CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — An engineering report blames the failure of a pipe cap for a massive steam release that fatally injured an employee at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. The report from HBK Engineering says the “sudden, catastrophic failure of this cap is the likely cause of the incident” at a campus dining hall. The university asked HBK to investigate in order to quickly determine what happened. The school also is awaiting a report from Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

University steamfitter Kevin Bley was fatally injured Sept. 10 as he was testing the steam distribution service for the dining hall. The dining hall had been closed since Sept. 4 because of a prior steam leak.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three of nine current and former Omaha Tribal officials who admitted using federal funds to give themselves bonuses have been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay restitution. The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal reports that former members Mitchell Parker and Amen Sheridan and current member Jeff Miller were given five years of probation at their sentencing Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. Parker and Sheridan were ordered to pay more than $13,400, and Miller was ordered to pay more than $40,200. They’d pleaded guilty.

Prosecutors say the former and current officials misused federal funds by awarding nearly $389,000 in bonuses to themselves. Officials say the bonuses were paid from Indian Health Service funds meant to provide health care to members of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, who reside on the Omaha Reservation in Macy in northeastern Nebraska and in western Iowa.

HOLSTEIN, Iowa (AP) — After six decades of construction, an expansion project to build a four-lane expressway across northern Iowa is finished. The Des Moines Register reports that a ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Friday in Holstein for the completed U.S. Highway 20 corridor. The corridor now extends 302 miles (486 kilometers) to connect Sioux City with Fort Dodge, Waterloo and Dubuque. Road widening of the expressway’s first 3-mile section started in 1958. But the remaining miles have taken 60 years to complete.

Gov. Kim Reynolds and Rep. Steve King will join Iowa Department of Transportation officials in celebrating the alternative to the often-congested Interstate Highway 80 across Iowa’s midsection. Shirley Phillips is president of the U.S. Highway 20 Corridor Association, a lobbying group representing communities along the route. Phillips says members are ecstatic and never thought they’d see the project’s completed.

ACKLEY, Iowa (AP) — A trial has been rescheduled for a central Iowa man accused of locking his 8-year-old son in a basement. A judge granted the delay for 30-year-old Alex Shadlow. He and 39-year-old Traci Tyler have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping charges. Authorities say the boy was locked up for at least 9 hours a day last summer in a space under the basement stairs at the couple’s Ackley home. Authorities say the couple withheld food from him and made him endure dog bites. He slept on concrete and had no access to a bathroom.

Shadlow’s new trial starting date in Dickinson County is Jan. 7. The trial was moved there because of trial publicity in Hardin County. Tyler’s trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 5 in Cerro Gordo County. Shadlow had requested separate trials , citing the likelihood that his defense would conflict with that of Tyler.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports an Avoca woman turned herself-in to the Sheriff’s Office Monday afternoon. 38-year old Carolin Sue Mills was arrested on a warrant for Probation Violation, and turned over to Corrections Staff. An inmate at the jail, 23-year old Cody James McAuliffe, of Council Bluffs, was served with a warrant Monday morning, for Violation of Probation. He was then returned to the custody of Corrections Staff.

The Atlantic Police Department has released a report containing numerous arrests. On Sunday, 39-year old Bridget Barnholdt, of Atlantic, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance (Marijuana), and on a Cass County warrant for OWI/2nd offense. Also arrested Sunday, was 18-year old Robert Mwalia, of Atlantic, for Public Intoxication.

On Saturday, 26-year old Carly Seddon, of Atlantic, was arrested for Disorderly Conduct, Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree, and Trespass/1st offense. Last Friday, 23-year old Shawn Jensen, of Atlantic, was arrested for Public Intoxication and Disorderly Conduct. On Oct. 11th, 18-year old Rene Cole, of Atlantic, was arrested on Cass County warrants for Burglary in the 3rd Degree, Theft in the 3rd, and Conspiracy to Commit a Non-forcible felony.

On Oct. 10th, 25-year olds Curtis McCoy and Jacob Sweeney, both of Atlantic, were arrested for Burglary in the 3rd Degree, Theft in the 3rd, and Conspiracy to Commit a Non-forcible felony. And, 56-year old Paul Hansen, of Atlantic, was arrested for Assault Causing Injury, and Criminal Mischief in the 5th degree. On Oct. 7th, 24-year old Nicholas Renner, of Atlantic, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault. The previous day, 19-year old Parrish Wright, of Atlantic, was arrested for Attempted Burglary/3rd degree (Vehicle related). Wright was cited into court and released.

On Oct. 2nd, 28-year old Justine Jacobs, of Atlantic, was arrested for Disorderly Conduct, and on Oct. 1st, 27-year old Kawaichy Alafen, of Atlantic, was arrested for OWI.