DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Commercial flights will resume at the Dubuque airport next month. Airport officials recently announced that American Airlines plans to restore service to the airport on Jan. 6. The airline suspended flights out of Dubuque in October after cutting its flight schedule there several times in the spring as airline traffic plummeted because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Molly Grover said the return of air service is an important milestone in the area’s recovery from the pandemic.

ONAWA, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his grandmother in 2018. District Judge Zachary Hindman sentenced Eliot Stowe last week in the beating death of 66-year-old Cheryl Stowe at her rural home in Castana in June 2018, the Sioux City Journal reported. Stowe declined to address the court before he received the mandatory sentence for first-degree murder.

Prosecutors say Cheryl Stowe’s body was found wrapped in a rug and duct tape at the edge of a cornfield near her home on June 27, 2018, a day after her supervisor had asked authorities to check on her.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An Illinois man has been charged with fraud for filing a false claim on a vacant house in Cedar Rapids after a major storm caused widespread damage in the area in August. Federal prosecutors say Tavonte Donnell Stewart improperly received $5,927 in aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the August derecho. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that Stewart was one of 16 people who applied for assistance related to the same property.

When officials contacted the firm that owns the home, the property manager said it was vacant at the time of the storm and only sustained minor roof damage.

Red Oak Police report the arrest at around 10:15-p.m., Saturday, of 33-year old Joshua Kenneth Wolcott, from Red Oak. He was taken into custody in the 100 block of E. Market Street, and charged with Domestic Abuse Assault/1st offense, by impeding air flow, and, Interference with Official Acts. Wolcott was being held without bond in the Montgomery County Jail.

Police in Council Bluffs responded at around 1:30-a.m. today (Sunday), to a shooting that took place at Woodbury Pines Apartments at 530 Woodbury Avenue, where a man had possibly been shot in the leg with a shotgun. Officers arrived and found the victim lying in the parking lot with a wound to his leg. The victim was transported to a local hospital in stable condition. No other persons were injured in the incident, and the suspect remains unknown.

Anyone with any information that was in the area at the time of the incident is encouraged to contact the Council Bluffs Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division at 712-328-4728, or Crime Stoppers at 712-328-7867.

A vehicle heading in the wrong direction on Interstate 80 in eastern Iowa’s Scott County, collided head-on with another vehicle, causing the death of two people and injuries to one other. The Iowa State Patrol reports the crash happened at mile marker 285.5 near Walcott, at around 11:25-p.m. Saturday.

Authorities say the public had reported multiple times, that a 1999 Chrysler Concorde was traveling eastbound on I-80 in the westbound lanes, prior to crashing into a 2020 Infiniti QX-60. Two people died at the scene. One person suffered unknown injuries and was transported to a local hospital. No names were released, pending notification of family.

The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Scott County Sheriff’s Office, Buffalo and Walcott Police Departments, and emergency medical personnel.