The Glenwood Police Department reports two arrests. Today (Monday), 24-year old Blake Conn, of Glenwood, was arrested for Possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $1300 cash or surety. Conn was also was arrested for being a fugitive from justice, for which there was no bond set.

And, last Friday, Glenwood Police arrested Kevin Shea, of Iowa City, for OWI 1^st offense. His bond was set at $1000 cash or surety.

LEON, Iowa (AP) — Police in the southern Iowa city of Leon are investigating what authorities are calling a suspicious death. Leon police, with help from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, responded to a home Sunday morning after two people found a man’s body. The body was identified Monday as 53-year-old Steven Dabb, of Leon. The body was in a home where Dabb lived that had recently been destroyed by fire.

Police say the Office of the State Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy, which didn’t find “major trauma” to the body. Toxicology tests that could indicate the cause of death could take six to eight weeks. Decatur County Attorney Lisa Jeanes says there is no indication the public is at danger.

Leon is a city of 2,000 people, about 60 miles south of Des Moines.

The Shelby County field/grassland Fire Danger index will remain in the “Moderate” category this week. Emergency Management officials say if you are planning any large burns, contact your local fire chief or the Emergency Management Office. Emergency Management Coordinator Bob Seivert says high winds are predicted this week, so the Fire Danger index could change. Stay tuned for further updates.

The Iowa Department of Transportation reports road construction crews will open the new Interstate 29/80 ramp east of the Missouri River in Council Bluffs overnight tonight (Monday).

Traffic impact:

Beginning at 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, construction crews will shift traffic on westbound I-80/eastbound I-29 northbound between 24th Street and the Missouri River bridge, weather permitting. The two left lanes of westbound I-80 and the 24th Street on-ramp to westbound I-80 will be closed. Westbound I-80 traffic will be detoured from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. while crews complete final signing and painting.
Northbound I-29 northbound will remain open during the traffic shift, however, traffic will be restricted to one lane. All impacted lanes and ramps will be opened by 5 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15.

Following the traffic shift, westbound I-80/northbound I-29 traffic will use the new ramp to northbound I-29 just west of the exiting ramp.

The new ramp will result in improved safety for all motorists because eastbound I-80 to northbound I-29 traffic merging with northbound I-29 northbound traffic will now enter from the right side. Motorists are urged to use caution while becoming accustomed to shifting onto these new lanes.

Iowa DOT is working hard to keep the public informed of construction impacts and will actively seek opportunities to update the public regarding the project. Sign up to receive traffic alerts for the interstate routes that you use via Iowa DOT’s 511 Traveler Information site.

Iowa DOT is in the process of reconstructing I-29, I-80, and I-480 in the Council Bluffs metropolitan area as part of the Council Bluffs Interstate Improvement Program. This comprehensive interstate redesign, which will be delivered over the next eight to 10 years, will modernize the highway system and improve mobility and safety of approximately 18 miles of interstate.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A Sioux City manufacturing company is planning a $1.2 million expansion project. The Sioux City Journal reports Rocklin Manufacturing plans to apply for state tax incentives to help pay for the project. The city council plans to vote Monday (today) on whether to support Rocklin’s application for state aid.

Rocklin says it wants $176,648 in withholding tax credits and $41,070 in investment tax credits and $48,996 in sales tax refunds. The company that makes tools for manufacturing has three buildings on its campus, but two of which need renovations before they can be used.

AMES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa State University President Steven Leath damaged a private plane in a hard landing in 2014, 11 months before he banged up a university aircraft in remarkably similar fashion. Documents obtained by The Associated Press under the open records law show that Leath was flying in gusty conditions on Aug. 11, 2014, and “landed hard” in a crosswind, causing propeller damage. A university spokeswoman declined to say where the incident occurred or whose plane Leath was flying.

Two months later, Leath was cleared to fly the university’s $498,000 Cirrus SR22 single-engine plane. Leath damaged that plane in a hard landing in July 2015 in Bloomington, Illinois, while he and his wife were flying home from a North Carolina vacation. He has also blamed that incident on windy conditions.

The commander on some of the crew of the U-S-S Sioux City visited the ship’s namesake city this past weekend as part of Veterans Day activities. The U-S-S Sioux City is one of the new Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) designed to be used closer to the shoreline for things like mine detection, anti-submarine warfare and surface warfare. Commander Shockey Snyder talked at the Siouxland Chamber luncheon about other uses for the ship.

U.S.S. Sioux City side launch after christening Jan. 30th, 2016.

He says it might also be used for humanitarian missions, search and rescue, counter narcotics in the Caribbean and support to special operations. Snyder says the ship will be commissioned at a yet to be determined location in the fall of 2017. He says this time the Navy will have to break from the tradition of where it hosts the commissioning.

“Starting with the U-S-S Yorktown…if it’s possible to go to the namesake city, that’s where we like to commission the ships. I am sorry we can’t bring the ship here,” Snyder said, “we can’t get up the river.”

The ship is currently undergoing systems testing. A spokesman for the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce says a local committee is being formed to help plan the event.

(Radio Iowa)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa officials say state-run care facilities don’t inform residents or their families when convicted sex offenders are placed in the facilities, saying doing so would violate state law even though the information is listed on a state website. The Des Moines Register reports that Gov. Terry Branstad backed a 2012 bill that would have required care facilities to notify residents and their families when a convicted sex offender was moving in.

The proposed bill, which was not passed, came in the wake of an alleged assault in 2011 in Pomeroy. A convicted sex offender was accused of molesting a 95-year-old woman in a nursing home.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Staff at a Sioux City cemetery are working with high school students to bring more light, both literally and figuratively, on an area where 72 Civil War veterans are buried. About 200 West High School students are helping staff by researching the section of Floyd Cemetery established by the city in 1885 for the Grand Army of the Republic Post No. 22 for former Union soldiers.

Their findings may be compiled in a book to present to the cemetery.  The Sioux City Journal reports 20 white marble tombstones will be installed on currently unmarked graves this fall. The city plans to replace a sidewalk and concrete steps, repair a gazebo, illuminate a flagpole and plant grass and flowers.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports a gas drive-off from a convenience store near Minden, resulted in the arrest late Friday morning, of a woman from northern Iowa. A pickup driven by 26-year old Shauni Elizabeth Turnmeyer, of Garner, was located and pulled over on eastbound Interstate 80 near the 49-mile marker, after she allegedly left the Casey’s Store without paying for fuel. Turnmeyer was charged with Theft in the 5th Degree.

She told deputies she was unable to pay for the gas and was en route to obtain funds to do so. The store manager said Turnmeyer pumped nearly 13-gallons of gas valued at slightly more than $26 and attempted to pay using three different credit cards, each of which were declined. The woman also tried to get money from an ATM, but was unsuccessful. After sitting in her vehicle at the pump for about 30-minutes, Turnmeyer pulled-up in front of the store for about 15-minutes before taking off in an easterly direction on I-80.

And, an Oakland man was arrested Sunday night for Violation of a Court Order/Contempt of Court, following an investigation into a suspicious vehicle in the intersection of 380th Street and Elmtree Road. The caller told authorities a “large build woman” with dark colored clothing was walking away from a vehicle and thought the situation was odd. Upon further investigation, 41-year old Shane Elam Rouse, of Oakland, was arrested on the Contempt charge and brought to the Pott. County Jail.