The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says beginning Saturday (October 1st), letters to and from inmates held in the Cass County Jail, can no longer be dropped off or picked up at the Cass County Sheriff’s Office. All inmate correspondence will need to be sent through the U.S. Mail.

Creston Police report an arrest of an Osceola woman on Thursday. At 2:42pm officers arrested 45-year-old Carole Lynette Cooper of Osceola on the charge of shoplifting.  She was arrested at 806 Laurel Street in Creston, cited, and released.

The traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall is making a stop in Urbandale this weekend at Living History Farms.
Joy Wehmas, a member of the group “Team Welcome Home Iowa” that helped to coordinate the visit, said it was an awesome sight with so many motorcycles leading the display into the area Wednesday.  Iowans are encouraged to stop by through Sunday to see the half-scale replica wall and the educational display. There are programs held each day at 11:00 am and a military tribute concert at 3:00 pm on Saturday.  The closing ceremony will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon with the display closing at 3:00 pm.  It will be taken down and loaded onto trucks and taken to it’s next location.  Wehmas says it all goes by quickly but is an amazing experience.  To find out more about the exhibit and events at Living History Farm, go online to TeamWelcomeHomeIowa.com.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Opening statements are expected to be delivered Friday in the trial of a man accused of shooting a Sioux City police officer. Isaiah Mothershed has pleaded not guilty two counts of attempted murder and five counts of robbery. Authorities say Mothershed pulled a gun from a couch while his hands were handcuffed behind his back and then shot Officer Ryan Moritz in a leg while being arrested Feb. 7.

Police say that as officers struggled with Mothershed, the gun fired again, wounding Mothershed in a leg. Mothershed also is accused of several robberies and break-ins and of firing a shot at a homeowner who interrupted a break-in.

Members of the Facilities Committee of the Griswold Community School District will hold a work session on Monday, October 3 at 5:00 p.m. at the Griswold Community School District’s Middle School / High School Library for the purpose of assessing current educational facilities.

Tyson Foods says its Tyson Fresh Meats subsidiary in Council Bluffs will spend 27 million dollars to expand production at the plant to be able to make more of its beef and pork products and meal kits that it distributes to grocery stores. A company news release says the expansion will allow them to add 350 jobs to bring the total number of employees to 14-hundred. The company also operates a pepperoni plant in Council Bluffs and a bacon plant in Omaha, for a total of two-thousand employees in the Council Bluffs-Omaha area. Work on the expansion in Council Bluffs is already underway, and the company says it should be completed by July of 2017.

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The Cass County Memorial Hospital’s Board of Trustees will meet this afternoon to act on approving an offer of employment to the Board’s selection for Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The meeting begins at 2-p.m.

30 people applied for the position left vacant by the termination on June 7th of Todd Hudspeth. Former CEO Pat Markham (whom Hudspeth had succeeded following her retirement) is serving as the interim top officer for the Cass County Health System until the new CEO is in place. The field of 30 applicants was narrowed down to six finalists who went through four sets of interviews with 25 people in four individual groups representing Board Members, the Administrative Team, medical providers and Health Department directors.

Police in Council Bluffs are investigating the robbery of an elderly man in the parking lot of a casino. Officers were called to the Ameristar Casino in Council Bluffs at around 5:23-p.m., Thursday.  The victim, 78 year old Gary McDonald, of Albion Nebraska, informed officers that an unknown black male began a conversation with him as he exited his vehicle, which was parked in the south lot of the Casino.

McDonald said he left his vehicle and walked towards the main entrance of the Casino. While walking, the suspect began accusing him of having relations with his girlfriend. The offender pushed McDonald down onto a grassy median, located south of the valet drive thru of the Casino. While on the ground, the suspect removed McDonald’s wallet from his pants pocket.

After witnesses were alerted by McDonald yelling for help, the suspect left McDonald on the ground and ran to the southeast taking his wallet. The man got into a maroon or red sedan, driven by an unknown female. The vehicle drove out of the Casino parking lot towards the interstate. The suspect’s identities are unknown and McDonald did not require medical assistance at the scene.

The male suspect was said to be in his 30’s, about 5-feet 9-inches to 6-feet 3-inches tall, with a muscular build. He was wearing a blue and white bandana on his head and a white “NYPD” t-shirt and blue jeans. The female driver was also black. Witnesses described the vehicle as a 2002 Ford Taurus with Nebraska plates, the first three letters on the license plate are possibly “CEG”.

The investigation is ongoing by the Criminal Investigation Division. Anyone with any information that was in the area at the time of this incident is encouraged to contact this Division at 712-328-4728 or they may call Crime Stoppers at 712-328-7867.

The Red Oak Police Department reports a two vehicle accident in Red Oak on Thursday resulted in disabling damage to one vehicle but no injuries.  The accident occurred at 5:41pm at the intersection of Oak and Broadway Streets in Red Oak.  A 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis driven by 47-year-old Jon Richard Goldsmith of Red Oak and a 2004 Honda Accord driven by 34-year-old Kham Lian of Lexington, NE were both west bound on Oak Street.  Goldsmith stopped at the stoplight to turn north onto Broadway Street when Lian rear-ended his vehicle.  Lian was cited for Following Too Close and his Honda was towed from the scene due to an estimated $2,500 worth of disabling damage.  Goldsmith was able to drive his Mercury away from the scene, it sustained an estimated $800 damage.