A Ringgold County Sheriff’s Deputy conducting a traffic stop on a speeding vehicle traveling on Highway 25, Monday, arrested the driver of the vehicle on drug charges. The incident occurred at around 12:10-a.m.  Authorities say Seth Allen Millslagle was pulled over.

After he was informed a K9 was going to conduct a sniff around the vehicle, Millslagle admitted to having drug paraphernalia. K9 “Heky” was deployed and alerted to the vehicle. A search was conducted, and drug paraphernalia along with a small amount of marijuana, was seized from the vehicle.

Millslagle was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Speeding. He was brought to the Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office and later booked into the Ringgold County Jail.

One person died and another was injured during a crash Monday afternoon on Warren County Road R-63. According to the Iowa State Patrol, the driver of a 2008 Nissan Sentra, 29-year old Jenny Somvong, of Indianola, who was wearing her seat belt, died from injuries she suffered in the crash. The driver of a 2006 Buick Rainier CXL, 29-year old Cody Meyer, also of Indianola, was wearing his seat belt, but was injured in the crash and transported to Mercy Hospital by ambulance.

The Patrol says Meyer was southbound on R-63 when his SUV left the road and struck the west guardrail. The vehicle bounced off the guardrail and entered the northbound lane, where it hit the Buick as it was crossing the Middle River Bridge.

The accident happened at around 4:42-p.m., Monday.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:35 a.m. CST

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a small plane made an emergency landing on ice-covered Clear Lake and took off again before authorities reached the scene. The plane landed on the northern Iowa lake Saturday afternoon and taxied closer to the shoreline. No injuries were reported, and the plane did not appear significantly damaged. Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s deputy Jeff Bryant says the plane was gone by the time he reached the scene from Mason City.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa Workforce Development worker who’d once described her boss as rude has been awarded unemployment benefits. The Des Moines Register reports that Trudi Snyder was fired after complaining to colleagues that agency director Beth Townsend was “obnoxiously rude” and later comparing the agency management to “the Gestapo.” Last week an administrative law judge awarded Snyder the benefits, saying employees’ complaining about work, their co-workers and their managers is a fact of life.

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) — A Burlington resident has been imprisoned for shooting to death another man. Court records say Joseph Mayorga Jr. pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last month and immediately was sentenced to 50 years. Police say he killed 47-year-old James Nelson on Feb. 10 last year. Mayorga told investigators that Nelson said something offensive about Mayorga’s wife, so he shot him in his left eye.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — The trial of a second man accused of fatally shooting a gender-fluid Iowa teenager will be moved to another county. The Hawk Eye reports that a judge Thursday granted a request from the attorney for Jason Purham, of St. Louis. The trial will be held in Washington County and is scheduled to begin Sept. 25. Purham has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson.

Republicans on an Iowa Senate committee have approved a bill that would make it a crime for Iowa doctors to perform abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. Doctors could face up to five years in prison for performing an abortion after the sixth week of a pregnancy if the bill becomes law.

“The goal of this is to protect the lives of all Iowans, especially those most vulnerable who can’t speak up for themselves.” That’s Senator Amy Sinclair, a Republican from Allerton who’s guiding the bill through the legislative process. Sinclair mentioned her son as she delivered a brief speech last (Tuesday) night.

“In this room with me tonight is an 18 year old man whose beating heart I could have chosen to stop,” Sinclair said. “I think it’s a horrific reflection and a barbaric practice that could have been my choice and that young man could not have been here today to be a contributing member of our society.” The bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee with the support of all eight Republicans. All five Democrats voted against it. Senate Democratic Leader Janet Petersen of Des Moines was the only opponent to speak during the committee meeting.

“If your goal with this legislation is to jeopardize maternal health care for every woman across this state and especially women in rural Iowa, your bill will go just that,” Petersen said. “This bill is dangerous. This bill is unconstitutional.” If the bill becomes law, there would be no exceptions for abortions in cases of rape or incest. The only way a doctor could perform an abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy in Iowa would be to save the life of the mother.

“It takes away a woman’s ability to get health care that is in her best medical interest,” Petersen said. A new state Iowa law that took effect in May of last year bans nearly all abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy. The 72-hour waiting period for all abortions that was included in that law is under judicial review.

(Radio Iowa)

A senate SUB-committee has advanced a bill to reinstate the death penalty in Iowa for people convicted of murdering a peace officer or for those found guilty of the “multiple offenses” of kidnapping, rape and murder. Brad Cranston, pastor of the Heritage Baptist Church in Burlington, is the founder of Iowa Baptists for Biblical Values. He spoke in favor of the bill during a statehouse hearing.

“Life is so sacred, God says that if you take someone else’s then your own is required,” Cranston said. Patti Brown of Iowans Against the Death Penalty warned lawmakers who back an abortion ban of the “hypocrisy” of supporting executions, too.

“As we seek to protect the heartbeats of the unborn, do not mock God by also asking him for the right to kill,” Brown said. Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker testified for the death penalty as an option for cop killers. Danker cited a specific case — the shooting of his deputy last May by a man who’d killed before — and who has “no regard for life at all,” according to the sheriff.

“He is going to be incarcerated probably for the rest of his life. I just hate to see him injure or kill somebody else whether it’s one of our correctional officers in the detention facility another prisoner in jail,” Danker says. Reverend Gary Nims, a lobbyist for the United Methodist Church, says the state should not “play God” by putting people to death.”There is no room in a civilized society…in a country that largely prides itself so much on its Christian heritage to have the practice of the death penalty,” Nims says.

Three Republicans on the Senate subcommittee endorsed the bill on “capital murder” and the legislation is now ready for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill MUST pass that committee, though, by the end of this week to remain eligible for consideration by lawmakers in the Senate AND the House this year.

(Radio Iowa)

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office late Monday afternoon, released a report on arrests. Officials say two deputies responding Sunday night to a disturbance in the 500 block of W. Lincoln Street, in Avoca, arrested 30-year old Melinda Mallory, of Avoca. Mallory allegedly broke into a residence, causing heavy damage to a door and window before assaulting a 65-year old male who resided in the home. (Correction from earlier report, which stated children were in the victims’ home when the incident occurred. The victim was the only occupant of the residence, (2/14)

Mallory was charged: with Burglary in the 2nd Degree; Criminal Mischief in the 2nd Degree; Harassment in the 1st Degree; 3 counts of Child Endangerment without injury; Assault with Injury; Public Intoxication; Disorderly Conduct.

Authorities said also, charges are pending against a man who crashed his vehicle just before midnight Friday, at Wabash Avenue and Applewood. The 2004 Dodge Dakota pickup driven by 45-year old Dustyn Russell Bond, of Malvern, was found wrecked, down a steep embankment. Bond was walking away from the vehicle when he was located by law enforcement. Deputies noticed he showed signs of impairment. He also complained of pain and was transported to Jennie Edmundson Hospital to be treated. Law enforcement invoked implied consent and took a blood sample for testing. A charge of OWI/2nd offense is pending completion of lab results.

And, a traffic stop for speeding on I-80 westbound just before 1-p.m. Friday, resulted in the arrest of 52-year old Christopher A. Moralez, of Las Vegas, NV. Moralez was arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.