(Red Oak, Iowa) – One person suffered minor injuries, and one person was arrested, following a three-vehicle accident at around 11:06-p.m. Monday, just outside of Red Oak. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 26-year-old Daniel James Wilson, Jr., of Red Oak, was in a Chevy Impala, and stopped at the red light for the construction zone on the River Bridge, just east of Highway 34 and G Avenue. A Pontiac G6 driven by 20-year-old Alyssa Anne Bartmess, of Clarinda, was stopped behind Wilson’s vehicle, when an eastbound Chevy pickup driven by 55-year-old Steven Lynn Henderson, of Oakland, NE., struck the Pontiac from behind.

The impact pushed the car into the Chevy Impala. Authorities say Bartmess was transported to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital for treatment of her injuries. Henderson was arrested for OWI/1st offense, and was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond. All three vehicles were totaled.

Sheriff’s deputies were assisted at the scene by Red Oak Police and Fire personnel.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – A traffic stop Monday evening in Red Oak, resulted in the arrest of man from Nebraska. According to Red Oak Police, 48-year-old Rafael Hernando the 4th, of Omaha, was pulled over at around 7-p.m. in the 2300 block of N. Broadway Street. An investigation determined Hernando had a suspended driver’s license. It was further determined that the vehicle he was driving, had been reported stolen out of Omaha. Hernando was charged with Driving While Suspended, with bond set at $491. Additional charges are pending.

(Radio Iowa) – Republicans in the Iowa House are proposing a new 12 million dollar scholarship program for students at Iowa’s three public universities. House Speaker Pat Grassley says it’s an effort to address workforce shortages in specific occupations. “I think it’s a really creative idea and something new that we definitely want to have on the table,” Grassley says.

Half of the money would go to juniors and seniors studying to be teachers. The other six million would go juniors and seniors seeking degrees in other occupations which are in high demand. Grassley says it’s a way to put money into the three state universities to directly address a lack of qualified employees. “This put us in a position for the Regents to compete for those students to go into those high demand occupations,” Grassley says, “to get more money into each of the Regents institutions.”

Each student could get up to 10-thousand dollars over two years in scholarship money. Grassley says the final 25-hundred dollars would be paid if the student stays and works in Iowa for a year after graduation. “To try to encourage folks not only to enter high demand jobs, but to stay in the state and work,” Grassley says.

Republican Representative David Kerr of Morning Sun is chairman of the House subcommittee that drafts a budget for the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa. “It’ll be a great recruiting tool here in Iowa for each of the regent universities to attract students and they need students because of the enrollments are decreasing,” Kerr says, “but I think this is a great plan that they’ll jump on board with.”

A spokesperson for the Board of Regents says the board is very appreciative”of any proposal to provide additional financial aid to students. The board that governs Iowa, Iowa State and U-N-I has asked legislators to provide a general budget boost of 15 million dollars for the three state schools.