Police in Council Bluffs are investigating an assault that took place late Friday night. Authorities say Police and Medical Units responded at around 11:26-p.m. to the victim of an assault in the alley behind 162 W. Broadway. A male subject had been assaulted by another male. The unidentified victim was transported by rescue squad to an area hospital with serious injuries. The Council Bluffs Police Department is requesting anyone with information in reference to the assault contact the Council Bluffs Police Criminal Investigation Division at (712) 328- 4728 or Crime Stoppers at (712) 328 – STOP (7867).

One person died and two people were injured during separate accidents Friday night in northern Iowa’s Worth County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 65-year old Johnnie Lee Waslick, of Mason City, died in a crash that took place at around 9:30-p.m. on southbound Interstate 35, just north of Highway 9. Authorities say Waslick was driving a 2011 Ford Focus in the southbound inside lane. A 2017 Chevy Tahoe Police SUV was stopped on the inside shoulder-lane providing advance warning of a traffic accident ahead, when the car struck the SUV from behind. The Ford came to rest on the shoulder of the road, while the Tahoe was pushed into the median, facing east. Waslick, who was wearing a seat belt, was transported by Forest City Ambulance to Mercy Hospital, where he died from his injuries. Injured in the crash was 30-year old Deputy Zachary Schrupp, who was treated and released. Mercy Air Med, Hanlontown and Fertile Fire Department assisted the Patrol at the accident scene. The crash remains under investigation.

And, at around 7:50-p.m., a semi traveling southbound on I-35 near mile marker 207 in Worth County, entered the median and continued in the median until it became stuck on the bridge supports at the 203 Interchange, in the median. The driver, 70-year old Thomas WIlliam Torkelson, of New Hampton, was injured, and transported by Life Flight to Mercy Hospital in Mason City. The Patrol says he was wearing his seat belt.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports Deputies, with assistance from Red Oak Police, responded at around 8:04-p.m. Friday to a Domestic assault that took place in the 400 block of 4th Avenue, in Red Oak. Taken into custody was 47-year old Richard “Ricky” Bryan Jenkins, of Red Oak. Jenkins was charged with Domestic Abuse Assault/2nd offense, a serious misdemeanor. He was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held without bond.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:00-a.m. CST

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — The Pottawattamie County attorney says an investigation has found a Council Bluffs police officer was justified in shooting a suspect. The Daily Nonpareil reports County Attorney Matt Wilber joined with other law enforcement officials Friday to announce officer Trevor Benson’s actions in the Feb. 1 shooting were justified. Benson shot 21-year-old Daton Petrey, of Omaha, during an early morning altercation. Petrey will be released from a hospital soon and will face charges.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Jurors have convicted one person and acquitted another in a 2016 Waterloo shooting that left one man dead and others wounded. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports jurors Friday found 17-year-old Doncorrion Spates guilty of murder, attempted murder and intimidation with a weapon. Jurors acquitted 22-year-old Shavondes Martin of murder and other counts against him. The jury was still deliberating in the case of 18-year-old Armand Rollins Jr., who also is charged with murder.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Magazine and broadcasting company Meredith says it’s closing a customer service center in Tampa, Florida, as it integrates the operations of Time Inc., which it acquired last week. Meredith spokeswoman Jenny McCoy says 600 Time workers will lose their jobs as the company switches customer service and renewal processes for Time’s magazines to CDS Global, a company providing similar services to Meredith’s existing publications. CDS is based in Meredith’s hometown of Des Moines, Iowa.

CHICAGO (AP) — Police counted up 16 semitrailers among 38 vehicles involved in a chain-reaction crash amid heavy snowfall that blocked Interstate 94 in southwestern Michigan for several hours. Michigan State Police say no one was seriously hurt in the Friday afternoon pileup in the highway’s eastbound lanes just east of Kalamazoo. The crashes started to happen as emergency crews were working to remove a jack-knifed semi from the highway.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A recent study by Wisconsin researchers suggests that the failure of any of the 25 aging locks on the upper Mississippi River could result in nearly half a million truckloads of freight on highways between Minnesota and Missouri.

The study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates that a shutdown of the river at Hannibal, Missouri, would require trucks to move over 12 million tons of grain during a nine-month shipping season, costing millions of dollars and damaging roads.

The La Crosse Tribune reports that most of the shipments would travel through southern Minnesota and Iowa, while a smaller amount would move through Wisconsin and Illinois, causing nearly $29 million in pavement damage.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates the backlogged maintenance costs for locks and dams of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers totals to over $1 billion.