CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Lottery officials say the winner of a $1 million Powerball prize is running out of time to claim the payout. Officials say the winning ticket was purchased April 11, 2018, at a Casey’s convenience store in the Des Moines suburb of Nevada. The ticket matched the first five numbers but missed the Powerball.

The winner has a year to claim the prize, so that means he or she will need to get to lottery headquarters in Clive by 4 p.m. April 11.

Unclaimed prizes go into a pool for future prizes. The lottery says that in the 2018 fiscal year, more than $1.4 million in prizes went unclaimed in Iowa.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A proposed underground transmission line would carry electricity generated mostly by wind turbines in Iowa to the Chicago area. The company behind the $2.5 billion project, Direct Connect Development Co., said Monday that it has lined up three major investors to back the project. It could be operational in 2024 if regulators approve.

Direct Connect plans to bury the transmission line in land that runs along existing Canadian Pacific railroad tracks. That greatly reduces the number of landowners Direct Connect would have to deal with.

A similar proposal from a different company for an overhead transmission line was withdrawn in 2016 after landowners raised concerns. That Rock Island Clean Line was supposed to run from northwest Iowa into Illinois.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa prison guard has reached a deal for $2.3 million as a settlement for discrimination and retaliation she says she suffered after filing a sexual harassment case against the state. The state paid Kristine Sink $1.65 million last month to settle the sexual harassment case, and the Iowa attorney general is recommending settling the second retaliation case. The State Appeal Board will decide Monday whether to approve the settlement.

Sink’s problems began when in 2011 when she says her supervisors at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison allowed inmates and co-workers to harass her. She sued the state in 2012 and that case was on appeal when the state settled last month. The second lawsuit filed in 2015 alleges retaliation after she returned to work. Sink’s attorney, Des Moines civil rights lawyer Paige Fiedler, was paid $1 million out of the first settlement and will get $1.1 million from the second if it’s approved by the board.

KEOKUK, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say coal spilled from rail cars that derailed near Victory Park along the Mississippi River in Keokuk. A jumbled mess of more than a dozen coal cars and disconnected wheelsets blocked vehicular traffic near the tracks after the derailment. The accident occurred around 2 a.m. Monday under the Main Street/U.S. Highway 136 bridge between Keokuk and Hamilton, Illinois. No injuries have been reported. The cause is being investigated.

BNSF Railway spokesman Andy Williams says four of the 13 loaded coal cars that derailed rolled onto their sides, spilling their loads, but the coal didn’t reach the river. Williams says repair crews expect to have the line back open by 9 p.m. Monday.

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. – March 11, 2019 – Dollar General’s newest store at 55298 Tucson Road in Griswold is now open. Company officials say, “In its new location, Dollar General will offer area residents a convenient new place to shop for everyday essentials at low prices.” Dollar General will celebrate the store’s official grand opening on Saturday, March 16 at 8 a.m. with free prizes and special deals.  Additionally, the first 50 adult shoppers at the store will receive a $10 Dollar General gift card and the first 200 shoppers will receive a Dollar General tote bag with complimentary product samples, among other giveaways.

Traditional Dollar General stores employ approximately six to 10 people, depending on the need.

(Radio Iowa) — A woman from northwest Iowa has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for selling meth out of her home. Thirty-three-year-old Jamie Williams of Sanborn lived within a thousand feet of the Harley Melvin Sanborn Middle School. Prosecutors say she sold about six pounds of meth out of her home over a three year period. Authorities found 120 grams of pure meth in her purse when the home was searched in January of last year.