(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds says her husband’s lucky to be getting a break through drug to treat his recently diagnosed lung cancer. “He’s been in treatment for about a month,” Reynolds says. “I’m happy to say that the radiation has really eliminated and kicked the pain that was in the spine and so that has been a true blessing. It’s helped his attitude quite a bit to not be in so much pain. He’s on an oral immune therapy drug for the tumor and hopefully, if this works, he won’t have to do chemo.”

Reynolds issued a written statement last month, announcing that her husband had lung cancer. He went to the doctor because of back pain. “We thought he had a ruptured disc, so it was really was kind of a gut punch,” Reynolds says. “He’s not a smoker, never smoked.” Today (Wednesday) is the first time the governor has talked publicly about the diagnosis. She grew emotional during a news conference as she thanked Iowans for their messages of support.

“Every day we get two or three cards in the mail to say that: ‘We’re praying for you and keeping you in our prayers,”‘ Reynolds said. “It’s just another reflection of Iowans and who we are and it matters and it makes a different, so just a heartfelt thank you for that.” Reynolds says she and her husband are grateful and feel lucky to have the medical team at the John Stoddard Center Center in Des Moines and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics who’ve been working on his case.

“We really are very optimistic and he is a strong dude and we’re really feeling the prayers and we’re ready to move through this,” Reynolds said, with a smile. The type of lung cancer Kevin Reynolds has is not considered curable, but with treatment it can go into remission, according to the governor.

Sheriff’s officials in Union County report the driver of a 2000 Buick Century was injured this (Wednesday) afternoon, when the vehicle/driver failed to negotiate a curve on Highway 34 eastbound. The car entered a ditch and rolled twice before coming to rest. The accident happened at around 1:35-p.m.

The driver, 23-year-old Donovan Joseph Bridges, of Nodaway, was wearing his seat belt. He exited the vehicle after the crash through the broken rear window. He suffered a laceration over his right eye and was transported by ambulance to the Greater Regional Medical Center, in Creston.

The car was a total loss. No citations were issued.

Police in Glenwood report the arrest on Tuesday, of 42-year-old Daniel Thomas, from Glenwood. Thomas was arrested on a Mills County Warrant. His cash-only bond was set at $5,000.

The president of North Iowa Area Community College is announcing his retirement. Steve Schulz is a native of the Franklin County town of Geneva and he’s worked in the public education field for 40 years. Schulz predicts the state’s community colleges will be dealing with lower student counts in the years to come.

Schulz says younger people still need to consider pursuing careers in education.

The presidential search process will involve the formation of a search committee, while the NIACC (NY-ack) Board of Directors is considering engaging with an executive search firm to identify potential candidates. Schulz is retiring in about eight months.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds and other state officials held an hour-long briefing this (Wednesday) morning to discuss the work over 100 Iowa Guard soldiers and 31 state law enforcement officers did at the southern border in August. Reynolds says it’s a crisis that the Biden Administration has ignored.  “It is an open border policy…There’s not another country in the world that would allow this to happen,” Reynolds told reporters. “…When you see the number of terrorists that they’ve have apprehended that are crossing our borders — my God! Think of the ones that got by us.” Iowa National Guard Adjutant General Stephen Osborn says his soldiers found their Texas counterparts were exhausted.

“Texas has been kind of fighting this on their own for a long time,” Osborn says. “Our soldiers volunteered because they believe they’re contributing to the security not just of Texas and those border communities, but the United States and that’s what they swear to protect and defend.”

The 109 Iowa National Guard soldiers the governor deployed to Texas were involved in the capture of 17-hundred illegal immigrants and the surrender of 12-hundred others. State troopers patrolling alongside Texas officers focused on smugglers bringing drugs and humans across the border.

(Sac City, Iowa) – Officials with the Sac City Police Department say Officer responded last Sunday (Oct. 22nd) to a call about a man who had been stabbed, and was outside the Sac City Fire Department yelling.

During the investigation, it was alleged that a male subject and his long term girlfriend, 61-year-old Corrina Evens, had gotten into an altercation at 607 Leonard Street in Sac City. The male subject alleged that during the altercation, Corinna threatened to kill him and then stabbed him. The man then left the residence to get help and was later transported to Loring Hospital by private vehicle for treatment.

After an investigation, Corinna Evens was charged and booked into the Sac County Jail for Attempted Murder, a Class B Felony, Willful Injury-Causing Bodily Injury, a Class D Felony, and Domestic Abuse Assault Display or use of a Weapon 1ST Offense, an Aggravated Misdemeanor. She remained in the Sac County Jail on a $55,000 bond, with her preliminary hearing set for November 3rd.

The case is still under investigation.

(Radio Iowa) – The Marshalltown city council has approved the purchase cameras that will scan license plates. Police Chief Mike Tupper says the cameras will help his department. “That’s one of the advantages to these cameras, because if we’re looking for stolen car we’re looking for a wanted person that information is always attached to the license plate, so we get that instantaneous hit on something if again the car is stolen or somebody’s wanted,” Tupper says. Chief Tupper says officers will be able to react if the cameras identify a stolen car or someone with a warrant.

“Our police officers in the field would receive immediate notification that your car is at whatever intersection,” he says, “and so if somebody was closely my head over that way to try to find you.” The money used to pay for the cameras is coming from the revenue received from the speed cameras that were put up earlier this year.

(Radio Iowa) – Some trick-or-treaters in Iowa -could- be crunching through new-fallen snow this Halloween, though the forecast is still a bit shaky for the weekend. Meteorologist Kristy Carter, at the National Weather Service, says some Iowa cities set record high temperatures just yesterday (Tuesday) in the low 80s, but a big cool-down will likely be arriving on Friday. “We’ll be looking at high temperatures in the 30s to 40s on Saturday and Sunday,” Carter says. “There are some precipitation chances this weekend as well, which could come in the form of the dreaded snow word.”

She says there’s at least a chance of falling flakes this weekend across much of Iowa’s northern half as a storm front arrives. “That would be Saturday night into Sunday at this point,” Carter says. “It’d be over northern areas but details are a little bit more uncertain at this point. We don’t have any amounts or anything. It’s just something we’re watching.” Winter doesn’t officially arrive until December 21st, a little under two months from now, but Carter says snowfall isn’t out of the question in October. “The normal amounts for roughly this time of year is actually point-one (inches) for say Des Moines,” Carter says, “so it’s certainly not uncommon to see a trace or so, a very light amount of snow this time of year.”

The long-range forecast says the cold weather is expected to stick around into early next week, before the next chance at a warm-up.

(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Board of Supervisors, today (Wednesday), approved a request from Recorder Janelle Schneider, for the cropping and enhancement of previously scanned images, at a cost of about $320.

They also approved a request from Treasurer Brenda Wallace, to begin the search for a new employee. The move follows the recent resignation from the Treasurer’s Office, of Beth Smith. The Board then motioned and approved the renewal of a VA Building Lease for another year (through Sept. 30. 2024), in the amount of $450/month. And, they approved a holiday lighted displays for the Adair County Courthouse, from November 10^th through January 31^st.

The Adair County Supervisors acknowledged the receipt of a letter from the City of Adair. Auditor Mandy Berg explains….

And, they approved a Letter of Support with regard to an application pertaining to a North and Middle River Watershed. The matching grant, through Mid-American Energy, is for $100,000.

In other business, Adair County Engineer Nick Kauffman presented for the Board to approve and the Chair to sign, a Right-Of-Way contract for the N-36 Culvert Project.

The Board passed a Resolution for an Adair County Integrated Roadside Vegetation funding grant application in the amount of $30,000. The funds would pay for a new hydro-seeder. Kauffman updated the Board on Secondary Roads Department projects/maintenance and other activities.

Kauffman said a meeting was set to take place with A.M. Cohron with regard to the Section 32 Washington Bridge deck pouring. The pre-pour meeting will probably be canceled, he said, due to the anticipated weather next week, and temperatures too cold for concrete work.