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Police in Council Bluffs have identified the operator of a motorcycle that crashed Tuesday night during a pursuit. Officials say 18-year old Lance McCormick, of Carter Lake, died at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs following the crash that happened at around 10:19-p.m. Authorities are still looking for the driver of the other motorcycle involved.
According to Bluffs Police, the pursuit began when an officer with the Iowa Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Enforcement (MVE) Division attempted to stop two motorcycles on Big Lake Road, near the Pottawattamie County Jail. Both motorcycles eluded the officer and drove westbound on Nash Blvd at a high rate of speed. McCormick, who was driving a 2006 Yamaha, lost control of the motorcycle approximately 3 blocks west of the intersection of 16th Street and Nash Blvd.
The motorcycle went over the curb and stuck a fence separating the city street from the interstate. McCormick was ejected from the motorcycle. The second motorcycle fled the area. The MVE Officer witnessed the crash and immediately stopped and rendered aid. McCormick was not wearing a helmet. He had no identification on him, and the motorcycle was reported to have been stolen.
A hit and run accident was reported to Red Oak Police on Wednesday at 10:31am at the intersection of Highway 48 and Highway 34. Upon arrival Officers spoke with Sarah Nicole Behrens who was driving a 2003 Dodge Stratus northbound on Highway 48 and stopped at the intersection with Highway 34 behind a semi-tractor trailer. The Semi, which had a maroon cab and silver box trailer, backed into Behrens’ Dodge and then proceeded eastbound on Highway 34 without stopping.
Red Oak Police Officers and Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies were not able to locate the semi-tractor trailer and damage to the Dodge Stratus was estimated at $4,000.
Red Oak Police announced the arrest Wednesday of 21-year-old Tyler Christian Palmer of Red Oak for Driving while Revoked. Palmer was arrested at 12:40pm at the intersection of N. 6th and E Corning Street. Palemer was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 cash bond.
Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers is warning business owners about the IRS phone scam that’s making rounds at both residences and businesses. Brothers said Businesses in Clarinda are receiving pre-recorded phone calls stating the IRS needs the owner to call back immediately at the number provided.
Brothers called the number and quickly determined the person he was speaking with was in a “Boiler room”-type call center in a foreign country. The Chief warns persons receiving these types of calls, NOT to return them. They are NOT from the IRS, and furthermore, the IRS would not conduct business in that manner.
The IRS handles matters through personal, confidential mail.
Sheriff’s deputies in Cass County arrested an Anita man Monday on a charge of Domestic Abuse Assault (a Serious misdemeanor). 33-year old Ancherson Alvios William was taken to the Cass County Jail and released Tuesday on $1000 bond.
And, deputies responded to a two-vehicle accident this (Wednesday) morning, about two-miles east of Atlantic. Officials say the collision happened at around 7:30-a.m. on White Pole Road, at the intersection with 650th Street. A 2003 Ford Mustang owned and driven by 21-year old Tayler Michael Murphy, of Anita, was westbound on White Pole Road when it was struck by a 2007 Buick Terraza owned and driven by 62-year old Jacqueline Kay Stetzel, of Audubon. Stetzel was traveling east on White Pole Road and attempting to turn left onto 650th Street when the accident occurred. No injuries were reported. Damage to the vehicles amounted to $8.500.
Deputies cited Stetzel for Failure to Yield.
Police in Red Oak say a woman was arrested this (Wednesday) morning, in connection with an investigation into the Oct. 21st, 2015 burglary at the Red Oak Eagles Lodge. 29-year old Katie Marie Pierce, of Red Oak, faces a charge of Burglary in the 3rd degree.
Officials say video and other evidence was examined, that led investigators to suspect Pierce was involved in the crime. The woman was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $5,000 bond.
MACY, Neb. (AP) – The White House says the Obama administration has raised the federal share of public aid for the Omaha Tribe’s recovery from the 2011 Missouri River flooding. A news release sent Wednesday says the level has been raised to 90 percent of the total eligible costs from 75 percent. It’s unclear why the aid was increased.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of land were flooded along the Missouri River in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri in 2011 after heavy spring rains and a giant mountain snowpack forced massive releases from upstream dams. The Omaha Indian Reservation lies primarily in northeast Nebraska but extends across the Missouri River into Monona County, Iowa.
Governor Terry Branstad says the board that governs the state’s three public universities will have to deal with a “shortfall” in state taxpayer support, but he’s urging caution as the panel considers how much tuition rates should rise. “I think they need to be careful and try to keep tuition increases very modest so we continue to reduce student debt,” Branstad says.
The chairman of the Board of Regents says tuition rates for students at Iowa, Iowa State and U-N-I will have to be raised for THIS FALL because of “limited” state funding. Radio Iowa asked Branstad if a tuition increase is the appropriate response to the legislature’s budget plan. “We had an unprecedented three years of no increase in tuition,” Branstad says. “And the increase that we’re looking at is relatively modest.”
Legislators are poised to increase state support of the public universities by about six million dollars for the budgeting year that starts July 1st. That’s 20 million dollars LESS than the universities requested. It’s about TWO million dollars less than Branstad had recommended. Senator Brian Schoenjahn, a Democrat from Arlington, says university officials tell him they’re faced with difficult decisions.
“You will see tuition increases,” Schoenjahn says. “President Leath said: ‘Sadly, we may have to increase our entrance requirements.'” Leath is president of Iowa State University. Schoenjahn says the 26-million dollar state funding boost the universities requested was just to “break even” and deal with inflation. “We have got to reprioritize and make education number one,” Schoenjahn says. “…You grow your way out of a recession, not cut your way out of it and we need to invest in our kids and our future.”
Schoenjahn, however, asked his colleagues to support the “status quo” spending plan for the public universities, as it is the end result of negotiations with House Republicans. Republicans say it’s a “tight” state budget overall, but they were able to find a way to reallocate a bit more to the universities than originally planned. The House has yet to give its final approval to the spending plan for the Regents schools. The Senate passed the bill yesterday (Tuesday).
(Radio Iowa)
The search is on for Iowa’s best breaded pork tenderloin. The Iowa Pork Producers Association has extended the Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin Contest nomination process this year to give consumers more time to submit their favorite. The contest opens April 20th and will continue through June 8th.
Click here to submit a nomination or on the “Tenderloin” link on the IPPA home page. The form also is available in the May issue of the Iowa Pork Producer magazine due out in early May. Nominations are limited to one per household.
Any café, restaurant or tavern that serves hand-breaded or battered pork tenderloins is eligible to be nominated. An establishment must be open year-round to win, but seasonal restaurants can make the top five. The top five restaurants with the most nominations from each of the eight IPPA districts will be judged. The IPPA Restaurant and Foodservice Committee reserves the right to add additional restaurants to the judging process as it sees fit. Restaurant owners and operators are prohibited from nominating their own establishment.
One person who nominates the winning restaurant will be entered in a drawing to win $100. The winning restaurant will receive $500, a plaque to display in the establishment and statewide publicity.
The 2015 contest produced 1,161 nominations and nearly 40 tenderloin sandwiches were judged on the quality of the pork, taste, physical characteristics and eating experience. The Belmond Drive-in was judged last year’s winner. Iowa pork industry representatives will judge the tenderloins and IPPA will announce the winner during October Pork Month.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Republican-controlled Iowa House has passed a health and human services bill for the next budget that would remove state funding for Planned Parenthood. The chamber voted 56-42 Wednesday for the legislation, which is expected to hit roadblocks in the Democratic-majority Senate over a proposal to remove Medicaid funding for family planning facilities that provide abortions. The bill is expected to be resolved through a special legislative committee.
The House voted after a debate that began Tuesday night. Lawmakers continue to pass bills that will make up the budget that goes into effect in July, but there’s growing conflict about some decisions. Wednesday marks the first day lawmakers are working without reimbursement payments for expenses like food and housing. The date is often seen as a deadline for adjournment activity.