News Headlines for September 20, 2026

IOWA CITY — Three running backs eclipsed 100 yards as No. 18 Iowa overwhelmed Northern Iowa from the opening kickoff Saturday, rolling to a 55-0 victory at Kinnick Stadium.

The Hawkeyes scored touchdowns on their first five possessions, built a 42-point halftime lead and finished with 640 yards of offense. Iowa rushed for 422 yards — its most during the Kirk Ferentz era — while holding the Panthers to 155 total yards.

Iowa improved to 3-0, while UNI fell to 1-2.

MASON CITY — A feisty local woman’s encounters with the law are piling up this year with numerous accusations involving substances and assaults, culminating in her latest drunk driving arrest in a post-midnight traffic stop.

Joanna Lynn Bailie, 47, was arrested after Mason City police were called at approximately 12:45 a.m. September 14 to 2301 Fourth Street SW for a report of an intoxicated driver.

What followed was Bailie’s third alcohol-related criminal case of 2026…

SIOUX CITY — A Northern Iowa attorney who placed a wrecked and inoperable Rolls-Royce at the center of a scheme to help an elderly couple qualify for Medicaid has been handed six months in federal prison and ordered to repay more than $184,000.

Timothy Mark Anderson of Garner was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand after pleading guilty to making a false statement relating to a health care matter.

An Iowa mother faces a first-degree murder charge after police found her newborn dead inside a trash bag at a child care center.

Stephanie Ubaldo, 20, was arrested by authorities without incident Thursday, September 17, and taken to jail…

A Mason City felon whose record already included terrorism, robbery and meth dealing is headed to federal prison for nearly 27 years after getting caught hauling methamphetamine with a fully loaded pistol during an interstate drug-running operation.

Willie York, 47, was sentenced September 18, 2026, in federal court in Sioux City to 322 months behind bars — 26 years and 10 months — for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

MASON CITY — A convicted local drunk driver and child endangerer who spent the summer wanted on a statewide warrant ran out of luck this week as she tooled around behind the wheel with no license, illegal tint, fake registration, and an apparent huge sense of entitlement, and is now in a cold, cold Mason City jail cell after a neighboring deputy put a stop to the games.

Precious Nicole Wimberly (pictured at top), 34, was booked into the Cerro Gordo County Jail at 5:36 a.m. on September 15. Court records say she was arrested in Bremer County and served with a Cerro Gordo County bench warrant that had been hanging over her since May 12.

A former child actor and MTV personality who tore through Cerro Gordo County at 104 mph with marijuana and a loaded stolen handgun in his vehicle has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison.

Bobb’e J. Thompson, 30, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced Wednesday, September 16, to 30 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a felon.

Thompson (pictured at top) built a television and movie career that began when he was a child. His credits include MTV’s “Wild ’N Out,” “30 Rock,” “That’s So Raven” and “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne.”