(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department report the arrest at around 2-a.m. today (Friday), of 47-year-old Shawn Jason Parmenter, of Creston. He was taken into custody at Highway 35 and Industrial Park, with the assistance of the Adams County K9 “Midge.” Parmenter was transported to the Union County Jail and charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance/Methamphetamine – 1st offense. He was later released on a $1,000 bond.
CLIVE, Iowa — Officials with the Iowa Lottery say for just One-dollar, Anita Kent, of Burlington added the Power Play® option to her Powerball® ticket, and won a $100,000 prize. Kent won in Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, matching four white balls and the Powerball. The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing were 2-15-27-29-39 and Powerball 20. The Power Play was 2. The added Power Play multiplied her initial $50,000 prize to $100,000. She claimed her prize Thursday at the lottery’s regional office in Cedar Rapids.
Kent is the second Iowa Lottery player to claim a big Powerball prize in the past week. Anders Carlson of Forest City won a $50,000 Powerball prize in the Oct. 16 drawing. He purchased his winning ticket at Kwik Star, 806 U.S. Highway 69 N. in Forest City, and claimed his prize Oct. 18 at the lottery’s regional office in Mason City.
Powerball is played by 48 lotteries across the country with drawings at 9:59 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
FORT DODGE, Iowa — A Fort Dodge woman hit by a car while crossing the street Oct. 18th, has died. The Iowa State Patrol confirms she was 72-year-old Wen-Hsing Drew. A crash report says Drew was hit when the driver of a Ford Bronco was turning left after stopping at a stop sign. It happened at the intersection of 6th Avenue North and North 29th Street in Fort Dodge.
The report states there are no painted crosswalks in this intersection. The crash is still under investigation.
The CAM Cougars Football team will make a trip to Ruthven to open the postseason for a matchup with the GTRA Titans. CAM finished the regular season with a 6-2 overall record and went 5-1 in district 10 earning them second place and an automatic playoff bid. However, they will start the postseason with a long trip and a tough 7-1 GTRA team. Regardless, Head Coach Barry Bower is pumped up and ready to go.
Although Bower knows that a good start is always important, he says that his team has experience with traveling long distances and that he doesn’t think it will play a major part in the outcome.
Quarterback Makade Paulsen has led the CAM offense all year. He leads the team in multiple statistical categories including rushing yards and touchdowns. However, you can’t forget about their capable back Brayden Chester and their leading receiver Colin Bower. Coach Bower says that getting the ball to Chester and Bower early is important, but that the Cougars will need to continue to play assignment football.
The biggest challenge for CAM will be stopping the GTRA offense. The Titans put up 58.75 points per game and are led by senior quarterback Kasey Hough who has completed 73.8% of his passes. He has also thrown for over 1300 yards and 23 touchdowns with just two interceptions. In addition to executing the fundamentals, Bower says the number one key to stopping the Titans will be CAM’s alignment.
You can catch all the action from Ruthven with an audio livestream on KJANTV with pregame coverage starting at 6:30 pm.
(Radio Iowa/KJAN) – Saturday is the second National Drug Take Back Day. The head of the Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy, Suzie Sher, encourages everyone to take part. “You can bring back any unused or unneeded medication to this event, any expired prescriptions or extra medications you have in your medicine cabinet at home, it’s a great time to clean out those cabinets and have a safe and anonymous way to properly dispose of those medications,” she says. Sher says there are two national take back days every spring and fall. “It’s a proper, safe way to dispose of those medications. It keeps them out of the hands of people who might either intentionally or unintentionally get a hold of those medications,” Sher. She says more than five-thousand (5,077) pounds of unneeded medicine was turned in at the first event in April.
Sher says if you miss the event this Saturday, there are other ways to properly dispose of the medication. “Iowa has 400 or so permanent drug take back sites. They’re in every county, in pharmacies, in law enforcement centers. You can go to the D-P-S website. We’ve got a map,” she says. Sher says the permanent sites offer a good option year-round. “And those are anonymous, you can go safely dispose of your medications, and they’ll take care of it from there,” she says.
A reminder too, that the Atlantic Elks Lodge and Atlantic Police Department are teaming up this year for “Drug Take Back Day.” The event will take place Saturday, Oct 26th from 9 am to 11 am at the Atlantic Elks Lodge, with a drive through drop off in front of the Elks lodge at 411 Walnut St next to the police station. Nationwide, Saturday’s National Prescription Drug Take Back events will operate from 10:00 a-m until 2:00 p-m at designated sites across Iowa. You can also get rid of vaping devices and e-cigarettes as long as the batteries are removed from the devices.
For more information or to find a site near you, visit: https://www.dea.gov/takebackday
Class 3A Region 7 Semifinals
Kuemper Catholic – 3 vs Des Moines Christian – 2
Clarinda – 2 vs Van Meter – 2
Class 4A Region 5 Semifinals
Lewis Central -3 vs Carroll – 0
Sergeant Bluff-Luton – 3 vs Webster City – 0
Class 4A Region 7 Semifinals
Glenwood – 3 vs Creston – 0
(Radio Iowa) – Scientists say they’ve developed a first-ever vaccine that’s designed to protect cattle from a potentially-deadly tick-borne disease that’s common in Iowa. Bovine anaplasmosis infects the red blood cells of cattle, and researcher Roman Ganta says the vaccine promises to be a tremendous game-changer. “It will change the way people raise cattle, raise meat, and milk production,” Ganta says, “as well as improve the wellbeing of many cattle farmers, especially in third world countries, besides in the U.S. how the industry is impacted.” Ganta, a professor of veterinary pathobiology at the University of Missouri, says the vaccine is performing exactly as hoped in trials.
“We found out that the animals, all the cattle that we tested, remained healthy,” he says, “whether the infection is coming from a mechanical route, which is the standard way many cattle get it in a cattle ranch, or by tick transmission.” There is no widely-available vaccine for the disease, which is blamed for causing nearly one-billion dollars in losses worldwide every year. Ganta says bovine anaplasmosis, also known as yellow bag or yellow fever, can lead to severe anemia in cattle, and in some cases, death. “We tested close to a thousand animals,” he says. “The infection prevalence is very high, which is about 50% of the cattle. It varied significantly from one cattle ranch to the other, but the fact remains that this disease has remained a high problem.”
Ganta says the vaccine will need to receive U-S-D-A approval before it can be used. He says if the testing and approval process goes well, he’s optimistic it will be available to cattle producers by 2030. The Iowa Beef Industry Council says Iowa’s cattle industry contributed nearly nine-and-a-half BILLION dollars in business activity to the state’s economy in 2023, including accounting for more than 32-thousand jobs.
The 3-5 Exira-EHK Spartans are gearing up for a tough battle against one of the top ranked 8-player football teams in southwest Iowa, the undefeated Lenox Tigers. In order to make it into the playoffs, the Spartans had to grab a victory against the Griswold Tigers on senior night. Exira-EHK did just that winning in impressive fashion with a score of 60-30.
Looking back on last Friday’s win, Spartans head coach Drew Buckholdt was pleased with the intensity his team played with throughout all four quarters.
In that victory, both junior Bryce Brabham and senior Alex Hansen combined to rush for over 400 yards and 5 touchdowns. That ground game earned Exira-EHK an opportunity to extend their season and it’s something they’re not taking for granted.
While preparing for tonight’s game, coach Buckholdt commented that the Tigers do a very nice job of being mobile and aggressive as a unit. Starting Lenox quarterback Gabe Funk being a prime example with 15 rushing touchdowns and 26.5 tackles.
Part of coach Buckholdt’s strategy is to minimize turnovers and find different ways to control the line of scrimmage. If they can do that, they will give multiple scoring opportunities to quarterback Bryce Brabham to add on to his thousand-yard rushing season.
Coach Buckholdt would also like to see an increased intensity from his defense and will look to athletes like Alex Hansen to add on to his 68 tackle and two sack season. Coach Buckholdt is enthusiastic about the chance to take on Lenox.
Tonight’s game will be broadcasted on KJAN with kickoff set for 7:00 p.m.
(Red Oak, Iowa) – A woman from Red Oak was arrested Thursday night on a Montgomery County warrant. According to Red Oak Police, 40-year-old Chandra Christine Baggett was taken into custody in the 200 block of 1st Avenue at around 7:40-p.m. She was wanted on a warrant for Harassment in the 3rd Degree. Baggett was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.
DES MOINES, Iowa — [KCCI] – The U.S. Marshals Service arrested a fugitive they say has been on the run for almost two months after cutting off an ankle monitor. Investigators say 25-year-old Kyle Boutchee was located at an apartment off of School Street around 2 p.m. Thursday. According to reports, he jumped from a second-floor window to get away from authorities. Boutchee was taken into custody at 10th Street and Keosauqua Way.
The Marshals Service says Boutchee was initially sentenced to more than five years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. That was in 2020. He was furloughed in May and placed on house arrest. Then, on Aug. 28, officials say he cut off his ankle monitor and disappeared.
Boutchee is now being taken to the Polk County Jail.
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