COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – A Nebraska man accused of threatening to stab someone with a syringe that he said held HIV-tainted blood has pleaded guilty to a reduced Iowa robbery charge. Court records say 35-year-old Jeshua Divis, who lives in Omaha, pleaded guilty Thursday in a Council Bluffs courtroom and was sentenced to time served.

Divis had been convicted of robbery in March 2015. His conviction was overturned and he was granted a new trial after he challenged his conviction. He said some of the evidence against him should not have been allowed at trial and that his attorneys were ineffective.

Prosecutors say Divis told a woman at the Ameristar Casino in Council Bluffs in November 2014 that he’d inject her with the tainted blood if she didn’t hand over her money.

Officials with the Stuart Police Department say a joint investigation between Guthrie County Deputies, Panora Police Officers and Stuart Police Officers has resulted in several juveniles being charged with various crimes. As part of the investigation a search warrant was conducted Sunday night in the 300 block of North Division Street, in Stuart. During the search, officers and deputies recovered several types of illegal narcotics, including what is believed to be Cocaine and a substance commonly referred to as “Acid”. The names of the juveniles involved will not be released due to their age.

The Board of Supervisors in Adair and Cass Counties will hold their annual organizational meetings Tuesday morning (Jan 3rd), in Greenfield and Atlantic, respectively. The meeting in Atlantic begins at 8:30-a.m., while the Greenfield meeting gets underway at 9-a.m.

Both Boards will take care of Administrative duties that include electing a Board Chair and Vice-Chair for 2017, setting their meeting schedule, approving the appointments of Deputies and/or their assistants; Adopting a Master Matrix livestock Resolution for submission to the Iowa DNR that makes recommendations to approve or deny construction permit applications for livestock facilities, and much more.

In Adair County, a Public Hearing will be held at 9:30-a.m. Tuesday, on a Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Amendment, followed by a Resolution approving the amendment as written. Bob Kempf, with the Adair/Guthrie County Emergency Management Agency, will present a 28-E agreement and change in Tax Draw, to the Board. And, County Engineer Nick Kauffman will present for signature, a Resolution for Empowerment of the Engineering, as well as a Resolution Designating the County Engineer. Kauffman is also serving as Interim County Engineer in Union County.

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Members of the Atlantic and Griswold School District’s Boards of Education will meet Tuesday evening in Griswold Midde/High School Library. Available Board members from both schools will be meeting at 6-p.m. with southwest Iowa Representative Tom Moore and Senator Tom Shipley on legislative matters of importance to the districts and education in general.

The session is open for the public to attend. No action is expected, only discussion.

Thousands of Iowans celebrated the New Year in Pasadena, California last year as the Iowa Hawkeyes played in the Rose Bowl. There will be at least six Iowans there today (Monday) for the annual Rose Parade as part of the Choose Life float honoring organ donations. Iowa Organ Donor Network spokesman, Tony Hakes (like Lakes), says they want everyone to start the year out by thinking about being an organ donor.

“There’s an absolute shortage of organs nationwide and we really feel it’s a solvable problem,” Hakes says. “We encourage everyone to mark ‘yes’ on their driver’s license or register online, or just make their wishes know to their family, because 120-thousand people at any given time are on the wait list.”

Hakes says the organ donation float in the Rose Parade is a great way to bring attention to the issue. Hakes says some 800 million people watch the parade on T-V and one million are there in person, and he says it is a good way to let people know that organ donation “saves lives, it heals lives.”

The float in the parade will include a florograph with a likeness of Iowa organ donor Dyllan Lawson. Lawson had just completed his first year at the University of Iowa in pre-medicine when he was involved in a car accident on June 30th, 2011 that left him with severe head injuries. His organs were donated to four people. Cindy Newton will walk alongside the float which her daughter Carlie will ride on. Cindy donated part of her liver to Carlie, who was born with a disease that kept her liver from functioning.

The Iowa Donor Network has participated in the parade and float for many years. Hakes got to go last year and says all the Iowans there made it special. He says they knew they were going to the parade in the summer and having so many Iowa fans there made it a lot of fun.

For more information on signing up to be an organ donor, go to the Iowa Donor Network website. (http://www.iowadonornetwork.org/)

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The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says a man from Nebraska was arrested Sunday afternoon on a warrant out of Mills County. 31-year old Jared Wayne Gatlin, of Bellevue, NE., was pulled over at around 1:45-p.m. following a traffic stop. Gatlin was taken into custody on a Mills County warrant for Contempt of Court, the bond for which was set at $2,500. Gatlin was turned over to Mills County Deputies.

And, Red Oak Police say 37-year old Philip Michael Eshelman, of Red Oak, was arrested just before 8-p.m., Sunday, for Driving While Suspended. He was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond.

A man from Missouri was injured during a single-vehicle accident Sunday afternoon, in Shelby County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 21-year old Brendan Matthew Moore, of Excelsior Springs, MO., was traveling north on Highway 59 at around 3:45-p.m., when he fell asleep at the wheel of his 2006 Chevy Cobalt.

After the car drifted onto the shoulder of the road, Moore over-corrected, sending the vehicle out of control. It spun across the median and across the southbound lanes of Highway 59 before sliding down an embankment and rolling over. The car hit a chain-link fence before coming to rest on its top on the Regional Waters property.

Moore, who was wearing his seat belt, was transported by Avoca Rescue to Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.

DES MOINES — A 63-year-old Ames man died Sunday, Jan. 1 after a fall at Ledges State Park, south of Boone. According to DNR officials, the man fell approximately 60 feet from an overlook off the Lost Lake Trail at about 11:15 a.m. He was air-lifted out of the park to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines and was pronounced dead on arrival.

The man was part of an annual group hike event at the park. Investigation of the incident is ongoing and the name of the individual is being withheld at this time, pending notification of family.