COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – A former schoolteacher has left her $2.5 million estate to the Council Bluffs Public Library Foundation.  The Daily Nonpareil says  Ann Cook died Dec. 16, 2012. She was 70.   Cook was a Council Bluffs resident who taught school across the Missouri River in Omaha from 1964 to 1997. After retirement she volunteered more time to the Friends of the Library organization.

Library Foundation President Steve Krohn says the money will help the organization’s efforts to supplement book collections, fund various programs and buy new technology. Cook’s attorney, Gary Faust, is a member of the foundation board, too. He says Cook “had a great deal of love for the library. She wanted to see it continue to prosper.”

Faust says Cook inherited much of her wealth and lived frugally.

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Two Red Oak men were arrested Sunday on separate charges. Red Oak Police say 28-year old Robert Earl Otis was arrested a little after 6-a.m. at a residence in the 700 block of North Broadway Street, on a Possession of Drug Paraphernalia charge. And 33-year old Luke Daniel Rinehart was arrested at around 12:30-p.m. in the 300 block of 2nd Avenue, on a charge of Simple Domestic Assault. Both men were brought to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center and held on $300 cash bond, each.

Police in Red Oak arrested a woman early this (Monday) morning. Officials say 43-year old Shelby JoAnn Olivares, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 2:50-a.m. on a charge of Domestic Abuse Assault. She was taken into custody at a residence in the 100 block of East Maple Street and booked into the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center where she was held without bond.