The Glenwood Police Department has issued a report on numerous, recent arrests. Officials say 61-year old Steven Whitmore, of Glenwood, was arrested today (Monday), on charges that include Going Armed with Intent, Domestic Abuse Assault, and Child Endangerment. Whitmore was being held without bond in the Mills County Jail, pending an appearance before the magistrate.

Sunday, 23-year old Tyler Walter, of Webster City, and Joseph Kopiasz, of Glenwood, were arrested for Public Intoxication; 29-year old William Meredith, of Glenwood, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault; and, 33-year old Brandy Hawkins, of Glenwood, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, as well as Driving While Revoked.

Saturday, Glenwood Police arrested 37-year old Wendy Meadows, of Glenwood, for Public Intoxication/2nd offense, and on Friday, 50-year old Stephen Miller, of Council Bluffs, was arrested for Driving While Revoked.

All of the individuals mentions, with the exception of Whitmore, were later released on bond.

Officials with the American Red Cross are once again putting out a plea for donations of blood and blood platelets. Anna Sanderson, Donor Recruitment Director with the Midwest Blood Services Region, says while thousands of people from across the country responded to the emergency request for blood and platelet donations issued by the American Red Cross in early July, a critical blood shortage remains. The Red Cross urges eligible donors to give now to help ensure blood is available throughout the rest of the summer to meet patient needs.

At times, blood and platelets are being distributed to hospitals faster than donations are coming in, which impacts the ability to rebuild the blood supply. Right now, the Red Cross has less than a five-day blood supply on hand. The Red Cross strives to have a five-day supply at all times to meet the needs of patients every day and be prepared for emergencies that may require significant volumes of donated blood products.

Sanderson says “The Red Cross continues to have an emergency need for blood and platelet donors to give now and help save patient lives. We are grateful for those who have already stepped up this summer to give and want to remind those who are eligible that hospital patients are still counting on them to roll up a sleeve.”

Blood and platelets are needed for many different reasons. Accident and burn victims, heart surgery patients, organ transplant patients, and those receiving treatment for leukemia, cancer or sickle cell disease may all need blood. Donors of all blood types are urgently needed to help restock the shelves. The Red Cross is thanking those who come in to donate blood or platelets between July 25th and Aug. 31st by emailing them a $5 Amazon.com gift card claim code.

To schedule an appointment to donate, use the free Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767). Donation appointments and completion of a RapidPass online health history questionnaire are encouraged to help reduce wait times.

Upcoming blood donation opportunities July 25-Aug. 15 include:

Audubon: 8/10/2016: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., St. Patrick’s Parish Center, 2050 Hwy 71 N

Griswold: 8/11/2016: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Central Church of Christ, 1008 First St.

Manning: 7/29/2016: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Sacred Heart Church, 203 Sue St.

Denison: 8/2/2016: 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., United Methodist Church, 113 South 14th St.

Manilla: 8/1/2016: 12:30 p.m. – 6 p.m., Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 537 3rd Ave.

Hamburg: 8/12/2016: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Grape Community Hospital, 2959 US Hwy 275

Logan: 7/28/2016: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Community Center, 108 West 4th St.

Missouri Valley: 8/4/2016: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Rand Community/Senior Center, 100 S. 4th St

Glenwood: 7/27/2016: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Glenwood High School, 504 East Sharp St.; 8/15/2016: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, 512 2nd St.

Malvern: 8/10/2016: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., East Mills High School, 1505 E. 15th St.

Red Oak: 7/25/2016: 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1101 East Summit

Stanton: 7/29/2016: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., Stanton Firestation, 205 Broad Ave.

Council Bluffs: 7/25/2016: 12:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., Loess Hills Chapter Donation Center, 705 North 16 Street; 7/26/2016: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Loess Hills Chapter Donation Center, 705 North 16 Street; 8/1/2016: 12:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., Loess Hills Chapter Donation Center, 705 North 16 Street; 8/2/2016: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Loess Hills Chapter Donation Center, 705 North 16 Street; 8/7/2016: 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Queen of Apostles Campus, 3304 3rd Avenue; 8/7/2016: 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Community of Christ, 140 Kanesville Blvd; 8/8/2016: 12:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., Loess Hills Chapter Donation Center, 705 North 16 Street; 8/9/2016: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Loess Hills Chapter Donation Center, 705 North 16 Street; 8/10/2016: 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., Pottawattamie County Courthouse, 227 S. 6th St.; 8/12/2016: 6 a.m. – 12 p.m., Mid-America Center, One Arena Way; 8/12/2016: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., Mid-America Center, One Arena Way; 8/15/2016: 12:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., Loess Hills Chapter Donation Center, 705 North 16 Street.

Crescent: 8/13/2016: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m., Fire Station, 102 West Florence

Shelby: 8/13/2016: 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Shelby Community Building, 500 East St.

Walnut: 7/28/2016: 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 406 Antique City Dr.

Earling: 7/25/2016: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., St. Joseph’s Hall, 118 Main St.

Harlan: 7/28/2016: 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Conductix, 1417 Industrial Parkway; 8/2/2016: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m., CDS, 3107 Shelby St.; 8/2/2016: 12 p.m. – 4 p.m., CDS, 3107 Shelby St.

Bedford: 8/2/2016: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., American Legion Hall, 301 Main St.

Lenox: 7/26/2016: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m., American Legion Hall, 106 W. Ohio

DES MOINES—Recent rains have improved groundwater levels across Iowa, while the National Drought Monitor shows about a third of the state still rated as abnormally dry. Heavy rains that fell on July 19 will be reflected in the next update.

Substantial rainfall during July has improved shallow groundwater conditions in central Iowa and most of southeast Iowa from slight drought to normal.  A small region of southeast Iowa continues to be in slight drought conditions.  Shallow groundwater levels in most of northwest, southwest and northeast Iowa continue to be above normal for July.

In the past two weeks, the average statewide rainfall has been about 4.02 inches, nearly double the normal amount for this period. Two-week rain totals varied from a 1.56 inches at Akron up to 9.01 inches near Red Oak.

Temperatures across Iowa have averaged near normal for the period, just 0.4 degrees lower than typical July readings. Streamflow conditions remain above normal for most of the state. For a thorough review of Iowa’s water resource trends, go to www.iowadnr.gov/watersummaryupdate.

Atlantic Police Chief Steve Green said today (Monday), Federal and State Inspectors are set to arrive in Atlantic by around mid-day, to look at The Octopus amusement ride on the Cass County Fairgrounds. The ride was the scene of an accident Sunday evening that sent five people to the Cass County Memorial Hospital. One of the injured, a teenage male, was later transferred to a hospital in Omaha for further evaluation and treatment. (Click on the individual pictures to open a separate page, and click again to enlarge the image)

Atlantic Police Chief Steve Green said a pin that holds the bulb/support rod section of the ride apparently sheared-off prior to the accident. You can see the apparatus at the center of this photo by KJAN News Director Ric Hanson

The accident happened at around 7:30-p.m., when a pin on top of the ride sheared-off, causing some of the buckets carrying passengers to slam into the ground.

Divots dug into the ground by the impact of the rides’ buckets.

Marks could be seen on the grass where the bottom of the buckets dug into the ground.

If you look closely, you can see grass hanging from the bottom of the bucket in the top center of this pic. The bucket had impacted the ground.

Green said the Inspectors are coming from the Iowa Department of Labor and U-S Consumer Product Safety Commission. Green said it’s unusual for this type of accident to happen, here. He said “We’ve been fortunate. We haven’t had anything like this at the Cass County Fair in my memory, and I’ve been coming to this fair since I was a kid. It’s just one of those things, I guess.”

The names of those injured have not been officially released, but early reports from law enforcement said the injured included an adult female and four teens (two females and two males). Green says two of the teens walked home following the accident. Their mother took them to the hospital.The ride is officially shut down on this, the last full day of the fair.

The Adair County Sheriff’s Office reports two men were arrested on warrants last week. On July 18th, 30-year old Stephen Wallace Jones, of Stuart, was arrested by Stuart Police on an Adair County warrant for Failure to Appear for arraignment, on an original charge of Domestic Abuse Assault/1st offense. Jones was being held in the Adair County Jail on $2,000 cash only bond.

And, 30-year old Adam Thomas Harris, of West Des Moines, was arrested July 20th at the Polk County Jail, on an Adair County warrant for felony drug charges. Harris was later released after posting a $500 cash only bond.

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Delegates from Iowa head into the Democratic National Convention today (Monday) in Philadelphia, where a potential party squabble may erupt. The chairwoman of the Democratic NATIONAL Committee resigned Sunday after the release of email showing national party staff favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Caleb Humphrey of Madrid is a Bernie Sanders delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

“What the Bernie camp has thought since the conception of this whole race is that the scales have been tipped in favor of Hillary Clinton,” Humphrey says. “Now we know unequivocally, in black and white, that this is true.” The solution, he says, is to dump Clinton and nominate Sanders. Sanders delegate Ingrid Olson of Council Bluffs says Clinton’s still probably going to win the nomination, but Olson warns there’s a “division” between Clinton and Sanders delegates from Iowa.

“They think we’re ‘one hit wonders’ and we’re here temporarily, but the people that I know are very dedicated and they’re here for the long haul. They are energized. They’re youthful and the party needs them if the party’s going to survive, otherwise we’re going to end up having a Republican candidate such as Donald Trump,” Olson says. “…They need to figure out a way to welcome us and not make us make us feel like outcasts.”

Andy McGuire, the chairwoman of the Iowa Democratic Party, says party unity is a “work in progress.” “We need to continue to talk about the issues that we have in common and get to unity,” McGuire says. “When we talk about education and we talk about equal work for euqal pay and when we talk about college affordability — these are issues we all agree on.” Former Iowa Senator Tom Harkin backed Clinton in the Iowa Caucuses and he predicts Democrats will unite.

“I’ll do whatever I can to help bring our party together, to work with both Sanders and Clinton people to get us united,” Harkin says. “…If all else fails, all I’ve got to say is: ‘Trump.’ That brings us together right away.” Iowa delegate Cindy Pollard of Newton was wearing an “I’m With Her” t-shirt Sunday night in Philadelphia. She expects “smooth sailing” for Clinton this week.

“I think it really will be,” Pollard says. “It’s going to be powerful in that room and I think when we go in there everybody will come together and it’s going to happen.” The Iowa delegates went to a bowling alley in Philadelphia for a pre-convention party Sunday night. It appeared the Sanders delegates gathered in their own bowling lanes, while the Clinton delegates teamed up in others. Eighteen-year-old Sruthi Palapniappan of Cedar Rapids, a Clinton delegate, noticed.

“I think we kind of just went into our own pods and then just realized: ‘Oh no,'” she says. “‘We accidentally divided.'” Fourth district congressional candidate Kim Weaver will speak with Iowa convention delegates later this (Monday) morning in Philadelphia.

(Radio Iowa)

A Florida man was transported by helicopter to Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, after the tent he was in was struck by a pickup truck Sunday morning, in Fremont County. The Iowa State Patrol says 67-year old James A. Foley, of Middleburg, FL., was struck by a 1996 Ford F-250 pickup driven by 55-year old Danny T. Cardin, of Homer, Louisiana.

Officials say the accident happened at around 11:35-a.m., Sunday, when the pickup was traveling down a private drive at the 59er Motel and campgrounds. The vehicle struck the tent Foley occupied, and dragged the tent, with Foley inside, underneath the truck, for about 50-feet. Cardin continued to drive his truck until he parked it at his campsite.

A dispatcher with Mills County Sheriff’s Officials could not say if Foley was part of the RAGBRAI ride or was simply staying at the campgrounds for recreation. A report on his condition is currently not available.