Catherine Forkpa of Ankeny pleaded guilty to Dependent Adult Abuse Resulting in Injury after being charged in the January 2022 death of Lynne Harriet Stewart.
State and county food inspectors have cited Iowa restaurants and grocery stores for hundreds of food safety violations this past month, some of which resulted in shutdowns.
Two Iowa nursing home patients froze to death outside this past winter. A nurse at one home faces no criminal charges, but a worker at another faces a second-degree murder charge.