The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office reports multiple suspects were arrested Wednesday, in an ongoing narcotics distribution investigation. 22-year old Wesley Oliphant, of Lenox, was arrested  in the 400 block of North Brooks Street, in Lenox. He was wanted on an active Taylor County Warrant for Controlled Substance Violations – Delivery of a Controlled Substance, a Class D Felony. Oliphant is being held at the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office without bond pending an appearance before the Magistrate. 24-year old Brandon Brown, of Lenox, was arrested Wednesday in the 600 block of East Ohio Street in Lenox. He was wanted on an active Taylor County Warrant for two counts of Controlled Substance Violations – Delivery of a Controlled Substance, a Class D Felony. Brown is being held at the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office without bond pending an appearance before the Magistrate.

Additional information is expected to be released later on other suspects.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a woman who died after a fire at her condominium complex in southwest Cedar Rapids. She was identified as 61-year-old Toni Cooley. Firefighters encountered her in a doorway as they responded to the blaze Tuesday. She was pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries have been reported. The Cedar Rapids Fire Department says the fire erupted in Cooley’s living room and likely was started by discarded smoking materials.

Officials with the Creston Police Department say there were two arrests that took place, Wednesday. 61-year old Debra Jo Gilbert, of Corning, was arrested at around 3:10-p.m. at the Dollar General Store, in Creston. Gilbert was charged with Theft in the 5th Degree, and released on a Promise to Appear in Court. And, 43-year old Daniel James Perkins, Sr., of Creston, was arrested in the 800 block of N. Birch Street in Creston, on a Polk County Warrant for Parole Violation. Perkins, Sr. was being held in the Union County Jail awaiting extradition to Polk County.

A man driving an SUV and who reached for a can of tobacco, caused an accident to take place Wednesday afternoon in Page County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 46-year old Jason Lynn Sander, of Clarinda, was traveling east on Highway 2, west of Clarinda at around 4:33-p.m., when he reached for the can of tobacco.

When he did so, the 2004 Dodge Durango he was driving crossed the center line of the road and hit a westbound 2009 Freightliner truck driven by 60-year old Keith Melvin Woods, of Red Oak. A 2014 Kia Optima that was traveling west on Highway 2 behind the Freightliner took evasive action, and ended-up in the north ditch. The driver of Kia was identified as 27-year old Cassie Jo Luft, of Clarinda.

Following the collision, the pickup came to rest in the north ditch, and the truck pulled over onto the north shoulder of the road. Sander, who was wearing his seat belt, was injured in the collision, and transported by Clarinda EMS to the Clarinda Regional Medical Center.

(Radio Iowa) — A key Republican lawmaker in the Iowa House says his committee will not advance a bill about the crime of fetal homicide that defines personhood as starting at conception. It means the bill is tabled for the remainder of the 2019 legislative session and not eligible for debate. The bill, which passed the Iowa Senate last week, would have increased the criminal penalty for a person who “causes the death of an unborn person” without consent from the mother.

Republican Representative Steven Holt of Denison says with a Friday deadline looming for a committee vote on the bill, House members didn’t have enough time to get answers to all their questions. “Are the penalties appropriate? How do they match up with other states? And the implications and the discussion, obviously, that we will have on that term ‘unborn person.'”

Holt supports the bill and he says lawmakers may consider it next year. Opponents say the proposal could provide the path to a ban on abortion.