hand. The $1.1 million marks somewhat of a slowdown in fundraising pace from the first quarter, when she launched her campaign and subsequently raised more than $625,000 in less than a month, but it matches what Ernst raised during the second quarter of the year.

Greenfield’s campaign says 92% of her contributions this quarter were $100 or less, and noted she’s significantly outpacing what Ernst raised around this same time during her first run for Senate. Greenfield is one of four Democrats competing to take on Ernst, but she’s received the support of a number of national Democratic groups.

Ernst is seen as a top target for Democrats next fall, though the Republican senator enjoys a high approval rating in multiple polls.

A Creston man was arrested late Tuesday morning, for Driving While Revoked. Creston Police say 43-year old Kevin Cavin was arrested in the 200 block of N Elm, and later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) — Studies on cancer patients from Iowa and Nebraska who are undergoing chemotherapy find there are great benefits from low-intensity exercise. Creighton University Professor Eric Bredahl, in the department of exercise science, says even moderate physical activity can help slow tumor growth, while reducing damage to the heart that happens during chemotherapy. “The risk of dying from heart failure becomes greater with each round of chemotherapy,” Bredahl says. “By using exercise and trying to understand those adaptations, we can then employ that exercise prior to, during or even after chemotherapy to preserve or attenuate that decline in cardiac tissue.”

Researchers say even low impact exercise, such as walking and doing yoga, can make a noticeable difference.  “When people go through chemo, they often have a number of side effects that decrease their quality of life. They can’t eat, they feel lethargic, they feel fatigued, their muscles become weaker,” Bredahl says. “If we add resistance training in, we know they eat more, so they maintain a greater capacity to perform their activities of daily living, they feel better.”

An exercise regimen isn’t possible for all patients undergoing chemo, which is why Bredahl plans to take research a step further. “There’s still a number of cancer patients who, due to physical limitations, core morbidities, can’t exercise. What can we do to improve their quality of life?” Bredahl says. “We’re trying to look at different compounds that can be given concurrently with chemotherapy to try to minimize the damage to healthy tissue.”

The research finds exercise can decrease the chance of major issues during chemotherapy and will eventually lead to a greater health outcome, as the side effects of chemo become less apparent.