The Creston Police Department reports four arrests took place over the past few days. At around 6:30-p.m. Saturday, 31-year old Ashleigh Shinn, of Creston, was arrested for charge of Driving While Suspended. She was later released from the Union County Jail on a $300 bond. At around 10:50-a.m. Sunday, 49-year old Misty McKinney, of Creston, was arrested on a Weld County, Colorado, Warrant for Probation Violation – on an original charge of Dangerous Drugs. She was being held in the Adams County Jail on a $10,000 warrant awaiting extradition to Colorado.

At around 11:45-a.m. Sunday, 61-year old Edward Gunter, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $300 bond. And, at around 12:23-a.m. today (Monday), 19-year old Corbin Loudermilk, of Atlantic, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Union County Warrant for Child Endangerment – Serious Injury. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $10,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) — California Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris calls President Trump “a crook.” “He’s just a walking indictment in a red tie,” Harris said. But during an appearance last (Sunday) night in Ames Harris did not DIRECTLY suggest impeachment as the means for forcing Trump’s exit from the White House. Harris did not mention the impeachment inquiry in the U.S. House or President Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president either — but the crowd erupted in laughter and cheers when she made a passing reference to Trump’s remarks this week ABOUT that phone call. “My background is as a prosecutor and I’m going to tell you something. I can recognize a confession when I see one,” Harris said, laughing along with the crowd.

Harris accused Trump of taking the word of authoritarian leaders in Russia, North Korea and Saudi Arabia rather than the professionals the U.S. intelligence community. “Sold out our country and our nation’s security,” Harris said. Mary Johnson of Ames was there with her twin granddaughters to see Harris. “I know that she’s from the west coast and I know that my niece is supporting her, but I don’t know a lot about her,” Johnson says. “I like all the candidates probably for the same reason — because they’re running against Donald Trump.”

Johnson’s 17-year-old granddaughters are supporting Harris. “She’s talked about like gun control a lot and that’s something that is like pretty close to my heart and so she is one of the candidates who’s talked the most about it and I really like that about her,” Annika Rice said. Her sister, Kaija Rice, continued: “I agree with pretty much everything she said. Gun violence is also like a topic that I’m concerned a lot about and I like how passionate Kamala has been about the topic.”

The teens are Ames High juniors. They’ll be eligible to participate in the February 3rd Iowa Caucuses — when they’re still 17 — because they will turn 18 before Election Day, which will be November 3rd of 2020.

(Radio Iowa) — The state of Iowa will use a U-S Department of Justice grant to try a new approach to dealing with the impact of opioid addiction. Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP) director, Dale Woolery, says the one-point-seven million dollars will be used in three counties. “This pilot will allow for law enforcement and prosecutors to do an early diversion of those individuals directly to treatment — thereby bypassing directly the criminal justice system,” Woolery explains. “But there will be case management care coordinators the individual’s progression through treatment.”

Woolery says they hope to reduce opioid misuse and the number of overdose deaths.  “It’s really about having another option to try to get help for those who need it if they can be better served in treatment than the criminal justice system,” he says. Woolery says Black Hawk, Story, and Jones counties were chosen for the pilot program that may also include other substances. “In addition to opioid addiction, we have a fairly high amount of meth addiction, and other substance use disorders. So, it won’t be exclusive to opioids,” Woolery says.

But Woolery says opioid abuse often began with legal prescriptions and developed into a more serious problem. He says that has created the need to look at different ways to address the situation. “The opioid epidemic has opened our eyes and I think it has taught us some valuable lessons and better ways. We’ve been learning form the opioid epidemic — which is what we should do,” according to Woolery. He says the three counties are a good fit for the pilot program. It just happened to be the right time for them. This is not an approach that everybody will want to do. These communities were interested in doing it — so that’s why these three  communities were chosen for this application,” Woolery says.

He says they provide a mixture that will give a good look at how the program might work in different settings. “We have rural, we have urban, we have college settings. We think that will be good because one key part of this project will be to evaluate how it’s working,” Woolery says. “Do we want to do more of this? Do we want to do less of this? Do we want to do it differently since it is really the first of its kind in the state of Iowa.”

He says the funding will also pay for additional prescription drug take-back receptacles, training, and data collection.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (Oct. 7, 2019) — During Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, the American Red Cross urges eligible donors to give blood or platelets to provide hope and healing to patients fighting cancer. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women, and more than 268,000 women are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year.

Many patients with cancer need multiple blood product transfusions. Cancer patients undergoing surgery and chemotherapy may require red blood cell or platelet transfusions. In fact, more than half of all platelets collected by the Red Cross are used by patients with cancer. Donors of all blood types, especially platelet donors and those with type O blood, are needed to ensure a stable supply for cancer patients and others this fall. Appointments can be made by downloading the free Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.

As a thank-you, those who come to give blood or platelets during the month of October will automatically be entered for a chance to win one of five $500 gift cards redeemable at hundreds of merchants, courtesy of Tango Card. Terms apply; see rcblood.org/game.

Upcoming blood donation opportunities Oct. 16-31:

Carroll – 10/23/2019: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Central Church, 24336 Hwy 30

Manning – 10/18/2019: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., IKM Manning High School, 209 10th Street

Atlantic – 10/22/2019: 7:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Atlantic High School, 1201 East 14th Street; 10/29/2019: 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., Cass County Memorial Hospital, 1501 E. 10th Street

Sidney – 10/18/2019: 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., Sidney United Faith Church, 1975 US Hwy 275

Dunlap – 10/16/2019: 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., Boyer Valley High School, 1102 Iowa Ave.

Woodbine – 10/29/2019: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Woodbine High School, 501 Weare St

Pacific Junction – 10/26/2019: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Loess Hills Harley-Davidson Inc., 57408 190th St

Red Oak – 10/28/2019: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Montgomery County Hospital, 2301 Eastern Ave

Shenandoah – 10/28/2019: 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Elks Lodge, 701 S. Fremont St., Hwy 59

Underwood – 10/29/2019: 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., Underwood High School, 629 North Street

How to donate blood: Simply download the American Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit RedCrossBlood.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or enable the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device to make an appointment or for more information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age in most states (16 with parental consent where allowed by state law), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.

Blood and platelet donors can save time at their next donation by using RapidPass® to complete their pre-donation reading and health history questionnaire online, on the day of their donation, before arriving at the blood drive. To get started, follow the instructions at RedCrossBlood.org/RapidPass or use the Blood Donor App.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man slain in Des Moines over the weekend. The Des Moines Police Department identified the man as 43-year-old James Moss Jr. He’d been found injured at a home early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead later at a hospital.

Police say they’re still looking for a person who was at the home at or near the time Moss was attacked. Another person at the home then has been interviewed and released.

Police in Council Bluffs were dispatched at around 3:23-a.m. today (Monday), to 2008 5th Ave in reference to a burglary call. Upon their arrival Officers made contact with the victim, who said she woke up to two unknown male parties leaving the residence through the back porch. The victim said also, due to it being dark she could only tell that the parties were wearing dark clothing and mask. The woman also stated as they were leaving the residence, the suspects possibly displayed a handgun.

This is an ongoing investigation and if anybody has any information in reference to the crime please call the Council Bluffs Crime Stoppers at 712-328-7867.