One person was transported by Medivac Ambulance to the Cass County Memorial Hospital, following an accident early this (Friday) afternoon at 8th and Walnut Streets, in Atlantic. The collision happened at around 12:45-p.m.  Atlantic Police Chief Dave Erickson said an initial investigation determined a Harley Davidson Sportster motorcycle was traveling southbound on Walnut Street and approaching the intersection. A yellow passenger car was traveling west on 8th Street. Erickson said it appears the female driver of the car failed to yield.

Atlantic Police Chief Dave Erickson on the scene of a motorcycle/car accident (Ric Hanson/photo)

The driver of the cycle tried to avoid the collision and laid the cycle in its side. In the process, the bike apparently clipped the rear passenger side of the car. The male driver of the motorcycle suffered minor injuries. Erickson said “It’s the season people need to watch out for motorcycles, because there’s sand out there and everything else. It’s just not a good thing.” And, with the nice weather, “Kids will be out on their bicycles too, so people just need to be more aware so that nobody ends up being killed.”

The names of the motorcycle and car driver were not immediately released.

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Gene Gettys, Harlan City Administrator, has announced that effective this (Friday afternoon), Industrial Parkway in Harlan will be closed for repair. This is the roadway that runs between Concerned, Inc and Van Diest Supply. The road is expected to be closed up to a week while repairs are completed. They apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

A reminder: Area law enforcement agencies in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), are offering you a chance to drop-off your unwanted, expired or other prescription medications, no questions asked, free of charge, Saturday, April 27^th, from 10-a.m. Until 2-p.m. The Prescription Drug Take Back Day is designed to reduce the availability of prescription drugs to prevent pill abuse, misuse and theft, by ridding homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Simply bring your pills for disposal to one of several area drop-off sites.

Only pills or patches will be accepted. No liquids, needles or sharps. Here’s a partial list of drop-off sites:

• Atlantic: The Atlantic Police Department (In the lobby), and the drop-off site at Walmart.
• The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
• Council Bluffs Police Department – Walgreens drop-off site.
• Harrison County Sheriff’s Office (in the lobby).
• Glenwood Police Department – Hy-Vee Pharmacy in Glenwood.
• The Fremont County Sheriff’s located at 2814 200th Street, in Sidney
• Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office – at the Sheriff’s Office in Mt. Ayr.

For a list of prescription drug drop-off sites near you, go to: https://takebackday.dea.gov/ or www.DEATakeBack.com.

Last fall, Americans turned in nearly 460 tons of prescription drugs at more than 5,800 sites operated by the DEA and almost 4,800 of its state and local law enforcement partners. Overall, in its 16 previous Take Back events, DEA and its partners have taken in almost 11 million pounds of pills.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A bill approved by the Legislature and awaiting the governor’s signature would forbid Iowa’s public universities from banning stun guns on campus. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that bill advocate Rep. Matt Windschitl says the proposed measure comes in response to some schools in Iowa prohibiting stun guns on their campuses. The campus bans go against a bill approved in 2017 that permitted people over the age of 18 to be allowed to carry stun guns.

A worried father collaborated with his local senator to draft the bill proposal after realizing his daughters wouldn’t have the option of carrying a stun gun on campus. Windschitl added the bill would help avert sexual violence and keep students safe. Critics say they disagree that the bill would reduce sexual violence.

DECORAH, Iowa (AP) — A northeast Iowa sheriff is being praised and criticized for posting a religious Easter greeting on the department’s Facebook page. Sunday’s post remained on the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office page Friday morning, and Sheriff Dan Marx told the Mason City Globe Gazette he doesn’t intend to remove it. The post includes the words “He is risen” imposed over a photo showing a cross on the crest of a hill being illuminated from behind by the sun. To its right is a message: “Happy Easter from all of us at the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office.”

ACLU of Iowa executive director Mark Stringer says the post on the department’s official Facebook page “is grossly inappropriate under our traditions of religious freedom enshrined” in the Iowa and U.S. constitutions. Several people posted comments in praise of the sheriff’s action, while others said the Christian post had no business being on the department’s page.

The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports a Creston man, 51-year old Jeffrey John Lusk, was arrested at around 6:30-p.m. Thursday. Lusk was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Union County warrant for failure to appear on an original charge of criminal mischief in the 2nd degree. Lusk was being held in the Union County Jail on a $10,000 bond.