(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department say no injuries were reported following two separate accidents this week. Late Wednesday morning, 64-year-old Debra Blair, of Osceola, was driving a 2004 Toyota Sienna minivan eastbound through the private parking lot for the Quality Inn, when – according to Blair – her brakes failed. The vehicle continued east before striking a fence located on the property. The van continued east across Sumner Avenue before finally coming to rest in a private lot just east of Sumner. The minivan sustained $2,500 damage. Damage the fence owned by Amy Perkins of Creston, was estimated at $1,000. No citations were issued.

The other accident happened Thursday night, when a 2019 Dodge Grand Caravan driven by 46-year-old Julie Teague, of Lenox, went around a parked car on the west side of Oak Street, and struck a legally parked 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan registered to Crystal Harvey, of Osceola, which was on the east side of the street. The vehicles sustained a total of $4,000 damage. No citations were issued.

(Radio Iowa) – Volunteers in Sioux City’s Memorial Park Cemetery placed over 44-hundred wreaths at the gravesides of veterans today (Friday). Rene LaPierre, commander of American Legion Post 697, is the person who lead the effort for the “Wreaths Across America” program to reach his community.

One of the graves in Sioux City decorates in the “Wreaths Across America” effort. (Photo by Woody Gottburg, KSCJ, Sioux City)

Some of today’s (Friday’s) volunteers were able to lay a wreath on a family member’s gravestone. LaPierre says as each wreath was laid, the volunteer honored the veteran by saying his or her name aloud.

Great West Casualty Company is one of the contributors. Mandy Graham is the company’s chief operating officer.

The event began with a ceremony at the cemetery, as wreaths were presented for each branch of the military and those missing in action. Similar ceremonies are scheduled December 14th other Iowa cemeteries, including the Iowa Veterans Cemetery near Van Meter and at the Iowa Veterans Home Cemetery in Marshalltown. According to the Wreaths Across America website, about more than a dozen other Iowa cemeteries are having wreath-laying ceremonies.

(Osceola, Iowa) – A Clarke County man has been arrested for Attempted Murder and other charges following a shooting on Thursday. The Clarke County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call at 12:30-p.m.  about a person who had been shot. The caller was identified as 32-year-old George William Douglas, of Woodburn. Douglas was located at his residence at 3049 Pacific Street and was arrested at that time.

Officers and emergency medical teams arrived at 1066 315th Avenue in rural Clarke County, and found a male adult, later identified as 35-year-old Tyler Scott Sutton of New Virginia, suffering from a gun shot wound. Sutton was flown by air ambulance to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines where he is listed in critical condition.

George William Douglas has been charged with Attempted Murder, Going Armed with Intent, and Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.

The investigation is ongoing with the assistance of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s Major Crime Unit.