A Stanton man was cited after he drove in to a legally parked car in Red Oak on Saturday. At 12:15pm an officer with the Red Oak PD on regular patrol came upon the accident at the intersection of East Coolbaugh and 4th Street in Red Oak. It was determined that a 2002 Ford F150 driven by 73-year-old Sherwood Earl Bradway of Stanton was driving North on 4th Street and drifted out of his lane and struck a legally parked 2010 Chevy Impala.

Bradway admitted he was not paying attention when the accident occurred. Bradway was also not wearing his glasses as his restricted license required and he was cited for that violation.  An estimated $2,000 damage was sustained by the Ford and $3,000 damage to the Chevy.

A Corning man was arrested after a fence was damaged by a vehicle at the Kline Museum in Prescott early Saturday. A complaint was delivered to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office about the fence being damaged at 12:30pm and deputies found a damaged flower pot and the broken fence at the scene. City council members found a piece of broken taillight inside the fenced area. A community member had seen someone driving a truck around Prescott at the time of the incident.

Deputies located the truck and it’s driver 29-year-old Trenton Matthew Jenkins of Corning and the truck had a left side taillight broken. Jenkins admitted to Deputies that he had run into the fence. Jenkins was arrested for Criminal Mischief 5th Degree and was being held in jail on $300 bond.

An animal shelter in Omaha-Council Bluffs will be getting in more than a dozen dogs that were left without homes when Hurricane Maria plowed through the Caribbean in September. Pam Wiese, spokeswoman for the Nebraska Humane Society, says the canines are coming from the island of Saint Croix and they need new families in Iowa and Nebraska to love them.

“We sent a couple of staff members, one a veterinarian and one a behaviorist, to St. Croix to help out in an emergency response shelter they had set up to help with the hurricane dogs and other animals that were left homeless,” Wiese says. “They’re now winding down their response operation on the island and they want to relocate those animals to improve their chances of finding homes.” Wiese says hundreds of dogs from the U-S Virgin Islands were flown into Florida late last week.

“They are being dispersed to various shelters across the country who have said that they have room,” she says. “I think that we’ll be getting about 15 dogs in from St. Croix.” The animals will be fully checked over for any potential medical issues.

“We’ll get them treated for whatever ailments they have and make them available for adoption,” she says, “so they’ll all get second chances.” Shelters in Florida, Texas and Missouri (Kansas City) are also taking in dogs that survived the storm and are now in need of “forever” homes.

(Radio Iowa, w/Thanks to Karla James – Omaha)

Audubon Police Chief Matt Starmer reports two people were arrested this past week, on Theft charges. On Tuesday, 62-year old Ronald Allen Siedelmann, of Audubon, was arrested for Theft in the 5^th degree.  Siedelmann was cited and released on promise to appear in court

And, on Thursday, Audubon Police arrested 37-year old Angel Marie Siepker, of Audubon.  She was charged with Felony Theft in the 2^nd degree, Fraud, and Ongoing Criminal Conduct.  The Iowa State Lottery assisted in the investigation.  Siepker appeared before a magistrate and was released on promise to appear in court.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Unregulated sales of cannabis oil have been ramping up in Iowa even as state officials work to set up a tightly regulated distribution system. The Des Moines Register reports that several Iowa businesses are openly selling the oils, known as cannabidiol, despite warnings from the state that it’s illegal to do so in unregulated stores. The regulatory system won’t go into effect until next year.

The new system will have one state-licensed production facility and up to five authorized dispensaries. Only patients with state permits certifying conditions such as epilepsy, cancer or Parkinson’s will be allowed to buy the products. Carroll police recently seized cannabidiol products from two businesses.

Police Chief Brad Burke acknowledges the law is confusing. He says his agency conferred with the Iowa attorney general’s office before making the seizures.

FOREST CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police in north-central Iowa say no children where hurt when a window of their moving school bus was shot out. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that the incident happened in Forest City on Friday morning, when the window shattered after being hit by a shot from a pellet gun.

A statement from the Forest City School District said all children were safe and that no injuries resulted from the shooting or flying glass. Police say they know who is responsible for the shooting and believe it was an isolated incident.

Police did not name who they think is responsible and did not announce any arrests, but said a criminal investigation into the incident is ongoing.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A new report says Iowa’s controversial shift to privately managed Medicaid will save the state 80 percent less money this year than originally predicted.

The Des Moines Register reported Saturday that a quarterly report prepared by Iowa Department of Human Services staff members says the state now stands to save $47.1 million this fiscal year by having private companies manage the $4 billion program.

Former Gov. Terry Branstad, who ordered the privatization that began in 2016, had declared the move would save the state $232 million in fiscal year 2018.

A spokeswoman for Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican who succeeded Branstad and supports the shift to privately run Medicaid, says Reynolds’ new Medicaid director believes his staff miscalculated the 2018 savings estimate.

The Adams county Sheriff’s office reports the arrest of a Creston man after a traffic stop on Friday at 3:51 p.m. Deputies initiated the traffic stop at Highway 34 and Orange Avenue and eventually arrested 38-year-old Justin J. Kline of Creston, as he had a small bag of marijuana and a blue marijuana grinder on his person. Klein was taken to the Adams County Jail and held on $1000 bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a longstanding right to privacy by throwing out the marijuana possession conviction of a woman whose purse was searched during a drug raid at a house she was visiting.

Danielle Brown was smoking methamphetamine with several other people at a Des Moines home in October 2015 when a SWAT team burst in with a search warrant. Brown was not named on the warrant but police searched her purse and found pot. She appealed her conviction saying the purse search violated her constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure.

A majority of four justices on Friday agreed saying since she was only a visitor in the house and wasn’t named in the warrant she had an expectation of privacy. Three members of the court disagreed saying Brown wasn’t an innocent bystander and police had ample authority to search her purse.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is still analyzing the full impact of the federal tax overhaul law on state revenues, but some provisions are expected to create a windfall.

The Iowa Department of Revenue provided preliminary data Friday showing the state expects to collect about $16 million more in individual income taxes for the current budget year because of changes to how residents will deduct federal taxes. That’s estimated to increase to about $106 million in the budget year that goes into effect next summer and by $138 million the following budget year.

A department spokeswoman cautioned other aspects of the $1.5 trillion law, like changes to property tax deductions, could reduce state revenue. Republicans with majorities in the Iowa Legislature want to change the state tax code this year, including through cuts. Details have not been shared publicly.