Red Oak Police report the arrest of 32-year-old Brandon Michael Houghtaling of Red Oak for Public Intoxication on Friday night. Houghtaling was arrested at 9:35pm in the 100 block of West Elm Street in Red Oak. He was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports a person wanted on multiple active warrants was taken into custody in Carroll County on Friday. 33-year-old Sara Batten was wanted on three warrants for Failure to Appear for a pretrial conference and one warrant for Probation Violation on an original charge of Theft 3rd Degree. Batten was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $6,500 bond.

DIKE, Iowa (WOI-TV) — Iowa authorities say a wooden box containing the cremated remains of a Dike man that was stolen in a home burglary has been recovered. Grundy County sheriff’s deputies had reported that the cremains of 65-year-old Daniel Evanson were stolen during a break-in at his rural home sometime late Feb. 14 or early Feb. 15.

Evanson died Feb. 6. Evanson’s family members had taken to social media to plead for the public’s help in finding the remains and the ornate wooden box holding them. Grundy County Sheriff’s Department told WOI that a jogger Friday morning found the box of cremains on a trail in Cedar Falls, which is about 12 miles northeast of Dike.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has reduced the compensation a northeast Iowa man received from a jury to a fraction of the verdict awarded him in a lawsuit against an insurance company in a workers’ compensation case. Even though the court found the American Interstate Insurance Company’s treatment of Toby Thornton “reprehensible” the justices left him with a judgment Friday of $558,000.

Earlier, one jury had awarded him $25 million and another $7 million. The 42-year-old Thornton was involved in an accident while driving a truck in June 2009 for Clayton County Recycling. He was left paralyzed below the chest.