The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports five recent arrests. At around 11-p.m. Sunday, 20-year old Christopher Allen Hill, of LaVista, NE., was arrested following a traffic stop, and charged with OWI/1st offense. At approximately 6:30-a.m. Sunday, 20-year old Adelita Mariah Molina, of Omaha, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, and Speeding.

Late Saturday night, 39-year old Everett Michael Collier, of Council Bluffs, was arrested in Mills County, for Driving while barred, Speeding, and Failure to show proof of insurance. Friday afternoon, 20-year old Brandon Joseph Burghardt, of Carter Lake, was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Jail, of a Mills County warrant for Probation Violation, and on Thursday, 27-year old Paul Eugene Whitmore, of Omaha, was arrested at the Douglas County, NE., Jail, on a Mills County warrant for Probation Violation.

Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater reports a man from Bridgewater was arrested Aug. 28th, in Anita. 41-year old Douglas Matthew Pruitt was taken into custody for Domestic Abuse Assault with Bodily Injury or Mental Illness/1st offense. Pruitt was issued a summons to appear in court September 10th live or by telephone.

Rapper Kanye West will remain on the Iowa ballot as a candidate for president after a state panel rejected two challenges to his candidacy. The Iowa Candidate Nomination Objection Panel on Monday unanimously rejected one challenge related to signatures on West’s nomination papers and another that noted West was running as a “no-party” candidate but is registered in his home state of Wyoming as a Republican.

The panel is comprised of Republican Secretary of State Paul Pate and Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller and Democratic Iowa Auditor Rob Sand. Besides West, eight others will appear on the ballot.

The Exira-EHK School Board will hold a Special Session Wednesday. The meeting in the Conference Room at the Elk Horn Building, begins at 6-p.m.  During their session, the Board will discuss and act on: Approving a Bus Bid; Approving updated Hybrid/Calendar options, along with Personnel matters(hires, transfers, resignations, etc.).

The next Regular Board meeting, is 6-p.m. Sept. 21st.

(Radio Iowa) – After two judges ruled tens of thousands of absentee ballot request forms from Woodbury and Linn Counties are void, the Iowa Democratic Party is filing a lawsuit seeking to overturn those rulings. Last week, the REPUBLICAN Party and the Trump campaign successfully argued in court that the forms violated a state order because voter I-D numbers were included — and the secretary of state had ordered all forms to be BLANK. Iowa Democratic Party chairman Mark Smith spoke at an online news conference this (Monday) morning. “The Iowa Democratic Party and our partners are fighting back against these voter suppression tactics,” Smith says.

Kay Pence is vice president of the Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans which represents many retired trade union members. She says the Republicans’ lawsuit seeks to reduce the number of Iowans who vote by mail. “I just don’t think we need to create more anxiety for voters,” she said, “especially for those of us who have voted mail for years.”

The Democratic committees that support candidates for the U.S. House and Senate are part of the lawsuit as well. The lawsuit challenges the Iowa Secretary of State’s authority to order county auditors to send blank absentee ballot request forms to voters. Auditors in Johnson, Linn and Woodbury County sent forms that included voter I-D numbers.