A single-vehicle accident in Mills County at around 1:10-a.m. today (Tuesday), resulted in the driver being transported to a hospital. The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports 25-year old Lindsey Rhodes, of Red Oak, was driving a 2010 Dodge eastbound on Highway 34 near 350th Street, when the vehicle hit the gravel shoulder, causing Rhodes to over-correct. The vehicle went off the road and landed on its passenger side in the north ditch. Rhodes was transported to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital by Malvern Rescue.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports a man being held in the Pott. County Jail, was presented with a warrant Monday out of Douglas County, Nebraska. 32-year old Jeramy Lee Swain, of Kelley, Iowa, was wanted on the warrant for being a Fugitive From Justice. Swain remains held without bond in the Pott. County Jail on the Nebraska warrant, and a similar warrant out of Pott. County.  22-year old Omar Ventura, of Omaha, was transported from the Fremont County Jail to the Pott. County Jail, Monday. Ventura was wanted on an Iowa warrant for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 1st offense. And, 20-year old John Wesley Lovejoy, of Council Bluffs, was picked up from the Union County South Dakota Jail and transported to Pott. County, where he was wanted on three Probation Violation warrants. Lovejoy was booked into the Pott. County Jail and held without bond.

OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) — Charges against a former police officer accused of attacking her girlfriend in southern Iowa have been dismissed. Mahaska County court records say 26-year-old Janay Pritchett had pleaded not guilty harassment, domestic abuse assault while displaying or using a weapon and domestic abuse assault, second offense. The records say the alleged victim had told prosecutors she’d left Iowa, wouldn’t return to testify and wanted the charges dropped.

Court records say Pritchett’s girlfriend told officers that she and Pritchett were arguing May 3 last year when Pritchett kicked her in the chest, pulled a pocketknife and cut her on the left side of her neck. The girlfriend said Pritchett then threatened to shoot her with a shotgun. Pritchett says in the records that she didn’t pull a knife or cut the woman.

(Radio Iowa) — Authorities say a body found in a farm field near Marshalltown could be that of a Mason City woman. Thirty-two-year-old Michelle Grommet was reported missing on March 22nd to the Marshalltown Police Department. Police say a body was found at about 9 o’clock Monday morning in a farm field just east of the Walmart store. Authorities say the identity of the body could not be immediately confirmed but preliminary indications are it could be the missing woman. Marshalltown police say there’s no evidence of foul play but the investigation into the death continues.