(Radio Iowa) — Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar started a bus tour of the state Friday, intending to stop in 27 counties by mid-morning today (Monday). “I went all the way from Hollywood Hills to Mount Pleasant,” Klobuchar announced in a video posted on Twitter. Klobuchar has been emphasizing her performance in last Thursday’s candidate debate in L-A. On Saturday, Klobuchar told an audience in southwest Iowa that she wants to debate Trump next fall and compare the trust money Trump inherited with her grandfather’s legacy as an iron ore miner in Minnesota. “He saved money in a coffee can in the basement to send my dad to a two-year community college,” Klobuchar said. “That was my family’s trust.”

Klobuchar’s bus logged about a thousand miles when it reached her last event Sunday night in Cherokee. With stops in towns as small as Diagonal, with a population of 324, Klobuchar says the trip illustrates that her party must go everywhere to seek support. “You meet people where they are, that you don’t abandon the rural parts of our country,” Klobuchar said, “…that you don’t suppose who they’re going to vote for.”

Klobuchar has emphasized a number of her policy positions during her weekend tour, like her call to boost federal spending on infrastructure and her support of importing less expensive prescription drugs from Canada. In Denison, Klobuchar also emphasizes the importance of “winning big” and ensuring Democratic candidates for the U.S. House and Senate win victories in 2020. “What I want to do is keep the House of Representatives strong, but also win back the Senate and send Mitch McConnell packing,” Klobuchar said, to applause.

Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell — the senate’s majority leader — is up for re-election in 2020. Klobuchar admits she’s racing to personally connect with as many Iowa voters as possible before the Senate reconvenes in January. She faces the prospect of sitting for days in the senate chamber — as a juror in President Trump’s impeachment trial.

ST. ANSGAR, Iowa (AP) — Two people were flown to a Minnesota hospital for treatment after they were injured in a north-central Iowa snowmobile accident. Authorities say 26-year-old Damian Lapoint was driving the snowmobile early Sunday morning when it struck a creek bed northwest of St. Ansgar. He and his passenger, 20-year-old Briar Buechelle, were thrown off the vehicle. The two Northwood residents were flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

A Union County teen has died from injuries she suffered during a rollover accident in eastern Adair County, Sunday night. The Iowa State Patrol reports 17-year old Samantha Renea Long, of Creston, was driving a 2003 Chevy Trailblazer northbound on York Avenue at around 10:30-p.m., when she lost control of the SUV at 330th Street. The vehicle entered a farm field and rolled multiple times. Long – who was not wearing a seat belt — was ejected from the SUV as it rolled. She was transported by a family member to the hospital in Creston, where she died.

The Creston Police Department reports two people were arrested on drug charges, Sunday. 19-year old Kylan Smallwood, of Creston, was arrested at around midnight, for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 1st offense. He was released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond. And, at around 11-p.m. Sunday, 30-year old Brianne Weihs, of Creston, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, and Possession of drug paraphernalia.  She was later released on a $1,300 bond.

And, 32-year old Corry Johnston, of Creston, was arrested at around 12:45-a.m. Saturday, on a Clarke County warrant for Failure to Appear on an original charge of Driving While Revoked. Johnston was turned-over to the custody of Clarke County Deputies.

(Radio Iowa) — A 21-year-old man drowned in a Cedar Rapids pond Sunday evening. According to a news release from the City of Cedar Rapids, the 21-year-old and two teenagers all fell through ice on a pond near Mohawk Park in Cedar Rapids. The 14-year-old boy and the 17-year-old boy were able to get out of the water and call for help, but they told authorities they were unable to rescue the 21-year-old. Their call for help went out shortly before 6 o’clock.

At 7:40 p.m., rescuers found the drowning victim submerged in the water, about 120 yards from shore. The two teenagers who fell through the ice, but escaped were taken to a Cedar Rapids hospital for treatment.

A man from South Africa was injured during an accident on Interstate 80 in Adair County, Sunday afternoon. The Iowa State Patrol reports 44-year old Friderich Tohannes Erich Goldschagg may have suffered a medical issue, that caused the 2015 Ford F-150 pickup he was driving, to veer to the right of westbound I-80 near the 89 mile marker.

The pickup entered the north ditch and struck a tree. The accident happened at around 2:10-p.m. Goldschagg – who was wearing a seat belt – was transported by Adair County Rescue to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. The Patrol was assisted at the scene by  Adair Fire and Rescue.