SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The murder trial for a Sioux City man charged with killing his girlfriend’s 19-month-old daughter has been pushed back to next summer. The Sioux City Journal reports that a judge on Wednesday agreed to continue 24-year-old Tayvon Davis‘ trial to July 13. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed to the continuation. Davis’ trial had been set to start next week. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, child endangerment resulting in the death of a child and multiple acts of child endangerment in the 2018 death of the toddler.

An autopsy showed the girl had several blunt force injuries to her head and a kidney and had suffered fractures to her vertebrae and ribs.

Sheriff’s officials in Union County have taken two reports of theft. A man from Afton, reported Monday, that sometime between 3:00 and 4:30 AM that morning, while his vehicle was broken down between Creston and Afton, someone entered his vehicle and took his Taurus .40 cal gun. The weapon has an estimated value of $400.

And, a man from Diagonal reported Wednesday, that sometime in the past week or so, someone took batteries and battery cables from a bulldozer owned by Larry Schultes while it was near the Clarke Union County Line. The loss was estimated at $400.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are crediting a Mason City police dog with finding a 2-year-old boy who wandered with his dog from his family’s rural home and through a wooded are near a creek this week. The Globe Gazette reports that the incident happened Tuesday, when the boy’s family reported him and the dog missing. Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s deputies searched the property and called in a drone to help search for the boy, but it was Mason City K-9 Kilo who tracked the the boy along a creek to a neighbor’s property.

The boy was found sitting on a cinder block with his dog by his side. Officers say he had taken off his wet shoes, socks and coat, but was not in need of medical attention.

Two semi’s were involved in an accident Thursday morning on Interstate 80 in Cass County, but there were no serious injuries. Cass EMS, Anita Rescue and Wiota Fire were dispatched at around 6:45-a.m. to the crash in the construction zone on I-80 westbound, at mile marker 63, where the road funnels down to one lane. Trooper Ryan Devault tells KJAN News one semi left the road and entered the median, but stayed upright.

(The second semi went out of control and struck the first semi, resulting in a complete lane blockage.)

The impact pushed the first semi into the cable guardrail, causing damage to the DOT guardrail. The driver of the semi that went into the median was trying to drive out of the median mud, when his rig was struck. The driver of the first semi was identified as 42-year old Amos Dorival, of Fayetteville, NC. The second semi was driven by 46-year old Mahdi Guled, of Edmondton, Alberta Canada. One of the drivers hit his head on the steering wheel, but both drivers refused medical treatment at the scene.  Trooper DeVault said there’s no reason drivers should be involved in an accident in that area, since it is well marked as a construction zone that funnels down to one-lane ahead.

He says semi’s seem to have the most difficult time navigating through the construction zone.  Assisting the Iowa State Patrol at the scene was the Adair County Sheriff’s Office, Iowa Dept. of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division and Roads Dept., along with the aforementioned rescue units.