(Updated) The Cass County Board of Supervisors met Tuesday morning at the courthouse, to canvass the results of the June 5th Primary Election. Cass County Auditor Dale Sunderman reports after opening and canvassing the returns of each voting precinct in the County, the following Republican candidates were declared as the nominees to their respective office, and will appear on the General Election ballot November 6th (There were No Democrat nominees).

District 2 Supervisor: Mark T. Obrien;

District 3 Supervisor: John Hartkopf – However, a recount of the votes cast for District 3 Supervisors has been requested by Dana Halder, and will be held 3-p.m. Monday, June 18th, at the Cass County Auditor’s Office. (Unofficial results following the Primary, Hartkopf had 161 votes. Dana Halder had 157 and Linda Templeman had 103 votes.)

Other’s nominated include:

Tracey J. Marshall – County Treasurer; Mary Ward – County Recorder; and Michael Donn Hooper – County Attorney.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office today (Wednesday) reports two arrests. A traffic stop on a Ford F-250 pickup Tuesday afternoon resulted in the arrest of 68-year old Franklin Jensen, of Neola. Jensen was arrested for Driving While Barred. Also arrested in the pickup, was 25-year old Alexander Xavier Schroder, of Council Bluffs, for Violating an No Contact or Protective Order pertaining to a 26-year old woman from Atlantic.

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

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The Creston Police Department received a report Tuesday evening, about a stolen bicycle. A woman residing in the 800 block of N. Sycamore Street, in Creston, told authorities her son’s Mongoose bike was stolen from the McKinley Park Pool, sometime between 2-p.m. and 4:15-p.m., Tuesday. The loss was estimated at $150.

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A trial has been rescheduled for a Nebraska resident accused of stabbing to death a woman in northwest Iowa. Court records show the attorney for 20-year-old Melissa Camargo-Flores, of Dakota City, Nebraska, wanted more time to prepare her defense. The new trial starting date set Tuesday is Sept. 18th in Woodbury County District Court. The former date was July 10th.

Camargo-Flores is charged with first-degree murder in the Sioux City slaying of 24-year-old Kenia Alvarez-Flores on April 8. Court documents say Camargo-Flores admitted stabbing Alvarez-Flores and told investigators she’d been involved in a relationship with the victim’s boyfriend.

Authorities say the two women were not related.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The National Weather Service has confirmed that five tornadoes touched down in eastern Nebraska and one in western Iowa, Monday evening, but they caused little damage. There were also no injuries, only minor damage, and were rated EF-0, with winds from 65 through 85 mph. There were tornadoes in Nebraska,  around Louisville and Murray. One touched down near Elk Creek and one near Table Rock. The sixth was spotted in southwest Iowa, west of Thurman.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines homeless shelter is planning to use repurposed shipping containers to construct permanent apartments for chronically homeless people. The 24-unit project would be erected in the same drainage ditch where homeless people have set up camps. Central Iowa Shelter and Services’ director Melissa O’Neil told The Des Moines Register the shelter’s applied for $2.7 million from the National Housing Trust Fund.

The Institute for Community Alliances says the number of people living on Des Moines streets more than doubled to 107 in 2017 from 52 in 2016. In November dozens of the metro’s chronically homeless moved onto retention basin ditch, which sits within 100 feet of the homeless shelter.

The State Transportation Commission has given final approval to the updated five-year transportation improvement program. The program will spend three-point-four billion dollars on state roadways. That includes the reconstruction work on the interstate systems in Council Bluffs and Sioux City — as well as a section of I-35 from Ankeny to Ames. The plan calls for the completion of the final segment of the four lane expansion of U-S 20 in western Iowa by the fall. Four-lane improvements on U-S 30 in Tama and Benton County and on U-S 61 in southeast Iowa are also in the plan. The plan has one billion dollars targeted at bridge repairs. The state had 51 bridges listed as structurally deficient in 2017.

(Radio Iowa)

A spokeswoman for Governor Kim Reynolds has issued a clarification of the governor’s views on same-sex marriage after Reynolds seemed to call for a statewide vote on the issue. “People have traditional views on what they believe marriage consists of and they have every right to have that, but it was decided by the courts,” Reynolds says. “And I have said from the very beginning my position has been that it probably should go to a vote of the people and they should weigh in and then we would stop this back and forth.”

A few hours after Reynolds made those remarks, her communications director indicated those were the governor’s views in the past, not the present.The Iowa Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in 2009 that legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2015 made it legal throughout the country. The governor’s spokeswoman says Reynolds believes the courts “weren’t necessarily the place” where the issue should have been decided, but Reynolds considers the issue “settled.

The Iowa Republican Party’s platform that will be ratified Saturday at the G-O-P’s state convention calls for repealing “any laws allowing any mar­riage that is not be­tween one natural man and one natu­ral woman.” Reynolds says the platform provides the “guidelines” grassroots Republicans hope elected officials will advance. “But it’s not something that every single candidate has to abide by,” Reynolds says. “It is kind of an over-arching goal of what the party is working on.”

Reynolds told a reporter who asked if she supported the party platform’s call for a ban on same-sex marriage that she’s focused on economic issues instead. “We’re going to talk about reducing taxes and continuing to create an environment where our job creators and businesses…will feel confident in investing and continuing to grow in the state of Iowa,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds made her comments Tuesday during a news conference in Pella.

(Radio Iowa)