(Creston, Iowa) – Police in Creston report two men were arrested on drug-related charges, Sunday. At around 1:40-p.m. 34-year-old Chevy Van Sauer, of Greenfield, was arrested at the intersection of Elm and Summit. Sauer was charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Possession Of Controlled Substance Methamphetamine 3rd Offense, and Driving while Barred. Sauer was taken to the Union County Jail where he was being held on $7,300 cash or surety bond. And, at around 11:05-a.m., Sunday, 42-year-old David Junior Richman, of Creston, was arrested in Creston on a Union County Warrant for Possession Of Controlled Substance Methamphetamine/3rd or Subsequent Offense, and Possession of Controlled Substance Marijuana/3rd or Subsequent Offense. Richman was being held in the Union County Jail on a $5,000 cash or surety bond.

Just before 1-a.m., Sunday, 31-year-old Lafi Khaled Alaqrabawi, of Minnesota, was arrested in Creston for OWI/1st Offense. Alaqrabawi was taken to the Union County Jail, and later released on a $1,000 cash or surety bond.

Friday afternoon, Creston Police arrested 18-year-old Xander Getting, of Creston. He was taken into custody at his residence, on a Union County Warrant for two counts of Child Endangerment with Serious Injury. Getting was being held in the Union County Jail on a $20,000 cash or surety bond.

(Creston, Iowa) – The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports two people were injured during a collision between a car and pickup truck, Sunday afternoon. Authorities say the pickup, driven by 57-year-old Scott Eugene Mitchell, of Afton, was traveling east on Highway 34 at around 12:46-p.m., and was turning left onto Old Highway 34, when the vehicle was struck from behind by an eastbound 2014 Chevy Impala, driven by 20-year-old Kaden Lee Briggs, of Creston.

Following the collision, the car entered the south ditch and hit a utility pole before coming to rest. Briggs, and a passenger in the pickup, 64-year-old Jeff Smith, suffered suspected minor/incapacitating injuries. Both men were transported by EMS to the hospital in Creston. No citations were issued.

(Radio Iowa) –  Many Iowa restaurants are wondering how they’ll be able to start paying off federal loans that were made available at the start of the pandemic. Payments on Economic Injury Disaster Loans were deferred for more than two years. Iowa Restaurant Association C-E-O Jessica Dunker says it’s a struggle for some restaurants to start making those monthly payments — since spending patterns have changed and more customers are not ordering appetizers, sharing entres and only drinking water.

Dunker says for most restaurants, profits are razor thin. and very few restaurants are back to the profitability levels that they had in 2019. By the end of LAST year, about 800 restaurants that were open at the beginning of the pandemic had closed. And Dunker warns there will be more to add to that list when the tally is done for 2023.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Supreme Court has denied a Manchester man a third trial on his attempted murder conviction in the shooting of his former girlfriend. Robert Krogman was convicted of shooting and seriously injuring the woman in 2009 after she broke up with him. He was granted a new trial over an issue involving his frozen finances and was convicted again.

The Court of Appeals ruled he should get a third trial after he said a video interview with police should have been allowed in court to help his diminished capacity defense.

The Supreme Court ruled that video should have been allowed — but says the video would not have provided any meaningful help to Krogman’s claim that he had diminished capacity at the time of the shooting.

(Radio Iowa) – New rules proposed by the EPA would require most cities in the country to replace lead pipes within ten years. Corey McCoid oversees the Iowa D-N-R’s drinking water program. “Replacing all the lead service lines is great. I think we’re going to need a little more time than 10 years to do that,” McCoid says.  McCoid says replacing lead lines won’t be easy.

“The challenge is going to be the cost and the time that we have to do that in the workforce to do it,” he says. ” I applaud the E-P-A’s efforts. And this is just the first crack at it. So we’ll take a hard look at this and see, see what we’re, we’ll land with this final rule that will come out next year.”

Iowa’s Bipartisan Infrastructure funding is providing 162 million dollars in grants through 2026 to address the issue of safe drinking water. Several Iowa cities have already requested funding to help replace lead pipes in their communities. The U-S banned the use of lead pipes in 1988.

(Chickasaw County, Iowa) – A vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed Sunday afternoon in northeastern Iowa, went out of control and rolled over, causing three occupants to be injured. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2004 Nissan Armada SUV driven by 29-year-old Emmanuel Rivera-Castro, of New Hampton, sheared-off a power line pole and came to rest in a field off of Highway 18, about one-half mile west of Bassett. The crash happened at around 3:17-p.m., Sunday.

Rivera-Castro, and his passengers, 27-year-old Paloma Jaimes Ortiz, of New Hampton, and 41-year-old Eliazar Morales, of Charles City, were injured. Rivera-Castro was flown from the scene by helicopter to MercyOne North Iowa. Ortiz and Morales were transported by ambulance to the Floyd County Memorial Hospital.

The crash remains under investigation. The Patrol was assisted by the Chickasaw County Sheriff’s Office, Ionia Fire Dept., Chickasaw rescue Squad, New Hampton Ambulance, AMR Ambulance, and Mercy Air.