No injuries were immediately reported following a rollover accident late Monday night, in Lewis. According to dispatch reports, a vehicle rolled over near 500 E. Main Street, at around 10-p.m.  The male driver of the vehicle was said to have been  trapped by his seat belt until he could be cut free.

Lewis Fire and Rescue, Griswold Rescue and Medivac were originally sent to the seen, but Griswold and Medivac were later cancelled. Additional details are currently unavailable.

A man from Ft. Madison died Monday afternoon, during a single-vehicle rollover accident in southeast Iowa’s Lee County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 33-year old Hoyt Floyd Grossman died at the scene of the crash that happened at around 1:40-p.m.

Authorities say Grossman, who was not wearing a seat belt, was driving a 2000 Ford Ranger eastbound on Lee County Road J-48 when the pickup went off the road, to the right. Grossman over-corrected, causing the vehicle to go out of control. It drove off the road to the left and hit a culvert before flipping over and landing on its top.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say rescue crews have been unable to find a man spotted in the Des Moines River. Des Moines firefighters recovered a boat the man was seen using Monday afternoon. Fire Inspector Brian O’Keefe says the man had pulled the boat from debris upstream from the Scott Street Bridge. He somehow became separated from the boat when he reached the bridge and went over the dam.

O’Keefe says the man may have been living in a homeless camp near the river.

Iowa’s Safe Haven law was enacted in 2002 and, since then, has been used 27 times by parents to release custody of their newborn child. Amy McCoy, spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Human Services, says there’s a chance the 15-year-old law could be altered. “There was some legislation that was proposed this year to expand some portions of the law. That did not get passed this year, but we might see it come back next year,” McCoy says.

The law protects parents from prosecution for abandonment if they hand over their infant at a hospital or health care facility within 14 days of birth. McCoy says the proposed legislation would expand the law to give the parents more time and more options. “That would include being able to turn over care of the child to an EMT…so, fire or ambulance personnel,” McCoy said.

The law was approved in the wake of a high profile case in 2001 involving a teen mother in eastern Iowa who killed her home-delivered newborn.

On the web at http://dhs.iowa.gov/safe-haven

(Radio Iowa)

Police in Red Oak are looking for the female driver of a Chevy Impala who was involved in a hit-and-run property damage accident Monday evening. Officials say the accident happened at around 5:10-p.m. in the Red Oak Taco Bell parking lot, when, according to witnesses, a silver 4-door Chevy Impala backed out of a parking stall and in the process struck the side of a 2016 Nissan Altima, causing $2,000 damage to the Nissan.

The driver of the Impala was said to be a larger build white female with blonde hair, who was wearing an orange shirt. A witness captured a partial license plate image. The plate began with “EK.”  The accident remains under investigation. If you have any information concerning the incident, call the Red Oak Police Department.