A Glenwood man was arrested Saturday, following an investigation into a hit-and-run accident. Authorities say 32-year old Clifford Stoppel was taken into custody on charges of Public Intoxication, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Striking fixtures upon a highway. He was also cited for having no insurance. Bond was set at $900.

The Glenwood P-D says officers were dispatched to the intersection of Sharp and Vine Streets at around 2:10-a.m., Saturday, after receiving word a vehicle had hit a traffic control sign pole. Witnesses said the pole was hit by a red Pontiac that continued east on Sharp Street. The suspect vehicle, a 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix, was located at an apartment complex in the 200 block of Sivers Road, in Glenwood. The car had sustained damage to the windshield and hood, and had two flat tires.

Inside the car were multiple open containers of beer. Stoppel, the registered owner, was seen walking along the sidewalk with an open container of liquor. He told police he was driving from his house at 1012 1st Street to a friends apartment, where he had 5-to 6 shots of liquor. He denied drinking prior to driving, but was taken into custody.

Damage from the incident amounted to $8,000.

In unrelated news, Police in Glenwood said the Glenwood Senior Center reported Friday an incident of burglary and criminal mischief. That same day, the Glenwood Public Library had similar incidents take place.

Road construction work on Highway 6/7th Street, in Atlantic, is scheduled to start May 26th. Scott Suhr, District Transportation planner for the Iowa Department of Transportation (based in Atlantic), said today (Monday), the contractor has informed him of their intentions to shut down the roadway after the morning commute next Tuesday. The roadway will remain closed from the intersection with Olive Street eastward, to just past Burger King, until the project is complete.

In the event of rain or unavailability for the milling machine, Suhr says the contractor will start work on May 27th.

The 8-a.m. Newscast w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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A Creston woman was arrested over the weekend, on drug charges. Police say 49-year old Lori Lee Graham was taken into custody at 219 North Pine Street on a Union County warrant for Possession of a Controlled Substance, 3rd or subsequent offense, and a Controlled Substance Violation. Graham was being held in the Ringgold County Jail on $5,000 bond.

And, a Greenfield woman was arrested Friday afternoon in Creston, on a charge of 5th Degree theft. 30-year old Sherrece Kilgore was later released from the Union County Jail on a promise to appear later, in court.

Creston Police report also, a Creston man reported Friday that his vehicle had been broken into at the old Wal-Mart store parking lot at 612 New York Avenue. The incident occurred sometime between May 10th and May 15th. The vehicle owned by Timothy Giles, sustained a broken window, with items inside the vehicle, including a fish finder, electric camping plug and dome light, having been stolen. The loss was estimated at $260.

(8-a.m. News)

Police in Creston say no injuries were reported following two, separate multi-vehicle accidents that occurred within 45 minutes of each other, Friday. The first crash happened at around 4-p.m., on west Adams Street.

Authorities say vehicles driven by 27-year old Kayla Mensing, of Greenfield, 62-year old Susan Rinkert, and 73-year old Hubert Bradley, both of Creston, were traveling west on west Adams. The stoplight at the end of the block at the intersection with Sumner Street was red. Mensing and Rinkert were stopped for the light in a long line of cars backed up to Jarvis Street. Bradley was traveling west on Adams, and didn’t expect the cars to be backed up so far. His 2006 Chrysler mini-van rear-ended Rinkert’s 2005 Mercury Sable, causing her vehicle to hit the rear of Mensing’s 2015 Chevy Equinox. Damage from the collisions amounted to $1,700. No citations were issued.

The second accident happened at around 4:45-p.m., Friday. Creston Police said a 2003 Chevy Trailblazer driven by 43-year old Valerie Beebe, of Creston, was traveling east on Adams Street and stopped for the traffic light at the intersection with Sumner Avenue. A 2002 Chevy Cavalier driven by 61-year old Linda Buxton, of Creston, was traveling south on Sumner at the same time a 2001 Pontiac SUV driven by 17-year old Austin Nichols, of Prescott, was traveling east on Adams and stopping for the light.

Buxton swerved to avoid an unknown vehicle which was traveling north on Sumner, then turned west onto Adams. When Buxton swerved to get out of the way, her car slid and hit the Beebe and Nichols’ vehicles. All witness to the collision told police they had seen the unknown vehicle cut off Buxton’s car, and verified she tried to avoid the collision, when she hit the other vehicles. Damage from the crash amounted to $4,700. No citations were issued.

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Police in Red Oak report the arrest early this (Monday) morning of 22-year old Amanda Joy Huebner, of Red Oak. Huebner was taken into custody just before 3-a.m. on the 600 block of east Reed Street, on a charge of Credit Card Fraud, in connection with an earlier incident.

During her arrest, Huebner allegedly resisted arrest, and was subsequently charged with Interference with Official Acts. She was booked into the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $2,000 cash bond.

Authorities in Pottawattamie County say a Nebraska man was arrested on burglary and assault charges, following an investigation into an alleged break-in and assault at a residence in Council Bluffs. Bluffs Police Sgt. Ben Roth says 26-year old Artavious Whiters, of Omaha, was charged with Burglary in the 1st Degree and Serious Domestic Abuse Assault, along with an Obstruction of Emergency Communications, charge.

Police responded after the Pott. County Communications Center received an open 9-1-1 call from 34514 4th Avenue, at around 11:45-p.m., Sunday. Officers arriving on the scene located Whiters, who was leaving the residence. An investigation revealed Whiters forced entry into the home and allegedly assaulted the resident, 26-year old Aubrey Smith, of Council Bluffs.

Roth says Whiters and Smith had previously been in a relationship together and had a child together. Smith suffered minor injuries during the assault, but did not require medical attention. Whiters was taken into custody without incident, and booked into the Pott. County Jail.

Authorities in Red Oak report the arrest late Sunday night, of 45-year old Kristen Marie Hughes, of Red Oak. Hughes was taken into custody at around 10:40-p.m. on a charge of serious domestic assault. The woman was being held without bond in the Montgomery County Jail.

DES MOINES, Iowa – When it comes to organic farming, Iowa has one of the largest numbers of certified operations in the nation, but there’s a real danger in the air for those farms and other growers this time of year due to the potential of pesticide drift.
Allowing pesticides to drift is against the law in Iowa, and among those who have been impacted is Andrew Dunham, owner with Grinnell Heritage Farm. He’s had pesticide drift on two of his organic crops, which then require a re-certification process that takes three years.

“In the case of the hay field in 2009, we had to wait until 2012 to be re-certified, so we had non-organic hay,” says Dunham. “The market price isn’t so different there, so that wasn’t as big a loss as the asparagus.” Dunham says his asparagus was hit by pesticide drift in the fall of 2013, and the loss of the organic certification will mean $2 to $5 less per-pound until their crop of 2017.

Also at risk of damages from pesticide drift are some home gardens, along with the state’s fruit and vegetable farms. Paul Ovrum, program planner with the Iowa Department of Agriculture, urges owners of such specialty and organic farms to report any pesticide misuse and sign up for the Sensitive Crops Registry. “This is a registry for producers of sensitive crops, and also bee-keepers,” syas Ovrum. “To list their locations and it’s used by pesticide applicators so that they can minimize the potential for pesticide drift damage.”

Ovrum says the latest count shows more than 2,000 farms and apiaries on the Sensitive Crops Registry statewide.

(Iowa News Service)