DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve troops are being warned to remove personal and military data from their social media accounts, lest the information help terrorists launch attacks inside the United States. Officials with the Iowa National Guard and the Army Reserve’s 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) at Fort Des Moines, which oversees 5,000 troops in four states, told The Des Moines Register that troops won’t be barred from using social media accounts.

The National Guard spokesman, Col. Gregory Hapgood Jr., says the troops shouldn’t list anything about their employment or travel plans. Hapgood says Iowa National Guard units’ Facebook accounts now just mention events that already have occurred, rather than upcoming events.

A family dispute Tuesday evening led to the arrest of a Red Oak woman. The Red Oak Police Department reports officers took 49-year old Rebecca Jean Gulick into custody on a charge of Public Intoxication, after officers responded to a residence in the 100 block of east Reed Street, at around 6:25-p.m.

Police had been called to resolve a family dispute. When officers arrived, the found Gulick with a strong odor of alcohol on her breath. She consented to a breath test and blew over the legal limit for public intoxication.

Gulick was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — How far should a tuition freeze go? That’s one key question that will face members of the Iowa Board of Regents when they meet by phone this (Wednesday) afternoon. The board is widely expected to adopt a third straight tuition freeze for undergraduate students from Iowa at the state’s three public universities. That would affect roughly 40,000 students.

But it’s unclear whether the board will want to go farther and freeze rates for students from other states as well as graduate and professional students. The board’s staff is recommending a 1.75 percent tuition increase for those students, who number about 38,000. Board members have been studying the issue since October. University presidents are generally against an expansion of the freeze, which would deprive their schools of millions in revenue.

Another Republican candidate has announced intentions to run for an Iowa Senate seat in District 12, which covers a section of southwest Iowa. Margaret Stoldorf, of Red Oak, will be on the ballot for the December 30th special election. Stoldorf is running for the seat that was held by U.S. Sen.-Elect Joni Ernst, who has formally submitted her resignation from the Iowa Senate.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Advocates seeking more funding for Iowa’s bridges and roads are launching a new advertising campaign. In a television ad that started airing Monday, a narrator notes the thousands of structurally deficient bridges in Iowa. At the end of the ad, paid for by the Iowa Good Roads Association, the voice of an emergency operator says: “We have a bridge collapse with a bus full of school children.” Gov. Terry Branstad has said he was open to ideas for increasing road construction funding.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad has ordered that all flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff in honor of state Rep. Dwayne Alons. U.S. flags and Iowa flags under the state’s control will be lowered and flown at half-staff from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to remember Alons, who died Saturday. The 68-year-old Alons announced in October that he was battling renal cancer. He had represented Iowa House District 4 since 1998. A memorial service for Alons is scheduled Wednesday morning at First Reformed Church in Hull.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — An official says a student at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo has been injured while in the school’s welding lab. College spokeswoman Kathy Flynn says the student is being treated for burns following an incident Tuesday morning. Additional information about the injury or the student’s identity is not available.

GRINNELL, Iowa (AP) — Grinnell College has received a $4 million bequest from a graduate who died last year after a successful career as a tax attorney. The college says 1950 Grinnell graduate Marilyn Walsh had made the gift to establish a scholarship for Iowa residents admitted to the school. Walsh was a native of Woodbine who received a bachelor’s degree in history, then earned law degrees at New York University. The scholarship will be open to students who have lived in Iowa at least five years.

The Griswold versus Bedford Girls/Boys Basketball Doubleheader for tonite (12-2-14) has been postponed to a later date due to an electrical issue.

Firefighters from Kirkman, Irwin and Defiance have been called to the scene of a rural structure fire about five-miles east of Kirkman. The blaze at a shop located at 2204 1500th Street in Shelby County, was reported at around 4:20-p.m. No other details are currently available.

Iowa veterans who are being treated at the V-A Medical Center in Omaha this week are able to take part in a holiday tradition that dates back to the 1930s. V-A spokesman Will Ackerman says the American Legion Auxiliary has opened special store at the hospital where veterans can shop for free.   “The holiday gift shop is for hospitalized veterans who are inpatient, going through dialysis, and those in our recovery center,” Ackerman says. “These veterans are able to select up to four free gifts for their loved ones.” The auxiliary also wraps the gifts at no cost to the veteran.

“These veterans otherwise may not be able to get out and get a gift for their loved ones,” Ackerman says. “This is something the American Legion Auxiliary has done for decades in partnership with the VA.” Auxiliary volunteers also have a portable cart which they wheel around to visit rooms of patients who can’t make it to the shop to select their presents.

“They buy all the gifts and they buy all the wrapping paper and they do all the work and we here at the VA provide them a room to do it in,” Ackerman says. “It’s just a great opportunity to give back to the veterans who have given to us.” The gift shop is open at the Omaha hospital through tomorrow (Wednesday).

(Radio Iowa)