Police in Creston today (Monday), issued a report on recent arrests and an incident. Officials say Sunday afternoon, 37-year old Lela Churchwell, of Creston, was arrested at her residence on the charge of Public Intoxication 3rd and subsequent offense. Churchwell was being held in the Ringgold County Jail on a $2000 bond. Sunday night, 29-year old Andrew Moffitt, of Murray, was arrested in Creston on a charge of 5th Degree Theft. Moffitt was being held in the Union County Jail on a $300 bond.

Early Saturday morning, 18-year old Kendrick Davis, of Creston,  was arrested on a charge of OWI 1st. Davis was later released from the Union County Jail on a $300
bond. And, Friday morning, 29-year old Modanna Meyer, of Albany, was arrested in Creston on a Union County Warrant for the charge of Violation of Probation for the original charge of Possession of a Precursor (Pseudoephedrine) . Meyer was being held in the Union County Jail on $10,000 bond.

Creston Police said also, Friday morning, a resident of the 100 block of S. Jarvis Street reported that sometime within the last week someone stole from his residence, two Baitcast Rod and Reel combos and his tacklebox full of gear. The loss was estimated at $525.

The area’s top news at 7:05-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a man was killed and a woman wounded in a shooting inside a vehicle at a restaurant parking lot in Sioux City. Sioux City police say officers were sent to the Chili’s just north of the Missouri River around 6 p.m. Sunday. The man’s body was found inside a sport utility vehicle. The wounded woman they found was taken to Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City. Their names haven’t been released.

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Police Sgt. Brian Clausen says the woman is not suspected of shooting the man. He declined to say whether officers suspect the man had shot the woman and then himself.

Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County are investigating two hit-and-run incidents that took place Sunday morning, in Villisca. Authorities say a blue 2008 Nissan Versa owned by a Des Moines man, and a silver 2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser owned by a man from Shenandoah, were struck sometime between midnight and 3-a.m. Sunday, while they were parked in the 100 block of East 6th Street, in Villisca.

The suspect vehicle is described as being white in color. No other information is known. If you have any information as to the identity of the vehicle that may have struck the parked vehicles, or the driver of the vehicle, please contact the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office at 712-623-5107.

Police in Red Oak arrested a man on a 5th Degree Theft charge, Sunday night. 47-year old Robby Dale Lukehart, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 8-p.m. in the 300 block of 1st Avenue. Lukehart was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says agriculture is a “vital component” of the U.S. economy and he’s promising to protect the ethanol production mandate and reign in federal farm regulations. “Family farms are the backbone of this country, remember that,” Trump said Saturday. “And I know what’s happening to you.” Trump used part of his speech at Senator Joni Ernst’s event this weekend to speak directly to farmers.

“We’re going to make America grow again. Grow — that begins with supporting our family farms right here in Iowa. Do we have any farmers in the room? Stand up! Beautiful,” Trump said, as the crowd erupted in applause and cheers. Trump is singling out the Waters of the U.S. rule, calling it “a disaster” that must be eliminated. “We are going to end the EPA intrusion into your family homes and your family farms for no reason,” Trump said. “What they’re doing to you is a disgrace and we’re going to get rid of a lot of those regulations that don’t mean anything except cost you a lot of money and a lot of the time and in many cases you lose your farms over the regulations.”

And Trump is accusing President Obama of “lying” about his support of the Renewable Fuels Standard. “You can trust Hillary Clinton far less,” Trump said. “…Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms just like she wants to shut down the miners and the steel workers…She will do this not only through radical regulation, but also by raising taxes on family farms.”

Clinton has proposed raising the federal estate tax and people would have to pay if they inherit from any married couple whose estate is worth more than seven million dollars. According to Bloomberg Politics, Clinton’s estate-tax proposals would affect four out of every thousand estates in the country. A Clinton spokesman also says a year ago Clinton offered “a comprehensive plan” to “build a more vibrant rural America” and “Donald Trump will only work to build an economy that works for people like himself.”

On August 26th of last year, Clinton called for “strengthening” the Renewable Fuels Standard and reducing federal regulations on community banks that serve farmers and rural customers. She also promised to “change the formula” for key federal farm programs so “family operations” get crop insurance subsidies, but “big businesses” don’t.

(Radio Iowa)

The group “Progress Iowa” held its second annual “Corn Feed” fundraiser in Des Moines Sunday afternoon and Iowa Democrats at the top of the 2016 General Election ticket spoke to the crowd of about two-hundred. Dave Loebsack of Iowa City — the only Democrat in the state’s congressional election — says there’s a lot on the line this year. “What happens at the top of the ticket has some effect on the rest of us down ballot, so it is absolutely imperative that we get Hillary Clinton elected president of the United States. I know you’re all going to help us do that,” Loebsack said, to applause.

Monica Vernon, Kim Weaver and Jim Mowrer — the three other Democratic congressional candidates in Iowa — also spoke. Patty Judge, the Democrat who is challenging Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, says Grassley is part of “an orchestrated” G-O-P plan to “try to give Barack Obama a black eye every day.” “Everybody said to me when I got into this: ‘Have you absolutely lost your mind?…Don’t you know that can’t beat Chuck Grassley? Chuck Grassley wins elections by 30 or 40 points,” Judge said.

People in the crowd started to clap and one woman yelled “Fired up and ready to go,” Judge continued: “I’m telling you, we are in single digits right now here in August. We can do this.” Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley was the event’s keynote speaker. O’Malley began with a barb aimed at Terry Branstad, Iowa’s Republican governor, but he spent most of time talking about the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

“It’s time to put this racist bully in his place and put a tough woman in her place: the White House,” O’Malley said at the end of his remarks to the crowd. Iowa is among the few truly “toss up” states in the General Election, with recent polls showing the presidential race close here. “Early voting” in Iowa starts in a month.

(Radio Iowa)

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New data show there’s an increase in the number of former Iowa inmates returning to prison, and corrections officials are still figuring out why. The Iowa Department of Corrections measures recidivism as the percent of offenders released from prison or work release who return to corrections within three years. For the budget year that ended in June, just over 1,600 offenders were in that category for a rate of 34.2 percent. That’s up from 31.9 percent the previous year.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa City officials and a local Realtor still hope to fill a city-owned, 173-acre industrial park that has been vacant for the last seven years. The 420th Street Industrial Park was certified as “shovel ready” in 2012.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Nearly two months after a suspect in a Dubuque killing was ordered to have a psychiatric evaluation he was finally transferred to a state facility earlier this month. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports the delay in Helmon Betwell’s case is fairly typical for Iowa defendants waiting for an evaluation at a state facility in Coralville.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Fort Dodge woman surprised to learn she was pregnant three hours before giving birth. The Des Moines Register reports that the mom didn’t experience any typical symptoms of pregnancy before she gave birth, so the arrival of her fourth child was a surprise Friday.

(Update to earlier report) The Iowa State Patrol says two people were injured in a single-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon on Interstate 80 east of Walnut. Officials say the driver of a 2007 Toyota Camry, 34-year old Osam Adam Mohamed Juma, of Philadephia, PA, and his passenger, 23-year old Ali Khamis, of Fort Morgan, CO., who were not wearing their seat belts, were transported by Walnut Rescue to the Cass County Hospital.

The pair were injured when the car they were in went out of control at around 4:17-p.m. as it was westbound and crossed the median before crossing the eastbound lanes at the 46.6-mile marker. The car overturned onto its top and came to rest in the south ditch. The accident remains under investigation.

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The ISP was assisted at the scene by deputies with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, Walnut Fire and Rescue, and personnel with Iowa Dept. of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement (MVE).

A rollover accident on Interstate 80 Sunday afternoon sent at least two people to the hospital in Atlantic. According to authorities, a passenger car was traveling west on I-80 at about the 47-mile marker, when it crossed the median and flipped into the eastbound ditch. The right lane of I-80 eastbound was closed for a time while emergency crews and law enforcement were on the scene. The accident happened at around 4:35-p.m.

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The accident was under investigation by the Iowa State Patrol. No names have been released, and additional details are currently not available.