The Creston Police Dept. reports a Polk County man was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a Union County warrant. 49-year old Dennis Speed, of Des Moines, was arrested on the warrant for Failure to Appear on the original charge of Criminal Mischief in the 4th Degree. Speed was released from the Union County Jail on a $2,000 bond.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is continuing her outreach to rural voters with the Wednesday release of a plan for revitalizing less-populated areas of the nation.
The plan is largely an outline of principles and goals, and it includes a broad focus on agriculture reform and investments in rural health care, childcare and small rural businesses. It encompasses some of Klobuchar’s policies or bills she’s worked on as senator — including her proposal to expand student loan forgiveness to farmers and other in-demand occupations, and her plan to invest in rural broadband.
Klobuchar will pitch her policy to Iowans today (Wednesday), when she kicks off four days of campaigning with a visit to a family farm.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — An Ames resident has been accused of showing pornography to girls under the age of 13 while he worked at the Ames Boys and Girls Club. Story County court records say 18-year-old Bobby Chase is charged with two misdemeanor counts of showing obscene materials to minors. Jail records show he remained in custody Wednesday. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney who could comment for him.
The court documents say Chase used his phone Monday to show two girls at the club a few seconds of a naked female on a porn website. Erika Peterson is chief executive officer of the Boys and Girls Club of Story County, and she says Chase has been fired. He was hired in June as a youth development professional.
Police say Peterson shared the allegations against Chase after a parent of one of the girls reported the incident to Peterson.
(Radio Iowa) — An ethanol plant in northwest Iowa suspended production last week and industry officials say it won’t be the last. Ethanol plants in Iowa and across the Midwest are expected to sharply cut back on their production in the coming weeks. DeLayne Johnson, C-E-O of Quad County Corn Processors in the northwest Iowa town of Galva, says the two biggest reasons for the reductions are oversupply and the trade dispute with China. “Tariffs are actually reducing our exports,” Johnson says, “and in addition, the small refinery exemptions EPA has given to Exxon, Shell, Mobil and others is certainly eating into the demand as well, to the tune of 2.8-billion gallons of ethanol and about 1-billion bushels of corn.”
Plymouth Energy in Merrill suspended production last week. That’s one of at least ten ethanol plants nationwide to temporarily shut down. Three others have closed. While recent exports have helped, Johnson says tariffs from two of the nation’s biggest ethanol customers are countering that. “With the tariffs, we’re really not able to move anything into China and that’s potentially as much as a billion gallons a year,” Johnson says. “Also, Brazil, there’s a significant tariff there which they are also a very large client. So, we are really missing two of the largest markets.”
Iowa is the nation’s largest ethanol producer, making a record 4.35-billion gallons in 2018. Johnson says biofuel processors in Iowa and elsewhere will need to change up their operations in the future. “That will be very important as we move forward for people to continue to diversify and get more value out of that kernel of corn,” Johnson says, “or look for synergies with other processing and become true biorefineries where we may be doing multiple things in one company. There’s some plants that are doing that as well.”
The margins for ethanol production in the western corn belt have fallen to a four-year seasonal low while ethanol inventories are at their highest levels in nine years.
Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms possible. High 83. S@ 10-15.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. Low 65. N @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny. High 81 N @ 10.
Friday: P/Cldy. High 85.
Saturday: P/Cldy w/isolated thundershowers. High 87.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 84. Our Low this morning 64. Last year on this date our High was 85 and the Low was 56. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 103 in 1937. The Record Low was 45in 1989.
(Radio Iowa) — Sprint Car Racing’s biggest event begins tonight (Wednesday night), with the first of two nights of qualifying at the 59th Knoxville Nationals. Saturday night’s championship lineup will be determined by a points system which includes qualifying, heat races and qualifying feature races. Race director John McCoy says it is a system that has been in place since the 1970s.
Ten time winner Donny Schatz makes a qualifying run tonight while defending champion Brad Sweet will be part of Thursday night’s qualifying program.
McCoy says there are activities around the track for fans of all ages.
McCoy says sprint car drivers remain accessible to the fans.
The more than one million dollar pursue will play 150 thousand dollars to the winner. Saturday night’s championship race will be 50 laps.
(Radio Iowa) — Voters in five Des Moines suburbs have approved a one-percent local option sales tax that will go into effect January 1st. In March, voters in six Polk County cities, including Des Moines, approved raising the local option sales tax on July 1st — but the measure failed in five other Polk County communities.
Yesterday, nearly eight-thousand voters cast ballots in Bondurant, Clive, Grimes, Johnston and Urbandale and the one-cent sales tax passed on the second try.
According to unofficial results, the margins for passage were significant, ranging from 65 percent approval in Urbandale to 82 percent in Grimes. An Iowa Department of Revenue report shows 97 percent of Iowa cities and towns have a local option sales tax.
Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports the Fremont County K9 Unit, Tuesday evening, arrested two out-of-state people following a traffic stop on Interstate 29, at mile marker 10.
Mikayla Croskell
Matthew Gingell
28-year old Matthew Gingell of Mission KS, and 23-year old Mikayla Croskell of Lee Summit MO., were arrested after deputies located drug paraphernalia, marijuana, and THC Butane Hash Oil in their vehicle. Croskell and Gingell were transported to the Fremont County Law Enforcement Center, where each was being held on a $1,000 bond.
Gingell was also being held on an outstanding warrant from Olathe, KS.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw struck out nine in seven strong innings, Justin Turner had two hits and drove in the game-winning run and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 for their seventh win in eight games. Kershaw allowed only one run on four hits.
BOSTON (AP) — Jorge Soler hit a pair of long two-run homers, Jakob Junis pitched six effective innings and the Kansas City Royals snapped their seven-game losing streak by beating the Boston Red Sox 6-2. Ryan O’Hearn also homered for Kansas City, which had lost eight in a row to the Red Sox. A night after halting their eight-game skid, the Red Sox were held without a home run, stopping a club-record stretch of at least one homer in 18 straight games in Fenway Park.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Blues defenseman Joel Edmundson has been awarded a $3.1 million, one-year contract in arbitration. Edmundson was one of four St. Louis restricted free agents to file for player-elected salary arbitration this summer after helping the team win its first Stanley Cup in franchise history. The 26-year-old Canadian had 11 points in 64 regular-season games and seven points in 22 playoff games during the Blues’ Cup run.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Jordy Nelson’s NFL career ended in the same place where it began: Lambeau Field. Nelson signed a one-day contract with the Packers and announced his retirement after 11 seasons, 10 of which he spent in Green Bay. Nelson will be remembered for his speed, size and chemistry with quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The pair won a Super Bowl after the 2010 season, with Nelson catching a touchdown in the victory over the Steelers. Nelson is third in Packers history in receptions.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Jovan Dewitt’s happy place is on the practice field. He’s never appreciated being there as much as he does now. Dewitt is back at his job as Nebraska’s outside linebackers coach following intense treatments for throat cancer that caused him to lost 102 pounds and zapped most of his energy. He had 38 rounds of radiation and three rounds of chemotherapy and was hospitalized most of April. He weighed about 310 pounds before his diagnosis and was just over 200 after the treatment regimen.
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