The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office reports 34-year old Reese Chatterton, of Sidney, was arrested Friday (Today), following a traffic stop near the intersection of Highway 275 and 200th Street, in Sidney. Chatterton was taken into custody in connection with a disturbance that had occurred at a residence in Sidney.

Chatterton faces charges that include Driving Under Suspension and Domestic Abuse 1st Offense, causing bodily injury. He was being held in the Fremont County Jail, pending initial appearance with a Magistrate.

Chatterton

The AHSTW School Board of Directors announced on Friday afternoon that Mr. Darin Jones has been hired to serve as the new Superintendent of Schools for the AHSTW Community School District. Jones will begin his duties officially on July 1, 2018.

For the past 11 years Darin Jones has served as the Elementary Principal for the Montezuma Community School District and prior to that he was K-12 Dean of Students in that district for 3 years. Jones also had teaching stints at Montezuma and Deep River-Millersburg.  He received his undergraduate degree at Buena Vista University in Elementary Education and went on to earn a Masters in Administration-Principal from the University of Northern Iowa and a Superintendent Endorsement Certificate from UNI.

AHSTW Schools said the interview process involved approximately 60 members of the school district including students, support staff, teaching staff, administrators, community members, parents, and the Board of Education.  ASHTW Board of Education President Bryan Simonsen said, “With an understanding of rural school challenges Mr. Jones demonstrated with passion during the day-long interview process a sincere desire to listen and involve students, staff, and community to move the AHSTW School District to the next level. His focus on students first and his instructional leadership knowledge will ensure success for AHSTW students in school and life. We are thrilled Mr. Jones has agreed to serve as our next Superintendent. I know everyone shares my excitement in bringing Mr. Jones into the AHSTW family. We all look forward to working with him to make AHSTW the number one school district in the state of Iowa.”

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports, that on Wednesday, April 25th, 23-year old Alan Calderon Reyes, of Sioux City, Iowa, appeared before United States District Court Senior Judge James E. Gritzner, and was sentenced to 151 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. On April 10, 2017, following a high-speed car chase with law enforcement in Washington County, Nebraska, Reyes crossed the Iowa state line into Pottawattamie County, where Pottawattamie County deputies continued to pursue Reyes. Reyes lost control of his vehicle, drove into a ditch, and attempted to flee from deputies on foot.

Reyes was eventually apprehended and a large quantity of methamphetamine was seized from his vehicle. The case was investigated by Washington County, Nebraska Sheriff’s Office, Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Force, and Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a medic working for a Dubuque ambulance service died after a crash on a Mississippi River bridge connecting Dubuque with East Dubuque, Illinois. Officers were dispatched to the Julien Dubuque Bridge around 2:10 a.m. Friday. Police say the ambulance ran into the back of a semitrailer that had stopped for construction in the westbound lanes. The ambulance driver, 19-year-old Jack Dillman, was taken to UnityPoint Health-Finley Hospital for treatment. The 34-year-old medic with him was pronounced dead at the scene. His name hasn’t been released. The truck driver wasn’t injured.

The crash shut down bridge traffic for more than five hours. Paramount Ambulance Service says the ambulance was returning to Dubuque after taking a patient to a medical facility in Chicago

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — The Dubuque public library plans to approve a fine-free test period but will eventually return to charging patrons for overdue books because of a lack of funding. The Telegraph Herald reports that Carnegie-Stout Public Library’s amnesty period would begin July 1. The library currently has a daily fee of 20 to 50 cents per overdue item. The proposed plan says that during a six-month period, library patrons wouldn’t be fined for overdue items, but would still be charged for lost or damaged materials. Board members hope waiving fines will incentivize patrons to return materials.

Library Director Susan Henricks says she plans to give board members an outline with details about the plan on May 24. Henricks says the fines would return in January because the library lacks the funds.

LA PORT CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities intend to renew their water search for an eastern Iowa teenager who’s been missing for nearly three weeks. Sixteen-year-old Jake Wilson, of La Porte City, was last seen around 9 p.m. April 7, going for a walk to nearby Wolf Creek. A search began less than an hour later, when he didn’t return home. His mother, Megan Neiswonger, has said Jake has autism with a mild intellectual disorder and functions at the level of a 9-year-old.

La Porte City Police Chief Chris Brecher says trained crews from law enforcement and fire departments will be involved Saturday and Sunday, as well as heavy equipment to pull apart log jams in Wolf Creek. He says the creek and other water bodies need to be rechecked as water levels rise and fall, changing conditions.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s Department of Transportation does not currently have the authority to order cities to remove automated traffic-enforcement cameras from highways and interstates. The state’s high court on Friday reversed a state judge’s ruling last April that found the department did have that authority.

The ruling comes on the appeal of three Iowa cities — Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Muscatine — of the judge’s ruling. Those cities had sought the judicial review in 2015 after the DOT ordered some speed cameras turned off, determining that the cameras did not make interstate highways safer.

The three cities had argued that the DOT was infringing on cities’ ability to self-govern and that it lacked statutory authority to make rules regulating speed cameras.