DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a 6-year-old girl who died after being pulled from a Des Moines lake. Police identified her Monday as Ikran Noor, who lived in Des Moines. Firefighters were called Saturday evening to Gray’s Lake because a child was reported missing. They found Ikran in the water and tried to resuscitate her. She was pronounced dead later at a hospital.
Police say criminal charges aren’t expected.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The World Food Prize will be awarded this year to two men who have dedicated their careers to improving the availability of nutritious food for pregnant women and children in an effort to reduce the effects of malnutrition in developing countries. Lawrence Haddad, who is a British economist and food policy researcher, and Dr. David Nabarro, who has worked with the World Health Organization and United Nations on health and hunger issues, were named the 2018 prize recipients in a ceremony Monday at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington. The World Food Prize was created by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug in 1986 to recognize scientists and others who have improved the quality and availability of food.

Haddad and Nabarro were recognized for their work to improve nutrition for mothers and children from pregnancy to a child’s second birthday — the most critical time for proper nutrition in a child’s development. Their leadership and advocacy is credited with helping to reduce the world’s number of children stunted from malnourishment between 2012 and 2017. Haddad lives in England and is executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, a Swiss-based nonprofit launched at the United Nations to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. He is credited with using economic and medical research to persuade development leaders to make child nutrition a priority.

Nabarro retired from the United Nations a year ago and is now a professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at London’s Imperial College. He is also setting up 4SD, a social enterprise in Switzerland focused on mentoring the next generation of leaders in global sustainable development. His work over 17 years at the UN fluctuated between focusing on expanding nutrition programs to underdeveloped countries and tacking health crises including outbreaks of malaria, bird flu, Ebola and other diseases. Through UN organizations — including the High Level Task Force on Global Food Security and the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement — he pulled together representatives from the UN, government agencies, donor groups and nongovernment organizations to help impress upon leaders in developing countries that children malnourished from the start suffer permanent damage that reduces their ability to reach their best potential, he said. Nabarro said he applied lessons learned in Nepal, India, Iraq and Africa.

The foundation that awards the $250,000 World Food Prize is based in Des Moines, Iowa. Haddad and Nabarro will receive the prize at an Oct. 18 award ceremony at the Iowa Capitol.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Charles City man twice convicted of sexually abusing a 17-year-old boy has been sentenced. Court records say 62-year-old Doug Lindaman was given two years Friday. He’d been convicted in April of misdemeanor assault with intent to commit sexual abuse. He’s said he intends to appeal. Lindaman was convicted in 2016 of sexually abusing the boy in 2011. The Iowa Supreme Court later vacated the conviction, because Lindaman was allowed to represent himself without knowingly waiving his right to an attorney. Lindaman was running for a school board spot when arrested in 2015.
A mistrial in his second trial was declared Feb. 26 after two prosecution witnesses violated court instructions.

The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports 36-year old Anthony David Titus, of Reno, NV, was arrested at around 10:15-a.m. Sunday, on a Union County warrant for Failure to Appear in court. Titus was taken into custody at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, and held on a $2,500 bond. Authorities said also, a woman from Vail (IA), reported Saturday morning, that sometime overnight Friday-into Saturday, someone took her 2005 Ford Explorer from Yellow Rose Ave. The vehicle was later located on Jarvis Street in Creston, with no damage.

A semi tractor trailer driver from Texas was arrested for OWI/1st offense, Saturday, in Pottawattamie County. 27-year old Joseph Lewis Padilla, of Roanoke, TX., was arrested after a deputy was dispatched to 7013 North Chestnut at around 1:05-a.m., Saturday, in response to a property damage accident. The communications center advised the caller was stating a semi had just struck a berm and was possibly stuck. The caller also stated the semi struck a fire hydrant.

A Council Bluffs man was arrested Saturday night, for Criminal Trespass. 24-year old James Anthony Miller was arrested after Pott. County Deputies were dispatched to 19025 Mynster Springs Rd. for a suspicious person that tried to walk into the residence. And, a call about a suspicious vehicle at around 11-p.m., Saturday, resulted in the arrest of 54-year old Scott T. Brown, of Grant. The communications center advised Deputies a red GMC pickup was parked in front of a caller’s neighbor’s residence, who was out of town. Brown was subsequently taken into custody for Driving While Revoked.

34-year old Jeremy Theron Harriman, of Avoca, was arrested at around 2:50-a.m. Sunday, after a Deputy conducting vehicle patrol in Avoca saw Harriman seated at the intersection of North Chestnut and E. Wool streets. He approached Harriman due to his suspicious nature. The man unable to produce any identification, but provided his name. The Deputy, who was familiar with Harriman, knew he had a warrant for his arrest, and took him into custody on the warrant for Failure to appear on a Possession of controlled substance 1st offense (meth) charge.  An additional charge of possession of controlled substance/meth was added, after Harriman was searched and a small amount of the drug was found on his person.

A 17-year old male from Council Bluffs and a 17-year old female from Treynor, along with 18-year old Ryan Patrick Dermody, of Council Bluffs, were arrested Sunday at around 4-a.m., after a Pott. County Deputy traveling westbound on Highway 92 observed a white Toyota Camry traveling west at a high rate of speed. He car was clocked at 67 mph in a 55 zone.The 17-year old male driving the vehicle was arrested for OWI/1st offense. The 17-year female, and Dermody were arrested for consumption of alcohol by a minor.  An investigation into an injury accident at around 8:45-a.m. Sunday at 290th and Cottonwood Road, in Pott. County, resulted in the arrest of 39-year old Clint Douglas Pelletier, of Treynor, for OWI/1st offense. 47-year old Daniel Lloyd Vanwinkle, of Council Bluffs, was arrested for OWI/1st offense at around 1:15-p.m., Sunday, after an investigation was conducted following a two-vehicle, injury accident at Highway 92 and Cypress Avenue.

A traffic stop on a speeding 2018 Nissan Sentra on I-80 at around 1:30-p.m. Sunday, resulted in the deployment of a Sheriff’s Dept. K9, and the eventual arrest of the driver, 28-year old Andrew Jacob Powell, and his passenger, 52-year old Richard Kenneth Powell, both of Davenport. During the probable cause search 51 lbs of marijuana was located within the vehicle. Both subjects were placed under arrest for Possession with the Intent to Deliver/Marijuana. A Neola man was issued a citation at around 5:15-p.m., Sunday. 56-year old Kirk Alan Boyer was cited and ordered to appear in court on a Public Intoxication charge, following an incident at a convenience store near Neola.

And, early this (Monday) morning, a woman called the Pott. County Sheriff’s Office to report she was with her sister at Highway 6 and Hunt Avenue in Council Bluffs, and was in a disturbance with her sister’s boyfriend, identified as 28-year old Darnell Jerrell Coleman, of Omaha. The caller advised Coleman borrowed her sister’s Jeep Compass to return his children to Atlantic from Omaha. Coleman ran the vehicle out of gas at Highway 6 and Hunt Avenue, and would not get out of the vehicle. The sisters advised they needed law enforcement to assist. Contact was made with Coleman, who was instructed to exit the vehicle. He refused to do so, and was placed under arrest for interference with official acts. Authorities say Coleman also displayed numerous cues of impairment and was charged with OWI 1st.

Burlington Northern Sante Fe officials say they’ve built a temporary road to the site of Friday’s train derailment along a flooded stretch of tracks near the Lyon-Sioux county line in northwest Iowa. While 32 cars derailed, B-N-S-F spokesman Andy Williams says 14 of them leaked some 230-thousand gallons of crude oil into the flooded fields. Clean-up operations have been underway around the clock. “We’ll be having HVAC vehicles come in and get all of the oil out of any damaged cars,” Williams says. “We will pull those cars off the track and locate them in a field just east of the derailment site where we will build a berm. Once that berm is built, we will start cutting those cars apart and moving them out by truck.”

At least ten cars have already been drained of oil and seven were moved to that nearby field to be disassembled. Williams says they’re trying to contain all of the spilled crude. “There was a culvert that ran underneath the highway from the site,” Williams says. “We’ve plugged that up so no additional oil that might be in that area can seep out and go into other fields. It’s simply a bladder you put in the culvert and inflate with air which stops the water from coming through.”

Skimmers and booms were placed near the derailment site which Williams says have already captured at least 100-thousand gallons of oil. “We installed a device where there’s pipes on the bottom bed of that area where the water is, in between the track and the road,” Williams says. “It sucks the water up, not taking any oil because the oil is on top of the water, and it takes that clean water and shoots it across the road into another area where it’s able to drain away.”

Williams says the clean-up process may take several days, possibly weeks or months. He says oil may have stretched a distance of up to five miles from the derailment site. He had no estimate on the cost of the clean-up.

(Radio Iowa)

The Southwest Iowa Planning Council (SWIPCO) and Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce will be holding an informational meeting this Wednesday, June 27th at 5:30 PM at the Rock Island Depot to discuss the Community Development Betterment Grant (CDBG). According to Bailey Smith, Executive Director at the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce, “The CDBG is a federal grant that helps communities revitalize their downtowns by rehabbing building facades.

Smith said also, “Atlantic qualifies for an amount up to $500,000 that would cover half the project. The City would cover 25% and the building owners cover the other 25%. This is a great opportunity for businesses and building owners to update their building without going into a large amount of debt.”

The meeting will be lead by SWIPCO and go into detail about the project and how building owners on Chestnut Street can be involved. There are over 30 owners attending and the meeting is open to the public. For more information, contact the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce at 712.243.3017 or chamber@atlanticiowa.com.

More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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VAN HORNE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say two people have died in a collision on U.S. Highway 30 in eastern Iowa. The collision was reported Monday morning about 3 miles southwest of Van Horne in Benton County. Authorities report that two other people were injured in the crash between a semitrailer and another vehicle. No names or other details have been released yet. Highway traffic is being detoured around the crash site.

Two men were arrested on separate charges over the weekend, in Creston. According to Creston Police, 38-year old Durrell Haynes, of Creston, was arrested at around 4:30-a.m. Sunday for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 1st offense. He was brought to the Union County Jail and later released on a $1,000 bond. And, at around 2:15-p.m. Saturday, 33-year old Boone Hayes, of Creston, was arrested on a Madison County warrant for failure to appear in court, on original charges of Burglary in the 1st Degree, and Domestic Abuse Assault by impeding air and/or blood flow, causing bodily injury. Hayes was transferred to the custody of Madison County Deputies.

And, Creston Police report a juvenile female was injured during a collision Friday morning. Authorities say the accident happened when a 1988 Chevy C15 pickup driven by 41-year old Scott M. Morrison, of Creston, struck a 1990 Dodge Dynasty broadside, at Highway 34 and Wyoming Avenue. The driver of the Dodge was identified as 17-year old Blaine McIntosh, of Creston. Officials say McIntosh was traveling east in the left lane of Highway 34 at around 11:20-a.m., Friday, and waited for a westbound vehicle to pass before turning north onto Wyoming Avenue. The approaching vehicle created a blind spot for McIntosh, who didn’t see the approaching pickup. When he turned in front of Morrison’s  vehicle, Morrison couldn’t stop in-time, and his pickup collided with the Dodge.

A passenger in the Dodge, 12-year old Tiffany Ott, of Orient, suffered unknown, possible injuries, and was transported by ambulance to the Greater Regional Medical Center in Creston. Creston Police cited McIntosh for Failure to Yield Upon Left Turn. Damage from the collision amounted to $4,000.