The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest Monday night of 53-year-old Russell Lee Peterson of Ellston. Peterson was arrested at 8:41pm at 201 N 2nd Street in Red Oak for Threat of Terrorism and Aggravated Assault. Peterson was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $5,000 bond.

ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Services were held for a northwest Iowa sheriff’s deputy who died after her patrol vehicle crashed. A Mass was held Monday morning in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for Deputy Stephanie Schreurs, who died Tuesday. She was injured Aug. 9 when her vehicle ran off a road while entering a sharp curve in Lyon County. She was flown to a Sioux Falls hospital.

Vehicles from numerous law enforcement agencies joined in burial procession through Sioux Falls and to a cemetery in Alvord, Iowa. Many of the emergency vehicles activated their lights and sirens during the procession.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has ordered all state flags lowered to half-staff in honor of Schreurs, a 24-year veteran of the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, Monday, said there were a few arrests made over the past four days. At around 12:30-p.m. Sunday, 35-year old Joshua James Black, of Omaha, was arrested after a TV was damaged in the Pott. County Jail. He was charged with Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree and returned to his cell, where he was being held on two counts of Child Abuse in the 2nd Degree (Child under 12), and Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree. Bond was set at $1,000 on the latest charge.

A little after 11-p.m., Sunday, Sheriff’s Deputies in Pott. County arrested 33-year old Cody William Finney. Finney was taken into custody at the Stone Quarry in Macedonia, following an investigation into an assault. He faces charges that include Assault w/intent to inflict serious injury, Domestic Abuse Assault by strangulation, w/bodily injury, and Driving While License Suspended. His alleged victims were a 17-year old male and a 34-year old female.

At around 12:10-a.m. Saturday, 44-year old Angela Kay Pendgraft was arrested for OWI/1st offense, following a traffic stop for speeding on Highway 59.

The Adair County Sheriff’s Office reports three arrests. Saturday night, 32-year old Dustin Carl Donaldson, of Council Bluffs, was arrested by Adair Police on Pottawattamie County warrants for: Burglary in the 2nd Degree; Domestic Abuse Assault resulting in injury/1st offense; and two counts of Criminal Mischief in the 4th Degree.

He was also charged with OWI/2nd offense, after an Adair Police Officer stopped Donaldson’s pickup truck suspected of being involved in a hit-and-run on Interstate 80. Following standardized field sobriety tests, Donaldson blew a 0.179 on the Preliminary Breath Test (more than twice the legal limit). He was arrested on the OWI charge, and cited for Open Container – Driver, and Driving While Suspended. His bond was set at $2,000 on the Adair County charges. Donaldson was being held without bond on the Pott. County warrants.

Saturday morning, 28-year old Bobby Joe Lee Mumford, of Adair, was arrested on I-80 at mile marker 80, by an Iowa State Patrol Trooper. He was charged with Driving While Barred after being pulled over for Driving Too Close and having an expired paper registration tag in the rear window of his vehicle. Mumford was being held in the Adair County Jail on a $2,000 cash or surety bond.

And, on August 12th at around 7:25-p.m., 18-year old Riley Aaron Evenson, of Adair, was arrested by Adair Police for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 1st offense. His arrest followed a traffic stop for reckless driving. Evenson was later released on a $1,000 cash or surety bond.

(Radio Iowa) — Gun issues were the dominant topic at Republican Senator Joni Ernst’s town hall meeting early Saturday morning in Johnston. Ellie Holland, a teacher in Johnston, was emotional as she told Ernst about going through active shooter training in her school last week.

“So my question for you today senator is when can I plan to get back to trainings that simply teach children to read and write?” Holland said and about half the crowd cheered. Ernst answered Holland by emphasizing the need to improve mental health care.

“We need to make sure that those that are showing signs of instability are able to received treatment,” Ernst said. “And I would say that across the United States we are short counselors, we are short psychiatrists, we are short psychologists.” A man in the crowd then yelled: “We’re short congresspeople to take action.”

The hour-long forum often featured Ernst speaking as critics in the crowd reacted or Ernst supporters in the audience cheering and applauding, including one person who occasionally rang a cowbell. Dawn Corrigan of Des Moines thanked Ernst for supporting the National Rifle Association and the right to own a gun.

“Let’s punish people for crimes and when some commits a crime, don’t come and take away my right for it,” she said, to cheers. Ernst said Republican senators would review various proposals, but Ernst expressed concerns about ensuring so-called “red flag” laws that let courts order authorities temporarily seize guns include due process rights, to protect the wrongly accused.

“What we do have to make sure is those that are law-abiding citizens are still able to purchase weapons. It’s our second amendment right,” Ernst said, to cheers from half the crowd. “And that those that should not be able to gain access to weapons should not have the right, then, to purchase those weapons.” Ernst made it clear she opposes a ban on the kind of rapid-fire guns used in El Paso and Dayton.

“Any weapon out there can be used to harm another person,” Ernst told the crowd. “So deciding on definition, who decides what is considered an assault weapon?” Ernst told reporters there’s no law that will “magically” prevent irrational people with “evil intent” from committing murder.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State Fair set a new attendance record, as pleasant weather gave a boost to the usual attractions of food, animals, carnival rides and performances.

Fair officials say Monday that an unofficial 1,170,375 people visited the fair during its 11-day run on the eastside of Des Moines. That topped the previous record, set last year, by about 40,000 people.

The busiest day was Saturday, Aug. 10, when 122,111 visited the fair. Attendance exceeded 100,000 on nine of the fair’s 11 days.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports five recent arrests and one, injury accident. On Sunday (8/18), Deputies arrested 28-year old Christopher David Snyder, of Tabor, on a warrant for Failure to Appear on a Public Intoxication charge. Snyder was arrested at the Fremont County Jail and held on $300 bond. And, 19-year old River Jordan Studey, of Glenwood, was arrested following a traffic stop in Mills County, at around 3-a.m., Sunday. Studey was arrested for OWI/1st offense, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Driving Under Suspension. Bond was set at $2,000.

On Aug. 15th, 29-year old Kimberly Jo Frazier, of Glenwood, was arrested at the Mills County Sheriff’s Office, on warrants for: Failure to Affix a Drug Tax Stamp; Possession of a Controlled Substance; Unlawful Possession of a Prescription Drug, and Failure to Appear. Bond was set at $7,300. Also arrested Aug. 15th, was 28-year old Angel Marie Shlee, of Council Bluffs. She was arrested at the Pott. County Jail on a warrant for Violation of Probation. Bond was set at $5,000.

And, on Aug. 14th, 52-year old Steven Ray Goodman, of Shepherdsville, KY, was arrested at the Mills County Sheriff’s Office, on a Probation Violation warrant. Bond was set at $2,500.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports also, 69-year old John Kinman, of Gretna, NE., was injured during a motorcycle accident Saturday afternoon. Kinman was driving a 2003 Harley Davidson motorcycle eastbound on Barrus Road, with a group of other riders. The group began to slow down for the stop sign at Barrus and 230th Street.

Kinman saw their brake lights, and over-braked, causing his motorcycle to go out of control and fall over. The accident happened at around 4-p.m. Kinman was transported to the UNMC in Omaha, for treatment of his injuries.

A meeting between the City of Atlantic’s Planning and Zoning Commission and the Construction Manager for Scooter’s Coffee, will not take place as planned Tuesday evening.

City Administrator/Zoning Commissioner John Lund said Monday, that Dan Forslund, the project manager for Scooter’s Coffee, has informed Lund that the Scooter’s team is still working on traffic circulation modeling and addressing issues of ingress/egress with the neighbors.The matter of traffic flow was one of the reasons the Commission tabled action on approving the site plan, during their meeting on Aug. 13th.

They requested that the Commission continue the review of the site plans on Tuesday, August 27^th, not tomorrow (Tuesday, Aug. 20th). Lund says “Accordingly, the Commission will not meet tomorrow (8/20). But a week from tomorrow (8/27).”

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Some western Iowa fields are getting sprayed to get rid of painted lady butterflies that have proven problematic for soybean crops.

Iowa State University Extension field agronomist Joel DeJong says the agricultural community believes this year’s influx of the painted lady butterfly, or thistle caterpillar, is the largest ever in Siouxland.

DeJong said Friday that painted lady butterflies have been known to chew half of the leaf area on soybeans. That led farmers to hire flying crews to begin spraying an insecticide. The Sioux City Journal reports that spraying began in July and is ongoing.

The painted lady butterfly normally passes through the region but is spending more time there than usual. DeJong says the region’s current climate has enabled the thistle caterpillars to thrive.

BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — Police say a clerk died after being shot during a robbery at an eastern Iowa convenience store. The robbery occurred around 5:40 p.m. Saturday at a Big 10 Mart in Bettendorf.

On Monday, Bettendorf police identified the clerk as 28-year-old Brittany M. Wilson, of Donahue, a small community about 15 miles northwest of Bettendorf.

No arrests have been reported.