The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports three arrests. On Monday, 41-year old Rafael Partida, of Omaha, was arrested on a District Court warrant for Failure to Appear. Partida was taken to the Cass County Jail where he remains held on $1,000 bond. Last Sunday, 21-year old Kolby Austin Fulk, of Walnut, was arrested on a charge of Driving While Barred (Aggravated). Fulk was taken to the Cass County Jail and released later that day on his own recognizance. And, on Dec. 17th, 38-year old Jeremiah David Sims, of Atlantic, turned himself in at the Cass County Jail on a District Court for Failure To Appear. Sims was booked at the Cass County Jail and released upon time served.

(Noon News)

A crash in eastern Iowa’s Henry County Christmas evening resulted in one person dead and two injured. The Iowa State Patrol said the driver of a 2015 Buick Encore, 66-year old Craig Meyocks, of Dammeron Valley, UT, died in the crash that also caused his passenger, 64-year old Brenda Meyocks, of UT, to be injured. The driver of a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica, 65-year old Robert Lee Sykes II, of Iowa City, was also injured. All three were transported to the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City. All three crash victims were wearing their seat belts. The accident happened at around 6:15-p.m.

The Patrol says the Chrysler was traveling westbound on Highway 218 at the crossover and attempting to cross the southbound lanes. The Buick was southbound in the right lane. Authorities say when Sykes failed to yield and entered the southbound lanes, his vehicle was struck broadside by Meyocks’ Buick. Afterward, the Chrysler came to rest in the southbound lanes. The Buick came to rest in the west ditch.

The accident remains under investigation.

The Union County Sheriff’s Office says a Creston man reported Tuesday afternoon, that someone had stolen 34 100-pound John Deere tractor weights from two of his tractors. The weights have an estimated value of $4,900.

Authorities in Harlan say one person suffered unknown/possible injuries during a rollover accident Christmas Day. Harlan Police were called at around 2-p.m. Wednesday, to 7th Street and Victoria Avenue, where a 2004 Ford Taurus was found on its top.

Photo courtesy KNOD

Officials say 75-year old Larry Leo Kruse, of Harlan, was turning south onto 7th Street from Victoria Avenue, when he made the turn too wide and over-corrected to the left, just missing a tree. Kruse then turned sharply to the right, causing the vehicle to flip upside down.

Kruse was assisted from the vehicle by Medivac and the Harlan Fire Department personnel.  Although he initially said he wasn’t injured,  Kruse was transported to Myrtue Medical Center by Medivac Ambulance, as a precaution and to be checked out.

(Courtesy KNOD)

(By The Associated Press) – The deadline is less than a year away for people to obtain updated driver’s licenses or ID cards so they can fly commercially and enter federal facilities. An Iowa or Nebraska license that complies with the federal Real ID program has a small white star in a gold circle background on the upper right-hand corner. The star shows licensees already have undergone additional ID verification steps as required by the program. The deadline is Oct. 1, 2020. Travelers also can use military IDs or passports to access flights and federal facilities.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police say a Des Moines police patrol car was hit by gunfire as it traveled on a street just north of the city’s downtown. The gunfire Wednesday night hit a window, causing the glass to break and slightly injuring one of the two officers inside. The officer was treated by medics. The car was traveling along University Avenue, a major east-west thoroughfare. Investigators were talking with witnesses and trying to determine if the officers were the intended target.

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A woman who told investigators she threw her baby son at his hospital crib in Sioux City has pleaded not guilty. Court records say Megan James entered the plea Monday to child endangerment resulting in serious injury. A court document says James acknowledged to detectives that she’d became frustrated while trying to breastfeed her son two days after he was born on Nov. 15. She says he hit his head on the crib when she threw him and then on the hospital room floor. The document says he suffered skull fractures.

The Creston Police Department reports two arrests took place and one break-in was reported, Tuesday. Authorities say 32-year old Ashley Wolf, of Kent, was arrested Tuesday afternoon for Driving While Suspended. She was subsequently released on a $300 bond. And, 49-year old Christopher Brown, of Creston, was arrested Tuesday night, for Assault with Injury. He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

A Creston man reported to police late Tuesday morning, that sometime overnight Monday into early Tuesday morning, someone broke a window to his garage located in the 200 block of N. Jarvis Street. Once inside, the person or persons unknown stole an impact socket and then rummaged through a vehicle before taking the owner’s manual. Damages and the value of the items taken were estimated at $200.

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