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DECORAH, Iowa (AP) — An August trial is scheduled for a northeast Iowa woman accused of hitting and starving her 3-year-old daughter. Court records say 28-year-old Monica Flores, of rural Cresco, entered a written plea of not guilty Tuesday to a charge of child endangerment. Her trial is set to begin Aug. 29th. Authorities say the little girl had bruising on her neck, torso and legs and was malnourished.
Creston Police report two men were arrested Thursday on separate Driving While Suspended charges. 24-year old Cody Joseph Parmenter, of Creston, was arrested at around 3:45-p.m., and 37-year old Briankeith Andre Whitfield, of Creston, was arrested at 6:40-p.m. Both men were being held in the Union County Jail on a $300 bond, each.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A convicted Nebraska sex offender has been given 15 years in an Iowa prison for taking video of a college student showering in a residence hall. Authorities say 30-year-old Zachary Person was sentenced Wednesday in Sioux City. He’d pleaded guilty to burglary and invasion of privacy. Prosecutors say he took the video March 1, 2017, in a bathroom at Morningside College’s Dimmitt Hall.
The Sioux City Journal reports that in return for Person’s pleas, prosecutors dropped charges related to separate attacks that occurred Feb. 12, 2017, on another woman at Morningside College and on a woman at a Sioux City hotel. Nebraska records say Person, from Norfolk, was sentenced in October to 15 to 20 years for trying to assault a woman in Omaha. The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry says he’d also been convicted of sex crimes in 2012 and 2016.
Atlantic will open up Class 3-A district baseball play tonight as the first game of a doubleheader at Harlan. The Trojans will face Denison at 5:00 pm.
Atlantic split the two regular season games with the Monarchs, winning 11-1 in five innings on the road and losing a tough 5-4 decision at home. Trojan coach Gaylord Schelling explained that the main difference in those two games was the pitching. Denison had Dawson Dorhout throwing in the Monarch victory and despite several chances for Atlantic, he was able to hold them off for the win. Expect Dorhout to start tonight for Denison.
Atlantic will throw Chase Mullenix tonight. Injuries limited Chase to just three starts during the regular season, but Schelling feels Mullenix is ready to give his best effort. He says if he has all three of his pitches, fastball, curve and change-up, working tonight, Chase will be tough for the Monarchs.
Atlantic doesn’t have a lot of power in the line-up, instead they depend on consistency at the plate and stringing hits together.
We’ll have the game for you tonight on KJAN. Jim Field will have the call with the pre-game at 4:45.
The area 3-A schedule:
District 15 @ Harlan
District 16 @ Winterset
The Iowa Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement officers will participate in the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Operation Safe Driver Week July 16-20 at various locations around the state. This initiative is aimed at identifying unsafe driving behaviors by commercial motor vehicle drivers and those drivers of other vehicles operating around the commercial motor vehicles. The events will be held in Council Bluffs, Mason City, Iowa City, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area. During each event, officers will be issuing citations and warnings to those drivers in an effort to reduce crashes caused by dangerous driving behaviors.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than 94 percent of all crashes can be attributed to some form of driver error. MVE Chief David Lorenzen said, “With these events, we’re actively seeking out those drivers who pose a danger on the road.” Examples of dangerous driver behaviors that enforcement personnel will be tracking throughout Operation Safe Driver Week are speeding, distracted driving, texting, failure to use a seatbelt while operating a CMV or in a passenger vehicle, following too closely, improper lane change, failure to obey traffic control devices, etc.
Operation Safe Driver Week is sponsored by CVSA, in partnership with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and with support from industry and transportation safety organization.
Adair County Deputy Auditor Sandy Mitchell, Thursday, reported that County Offices on the November 6th General Election ballot, will include: Supervisor District 2NE; Supervisor District 4SE; Treasurer; Recorder; Attorney, and one clerk and two trustees for the Richland and Washington Townships. The candidate filing dates with the Auditor’s Office are Monday, August 6th through Wednesday, August 29th. Candidate packets are available in the Auditor’s Office or at the Secretary of State’s website www.sos.ia.org.
DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, Thursday, announced that he will be making stops in 16 counties next week, including Fremont, Page, Mills, Taylor, Ringgold in the KJAN listening area. Stops are planned in the cities of Sidney, Shenandoah, Malvern, Essex, Lenox, and Mt. Ayr.
The details of his area visits are as follows:
Monday, July 16, 2018 –
Fremont County – 1:00 p.m., visit the Fremont County Fair, 1004 Legion Rd., Sidney; Page County – 3:00 p.m., tour Green Plains Shenandoah, 4124 Airport Rd., Shenandoah; Mills County – 4:30 p.m., visit the Mills County Fair, 61317 315th St., Malvern.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 –
Page County – 9:00 a.m., tour Johnson Locker Service, 510 Iowa Ave., Essex; Taylor County – 11:00 a.m., tour Dalton Ag Products, 602 E. Van Buren St., Lenox; Ringgold County – 1:30 p.m., visit the Ringgold County Fair, 2214 US 169, Mt. Ayr.