SIOUX CITY, Iowa — An Okoboji resident has been arrested and charged with 19 felony charges: Six counts of Forgery, six counts of Credit Card Fraud, six counts of Identity Theft, and one count of Commission of Specified Unlawful Activity.

48-year old Michele Renee Zeisler, was arrested Friday, March 16th, in Arnold’s Park, following a lengthy investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.  The charges will be filed in Woodbury County.

MICHELE RENEE ZEISLER

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ivanka Trump is headed to Iowa to promote workforce development. The daughter of President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit a learning center in the Des Moines suburb of Waukee on Monday.

The Waukee Innovation and Learning Center is part of the local school district and houses a program aimed at partnering students with businesses. Ivanka Trump, a senior adviser to her father, says she’s visiting the facility to promote the Trump administration’s infrastructure plan, which includes a focus on workforce development. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds is expected to join her.

Ivanka Trump will be in Iowa the same day her father and first lady Melania Trump are in New Hampshire to discuss combating the nation’s opioid crisis.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Officials say the injured mother of two children killed in a Waterloo house fire has also died. The Courier reports that 33-year-old Amber Dawn Everman died shortly before noon Friday at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, where she had been taken after being pulled from the burning home Thursday morning by firefighters.

Two of her children also pulled from the fire — 9-year-old Amari Burkett and 6-year-old Ava Everman — were pronounced dead Thursday at a Waterloo hospital. A third child, a girl, was able to escape by crawling through her bedroom window.
Authorities have not yet determined how the fire started.

Firefighters say several dogs and a cat also were killed in the fire.

Firefighters pulled three people from a burning home at 1815 Commercial St., Waterloo, Iowa, on Thursday, March 15, 2018. (Jeff Reinitz/The Waterloo Courier via AP)

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports 42-year old Nathaniel Gene Teeters, of Yorktown, was arrested in Clarinda a little after 3-p.m. Friday (today), on Page County warrants. The warrants were for Violation of Probation and Domestic Abuse Assault impeding air / blood flow causing bodily injury.

Teeters was held being without Bond in the Page County Jail. The Page County Sheriff’s Office and the Clarinda Police Department worked together in taking Teeters into custody.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — At least two dozen cats and some cat carcasses have been removed from a Des Moines home that authorities say had several inches of feces and garbage on the floor. Police officers and Animal Rescue League of Iowa workers responded Wednesday to odor complaints about the house. Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek says charges are pending against the resident. The city maximum is six dogs and cats per household, and not more than three can be dogs.

Parizek says the Rescue League identified eight dead cats and kittens, but there may be more because several carcasses were so decomposed they weren’t readily identifiable as cats. The Rescue League set out traps to catch and rescue an estimated 10 more cats hiding in air ducts or the house walls.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A medical supply company says its plans for a $20 million facility would bring more than 100 new jobs to Dubuque. The Telegraph Herald reports that Medline Industries Inc. wants to start construction on the building this summer and begin operating there late next year. The project is contingent on financial incentives from Dubuque and the state.

Medline Industries has about 480 workers at its current customer service facility in Dubuque. The company opened its first Dubuque location in 2000 with 25 employees.