Police in Red Oak are investigating an attempted armed burglary. According to the Red Oak Police Department, officers responded to a residence where a man reportedly forced his way into a garage at around 9-p.m., Friday. The victims of the crime, Austin Hale and Christian Terry, told police the man demanded their wallets, but they refused to comply. The suspect, who was wearing a blue-colored mask with some red and white embedded in it, a black sweatshirt and blue jeans, then ran away from the scene.

A fishing accident in southern Page County has claimed one life. According to the Page County Sheriff’s Office, a 69-year old man was fishing off a bank near a bridge on 320th Street at around 3-p.m. Saturday near Blanchard, when he fell into the water and was injured. He was pronounced dead later at the Shenandoah Memorial Hospital. His name was being withheld pending notification of family.

The Page County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Shenandoah Fire Department, along with crews from the Clarinda Fire and Rescue Department, and Coin Rescue.

(Updated 9:24-a.m. w/1 fatality reported)

One person is dead, and another was seriously injured following a rollover accident this (Sunday) morning off Interstate 80, east of the Marne Exit in Cass County. Atlantic Fire and Rescue, Medivac Ambulance and Marne Fire and Rescue were called to the scene near the 51-mile marker at around 7:15-a.m. Reports from the scene indicated a vehicle was upside down in the ditch with one victim near a fence. LifeNet helicopter landed at around 7:50-a.m. at the Marne Exit. The victim was flown to a hospital in Omaha. The other victim died at the scene. Both were ejected from the vehicle.

The vehicle is in a harvested field just south of the ambulance in this picture (Ric Hanson/photo)

No other details are currently available.

A state report concludes Iowa is heading into the winter months with a “predominantly good” level of moisture in reserve — at the groundwater level. In addition, river and stream flows at the surface are “above normal.”

“Most of the state is in really good shape,” according to Tim Hall, a hydrologist who works for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.  “We’ve been doing these water summary updates snapshots here for more than four years now, just kind of tracking the conditions across the state,” Hall says. “Going into what is typically the stretch of the four driest months of the year, it’s still kind of wet across the northern half of the state from the rains that we received in August and September.”

But Hall says rainfall has been “pretty variable” and there’s a section of south central Iowa that is “stubbornly dry.”  He says “We’ve been watching that little part of the state since the early part of the summer. They just have not had the consistent rainfall that the rest of the state has had, but they’re still not rated as any kind of drought situation, but ‘abnormally dry.'”

According to Hall’s report, October was the first month since June for below normal rainfall. There were no “widespread excessive rain events” during October either, giving north central and northeast Iowa a chance to dry out a bit after massive rain in September.

A link to the full report can be found here: http://www.iowadnr.gov/Portals/idnr/uploads/Water Summary Update/20161103wsu.pdf?ver=2016-11-04-091819-780

(Radio Iowa)

Volunteers are needed in Iowa to test a new drug which researchers say has promising potential in preventing or slowing Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Reisa Sperling, a neurology professor at Harvard University, says the medical trial will run three-and-a-half years. That may seem quite long, but memory changes can progress very slowly, so she says it’s important to study people over time.

Dr. Sperling says, “We’re looking for people aged 65 to 85, but unlike most Alzheimer’s studies, we’re looking for people who don’t yet have symptoms, or at least have very mild concerns about their memory.” University Hospitals in Iowa City is one of 60 sites in the nation where the so-called A-4 study will be done. That A-4 stands for the Anti-Amyloid in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s study.

“The A4 study is really the first of its kind prevention study where we’re trying to find people who are still normal, who have early brain changes that we think are associated with Alzheimer’s disease but don’t yet have the symptoms,” Sperling says. “Our job is to try to help prevent them from developing the symptoms and progressing with memory decline.”

More than five-million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and by 2050, scientists expect that number to triple to 15-million or more. Volunteers will need to report to the hospital once a month over the course of the study and each visit may last 30 to 60 minutes. Taking part will involve memory tests, brain scans, M-R-Is and the drug will be administered using an I-V.

“This drug has been in about 3,000 people already but it’s primarily been tested before at the stage of dementia where people have already had the Alzheimer’s disease changes in their brain for more than a decade,” Sperling says. “What’s really groundbreaking about the A4 study is now moving it to people who don’t yet have symptoms and hopefully, in time to really save their brains.”

Volunteers will be compensated. She expects ten-thousand patients will be screened at the 60 sites in order to find the 11-hundred-50 who will be chosen for the study. For more details, visit: http://a4study.org

(Radio Iowa)

A recent traffic stop in Cass County along Interstate 80 resulted in nine-pounds of marijuana being seized at the arrest of a man from Colorado. According to the Sheriff’s Office, 25-year old Thomas Alton Dees, of Denver, CO, was arrested for Intent to Deliver Marijuana and Failure to Affix a Drug Tax Stamp, following a traffic stop on eastbound I-80 near the Olive Street Exit. Deputy Tyler Shiels and his K9 partner conducted the traffic stop and were responsible for the arrest and drug seizure.

Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports a Nebraska man was arrested on a drug charge early this (Sunday) morning. Deputies were called to the Sapp Brothers Truck Stop at around 4-a.m., following a reported disturbance at that location. After they investigated the situation, 32-year old Chevis Grier, of Lincoln, NE, was taken into custody for Possession of a Controlled Substance/2nd offense. Grier was brought to the Fremont County Law Enforcement Center and held on $1,000 bond.

Chevis Grier

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Officials say that since a new recycling program began in August in Davenport and Bettendorf, the amount of recyclables collected has increased more than 70 percent from the same three-month period last year. The Quad-City Times reports that officials are crediting a switch to the “Go All In” program that allows more types of plastic and paper containers to be recycled. Also, the system no longer requires sorting of recycled materials _ it all goes in one cart.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A jury has acquitted a Haitian immigrant of kidnapping and sex abuse of an underage girl. The Daily Nonpareil reports that Fednol St. Cyr was found not guilty of the count Friday evening. Prosecutors had said St. Cyr ordered the girl into his truck on April 5, refused to let her get out and sexually assaulted her. But Cyr’s attorney painted the girl as a troubled teen whose testimony was inconsistent

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Fort Dodge man has been found guilty of vehicular homicide for a fatal April 4 crash. The Fort Dodge Messenger reports that Leon Shivers was convicted Thursday of vehicular homicide while operating a motor vehicle intoxicated. Police say he caused the death of 82-year-old John McCartney, of Fort Dodge.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A barred owl has been released back into the wild after a monthlong stay at the Raptor Advocacy Rehabilitation and Education Center, or RARE, in Iowa City. The Hawk Eye reports that the large owl was taken to the center on Sept. 21 after Sam Warner of Burlington saw the raptor sitting on the pavement alongside U.S. 61. On Oct. 22, after being nursed back to health, the owl was released at Starr’s Cave Nature Center.

One-person was injured during a rollover accident early this (Sunday) morning, about six-miles west of Irwin. According to dispatch reports, the accident happened at around 1-a.m. on Linden Road, just south of Shelby County Road F-24. A man suffered lacerations to his face and body during the crash. Irwin and Defiance Fire and Rescue crews were dispatched to a residence nearby the accident scene to treat the victim.

Other details are currently not available.

A unique way to commemorate veterans and their service to our country is now on display in Creston. It’s located on the grounds of the Union County Courthouse. Union County Supervisor Dennis Brown spearheaded the project which involved carving a tree stump into a bald eagle, the emblem of the United States.

“We had four to six trees around the courthouse, locust trees, that had been planted around 50 years ago…and they’re reaching the end of their life expectancy,” Brown said. The trees have been removed, but one stump was still in place and it’s now carved into an eagle. It will eventually include a plaque stating the piece is dedicated to veterans.

“In my mind, we need constant reminders of things like this – we tend to forget what our veterans have done for us in peace time and in war time,” Brown said. “We can’t have too many of those reminders…we should never forget.” Gary Keenan, the Iowa State Fair’s chainsaw carving artist, completed the eagle this week. The project cost about $1,500. It was paid for through private donations.

(Radio Iowa)