AMES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Board of Regents has extended contracts and raised some payments in order to keep all three university system presidents on the job. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the regents took the action Thursday for the presidents at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa State University in Ames and the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.

The board approved contract extensions through June 2023 for University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld and Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen. Northern Iowa President Mark Nook’s contract was extended through June 2025, with the option to renew for an additional two years.

They won’t receive salary increases, but regents opted to extend and, in some cases, increase payments to their deferred contribution plans.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who authorities say was drunk when he drove into oncoming interstate traffic and collided with another vehicle has been imprisoned.
Polk County District Court records say 39-year-old Zlatan Vukasinovic, of Des Moines, was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison. He’d pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide while intoxicated. Prosecutors had dropped another charge in return.

The collision occurred a little after 3 a.m. on Nov. 10. The Iowa Department of Public Safety says Vukasinovic’s pickup truck was headed east in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 near Des Moines when it struck a vehicle driven by 31-year-old Frank Sylalom, who died. He lived in Grimes.

Court records say Sylalom was 16 in 2003 when he lost control of a car he was driving and it crashed into a utility pole in Des Moines, killing three teenagers with him. He was convicted in juvenile court of vehicular homicide.

(Radio Iowa) — Eight people face federal charges in connection with a drug investigation that stretched from California to Iowa, and led to arrests in Des Moines yesterday (Thursday). Authorities searched a dozen properties in the Des Moines area and arrested six people for either buying or selling drugs.

A Los Angeles man, who’s also been arrested, is accused of sending cocaine and marijuana to Des Moines. Twenty-eight-year-old Raylon Canada, of Des Moines, is at the center of the case. A court gave authorities to monitor Canada’s phone this spring. He’s being accused of getting cocaine from California, shipped to him through the mail.

Additional customers and redistributors of controlled substances who have been charged with drug conspiracy and distribution include:
• TERIKAH MEIKETIA MAHANEY, 26, of Des Moines
• MICHELLE LEE MIRELES, 39, of Des Moines
• ERIC ELMONT BOWMAN, 33, of Des Moines
• KATARIO WADE PATTON, 48, of West Des Moines
• MARVIN HAYGOOD, JR., 33, of Des Moines
• JOSEPH MANUEL JONES, 47, of Des Moines

The charges in the complaints carry a maximum penalties of twenty years’ imprisonment.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports three recent arrests. At around 12:45-a.m. today (Friday), 28-year old Alik Christopher Hughes, of Stanton, was arrested for Domestic Assault with bodily injury. He was arrested following an incident in the 1900 block of O Avenue, north of Stanton. Hughes was transported to the Montgomery County Jail, and held without bond.

At around 5:24-p.m. Thursday, following a traffic stop west of Stanton, Montgomery County Deputies arrested 34-year old Damarcus Lacell McQueen, of Omaha. He was arrested on a valid Black Hawk County warrant for Failure to Appear in court. McQueen was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $325 bond.

And, at around 3:36-a.m. Thursday, Deputies arrested 26-year old Thomas Andrew Schooling, of Red Oak, on a charge of Child Endangerment. The charge is the result of an investigation into an incident in the 2600 block of Fernwood Avenue, south of Red Oak. Schooling  was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $2,000 bond.