Red Oak Police today (Saturday) report a man from Hastings was arrested overnight. 56-year old Michael Robert Aguirre was taken into custody at around 11:34-p.m. Friday, for Public Intoxication. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail, on a $300 bond.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa high school science teacher has resigned after an investigation into a social media post that appeared to threaten Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Waterloo Community Schools spokeswoman Tara Thomas said Friday that teacher Matt Baish resigned effective Thursday.

The resignation came after the conclusion on a school district investigation of a Facebook comment Baish made in response to a post about the 16-year-old Thunberg joining an Oct. 4 student-led climate strike in Iowa City. In his comment, Baish wrote, “Dont have my sniper rifle.”

Thomas wouldn’t say if Baish was asked to resign.

(Radio Iowa) — Another lawsuit challenging the updated process for selecting Iowa Supreme Court justices and appeals court judges was heard in Polk County District Court today (Friday). A judge dismissed the first lawsuit that claimed Republican lawmakers violated the constitution when they gave the governor an additional appointment to the panel that nominates high court judges.

That judge said lawyers and Democratic lawmakers didn’t prove they’re adversely affected by the change. Attorney Bob Rush says the second lawsuit directly involves Thomas Duff — who applied to be an appeals court judge — but wasn’t choose him as a nominee.

“His injury is real. It is not an injury in general to the rest of the Iowa population, it’s very unique to him as an individual now and in the future,” Duff says. Assistant Attorney General David Rantsch argued that doesn’t prove Duff is adversely affected by the law.   “Voiding the law doesn’t make Mr. Duff a judge. Restoring the commission doesn’t make Mr. Duff a nominee. Restoring the commission doesn’t make Mr. Duff a judge,” Rantsch says.

The state is asking the Polk County judge to also dismiss this second lawsuit. The original legal challenge of the new law is expected to be heard by the Court of Appeals next month.

(Thanks to Katarina Sostaric Iowa Public Radio)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former workers’ compensation attorney for a Tyson Foods meatpacking division has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in Iowa that accuses company officials of making anti-gay slurs, filing false information in workers’ compensation cases and discriminating based on sex and age.

Todd Beresford filed the lawsuit Oct. 1 in state district court in Des Moines against Tyson Fresh Meats, based in South Dakota, and its parent Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, the nation’s second-largest meat processor. The suit seeks damages after his dismissal last year.

Beresford argues he was fired in part because he complained the company was providing inaccurate information in workers’ compensation cases in Iowa to deny payments to injured workers. He claims a former company vice president used slurs in referring to former Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey, who is gay.

Beresford, of the Cleveland area, also claims Tyson discriminated against employees on the basis of sex and age by firing several middle age men in 2017 and 2018, replacing them with younger women. A Tyson spokesman declined to comment.