DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A longtime Davenport charity is closing after losing funding and struggling to resolve questions about mismanaging funds. The Quad-City Times reports that United Neighbors Inc.’s board announced Wednesday that the social service agency would close. United Neighbors has been struggling for more than a year since it fired its former executive director and three staff members.

Questions about spending prompted the Iowa Finance Authority to suspend funding and demand repayment of $235,600 in grants for rental assistance. United Neighbors traces its roots back to a related organization that started in Davenport in 1911.

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man who spent 48 years in prison for killing a 10-year-old girl has died in custody. The Iowa Department of Corrections says Robert Anthony Williams died Wednesday of natural causes at the State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. He was 73. Williams was convicted of killing Pamela Kay Powers, of Urbandale, Iowa, on Dec. 24, 1968.

The girl was abducted from the downtown Des Moines YMCA while attending her older brother’s wrestling tournament with her family. Williams led police to the girl’s frozen body along a gravel road near Mitchellville two days after she was killed.

While incarcerated, Williams filed several of his own appeals and his case went to the U.S. Supreme Court twice. But he failed to regain his freedom.

A man in Adams County was arrested on Threat of Terrorism and multiple, other charges, Wednesday. The Sheriff’s Office reports a call to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office came in, during which the caller threatened to shoot a sheriff’s deputy. The caller was identified as 41-year old Shawn Dale Kammerer, of Nodaway, who was found to be prohibited from possessing firearms. Authorities obtained a search warrant for his residence and located a firearm, ammunition, meth and drug paraphernalia.

Kammerer was arrested on Felony charges that include Threat of Terrorism, Child Endangerment, Possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person. He was also charged with 1st Degree Harassment, Possession of a Controlled Substance/Meth, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Harassment of a Public Official, and Interference with Official Acts. Kammerer was being held without bond in the Adams County Jail until seen by a magistrate.

Also arrested at the scene was 45-year old Chantel Dewall, of Nodaway, on charges of felony Child Endangerment, Possession of Meth and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Her cash-only bond was set at $6,300. Additional charges are pending. The Adams County Sheriff’s office was assisted by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and Iowa State Patrol

Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies stopped a vehicle Wednesday night in Villisca, and ended-up arresting two men on drug charges. Sheriff’s officials say the vehicle was pulled-over at around 8:30-p.m. at the intersection of N.4th Street and E. High Street, in Villisca. Deputies took 18-year old Charles Lee Shadbolt, of Villisca, into custody for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana. And, 18-year old Nathan Jess Simmons, of Villisca, was arrested for Possession of Marijuana, along with charges that include Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Failure to have SR-22 insurance. Simmons was also cited for registration violation and driving while suspended. Both men were transported to the Montgomery County Jail, where their bonds were set at $1,000 each.

Some Republicans in the legislature have said it’s time to end state payments to cities, counties and school districts that cover a decline in commercial property tax revenue, but Governor Kim Reynolds is reluctant to break a promise. “That’s not a priority of mine to do anything with that right now,” Reynolds says. “That is a promise that we made to them.”

The annual payments were set up in 2013 when the legislature and Governor Terry Branstad acted to cut commercial property tax rates by 10 percent. Reynolds is open to discussing changes in the future as part of a larger tax reform package, but she says local officials need to be part of the negotiations.

“I want them at the table. I want them to be a part of that discussion, but we’ve promised them that and I don’t think we should go back and take away something that we’ve promised midyear,” Reynolds says. “I just don’t think that’s fair to them.”

Reynolds made her comments during an interview with Radio Iowa. The state is scheduled this year to pay more than 150-million dollars to account for lower commercial property tax payments to local governments. Without that money from the state, local officials say cities, counties and school districts would be forced to make budget cuts or raise local property taxes.

(Radio Iowa)

Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports the Fremont County Reserve Deputy Association recently received a very generous donation to “Operation Santa.” Cooper Avey had a birthday party, and instead of presents for himself, he asked his friends to bring presents to donate to Operation Santa. Aistrope says Cooper’s very generous donation will never be forgotten.

From left to right: Tucker Wyant, Carter Rycroft, Blake, Schaaf, Andy Carter, Diesel Driskell, Noah Howe, Cooper Avey.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of an Iowa kosher meatpacking executive who received 27 years behind bars for money laundering. The commutation is Trump’s first in office and comes following the encouragement of members of Congress and other high-ranking officials who argued the sentence was too harsh. Sholom Rubashkin ran the Iowa headquarters of a family business that was the country’s largest kosher meat-processing company.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Citizens may be allowed to carry guns in some public areas of county courthouses after the Iowa Supreme Court revised an earlier order banning weapons from the public buildings. Chief Justice Mark Cady issued an order Tuesday revising the edict he’d written in June that banned guns from all courthouses in Iowa.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The husband of Iowa’s first female governor has unveiled a doll of himself at the state Capitol, adding a twist to a popular _ and some would say quirky_ tradition honoring the state’s first ladies. Kevin Reynolds, husband of Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, was on hand Wednesday as a doll with his likeness became the newest addition to a permanent display case at the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. The case holds a doll of most Iowa first ladies in history, dating back to territorial governors.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — New U.S. Census Bureau data show Iowa and Nebraska’s populations grew slower than the national average. Iowa’s population increased to 3,145,711 as of July 1, up from 3,130,869 at the same time in 2016. That’s a growth rate of 0.47 percent. Nebraska’s population grew to 1,920,076 during that same window, compared to 1,907,603 the previous year. That’s an increase of 0.65 percent. The United States’ population increased by 0.71 percent, to 325,719,178.