(SW Cass County, IA) – No injuries were reported when a semi tractor-trailer hauling corn overturned this (Tuesday) morning, between Griswold and Lewis. The accident
happened as the semi was turning north from White Pole Road onto 570th Street. The rig overturned, landing on the passenger side. The load of corn was dumped corn into a ditch.
No other details are currently available.
Creston Police report that on Monday, September 11 just after noon, they arrested 56 year old Stephen Timothy Shindolof Creston at the Intersection of Adams and Elm streets. Shindoll was charged with OWI 1st offense. Shindoll was transported to the Union County Jail where he was later released on $1,000 cash or surety bond.
Jim Field visits with Rebecca Castle Laughlin about the 10th Annual Southwest Iowa Art Tour this weekend.
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The heat and drought have continued to cause Iowa crops to deteriorate. The U-S-D-A crop report out Monday shows the corn condition declined by three percentage points in the last week where 46 percent is rated in good to excellent condition. Soybeans took a bigger hit, dropping five percentage points to average 44 percent in good to excellent condition. Dolph Ivener found issues in his cornfield in western Iowa that started with brown leaves.
Ivener estimates big swings in yields from 200 bushels per acre on his farms with heavier rainfall to around 40 in spots stifled by a third year of drought.
The crop report shows that 38 percent of the corn crop has reached maturity, which is one week ahead of last year and six days ahead of normal.
Farmers in Ukraine are now raising hogs thanks to a little help from Iowa State University. Justin Brown, an I-S-U professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, is leading a series of webinars just for Ukrainian farmers. Due to the prolonged war with Russia, Brown says corn producers in Ukraine aren’t able to export much, if any, of their grain.
Brown says the response to the I-S-U webinars has been very good. He presents them early in the morning and they air in Ukraine around the lunch hour.
Brown prepares his presentation slides in English and sends them to the president of the Association of Ukrainian Pig Breeders, who translates them into Ukrainian, while the lectures themselves are dubbed in that language for the Ukranian farmers.
Those questions are translated live, along with his answers. The last of the webinars will be presented this month.
Today: Sunny with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming west northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly clear with a low around 47. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday: Sunny with a high near 76. Light and variable wind.
Thursday: Sunny with a high near 77. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Friday: A chance of showers in the afternoon. Partly sunny with a high near 78.
Saturday: Mostly sunny with a high near 74.
(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department reports that over the last several months, Deputies conducted multiple investigations with regard to the distribution of methamphetamine. Six search warrants were executed between Sept. 5th and 7th, resulting in the seizure of a large amount of meth and cash. Six suspects face numerous felony charges.
On Sept. 5th, 26 year-old Destiny Anderson was arrested at 107 East Elm Street in Red Oak on three total counts of delivery of meth and unauthorized use of a credit card. And, 60-year-old Bruce Fitzwater was arrested at 121 West 3rd Street in Villisca on three total counts of meth delivery, and one count of possession of meth with intent to deliver. Both suspects are in custody on $100,000 bond.
32-year-old Dustin Hunake was arrested Sept. 6th, in Red Oak, on one count each of delivery of marijuana and delivery of a schedule 2 prescription drug. His bond was set at $100,000, also.
Three suspects were Sept. 7th: 59-year-old Dale Sawtelle was arrested at 106 West Walnut in Red Oak on three counts of meth delivery and one count of possession of meth with intent to deliver. Bond was set at $25,000; 62-year-old Ronald Dean Kammerer, Jr., was arrested on single counts of meth delivery and possession with intent to deliver meth. Bond was set at $75,000. Other felony drug charges are pending; And, 53-year-old Fred Welch, IV, was arrested at 1507 North 1st Street in Red Oak, on three counts of meth and one count of meth possession. Bond was set at $25,000.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming west northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Tomorrow: Sunny, with a high near 76. Light and variable wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the morning.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 77.
Friday: A 30 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 78.
(Radio Iowa) – The state law Governor Reynolds signed June 1st would let Republicans set new voter registration rules for the Iowa Caucuses — but Iowa G-O-P chairman Jeff Kaufmann says requiring Caucus-goers to have registered as a Republican voter weeks in advance is unlikely.
Kaufmann’s son, State Representative Bobby Kaufmann, is a senior advisor on Trump’s campaign and was lead sponsor of the bill that originally suggested Caucus-goers would have to be registered as a Republican — or a Democrat — at least 70 days before Caucus Night. That provision was removed before the bill became law. The Iowa G-O-P chairman says the party’s state central committee is discussing other ways to ensure the integrity of the Caucuses.
On Caucus Night in 2016, 21-thousand Democrats and independent voters switched their voter registrations to Republican that evening. Entrance polls suggested Trump won nearly a third of Caucus-goers who registered as Republicans that night. Kaufmann says there would be push back from caucus-goers if same-day registration wasn’t allowed — and some campaigns have already begun planning for it.
Kaufmann made his comments during an appearance on “Iowa Press” on Iowa P-B-S.