CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — A trial has been scheduled for a northern Iowa woman accused of injecting her mother with insulin in an attempt to kill her. Floyd County District Court records say 44-year-old Jennifer Bean entered a written plea of not guilty Monday to a charge of attempted murder. Her trial is set to begin Jan. 8 in Charles City. She’s also pleaded not guilty to obstruction of emergency communications and has been charged with domestic abuse assault.

A court document says Bean injected her mother on Nov. 6 in Charles City. The document says the insulin caused the woman to have low blood sugar that, if not treated, could have resulted in the woman’s death.
The document also says Bean struck and pushed her mother and took away a phone when her mother tried to call 911 for help.

(11/29/18) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — In a story Nov. 28 about an Iowa man being sentenced to prison in South Dakota after pleading guilty to cyberstalking and other charges, The Associated Press misidentified the man. His name is Daniel Vincent Jr., of Council Bluffs, Iowa, not David Vincent Jr.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A western Iowa man accused of posting nude photos of his ex-girlfriend on Craigslist has been sentenced in South Dakota to nearly six years in a federal prison. Thirty-two-year-old Daniel Vincent Jr., of Council Bluffs, earlier pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and failing to pay child support. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Vincent posted ads on Craigslist that listed the victim’s name, employment address and cell phone number and included claims that she was interested in having sex with men in the Sioux Falls area.

The woman went to Sioux Falls police after men started sending naked photos of themselves and started showing up at her workplace. Prosecutors say that at the time of sentencing last week, Vincent had more than $19,000 in unpaid child support for a child he had with the victim.

A fiery, single-vehicle crash this (Wednesday) morning in eastern Iowa resulted in the death of a man from Wisconsin. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2011 Nissan Versa driven by 60-year old Rick Inman, of Glendale, WI., exited eastbound Interstate 80 at around 2:47-a.m. at the intersection of U Avenue, and failed to stop at the end of the exit ramp. The vehicle traveled across U Avenue and left the road before entering a ditch. It vaulted over a creek and impacted the ground on the east side of the water before erupting in flames and coming to rest in the ditch. Inman died at the scene.

The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office, Williamsburg Police and Williamsburg Fire and Rescue.

(A-P correction 11/29, to original story stating Stoltz had no living relatives)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha funeral of a Vietnam veteran initially believed to have no known living family members could have been a sparsely-attended affair. But the national attention brought by an Omaha World-Herald funeral notice saw hundreds of people turn up in frigid conditions Tuesday at Omaha National Cemetery to honor Stanley Stoltz. Stoltz died Nov. 18 at the age of 73. The newspaper ran a small notice inviting the public to his funeral, which went viral on social media and was picked up by at least one cable news network.

Stoltz was born May 29, 1945, and raised in Curlew, Iowa, and later lived in Bennington, Nebraska. Former Bennington Mayor Bill Bohn, who was Stoltz’s friend and neighbor, said Stoltz served in the Vietnam War before settling in Bennington. Friends say Stoltz’s first wife died of cancer, and he and his second wife divorced. He had no children and was preceded in death by his parents. The World-Herald reports that a brother, who declined to speak to reporters, attended Tuesday’s funeral.

URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — A man rescued from the frigid water of a suburban Des Moines pond is grateful. Michael Kennedy’s car ran off an Urbandale street into the pond late Monday morning and became submerged up to the rear window. Urbandale police Sgt. Mark Jorgensen arrived with other first responders and jumped into the water and broke a car window to try to get Kennedy out. Firefighters called to the scene took over and got Kennedy to safety on land.

Kennedy says that once he became alert his rescuers told him he’d had a seizure. He told station KCCI on Tuesday that he was grateful to Jorgensen and others for their efforts and said, “I’m probably more thankful than I’ve ever been.”