MARENGO, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa group says it rescued dozens of dogs from a rural property during this week’s snow. The Animal Rescue League says it sent teams to a property in Marengo in Iowa County on Thursday. They found more than 40 dogs confined to buildings in two dilapidated buildings and a camper.

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The ARL say the dogs were wet, cold and shaking as the blizzard started. The rescue, which was expected to take 1.5 hours, instead took about four hours. One of the group’s vehicles slid off the road and another had to be dug out of the snow. No details about the property or the owner were released.

GRAND CHUTE, Wis. (AP) — Police in eastern Wisconsin say a teenager charged in a fatal shooting at a shopping mall has waived extradition in Iowa, where he was arrested days after the slaying. Grand Chute police Capt. Colette Jaeger says law enforcement officers have left for Iowa to collect 17-year-old Dezman Ellis, who was arrested in Des Moines on Thursday. Jaeger says Ellis will be taken to the Outagamie County Jail in Appleton.

Ellis is accused in the killing Sunday of 19-year-old Jovanni Frausto at the Fox River Mall in suburban Appleton during an argument over a girl. A bystander was wounded by the gunfire.

(UPDATE) At around 7:45-p.m., Friday, Officers took the male subject into custody from the construction site. He was transported to a local hospital for injuries sustained during the incident. He does have valid felony warrants through Nebraska and he will be booked for those charges at a later time.

There is no further threat to the community. The surrounding roads were reopened, but officers are still on scene late Friday evening, for processing.

Original post issued at 1:10-p.m. Friday:

The Council Bluffs Police Department Friday afternoon, said a section of East Kanesville Blvd. is CLOSED from So. 1st St. to Frank St., for “an ongoing police action”  involving a barricaded subject. A detour route for traffic has been established on East Broadway.

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Authorities says at around 10:55-a.m. Friday, Law Enforcement Officers were attempting to execute an arrest warrant on a fugitive at a construction site at East Kanesville and Baughn St in Council Bluffs. The suspect barricaded himself inside of a piece of construction equipment. He is currently contained in that area and there is no immediate threat to the public.

This is currently an active scene. The public is urged to avoid the area. More details will be released later when the situation is concluded.

A man from Page County was arrested Friday morning following a call about suspicious activity. The Page County Sheriff’s Office received a call at around 8-a.m. about a person looking in vehicles at a residence in the 2800 block of B Avenue, or about  8 miles south of Shenandoah. The property owner said that the person left rapidly in a black SUV with black out Iowa license plates. Personnel from the Sheriff’s Office responded to the area.

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After following the vehicle’s tracks in the snow covered roads, the vehicle was located in the 1200 block of 300th Street, or about 3 miles west of Northboro. During the investigation 42-year old Justin Allan Sickler, of Yorktown, was arrested for driving under suspension.  He was transported to the Page County Jail where he is being held on $491.25 bond pending further court proceedings. Additional charges are pending.

The driver of an SUV that rolled over Thursday afternoon in Page County, was transported by private vehicle to the hospital, for treatment of unknown injuries. The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports 25-year old Jacob Daniel Smith, of rural Red Oak, was driving a 2005 Jeep Liberty southbound on Highway 48 near 130th Street, when the vehicle crossed an icy patch of road and went out of control. The vehicle rolled once and came to rest on its wheels. The accident happened at around 4:11-p.m., Thursday, about four-miles northeast of Essex.

No citations were issued. Damage to Smith’s vehicle is estimated at $8,000.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court is letting the 2018 appointment of an eastern Iowa district court judge by Gov. Kim Reynolds stand, ending a three-year controversy over whether Reynolds had missed the legal deadline for appointing the judge. The court concluded in a ruling Friday that since former Iowa Supreme Court Justice Mark Cady deferred to Reynolds, who claimed she verbally appointed Judge Jason Besler by the legal deadline, the court shouldn’t intervene.

Attorney Gary Dickey had challenged the appointment, saying Besler was improperly appointed and potentially should be removed. In making its ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court dismisses the case.

MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — A judge has rejected a motion to quash a subpoena seeking the bank records of a slain University of Iowa student. Prosecutors in the first-degree murder case against Cristhian Bahena Rivera made the motion, calling the subpoena by Behena Rivera’s lawyers for Mollie Tibbetts’ bank records a “fishing expedition.” Prosecutors accused defense attorneys of flouting the law by failing to notify prosecutors and the court of the subpoena until after it had already been served.

The Des Moines Register reports that the judge ruled the challenge was moot, as the subpoena had already been served and the bank provided no relevant information. Prosecutors say Rivera stabbed Tibbetts to death in 2018.

WELLSBURG, Iowa (AP) — (Updated) Authorities say a hazardous materials team was called to a fatal pileup on Interstate 20 in north-central Iowa that involved a semitrailer hauling sulfuric acid. The pileup happened Thursday afternoon near Wellsburg and involved 15 vehicles, including several semitrailers and a tanker carrying 5,000 gallons of sulfuric acid.

Officials say the Haz-Mat team was called to help contain a leak in the wreckage. The Iowa State Patrol says one person was killed in the crash, but had not released that person’s name or other details by late Friday morning. Authorities say at least two other people were injured in the pileup, which occurred as blizzard conditions swept the state. The injured include 66-year old Christopher Thomas Triplett, of Kahoka, MO, who was driving a Lincoln Navigator, and 25-year old Jacob Riley, of Keokuk, who was driving a 2017 Dodge Charger. Both men were wearing their seat belts.