The Atlantic School District will pay $300,000 to the families of three students who were stripped search by a school employee in 2009. The settlement was first reported by the Omaha World-Herald.

As part of the settlement, each family of the three students will receive $100,000.

The lawsuit, alleged that former Atlantic High School Assistant principal Paul Croghan ordered a strip search of five female students when another student reported they were missing $100. No money was found after the searches. Croghan resigned in 2009.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit allege the school violated the girls state and federal rights against unreasonable searches.

Atlantic Schools admitted earlier this fall that the searches were against school policy and state law. They also said the girls did not do anything wrong.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of an Omaha man on Friday.

At about 9:10 AM, the Sheriff’s Office arrested 28-year-old Shawn Michael Jones of Omaha on a Pottawattamie County felony bench warrant for operation without owners consent following a traffic stop in the 100 block of W Oak Street in Red Oak.

Jones was transported to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and held on $1,000 cash bond pending extradition.

Police in Council Bluffs are still looking for a man who robbed a gas station the area early Friday morning.

At about 2:40 AM, police responded to a reported robbery at the Kwik Shop on Avenue G in Council Bluffs.

The suspect approached the clerk at the store and displayed a black handgun and demanded money. He was given an undermined amount of cash and fled the scene on Avenue G on a bike.

The suspect is described as a black man, wearing a tan jersey, blue jeans, sunglasses, gloves, and a bandanna around his face.

No injuries were reported with the incident. The Council Bluffs Police Department continues the investigation.

Banks in Guthrie County made a presentation to the Guthrie County Board of Supervisors Tuesday saying they are not interested in holding the county’s estimated $12 million in revenue.

The banks say they would prefer not to hold the money until the revenue is divvied out to local schools and cities later in October. That presentation was made by Guthrie County Treasurer Marcia Kindred and Guthrie County State Bank President Barry Monaghan.

Monaghan says because there are currently very few construction projects taking place, the area banks already have money on hand, but no one to lend it to. She says that they only have two construction loans out this year, when in a normal year they usually see about 15.

The Supervisors eventually voted unanimously to deposit the tax revenues with the Iowa Public Agency Investment Trust.