Police in Creston report there were four arrests over the Thanksgiving Holiday time frame. At around 2:45-a.m. Sunday, 24-year old Justin Garcia, of Raymondville, TX, was arrested in Creston for OWI/1st offense. He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

At around 11:20-a.m. Thursday, 32-year old Joshua Baker, of Leon, was arrested in Creston, for Theft in the 5th Degree, and Possession of a Controlled Substance/3rd or subsequent offense. Baker was being held in the Union County Jail on a $5,000 bond. And, at around 9-p.m. Thursday, 27-year old Anthony Cross, of Creston, was arrested for Violation of a Protection Order. Cross was later released on an unspecified bond.

And, last Wednesday, 47-year old John Pace, of Creston, was arrested on an Adams County warrant for Failure to Appear in court. Pace was released to the custody of Adams County Sheriff’s Deputies.

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A 13-year-old girl is accused of leading police in eastern Iowa on a high-speed chase early Sunday morning. According to reports, police in Blue Grass tried to pull over a van whose driver and/or occupants were suspected in attempted car break-ins. The teenage driver fled the scene at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour. The chase concluded when officers used a PIT maneuver to end the pursuit. The 13-year-old driver and five other people in the van were taken into custody. The vehicle had been reported stolen from Rock Island. Three law enforcement vehicles sustained minor damage in the chase.

(Radio Iowa) — A former Iowa State University entomology professor bypassed the traditional cake and candles to celebrate his 85th birthday. Instead, Wayne Rowley jumped out of a plane. “The idea came to me when George H.W. Bush, our 41st President of the United States, sky-jumped on his 80th birthday,” Rowley said. “I told myself, if I make it to 85, I’m going to do that.”

Wayne Rowley

Rowley is now a resident of the Green Hills Retirement Community in Ames. The skydive included a freefall for two miles before his parachute opened. “I’ve been a pretty active person all my life and it wasn’t something I even gave a second thought to,” Rowley said. “People do it all the time. Why couldn’t I?”

Following the skydive in July, Rowley went on an annual solo fly-fishing trip to the Russian province of Siberia. That’s where he was for his 85th birthday on August 27. He just recently discussed the skydiving adventure. “I thank the good Lord I made it to 85 and I kept that promise to myself. It was fabulous,” Rowley said.

A Utah native, Rowley moved back to Ames last year from another retirement community in Maine. He decided to return to Iowa following the death of his wife, Annette, who was a long-time English teacher at Ames High School. The couple raised two sons and a daughter. Rowley said he had so much fun skydiving last summer that he plans to jump again in the spring.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two firefighters have been injured battling a house blaze in Des Moines. Firetrucks were dispatched to the house around 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Fire Lt. Chris Clement says the injuries occurred when one firefighter fell through a weakened floor into the house basement, landing atop another firefighter. Both were taken to a hospital and were released after treatment. Their names haven’t been released. The fire cause is being investigated.

(Radio Iowa) — Key state policymakers, including Iowa’s Republican governor, do not expect to push the 2019 Iowa legislature to pass a ban on all abortions in the state.  “I don’t have any intention of doing that until we see what happens with the courts,” Reynolds told Radio Iowa. In May, Governor Kim Reynolds signed a law to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat may be detected. That happens around the sixth week of a pregnancy. Reynolds says it’s best to wait until the court challenge of that law is decided before considering another abortion-related measure.

“Let’s just see how this all plays out,” Reynolds said in a post-Election interview with Radio Iowa. “For Heaven’s sake, let’s just take a breath and see what happens with that and then decide what the next steps are.” Republican Senator Jason Schultz of Schleswig has previously sponsored what’s referred to as a “personhood” bill that would ban all abortions in Iowa. Schultz says Iowa’s new fetal heartbeat law is the toughest abortion law in the country.

As that law works its way through the judicial system, I think it would probably be counterproductive on my part to file any other bill,” Schultz says. “I’m going to hold off.” Last week, a federal judge permanently blocked a Mississippi law that would have banned abortions after the 15th week of a pregnancy. Iowa’s ban on abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy is being challenged in STATE rather than federal court.

It’s unclear when a decision from the Iowa Supreme Court may be issued on Iowa’s new abortion restriction, which has not gone into effect because of the court challenge. It was more than a year before the state supreme court ruled a 2017 law requiring a three-day waiting period before an abortion was unconstitutional.