A man and woman from Lenox were arrested today (Tuesday) in Creston, on warrants out of Missouri. 29-year old Kristen Oliphant and 40-year old Thomas Lee Zelasko II, were taken into custody at around 12:27-a.m. at Highway 34 and Patriotic Avenue. Oliphant was wanted for Failure to Appear on an original, Felony, Possession of a Controlled Substance charge. She was being held in the Adams County Jail, while awaiting transfer to the Stone County, MO., Jail. Zelasko was wanted for Failure to Appear related to a Tampering with a Motor Vehicle charge. He was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting transfer to Clay County, MO.

And, 44-year old Misty Daughtery, of Lenox, was arrested Monday in Creston, for Driving While Barred. She was later released on a $2,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) — This is Giving Tuesday, a day where Iowans are encouraged to join people around the world in a generosity movement designed to unleash the power of people and organizations to transform their communities. Neal Bohnet, chief development officer for the Iowa Red Cross, says his agency is dedicated to responding to all sorts of disasters — big and small. “We responded to 650 home fires this last year in Iowa along with countless flooding issues,” Bohnet says. “Anything that we’re asked to do as the Red Cross, we’re going to be there to help.”

When needed, the agency sends trained volunteers from Iowa to trouble spots within the state, across the nation and around the planet, providing things like food, lodging, cleaning supplies and emotional support. Bohnet says, “One thing that I always tell folks is that just because a disaster didn’t make the news doesn’t make it any less devastating for those folks involved.”

During 2019, the United States has experienced ten weather and climate disasters, including extreme flooding, storms and wildfires, that cost more than one-billion dollars each. Worse, the frequency of major disasters has nearly tripled in the past five years. Giving Tuesday isn’t just about making donations of cash, as Bohnet says it can also be about giving blood. “We do have Red Cross blood drives all over the state,” Bohnet says. “It’s one of those things that we’re always in need of. The gift of blood is so important and it’s a major part of our life-saving mission at the Red Cross.”

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past seven years, it’s grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

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A traffic stop at around midnight Monday in Montgomery County, resulted in the arrest of Jennifer and Christopher Traeger, for Violation of a No Contact Order. The couple was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 cash bond, each. Sheriff’s deputies were assisted at the scene by Red Oak Police.

Firefighters from Atlantic were called at around 8-p.m. Monday to the scene of a garage fire that had reportedly breached an interior wall of the adjacent residence owned by Greg Blunk. Crews responding to the scene at 1100 Cypress Street found the attached garage fully engulfed in flames, with the fire penetrating the wall into the kitchen area of the residence.

Photo courtesy Cass County EMA Director Mike Kennon.

Chief Mark McNees has said firefighters got a quick knockdown of the flames, but there was substantial damage. A four-wheeler in the garage along with the rest of the contents were lost, and there was heavy smoke damage to the residence.

An initial investigation into the cause pointed toward carelessly discarded smoking material. No injuries were reported.  Atlantic Police Department, Medivac Ambulance, and Cass County Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Kennon assisted at the scene.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa on Monday agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by three men who worked at the Department of Revenue and claimed they were harassed by another male coworker who followed them into the restroom and secretly videotaped them. The lawsuit was filed by Daniel Wagner, Lloyd Lofton and Joshua Bates, who claim when they reported Kenneth Neal Kerr’s intrusive behavior to supervisors they failed to appropriately act, and it continued for several years.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal court judge says the state of Iowa cannot enforce its latest attempt to stifle undercover investigations of livestock farms and denied the state’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit challenging this year’s so-called ag-gag law. The Republican-led legislature passed the state’s second such law in March, two months after a federal judge struck down the previous 2012 law, saying it violated constitutional free-speech rights.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa has agreed to pay $130,000 in legal bills for two eastern Iowa anti-abortion rights protesters who successfully challenged a portion of the state’s disorderly conduct law. Anthony Miano and Nicholas Rolland frequently read aloud from the Bible and preach on public sidewalks outside abortion clinics. They sued last year after Miano was found in violation of a law making it a simple misdemeanor to create loud and raucous noise near residences or public buildings.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police say they are investigating the death of a man found inside a car with a gunshot wound. Police say it’s considered a suspicious death. Officers and medics were called to the car Monday afternoon in the Sherman Hill neighborhood, just west of downtown. After finding the man, officers and then medics initiated CPR and he was taken to a hospital, where he died a short time later. The man’s name wasn’t immediately released.