IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa City police have identified a 19-year-old who was fatally shot last week. Police say Quincy Russom was found after he was shot Friday night at an apartment. Witnesses told police three men entered the apartment, shot Russom, and then ran.

An autopsy determined his death was a homicide. Police have not released information on possible suspects. Iowa City Area CrimeStoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects.

Officials with the Harlan Police Department report the arrest on Feb. 14th, of 43-year old Kori Ronee Henning, from Harlan. Henning was arrested for child endangerment and transported to the Shelby County Jail.

And, on February 9th, 38-year old Christopher Daniel Ivey, of Harlan, was arrested for violation of a no contact order. Ivey was also transported to the Shelby County Jail.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A 63-year-old Davenport man charged in a fatal hit-and-run has pleaded not guilty. The Quad-City Times reports that Mark Lance Blackwood entered the written plea Monday. Blackwood is charged in Scott County with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in the death of 60-year-old Eric Johnson, of Rock Island, Illinois.

Blackwood faces up to 15 years in prison if he’s convicted of both counts. Investigators believe Blackwood hit Johnson on a Davenport street on Jan. 18. Police say Johnson was carried on the car about 140 feet before falling and being dragged under the car for nearly 3,000 feet. Police say they found the hit-and-run vehicle the next day outside Blackwood’s home.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An election watchdog group has filed a federal lawsuit in Washington claiming the Iowa-based nonprofit organization Iowa Values violated election laws by failing to register as a political committee while spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the reelection of Sen. Joni Ernst. Campaign Legal Center, a Washington-based nonprofit campaign finance watchdog group, filed the lawsuit on Friday.

The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare that Iowa Values became a political committee as of June 2019 and order the group to register, file documents and to provide information on fundraising and expenditures. The lawsuit also seeks a civil penalty against Iowa Values along with court and attorney fee costs.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa continues to see thousands of people vaccinated, despite a weather system that has pushed freezing air and snow into the state in recent days. The Iowa Department of Public Health reported that there are now more people in Iowa who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccination dose than the number who have been infected by the coronavirus. By midday Tuesday, more than 487,000 people had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

The state’s online virus-tracking dashboard showed more than 356,000 cases had been confirmed in the state. Still, hospitalizations for the virus in Iowa have ticked up in recent days, with 40 people admitted to Iowa hospitals in the last day.

EAGLE GROVE, Iowa (AP) — One person was killed and another person was in custody after a stabbing at a northern Iowa pork processing plant. The Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation says Wright County deputies were called at 5:42 a.m. Tuesday to the Prestage Foods plant near Eagle Grove for a report of a stabbing. Deputies found a dead person in an employee locker room and then identified a suspect, who was taken into custody. An investigation found the victim and suspect knew each other. The names of those involved were not immediately released.

Atlantic, IA — Officials at Cass County Health System said Tuesday they have received multiple reports this month, of phone-related scams occurring in the region. Cass County Health System employees will not call you to sell you any medical equipment or supplies, and we do not work with any companies who sell items over the phone.

Please be cautious about sharing personal information and financials over the phone. Some of the reports included that the phone numbers appear to be local. When in doubt, patients can always ask for the caller’s name and phone extension, and then call the main CCHS phone number at 712-243-3250 to verify this information.