The Creston Police Department reports 68-year old Rosalie Jackson, of Creston, was arrested at the Creston Wal-Mart, Wednesday afternoon. She was taken into custody on a 5th Degree Theft charge, cited and released from the scene, on a Promise to Appear in court.

CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Officials in suburban Des Moines are seeking answers on what has caused a creek there to turn bright green. The Des Moines Register reports that city officials reached out to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday morning after a Clive resident posted a photo online of a vivid green Walnut Creek.

Department officials have since taken samples of the water, but Clive Assistant City Manager Pete DeKock says the department has not shared the results with city officials. DNR senior environmental specialist Janet Gastineau says the agency has traced the green water back to a lake in the Country Club development, but did not say caused the bright green color.

(Radio Iowa) — One person was killed, another injured, when two cars collided on Highway 30 near Ames last night (Wednesday). Reportedly, a westbound 2018 Chevrolet Equinox driven by 83-year-old Nancy Dean of Boone was slowing down to a near stop in the traveled lane for an unknown reason. Another westbound vehicle, a 2018 Nissan Rogue driven by 22-year-old Taylor McIntire of Boone was unable to avoid striking the Dean vehicle.

The McIntire vehicle came to a stop in the north ditch with the Dean vehicle landing in the median of the highway. Dean was transported to Mary Greeley Medical Center where she died of her injuries. McIntire was also transported to Mary Greeley for treatment of minor injuries. The accident remains under investigation.

(Radio Iowa) — An eastern Iowa man is facing charges after Allamakee County Deputies say he was on top of a water tower naked. Deputies were called to a pickup fire at 7:15 p-m Tuesday and were unable to locate the truck’s owner. The fire was put out and deputies say they later got a call that the 34-year-old owner, Ryan Peters, of Waukon, was on a 65-foot water tower near the sheriff’s office and jail. He didn’t have any clothes on and he refused to come down for more than an hour. Peters finally came down and deputies arrested him and charged him with trespassing and interfering with official acts.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office reports 39-year old Joseph Wallace, of Bedford, was arrested Wednesday, following a traffic stop, in Bedford. Wallace was charged with Driving While Barred, an aggravated misdemeanor, and Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd or Subsequent Offense, a class D felony. He was being held at the Taylor County Jail on $7,000 cash bond.

(Radio Iowa) — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate says hackers have NOT compromised any Iowa voting systems, but Pate says the Russians are waging a “war of public opinion” on social media to sow doubt about the U.S. election process.  “I think, if anything, the Russians proved they were very active on that front and the things they’ve done, cyber-wise, has been to create the doubt, not to really get a result or impact an election directly,” Pate says. “…That’s as damaging as if they did get in.”

Pate says Russian military officials visited some public websites for Iowa counties before the 2016 election, but did not access any PRIVATE information. Pate says his office is working on another election-related project — to improve the flawed list of people who are barred from voting because of a felony conviction.

“We’ll probably end up having one full-time person doing this and monitoring it because bad information in is bad information out,” Pate says. “We have to make sure that when we get information from other government entities, we have to ensure that it’s the most accurate and up-to-date.”

The Des Moines Register has reported some Iowans who are NOT felons have wrongly had their ballots rejected. Pate says his office doesn’t maintain the list, but the court system sends a list of felons to his office and that list is passed along to county auditors, who have the power to add and remove names from the list of eligible voters. Pate admits people convicted of felonies in other states aren’t all being added to the list.

(Reporting by Iowa Public Radio’s Katarina Sostaric)