DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa’s insurance commissioner is proposing a plan he thinks could keep Iowa from becoming the first state to lose all of its health care insurance carriers offering policies on the Affordable Care Act exchange next year.

Doug Ommen says he traveled to Washington last week with officials from two major Iowa insurance carriers to pitch a proposal to federal officials that would save the Iowa market from collapsing.

Minnesota-based Medica is the only remaining statewide insurer on the exchange and has said it will drop out if changes aren’t made. Ommen’s plan reallocates federal subsidies currently used to lower costs for older participants to entice younger people into the insurance market and uses federal reinsurance dollars to help insurers absorb high-cost claims.

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield has committed to selling insurance in all 99 Iowa counties next year if the plan is approved. Without approval, Ommen says Medica will drop out and 72,000 Iowans will be uninsured next year.

SIBLEY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a 5-year-old boy and a man driving them have died after a collision in northwest Iowa. The accident occurred around 10:50 a.m. Saturday on Iowa Highway 9 near Sibley. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office says a westbound car collided with an eastbound sport utility vehicle.

The car driver was pronounced dead later at Osceola Community Hospital. He was identified as 48-year-old Travis Mier, who lived in Spirit Lake. The boy was pronounced dead later at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, hospital. The Sheriff’s Office identified him as Elliot Mier.

The SUV driver was taken to Sanford Rock Rapids Medical Center in Rock Rapids for treatment of injuries not believed to be life-threatening. She was identified as 48-year-old Ann Vanderpool, who lives in Milford, Iowa.

A Crawford County man was arrested Saturday morning on an Audubon County warrant for Revocation of Probation. The Audubon County Sheriff’s Office reports 36-year old John C. Ruon, of Denison, was taken into custody with assistance from the Iowa State Patrol, at around 11-a.m. Saturday.

In July 2016, Ruon plead guilty to a charge of OWI/2nd offense. Authorities say he allegedly failed to comply with the terms of his probation and was transported to the Audubon County Jail, where he was being held on a $2,000 bond. Ruon is set to appear in District Court, June 26th.

The first proclamation Kim Reynolds signed after becoming governor focused on Iowa Museum Week, which opens today (Monday). Institutions statewide are holding special events over the next seven days to showcase their many resources. Sean Ulmer, executive director of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, says Iowa’s second-largest city is holding Cedar Rapids Museum Week to celebrate.

Ulmer says, “We are partnering with the Iowa Masonic Library Museum, The History Center, the National Czech and Slovak Museum, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Brucemore — which is a historic property, the Grant Wood Studio, the African-American Museum of Iowa and the Veterans Memorial Building.”

Each facility in Cedar Rapids — and statewide — is featuring its own variety of special events and bonuses to boost admission. “Brucemore is offering buy-one-get-one admission on their tours, some people are suspending admission on certain days and certain nights,” Ulmer says. “They’re offering tours, there are trivia nights. The Iowa Masonic Library Museum has a new exhibition opening that celebrates the 300th anniversary of free masonry.”

Ulmer says this will be a fun-filled opportunity for family and friends to explore all the arts and cultural amenities the region has to offer. “We regularly receive visitors, especially in the summertime, from Des Moines, from Chicago, from Minneapolis, from St. Louis,” Ulmer says. “In the summertime, when the weather is pleasant, people do travel to see various cultural institutions and we are blessed to have so many in the state of Iowa.”

Statewide, there are some 400 museums, which include: arboretums, archives, art centers, art museums, aquariums, botanical gardens, children’s museums, cultural centers, ethnic museums, historic cemeteries, history museums, historic sites, historical societies, historic theaters, living history sites, military museums, nature centers, natural history museums, planetariums, presidential libraries, science centers, sports museums, university museums and zoos.

(Radio Iowa)

Officials with the Creston Police Department report three recent arrests. Sunday night, 32-year old Brandy Major, of Creston, was arrested for Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree. Major was being held in the Ringgold County Jail on a $300 bond. Also arrested Sunday night in Creston, was 39-year old Crystal Huddleson, of Kent. She was taken into custody on a Warren County warrant for Theft in the 2nd Degree. Huddleson was also being held in the Ringgold County Jail, where her bond was set at $5,000.

And, Saturday night, 31-year old Cortni White, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center on charges of Theft in the 4th Degree and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor. She was later released on a $1,000 bond.

Creston Police said also, a woman residing in the 200 block of S. Peterson Street reported Sunday afternoon, that sometime between Noon on Saturday and 4-p.m. Sunday, someone broke three windows at her home and attempted to force two other windows open. The damage was estimated at $350.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety reports just after midnight today (Monday, June 12th), Deputies with the Lee County (Iowa) Sheriff’s Office responded to the 2400 block of 270th Street in rural Montrose, for a call of a burglary in progress. The incident led to an officer-involved shooting during which an adult male subject sustained gunshot wounds. The unidentified man was receiving medical treatment for injuries sustained during the course of the incident.

The incident is currently under investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the Lee County Attorney’s Office.