WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a Waterloo woman was taken to a hospital after a fire at her home. Firetrucks were dispatched to the house a little before 10 p.m. Thursday, and firefighters say flames were coming through some windows as they arrived. The woman already had escaped. She reported that a space heater had caught some bedding and other items on fire in her room on the ground floor. Her name hasn’t been released.

Atlantic Fire and the Cass County Sheriff’s Office responded Thursday evening to a vehicle fire, on eastbound Interstate 80. The blaze just east of the Highway 71 exit was reported at around 6:27-p.m. Atlantic Firefighter Gene Schmeling told KJAN the vehicle, a Toyota, was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived on the scene. The lone occupant of the vehicle, a female, was out of her SUV and was not injured. Crews remained on the scene until about 7:15-p.m.

(Radio Iowa) — Rocker Brett Michaels spent Thursday in Sioux City visiting with members of the Iowa Air National Guard 185th Refueling Wing touring their base. The former singer for Poison and reality T-V star is bringing his Hometown Heroes concert tour to the Tyson Events Center tonight (Friday). “To be here with all these amazing men and women who give us such incredible freedoms…we got off the bus and it’s already been a great party. Everyone here has been amazing, and I am honored to be here and to thank them for the freedoms that they allow us,” Michaels says.

Michaels says this show will be extra special since it happens on the weekend leading up to Veterans Day. “And the best part of the night is during ‘Something to Believe In’ we bring our military men and women, our first responders, teachers, utility workers and fans. We grab a bunch of them and bring them up on stage — and it is awesome,” Michaels says. Colonel Larry Christensen is one of the Hometown Heroes.

“It’s a great opportunity to represent not only the 185th, but the Iowa National Guard, the people of the Siouxland Community, all the employers out there, and also all the veterans,” according to Christensen. “I was talking to him and I was thanking him for coming and I said ‘that’s a really great morale boost.’ He says ‘you don’t realize how much a of morale boost it is for his crew.’ So, he’s just as excited as we are.”

Michaels will perform with Night Ranger, Lita Ford and Joe Nichols.

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa wants to buy more land in North Liberty. The Iowa Board of Regents is being asked next week to approve spending nearly $2.2 million for about 22 acres adjacent to 38 acres the university already owns north-northwest of its Iowa City campus. It’s unclear what the university has planned for the land, and officials have declined to outline the university’s intentions.

A sign that’s long been in place on the 38 acres says a University of Iowa health care facility is “coming soon.” The 22 acres are owned by a church.

(Corrects gender of fatality to a man) — One person died and another was injured during an accident late Thursday night, in Crawford County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a crossover-type SUV driven by 48-year old Karry Schurke, of Denison, was traveling east on Crawford County Road E-16 at around 11:20-p.m., when for reasons unknown, his vehicle crossed the center line of the road. A semi, driven by 33-year old Leonel Pena, of Sioux City, was traveling westbound. Pena took evasive action by braking and steering left to try and avoid the SUV, but Schurke then tried to get back in his lane. Unfortunately, the semi and SUV collided in an off-set head-on manner.

The SUV came to rest facing north in the eastbound lane, and the semi entered the south ditch. Schurke died at the scene. Pena was transported by ambulance to the Crawford County Hospital.

Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County report 49-year old Clinton Joe Hans England, of Red Oak, was arrested Thursday in Red Oak, on an active warrant for Violation of Probation. England was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,500 bond.

Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater, Thursday, reported that Greenfield Police had arrested 34-year old Derik Wayne Bud Pickrell, of Fontanelle. He was taken into custody Monday afternoon in  Greenfield, for Assault with Injury, with regard to an incident with his mother. Pickrell was being held in the Adair County Jail on a $1,000 cash or surety bond.