The Iowa Department of Public Health’s (IDPH) COVID-19 dashboard, Sunday (today), shows the number of death from the virus in Iowa, has surpassed 600. The latest figure shows 602 people have died from COVID-19, five more than what was reported on Saturday. There were also 89 new, positive cases of COVID-19, for a total of 21,527. Nearly half of Iowa’s coronavirus cases are located in four counties: Polk, Woodbury, Black Hawk and Buena Vista.

The total number of test administered to date, is 186, 586. Of those, 164,665 came back negative for COVID-19. The number of Iowans who have recovered from the virus is 12,762.

IDPH data show 269 Iowans are hospitalized with COVID-19, down 19 from Saturday. ICU patients number 86. Iowans admitted to the hospital Saturday numbered 22, which is three less than yesterday. 54 patients were on a ventilator, which is a decrease of eight people. In RMCC Region 4 (southwest /western Iowa), six patients were in a hospital, 3 were in an ICU, none were admitted over the past 24-hours, and one person was on a ventilator.

Here are the current number of COVID-19 positive cases and the number of those who have recovered (in parenthesis):

• Cass County: 13 positive cases [1 more than Friday, as reported on Saturday] (11 have recovered)
• Adair County: 9 (6)
• Adams County: 7 (4)
• Audubon County: 13 (9)
• Guthrie County: 55 (34)
• Montgomery County: 9 (6)
• Pottawattamie County: 339 (202)
• Shelby County: 38 (34).

A traffic stop in Adams County on a vehicle with no license plates, resulted in the arrest, Saturday evening, of a man from Adair County. 41-year old Christopher Lee Breece, of Bridgewater, was taken into custody at around 6:55-p.m. for Driving While Barred. His bond was set at $2,000.

A Red Oak man arrested this past week for Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree, was arrested again yesterday (Saturday), for Domestic Assault. 46-year old James Reed Mitroff II, was taken into custody at around 6:30-p.m. Saturday. While at the Montgomery County Jail, Mitroff II allegedly became combative, and was subsequently charged with Assault on a Peace officer (without injury). His bond was set at $1,000.

A man from Oelwein died during a head-on crash Saturday evening in northeast Iowa’s Clayton County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2003 Harley Davidson motorcycle operated by 50-year old David Bushaw, of Oelwein, was westbound on Clayton Road at around 6:20-p.m., as a 1998 Massey Ferguson Farm Tractor driven by 18-year old Joshua Herzog, of Garnavillo, was traveling eastbound.

As the cycle was negotiating a curve in the road, for reasons unknown it crossed the center line and struck the tractor head-on. Bushaw died at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.

A man from Wayne County was injured Thursday in southern Iowa, when his motorcycle ran into the rear of a vehicle driven by a man from Audubon County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 33-year old Ian Harper, of Allerton, was operating a 2012 Harley Davidson XL-1200 Forty Eight motorcycle westbound on Highway 2 at around 2:15-p.m., Thursday, when he entered a construction zone and collided with the rear of a 2017 Mazda CX-5, that was stopped in traffic waiting for a pilot car.

The Patrol says Harper didn’t apply the brakes for some reason, prior to impacting the car, driven by 82-year old Klaus Kollatschny, of Kimballton. Harper was flown from the scene by air ambulance to a hospital in Des Moines.

Social media reports Saturday night showed evidence vandals caused damage to Kinnick Stadium and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as protesters marched through Iowa City. According to KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, the vandalism happened after 9 p.m. in the plaza outside the sound end zone at the stadium. Vandals also tagged the Nile Kinnick statue with graffiti.

The Some of the vandalism singled out football strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle. Doyle was put on administrative leave Saturday pending an investigation following claims of ‘racial disparities’ by former Hawkeye players.

Additional information was not immediately available.

A suspect involved in a multi-jurisdictional pursuit from Nebraska into Iowa, was being sought Saturday night, in Redfield. According to scanner traffic, the pursuit of a red Chevy Camaro with dark tinted windows, no front license plate and a rear plate from Colorado, began in Nebraska. The car reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour for an extended period of time.

The chase entered Iowa on Interstate 80 eastbound, and despite several attempts to disable the vehicle with stop-sticks, the suspect and his passenger managed to make it to Stuart, where they stopped for fuel and got back onto the interstate eastbound. The car exited near the Redfield exit and was found near the Casey’s Store. Drugs were reportedly found on the passenger seat.

A black female passenger from Illinois was taken into custody. The black male driver with a white t-shirt and sweatpants was still on foot in Redfield as of 9:25-p.m.  Authorities were searching the area. No new information was available from law enforcement this (Sunday) morning.