(Radio Iowa) – Authorities say a woman was accidently shot by her two-year old child in Dyersville on Wednesday night. Dyersville police say a 911 call came in around 6:15 pm about a shooting that happened on 4th Avenue Northeast. Authorities say a 21-year-old woman was accidentally shot by her child with a handgun that was left unsecured. The woman was transported to Finley Hospital in Dubuque and later airlifted to Iowa City.

Authorities have not released her name and her condition was not available. The investigation is ongoing and charges are pending.

A woman from Ringgold County suffered suspected minor, non-incapacitating injuries last Sunday morning, during a rollover accident in Union County. The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports 19-year old Autumn Rose Marie St. Onge, of Diagonal, was driving a 2007 Kia Sorento northbound on P-27/The High and Dry Road at around 6:40-a.m., when an animal ran in front of her vehicle.

When St. Onge swerved to miss the animal, she over-corrected and lost control, causing the car to roll over on the road.  The car came to rest on its wheels, in the west ditch. St. Onge was transported by EMS Ground to the Greater Regional Medical Center, in Creston.  The vehicle was a total loss ($5,000 damage). No citations were issued.

(12-pm 11/6) – The Union County Sheriff’s Office, Friday (today), said a West Des Moines man reported on Nov. 2nd, that sometime recently, someone broke into his machine shed in rural Union County, by damaging a window. The thief or thieves took several items, including: An Indestro wrench set; SK ½” drive socket set; Two KT grinder wheels; an axe; a lighter; a 50’ extension cord, and a tub of rags. Estimated value of the damage and items taken is $380.

And, a man from Shannon City reported to the Union County Sheriff’s Office on November 4th, that sometime in last two days, someone damaged the door to his shed and took miscellaneous tools, DeWalt battery, and Napa jump starter. The items were valued at $500 altogether.

DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, Friday (today), ordered a hand-count audit of unofficial election results in one Jasper County precinct following an apparent discrepancy in the numbers. An investigation by the Secretary of State and County Auditor Dennis Parrott determined that a human data entry error in the Jasper County Auditor’s Office resulted in some results being over-reported in the Clear Creek-Poweshiek precinct.

The contest primarily impacted by the error was the Second Congressional District race. Due to the discrepancy, Secretary Pate ordered a hand-count audit of the precinct in question and requested a countywide administrative recount of all results. Pate says “The integrity of Iowa’s elections is my top priority as State Commissioner of Elections. We have protections in place in Iowa to ensure the integrity of the vote. All elections are conducted on paper ballots. There is a paper trail that allows us to go back and look at all the results if there is a discrepancy. We conduct post-election audits. The system worked and we will make sure all the numbers are accurate.”

Auditor Parrott agrees with Secretary Pate’s request for a countywide recount. “Obviously on election night the Jasper County Auditor’s Office made an election results reporting error. It has since been corrected,” Auditor Parrott said. “I credit the system of checks and balances that Iowa has that gives auditors time before the county supervisors canvass the vote to catch errors and issues that may have happened on Election Day.”

The hand-count audit of the precinct in question and countywide administrative recount was expected to have begun immediately, and should be completed ahead of the Jasper County canvass of votes on Tuesday afternoon. Election night results are always unofficial. The numbers are not finalized until after counties conduct post-election audits and canvasses, and the numbers are certified on a statewide basis at the end of November. Every county is conducting post-election audits in randomly selected precincts to help ensure the integrity of the vote.

You can view the unofficial results for every county at this link.

(Radio Iowa) – The Secretary of State’s website now shows Democrat Rita Hart leading Republican Marriannette Miller-Meeks by 162 votes in Iowa’s second district congressional race.  The TOTAL number of votes listed on the website has also changed, by more than two-hundred votes. On Wednesday morning, the Secretary of State’s website showed Miller-Meeks leading by 282 votes.

Secretary of State Paul Pate and the Jasper County Auditor will be holding a news conference late this (Friday) morning in Newton, which is in the second congressional district. W-O-I Television in Des Moines reports state officials gave the Jasper County Auditor permission yesterday to recount ballots in one precinct after noticing the tabulation from that precinct was eight votes short of what it should have been. Jasper County Auditor Dennis Parrott told the station a counting machine had malfunctioned in that precinct and ballots were getting jammed.

(Radio Iowa) – Soon, two states that border Iowa will offer recreational marijuana for sale. Illinois started selling pot to Iowans in January, while next year, South Dakota will begin to grow, tax and sell it. South Dakota voters approved an initiative on Tuesday allowing medical marijuana, and a constitutional amendment allowing recreational use. Drey Samuelson, spokesman for South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws, says it was a big victory. “Ten years ago, there was a medical marijuana initiative on the ballot and it lost two-to-one,” Samuelson says, “and a very similar initiative ten years later now passed by a margin greater than two-to-one. Attitudes are changing, just like people change.”

Both initiatives will take effect in South Dakota on July 1st of next year. Between now and then, that state’s legislature will have to determine how to launch and regulate the new industry, including whether people from neighboring states — like Iowa — may purchase the products. “The question is whether or not people are going to get it legally and have it be safe and have it be taxed, where the revenue goes to our public schools and our state’s general fund,” Samuelson says, “or whether it’s going to be sold in a back alley and it’s not going to be safe, you don’t know what it is or how strong it is, and the profits go to organized crime and illicit drug dealers.”

Iowans can legally buy marijuana in Illinois and they can legally consume it there, but it’s illegal to bring the pot back to Iowa and to use it here. Also, Illinois residents can buy larger quantities of marijuana there than Iowans. South Dakota may go a similar route in how it treats non-residents. Samuelson says the amendment was written to keep that state’s lawmakers from making changes to both the recreational and medical marijuana markets. “The good news is, Amendment A is a constitutional amendment and it protects Measure 26, the medical marijuana,” Samuelson says, “so the legislature can’t under it’s own volition change anything, frankly. They can mess with it around the edges, but they can’t repeal it.”

Sales in South Dakota will be limited to buyers who are 21 and older. This week, Arizona, Mississippi, Montana and New Jersey also passed measures to legalize marijuana.