A Decorah man has been arrested after allegedly making threats that led to a “lock down” in all Decorah school district buildings on Monday. Decorah Police say 42-year-old Bruce Dean Divers, Junior has been charged with two counts of second degree harassment, a serious misdemeanor, and third degree harassment, a simple misdemeanor.

Police say Divers sent an email to Carrie Lee Elementary School on Saturday, expressing his displeasure with the content of some of the curriculum at the school. Police say on Monday, Divers posted information on Facebook threatening the welfare of two teachers. Police say the third degree harassment charge involves a third teacher.

(Radio Iowa)

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — A former northwestern Iowa teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student has been given probation time. A judge Monday sentenced 25-year-old Samantha Kohls to one year of probation. Kohls, a former Remsen-Union Community School teacher, has already lost her teaching license and must register as a sex offender. She previously pleaded guilty to lascivious conduct with a minor.

Arrest affidavits say Kohls had sex with a 17-year-old male student while she was a teacher at the school. The documents say the sexual encounters happened at her apartment in 2014. She was initially charged with two counts of sexual exploitation by a school employee but Plymouth County Attorney Darin Raymond agreed to the reduced charge, saying jail time was not appropriate.

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A Des Moines lawyer who helped manage Chuck Grassley’s first U.S. Senate campaign and is considered a friend says it’s time for Grassley and Republican Senate leaders to “man up and vote” on a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Keith Uhl, a Republican who donated money to President Barack Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012, says if Grassley refuses to hold hearings on Obama’s supreme court nominee he’ll have to seriously consider whether he votes for Grassley again.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines lawyer who helped manage Chuck Grassley’s first U.S. Senate campaign and is considered a friend says it’s time for Grassley and Republican Senate leaders to “man up and vote” on a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Keith Uhl, a Republican who donated money to President Barack Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012, says if Grassley refuses to hold hearings on Obama’s supreme court nominee he’ll have to seriously consider whether he votes for Grassley again.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man has been sentenced to five years in prison for crashing his truck into a backyard trampoline and killing a 6-year-old boy in Des Moines. Guadalupe Villa-Guzman had earlier pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Police say the man has a history of seizures and shouldn’t have been driving last June when his truck struck and killed Irving Aguilar Gonzalez.

DECORAH, Iowa (AP) — Security was stepped up Monday at schools in Decorah. Police say a lockdown was put in place after a person angry about a curriculum matter at Carrie Lee Elementary sent an email that raised the concern of school officials.

The Red Oak Police department reports the arrest Monday of two men on theft charges.  At 3:30pm Officers arrested 50-year-old Marvin Eugene Gulick of Red Oak and 44-year-old Billy Joe Miflin of Red Oak for 5th Degree Theft.  The two men were arrested in the 200 block of East Joy Street in Red Oak.  Both suspects were taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on 300 dollars bond each.