(Red Oak, Iowa) – Police in Red Oak report the arrest at around 5-p.m. Sunday, of a woman from Red Oak. 25-year-old Destiny Jill Anderson was taken into custody for Driving While Barred, following a traffic stop in the 100 block of W. Elm Street, in Red Oak. Anderson was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) – Both political parties have been listing Iowa’s third congressional district race as among the three dozen that could decide which party wins a majority in the U.S. House. Congresswoman Cindy Axne of West Des Moines narrowly won her previous races in 2018 and 2020 and she’s been telling her fellow Democrats 2022 will be the same. “We win these votes in Iowa on the margins, folks,” Axne said earlier this month. Challenger Zach Nunn has been telling his fellow Republicans the race has national implications. “It is about holding Biden and Pelosi accountable,” Nunn said.

Nunn has emphasized the state budgets and the tax cuts he’s voted for as a member of the Iowa legislature.”We’re going to change the course of the tax-and-spend Washington, D.C., starting right here in Iowa,” Nunn says. Axne has emphasized the votes she’s taken in congress, like her support of increased spending on infrastructure, including broadband and computer chip factories. “Put us in a new trajectory in this country,” Axne says, “bringing new jobs back to this country.”

3rd Congressional District highlighted in pink/mauve

The two candidates have had a sharp disagreement over abortion. Axne has been criticizing Nunn’s response during a debate in May with his Republican Primary competitors, when Nunn raised his hand in support of banning all abortions, without exceptions. “Women’s reproductive health decisions should be made between themselves, their family and their doctor,” Axne said.

Nunn has emphasized his votes in the state legislature for abortion restrictions that included exceptions. And Nunn has suggested the U.S. Supreme Court has left the issue to the states, not congress, to decide. “This is unfortunately one of the only things the Democrats in D.C. are trying to run on,” Nunn said.

Iowa’s new third congressional district covers 21 counties. It includes the cities of Jefferson and Des Moines at the top. It stairsteps down to Atlantic and Clarinda on the southwest, then goes all the way over to Ottumwa on the district’s southeast side.

(Radio Iowa)  – A Sioux City man is in custody, facing murder charges after a shooting early Saturday morning on the west side of Sioux City. Nineteen-year-old Joseph Cruz is charged with two counts of second degree murder, intimidating with a dangerous weapon causing serious injury and willful injury causing serious injury.

Sioux City Police were dispatched to a home around 2:15 a.m. Saturday. They found two shooting victims. one was dead at the scene. The other was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Cruz was later arrested and booked into the Woodbury County Jail where he’s being held pending a bond hearing.

(Radio Iowa) – State officials say a 24-year-old man running for from law enforcement in Davenport early Sunday was shot to death after shooting at police. According to a news release from the Iowa Department of Public Safety, several law enforcement agencies were patrolling an area near a strip club in Davenport. Officers tried to stop a vehicle shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday, but the driver sped away and the vehicle crashed at a nearby intersection.

The occupants of the vehicle then ran and the state agency says officers in pursuit exchanged gun fire with 24-year-old Kenneth Jamal Carrol of Davenport, an occupant of the vehicle. He was hit and pronounced dead at the scene. None of the officers were injured.

The news release does not mention how many shots were fired, but it does say two state troopers, three Davenport police officers and one Bettendorf police officer fired their guns.