Sheriff’s officials in Adams County say 24 minors were cited for Drinking Under Age following an investigation into a party at 1588 Quince Avenue, in Prescott. Deputies arrived on the scene at around 2-a.m., Sunday.

Six of the individuals were from Corning. They include: Reggie Perrin, Dannielle Schafroth, Lyndsay Barton, Peyton Frederick, Dustin Sleep and Dalton Nicholson. Four of the minors were from Bedford, including: Jacob Armstrong, Joel Lawrence, Dylon French and Timothy Sweat.

Also cited at the party was: Taylor West and Brandon Robison, both from Prescott…..Robert Davison and Aaron Blake, from Gravity….Dakin Wilcoxson, of Clarinda…Abigail Longfellow, of Afton….and, Dana Brown, Dylan Douglas, and James Castillo, all of whom are from Lenox. Four juveniles whose names were withheld by authorities, were also cited.

Authorities in Montgomery County report the arrest Saturday night of a Nebraska man on fraud-related charges. Police in Red Oak arrested 28-year old Denver Owen Johnson II, of LaVista, NE, at around 10:50-p.m. at 110 West Coolbaugh Street. Johnson was taken into custody on a felony charge of Counterfeiting and/or Forgery. He was being held at the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center on $9,750 cash bond.

Officials with the Department of Defense have confirmed a man from northwest Iowa was one of  five Americans killed in an Afghanistan helicopter crash this past week.

Twenty-seven year old Staff Sgt. Steven Blass of Estherville died March 11th, 2013. Blass died in the crash of a UH-60 Black Hawk in Kandahar, on Monday. Also killed was: 27-year old Chief Warrant Officer Bryan Henderson, of Franklin, La.; 27-year old Capt. Sara Knutson, of Eldersburg, Md.; 31-year old Staff Sgt. Marc Scialdo, of Naples, Fla.; and 21-year old Specialist Zachary Shannon,  of Dunedin, Fla.

All were part of the 3rd Combat Aviation Bridge stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia. The military says Blass was a Black Hawk crew chief who came to the unit in August 2012, after joining the Army in March 2006. He was on his second deployment and had received awards including the Air Medal.

According to the Des Moines Register, Blass was married and had a young son. He was the first casualty of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for Esterville, a town of about 6,000. More than 90 Iowans or service members with Iowa ties have died in Iraq or Afghanistan since the Iraq war began in March 2003. Monday night’s crash brought the total number of U.S. troops killed that day to seven, making it the deadliest day for U.S. forces so far this year. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City gynecologist has been fined $7,500 for botching a hysterectomy by mistakenly removing his 29-year-old patient’s healthy ovaries. The Iowa Board of Medicine fined 50-year-old Doctor Kevin Hamburger on Thursday for the July 2011 surgery and has ordered Hamburger to submit a plan describing how he’ll avoid future errors.

Hamburger is also being sued for damages by the patient, Erin Rehan. Her lawsuit says she was told by Hamburger that her ovaries would not be removed during the procedure. Rehan is seeking more than $10,000 in damages.