(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports a man from eastern Iowa was arrested Friday morning at the Union County Law Enforcement Center (LEC), in Creston. 45-year-old Antonio Derone Ross, of Waterloo, was taken into custody on two Union County warrants for Failure to Appear, on original charges of: Possession of a controlled substance (PCS)/marijuana – 3rd offense; PCS/3rd offense – a Class D Felony; and Poss. of Drug Paraphernalia (Simple Misdemeanor). Ross was later released on a $2,000 bond.

At around 2:45-a.m. Saturday, 21-year-old Georgia Rain Alizabeth McKown, of Winterset, was arrested at the Union County LEC. She was charged with OWI/1st offense and later released on a $1,000 bond. Authorities said also, 36-year-old Douglas Edward Woodward, III, of Creston, was arrested Saturday morning, for Violation of a No Contract/Protective Order. He was later released on his Own Recognizance, after seeing the Magistrate.

And, staff with a car dealership in Creston reported Friday morning, that someone used a stolen identity to purchase two vehicles from the dealership. The loss was estimated at $85,400.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Veterans and active members of the military should mark their calendar and save some time over the noon hour on November 11th, for the Atlantic Rotary Club’s annual Military Appreciation Luncheon. The event takes place at the Cass County Community Center, from 11:45-a.m. Until 1-p.m., on Nov. 11th. Please RSVP by November 8th to Dolly Bergmann at 712-249-9275.

The featured speaker is Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Turner. Lieutenant Colonel Turner retired from active duty in 2021 with 2500+ hour of mishap free flight in multiple Marine Corps aircraft and 20 years of military service. His personal decorations include nine Air Medals, the Meritorious Service Award, five Commendation Medals, and the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal. He lives with his family in Rhodes, Iowa, and is Subject Matter Expert and Event Controller for the Air National Guard in Des Moines.

Lt. Col. Nicholas Turner

(Radio Iowa) – State Auditor Rob Sand says it’s time to enforce a law that would hold state employees accountable for intentional misconduct. That means, in extreme cases, a state employee could be financial liable if the state offers a settlement to a victim. “The law right now in order to have people…held personally accountable for those damages would require evidence of willful and wanton misconduct,” Sand says. “…Willful and wanton is typically somebody doing something and doing it repeatedly and they know this is a terrible thing to do and they keep doing it, which is why it oftentimes comes up in the context of sexual harassment.”

Sand, as state auditor, is on the three-member state panel that approves the state’s legal settlements. In 2019, Sand argued the Iowa Finance Authority director who’d been fired should have been on the hook for the four million dollars the state paid two employees who said they’d been sexually harassed.

“This isn’t just something that you should care about as a taxpayer. This is something that I hope all Iowans would care about in terms of preventing sexual harassment,” Sand says. “There are people who are willing to do things like this because they think they are going to be insulted from the consequences of their action. We have to illustrate to them that that’s not the case.”

Sand made his comments during an appearance on “Iowa Press” on Iowa P-B-S. In the past year, the State of Iowa has paid to settle sexual harassment claims made by a judicial branch employee and a social worker in the Department of Human Services. Sand, a Democrat, is seeking reelection as state auditor. Todd Halbur, a central Iowa realtor, is the G-O-P nominee for state auditor.