A collision Saturday night in Fremont County resulted in one fatality and two people injured. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened at around 10:40-p.m. at the intersection of Highway 59 and 130th Street, northwest of Essex. Authorities say a 2016 Mack truck driven by 42-year old John Frederick Brandt, of Council Bluffs, was traveling west on 130th Street, when Brandt failed to stop at the intersection with Highway 59. His truck struck a 2010 Chevy Malibu driven by 59-year old Patti Sue Rolf, of Northboro (IA), as she was traveling south on Highway 59.

After the collision, both vehicles came to rest in the west ditch. A passenger in the car, 62-year old Terrance Gerheart Rolf, of Northboro, who was wearing his seat belt, was transported by Essex EMS to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, where he died from his injuries. Both drivers were injured in the crash. Patti Rolf was transported by Shenandoah EMS to the Shenandoah Medical Center. John Brandt was transported by a Page County Sheriff’s Deputy to the same facility. Both drivers were wearing their seat belts.

The Iowa State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Fremont and Page County Sheriff’s Offices, Shenandoah Police, an Iowa DOT Motor Vehicle Enforcement Officer, as well as Essex and Shenandoah EMS.

The Atlantic City Council will hold a special meeting Monday beginning at 6:30-p.m. in the Council’s Chambers at City Hall. On their brief agenda, is approving a Cigarette Permit for the “Fog Zone” in Atlantic, and an update from the Beautification Committee.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will more than double the amount of water released into the Missouri River from the river’s lower-most dam over the coming weeks. Releases from Gavins Point Dam, between Nebraska and South Dakota, will be stepped up over the next several days, reaching approximately 50,000 cubic feet per second by early to mid-July. That’s up from the 24,000 cubic feet per second set in mid-June.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A Council Bluffs man who shot his own mother while showing her his shotgun has been charged with a felony in the case. The Daily Nonpareil reports that 20-year-old Seth Rennie has been charged with reckless use of a firearm resulting in serious injury. Rennie told police he thought the gun was unloaded when it fired May 20, hitting his mother in the torso. She was taken to an Omaha, Nebraska, hospital with injuries, including a damaged liver.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — A central Iowa father says he was inspired to organize a rally in support of immigrant families after seeing news on Father’s Day of children separated from their parents who had recently crossed the U.S. border. About 125 people turned out Saturday for the rally in Marshalltown organized by Steve Adelmund. Adelmund says the country should be able to come together on the idea that “kids shouldn’t be taken from their parents.”

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds has announced the appointment of former Indian Hills Community College president Jim Lindenmayer to fill a vacant seat on the Iowa Board of Regents. Lindenmayer will serve in an interim role to finish out the final year of a six-year term for Subhash Sahai, who resigned last month. Lindenmayer was one of more than 150 appointments to Iowa’s boards and commissions Reynolds announced Friday.