CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) – A jury has convicted a Cedar Rapids man of fatally shooting a man and trying to kill a woman. Ezekiel Phillips was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder and attempted murder for the Dec. 19 shooting of Tyrice Douglas and Mone Dotson. Dotson testified that Phillips, a former boyfriend, entered her Cedar Rapids apartment and shot her and Douglas while they were in bed. A medical examiner testified that Douglas survived the shooting but later developed an infection that led to his May 6 death. Phillips’ attorneys says he wasn’t the shooter and there was no physical evidence linking him to the shootings.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Thousands of people whose state income tax refunds were withheld to pay Cedar Rapids traffic camera tickets would get refunds under a proposed $3 million lawsuit settlement. The City Council learned Tuesday that the city also would stop trying to collect fines and late fees on about 177,000 unpaid tickets issued before Aug. 31 last year. The council voted unanimously for the settlement of the 2018 lawsuit. The case stems from a December 2017 initiative in which the city sought payments for 221,000 unpaid tickets dating back to 2010. The settlement has no bearing on the current use of traffic cameras.

(Radio Iowa) — A Winnebago County supervisor has pleaded guilty to charges after bringing a gun to a meeting and being drunk. Sixty-three-year-old Michael Stensrud of Lake Mills pleaded guilty to the charges of carrying a firearm while under the influence and public intoxication. Stensrud was charged on May 21st after law enforcement was called to the Winnebago County Courthouse in Forest City for a man who was possibly intoxicated. Stensrud was at a supervisors meeting at the time, with officers saying he smelled of alcohol and had a pistol in his right pocket. Court documents state that Stensrud’s blood alcohol level was above the legal limit.

Stensrud had a request to have his trial moved out of Winnebago County denied, then agreed to plead guilty as part of a plea deal in which prosecutors would recommend a deferred judgment and six months probation. Under the terms of a deferred judgment, if he completes the terms of his probation, the conviction would be removed from his record. Stensrud is scheduled to be sentenced on January 24th.

Stensrud, who played football at Iowa State University before going pro, was in the NFL for a decade before retiring in 1989.

Emergency responders and law enforcement were dispatched at around 7:05-a.m. today (Wednesday), to the rollover of a delivery truck off Interstate 80, in Cass County. The straight truck was on its side between the 57 and 58 mile markers. The driver suffered from a leg injury and was extricated through the windshield, once it was removed. He transported by Medivac to CCMH for treatment of minor injuries.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines City Council has disbanded the city’s Citizen Odor Board. The council took the action Monday after concluding the panel was no longer needed after nearly 30 years of recording complaints. It had no enforcement powers. People still will be able to report stenches to the city’s 24/7 odor hotline: (515) 244-0336. If the city gets 10 complaints about the same smell within six hours, it will investigate the source. A city official says an administrative law judge would hear appeals from companies found to be significant odor generators.

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — A convicted felon accused of lying on his voter registration application and voting in the November election has been imprisoned. William Gibson, of Hazleton, was sentenced Tuesday in Independence to 30 years in prison. He’d pleaded guilty to two counts of election misconduct and a drug possession charge. Each felony count filed against Gibson was enhanced because he is a habitual offender. The prosecutors say Gibson lied on his voter registration application when he attested that he’d never been convicted of a felony. And prosecutors say Gibson cast a provisional ballot in the November election. Poll workers suspected he was a convicted felon.