Parents Accused Of Injuring 4-month Old Infant
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – The parents of a 4-month-old child are accused of injuring the little boy in Council Bluffs.
Police say 30-year-old Jacqueline Short and 28-year-old Jack Williams are charged with child endangerment resulting in serious injury.
Suspicions about the child’s injuries were raised after he was taken from a Council Bluffs motel to Jennie Edmundson Hospital on Jan. 12. Medical staffers told police his injuries were consistent with those seen in physical abuse cases.
The child’s been transferred to a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.
Fort Dodge Teen Accused Of Attempted Murder
FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a 13-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder for shooting a man just a few blocks from an elementary school in Fort Dodge.
The boy was arrested Tuesday. His name isn’t being released because of his age.
Police say 24-year-old Robert Rivers Jr. was shot around 2:45 p.m. on Nov. 28 near Butler Elementary School. He was hospitalized.
The school went into a lockdown for about 30 minutes because of the incident.
Waukee Man Pleads Guilty To Murder -Sentenced To Life In Prison
ADEL, Iowa (AP) – A man charged with killing another man in Waukee has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
44-year-old Brendan Michael McGuinness, of Waukee, had been set to go to trial Jan. 30, but entered his plea Wednesday in Dallas County. He shot 41-year-old Gino Risola at least four times in Risola’s driveway on Nov. 7, 2015. Risola, whose wife witnessed part of the confrontation, died at a Des Moines area hospital.
Risola’s death was the first homicide in Waukee since 1977.
In addition to his life sentence, McGuinness was ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to Risola’s family.
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Iowa City Council Decides Not To Seek Illegal Immigrants
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Iowa City leaders have decided the city won’t help federal officials enforce immigration law.
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday for a resolution that says the city – with few exceptions – will take no law enforcement action and won’t spend any city money to aid the feds.
The council decided at a previous meeting not to declare itself a
“sanctuary city.”
The resolution says the enforcement exceptions include public safety threats as determined by local police and situations in which cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be necessary to protect the
public.
The resolution says the “power to regulate immigration is exclusive to the federal government” and notes that no federal law requires city police to help enforce immigration law.
Glenwood Resource Center Told To Re-hire Director
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa institution for residents with intellectual disabilities has been ordered to reinstate a high-ranking official who was fired for alleged safety lapses two years ago.
The Public Employment Relations Board says the firing of Glenwood Resource Center administrator Douglas Wise wasn’t justified and he must be returned to a similar job with back pay.
A settlement is expected to be finalized soon. It will likely cost
taxpayers around $200,000 and result in Wise’s reinstatement, just as Glenwood faces a scandal involving incidents of verbal and physical abuse against numerous
residents.
Wise’s attorney, Charles Gribble, said his client’s pleased with the ruling and looking forward to returning to work, “notwithstanding the problems at Glenwood.”
Wise had been faulted for failing to carry out directives to remove batteries from a home where residents had swallowed them on three occasions. But he said that he trusted his subordinates’ claims that the batteries were gone.
