Des Moines’ based UnityPoint Health has released a list of the top baby names for 2016. Nearly 5,000 babies were born in 2016 at three hospitals in the Des Moines area under the UnityPoint Health banner. UnityPoint has released a list of the most popular names given to those newborns. The top girl names in 2016 were Olivia, Lilly, Norah, Sophie, and Charlotte. The most popular names for boys were Jack or Jackson, Henry, Oliver, William, and Owen.

(Radio Iowa)

Officials with the Iowa State Patrol says a Madison County teen’s life was saved by the use of her seat belt, Saturday night. 16-year old Arianna Snell, of St. Charles, was driving a 2012 Toyota Prius westbound on the Truro blacktop road, about two-miles east of Interstate 35, when the car went out of control on a curve where the blacktop meets the gravel on the road.

The car rolled several times before coming to rest in a ditch. The accident happened at around 7:50-p.m., Saturday. Snell was transported by New Virginia Rescue to Mercy West Hospital in Des Moines. There was no report on her condition.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 4:35 a.m. CST

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A county attorney says she’s seeking first-degree murder warrants for two Missouri men in connection with the March slaying of a Burlington teenager. Des Moines County Attorney Amy Beavers tells The Hawk Eye she asked a district judge Friday to issue the warrants in the case of 16-year-old Kedarie Pierre Johnson. Beavers says she’s prohibited from releasing the names of the men until the warrants are executed. Police say Kedarie was found in an alley with several gunshot wounds.

ALTOONA, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines woman has been accused of driving at speeds of 110 mph in a 45 mph zone amid a car chase with police. The Des Moines Register reports 36-year-old Belladonna Melissa Guirgis was taken into custody following the Friday night incident. Altoona Police say an officer tried to stop Guirgis in the Des Moines suburb on suspicion of speeding. She is accused of speeding away, driving into oncoming traffic and running a red light. She was later taken into custody.

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — A semitractor-trailer carrying raw turkey was sliced in half following a train collision in northwest Iowa. The Sioux City Journal reports the collision happened Friday afternoon on a road near a grocery store in downtown Le Mars. The driver of the semitrailer was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. The newspaper reports raw turkey packed in the semitrailer was pressed against the front of the train, scattering the meat across the area.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The keeper of Iowa City’s records has retired after 37 years on the job. There was no big reception at Iowa City Hall on Friday for Marian Karr, the longtime city clerk who marked her last day of work by leaving at noon. Co-workers respected Karr’s plans to spend the afternoon with her grandchildren. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports Karr had a hand on all aspects of city government over the years, including overseeing contracts and other records.

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — A semitractor-trailer carrying raw turkey was sliced in half following a train collision in northwest Iowa. The Sioux City Journal reports the collision happened Friday afternoon on a road near a grocery store in downtown Le Mars. The driver of the semitrailer was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

Le Mars Fire Chief Dave Schipper says the empty 87-car Union Pacific train was traveling south when it struck the westbound semitractor-trailer. The vehicle was dragged about 100 feet before the train came to a stop.

The newspaper reports raw turkey packed in the semitrailer was pressed against the front of the train, scattering the meat across the area. The railroad pole that holds critical signal lights was also damaged.

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The Red Oak Police report the arrest of a Red Oak man on an active warrant for carrying weapons on Friday.  At 10:56pm officers arrested 18-year-old Tyler Austin Sowers at the intersection of N 7th and E Corning Streets in Red Oak. Sowers was arrested on an active State of Iowa warrant for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, an Aggravated Misdemeanor.  Sowers was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held.

The Red Oak Police Department reports a two-vehicle accident occurred on Friday in Red Oak. The accident happened at approximately 2:16pm at the intersection of Hammond Street and 2nd Street.  After investigation is was determined that a 2007 Chevy Avalanche driven by Amber Christine Goranson of Red Oak failed to stop at a stop sign traveling west bound on Hammond Street and struck a 2008 Chevy Aveo driven by 61-year-old Linda Sue Major of Red Oak.  A witness stated that he observed the accident and saw that Goranson had failed to stop at the stop sign. No injuries were reported. The Aveo sustained an estimated $4,000 damage and the Avalanche had $800 damage. Goranson was issued a citation for failure to obey a stop sign.

The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled Iowa law does not allow judges to hand down a criminal sentence that includes the seizure of bail money. In 2013, Patrick Letscher and another man were arrested in Forest City and accused of stealing a pickup. Lescher paid a two-thousand dollar cash bond and was released. Letscher eventually pleaded guilty to the theft charge.

A district court judge ordered him to forfeit the two-thousand dollars, to pay part of his fine for the crime and court costs. He appealed. Iowa’s supreme court notes it’s been common practice for judges at the state AND federal level to order “pretrial” bail money be used to pay “court-imposed” fines and restitution. But the court’s opinion says in 1976 the legislature rewrote Iowa’s criminal code, so that bail money cannot be used to pay restitution and other court-ordered obligations.

(Radio Iowa)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A California man has been charged with setting up fake businesses in three states, then using names taken from temporary visas issued to students to obtain more than $355,000 in unemployment benefits for nonexistent workers.

Nikolai Monastyrski is charged in federal court in Iowa with wire and mail fraud related to the scheme that prosecutors say he perpetrated there as well as in Illinois and Pennsylvania.

A complaint filed Nov. 10 says Monastyrski received $114,215 from Iowa, $230,000 from Illinois and more than $11,300 from Pennsylvania. He appeared at a hearing in Des Moines on Thursday and was ordered held by federal marshals until a Jan. 6 hearing in Davenport, where he’ll be tried. His federal public defender and a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney prosecuting the case declined comment.