Voters across the State went to the polls Tuesday (9/10/13) to cast their ballots in the 2013 School Board elections. Among the area contested races:

In Cass County, incumbents Kristy Pellett and Josh McLaren were re-elected to the school board in the Atlantic Community School District. Both beat out challenger Bob Reilly for the two At Large open seats on the Board. In the Griswold District, incumbents Steve Baier and Robert Peterson were re-elected to the school board. The men defeated Denise Bridges for the two open At Large seats on the Griswold School Board. Also in Cass County, both Iowa Western Community College levy measures were overwhelmingly approved by the voters.

In Adair County,  Megan Kading, Jeff Leonard and Mark Williams were elected to the At Large seats on the Adair-Casey school board. The three won the three open At Large seats in a four way race with Tobin Muller.

In Guthrie County, Deb Douglass defeated two other challengers for the single, open seat in District 2 of the Panorama School District, and Jon Stezel beat challenger Shari Clark in District 4. The winner of the Coon Rapids-Bayard District 1 school board seat was Brenda Schlatter, who beat challenger Kelly Pevestorf 227-to 61. Chad Leighty had a somewhat closer win over challenger Steve Dentlinger in CR-B District 4, 183-to 108.

In Montgomery County, there were no contested races, but voters in the Stanton School District did pass Proposition A by 113 to 6.

In Pottawattamie County, Steve Paul Kock won a two-way race for an At Large seat on the AHST school board, and Lindsay Bentley won a three-way race for a District 5 seat in the Riverside School District. And, in the Walnut School District, Shane Brockhoff and Tom Carroll won a four-way race for two At Large seats on the Walnut School Board.

In Shelby County, the Harlan Community School Board will see no changes after elections Tuesday night. In District 2, Amy Rueschenberg defeated Robert Dickinson 252 to 12 in the only contested race. The Public Measure for the Revenue Purpose Statement for the Harlan Community School District passed 228 yes to 21 no. Sam Hansen and Eric Ramsey won a race against three other contenders for two open At Large seats on the IKM-Manning School Board.

You can see the full results on the News page on our website, at www.kjan.com. Just scroll down and look for the “Sept. 10^th 2013 School Board election results.”

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – An Ohio man has been arrested in Omaha after a fatal traffic accident.    Omaha police say 30-year-old Evan Shiplett, of Zanesville, Ohio, was arrested on Tuesday evening after he was released from a hospital. He is being held on one count of vehicular homicide.

Police say Shiplett was driving fast when his pickup went out of control and rolled as it left Interstate 480 in eastern Omaha on Friday evening. One of his passengers, 19-year-old Matthew Doty, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was killed. Another passenger, 18-year-old Jacob Levene, of Neola, Iowa, left the scene but was later taken to a hospital.

Jail records say Shiplett remained in custody on Wednesday morning.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press….

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Flags will be flying at half-staff to honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Gov. Terry Branstad ordered all the flags at state-run buildings to be lowered Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The governor is encouraging businesses and schools to do the same as a sign of respect for the thousands of people killed in the attacks.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — More than $3.2 million in federal money has been approved for airport runway improvements in Davenport and Ankeny. Sen. Tom Harkin says the Federal Aviation Administration will give $1.8 million to the Davenport Municipal Airport to pay for reconstruction of a deteriorating runway. The FAA also will give nearly $1.4 million to the Ankeny Regional Airport to pay for the relocation of a road that will allow full use of a runway.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sportscaster Bob Costas will headline the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s annual dinner in January. The economic development organization says it strives to attract nationally recognized figures for its annual event. The dinner is the central Iowa business community’s celebration of the past year’s economic and community development successes.

WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) — A 59-year-old Waterloo man is charged in connection with a head-on crash in northeast Iowa that killed a Minnesota woman. The Bremer County Sheriff’s Office says Verle Dean Wygle is charged with homicide by vehicle. The sheriff’s office says Wygle was northbound in the southbound lanes of Highway 218 on July 24 when his pickup truck crashed into the woman’s van. Court records do not list an attorney.

This page will be updated as results become available

*Final results, unofficial until canvassed

(I= Incumbent) (**=Winner in a contested race)

Cass County

CAM School District

North District – Chuck Kinzie (I)          87*

South District – Gary Dinkla (I)            82*

At Large District – Nick Kauffman (I) 85*

Atlantic School District

At Large – (2)

Kristy Pellett (I)          266*

Josh E. McLaren (I)    190*

Bob Reilly                       151

Griswold School District

District #3 – Scott C. Peterson (I)    59*

District #4 – Thomas Jay Moore (I)  81*

At Large (2)

Steve Baier (I)   168*

Denise L. Bridges   121

Robert Peterson (I)  206*

IWCC Director District #4 – Scott D. Robinson  547*

Public Measure B – (IWCC 20.25-cent/$1,000 assessed valuation levy) Yes- 483*   No 182

Public Measure C – (IWCC 6-cent/$1,000 assessed valuation levy) Yes 491*   No 157

Audubon County

-Audubon (vote for two)

Sarah Asmus                77*

Becky Jones                 82*

-Exira (vote for two)

Thomas M Benton        37*

Bart Peppers                42*

Montgomery County

-Villisca (vote for two)

Leland D. Shipley     70*

Todd Drake                 70*

-Stanton (vote for three)

Mark Lindgren     71*

Brian Bates             87*

Jeff Sorensen         90*

Prop. A – Yes: 113     No: 6

-Red Oak (vote for three)

Kathy M. Walker     97*

Warren C. Hayes     96*

Paul M. Griffen        94*

Adair County

-Adair-Casey

At Large (vote for three)

Megan Kading     147*

Jeff Leonard         93*

Tobin Muller        79

Mark A. Williams  126*

-Nodaway Valley

At Large (vote for two)

James Campbell     79*

Tyson Sickles          112*

Director District 1

Roger Jensen           119*

-Orient Macksburg

At Large

Stephanie Mikkelsen   41*

Director District 1

Wendi Lynn Eslinger     49*

-DMACC

Director District 3

Jim Knott      115*

-SWCC

Director District 1

Dennis Davis   171*

Adams County

-Corning

District 1

Howard Anderson    89*

District 4

Wendi Boswell           95*

District 5

Scott A. Shuey          92*

District 2 (to fill vacancy)

Gwen Larsen              89*

-Prescott

At Large (vote for three)

Doug Birt                    26*

Marnie Cline             26*

Randy Cooper          27*

-SWCC

District 1

Dennis Davis             23*

Shelby County

-Harlan

Director District 1

Alan Hazelton      235*

Director District 2 (vote for one)

Robert Dickinson          12

Amy Rueschenberg      252*

Director District 3

Lonnie Muxfeldt            238*

Director District 4

Angie Monson                238*

-IKM-Manning

Director District 1B

Amy Ferneding            905*

Director District 2B

Jim Thraen                   958

Director District At Large (vote for two)

Sam Hansen                 746*

Jeff Hornback                 66

Dennis Kasparbauer   679

Zachery J. Meiners     482

Eric Ramsey                 709*

-Elk Horn Kimballton

Director District At Large (vote for three)

Tamie Fahn                   42

Stacie Larsen                 41

Kevin L. Petersen          45

-IWCC

Director District 9

Randy Pash                   468

-DMACC

Director District 3

Jim Knott                     405

Pottawattamie County

-AHST

District 1

Bernadette Hatch     235*

District 3

Amber Carcel     223*

District 5

Robb A. Jacobsen     253*

At Large (vote for one)

Steven Paul Kock           174*

Thomas J. Rzemyk        115

-Riverside

District 1

Phillip L. Reed                415*

District 5 (vote for one)

Lindsay Bentley             303*

Calvin Grobe                   28

Charles Pleak                  159

District 6

Murray Fenn                   399

-Walnut

At Large (vote for two)

Shane R. Brockhoff      45*

Tom Carroll                     80*

Terri Naegele                  39

Jason Wood                     33

Guthrie County

-Guthrie Center (vote for two)

Melia Vanmeter       91

Wes Policky              75

-Panorama

District 1

Greg Irving              20

District 2 (vote for one)

Deb Douglass          57*

Mindy L. Fear        26

Kent Muyskens     18

District 4 (vote for one)

Shari Clark             26

Jon Stetzel              51*

-Coon Rapids-Bayard

District 1 (to fill vacancy) (vote for one)

Kelly Pevestorf         66

Brenda Schlaatter    227*

District 3 (to fill vacancy)

Jason Rosenbeck      255

District 4 (vote for one)

Steve Dentlinger      108

Chad Leighty            183*

District 6

Pat McAlister           247

District At Large

Joel Davis                 215

The Red Oak Police Department reports two women were arrested Tuesday evening. 34-year old Brandi Lynn Beckett, and 35-year old Janet Marie Scuturio, both of Red Oak, were taken into custody at around 5:50-p.m. in the 500 block of North 6th Street, on Breach of Peace charges. The women were being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $300 bond, each.

Sheriff’s officials in Adams County said a Corning woman was arrested Tuesday evening on a warrant out of Omaha for Failure to Appear. Jessica Goodvin was taken into custody at around 5:35-p.m., after deputies in Adams County saw an abandoned vehicle sitting at the Gun Club at Lake Binder. A check of the vehicle’s registration came back to Goodvin, who also had a warrant for failure to appear in court on a felony shoplifting case. Goodvin was brought to the Adams County Jail and held pending extradition to Nebraska.

Officials with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday their K9’s “Vader” and “Mufasa” recently received bullet- and stab-protective vests thanks to the efforts of Vested Interest in K9s, Inc, a Massachusetts based non-profit organization. The made-to-order vests were recently delivered and will protect the K9’s from bullet and stab wounds as well as blunt force trauma.

Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. is a 501c (3) all volunteer charity located in East Taunton, MA, whose mission is to provide bullet and stab protective vests for law enforcement dogs throughout the United States. Each vest costs $950.00 and has a 5 year warranty. The nonprofit was established in 2009 to assist law enforcement agencies with this potentially life-saving body armor for their four-legged K9 officers. Through private and corporate sponsorships, Vested Interest in K9s, Inc., has provided over 435 law enforcement dogs with protective vests since their inception in August of 2009. Over $400,000 in K9 vests have been donated in 35 states including Alaska and Hawaii.

Two recent events made it possible for the charity to provide 217 vests for our four-legged crime fighters across the country.  In January 2013, a regional Groupon Grassroots campaign naming Vested Interest in K9s as a charity partner raised over $55,000 which allowed the donation of 53 K9 vests, and a nationwide Groupon campaign in March 2013 raised over $155,000, providing vests for 163 K9s in 30 states.

The organization orders the Armor Express vests made in Central Lakes, MI, exclusively from distributor Regency Police Supply in Hyannis, MA, who also does the custom embroidery on the body armor. New K9 graduates as well as K9’s with expired vests are eligible to apply for the ballistic vests.

For more information about Vested Interest in K9s visit www.vik9s.org or call 508-824-6978.

SHENANDOAH, Iowa (AP) – A southwest Iowa medical center has suspended a surgeon who is facing disciplinary action by the Iowa Board of Medicine.  The Daily Nonpareil in Council Bluffs says Dr. Subir Ray was suspended Friday by the Shenandoah Medical Center.  The Iowa board says Ray has been practicing in Iowa without informing the board he had been disciplined by Pennsylvania.

Ray had worked in Harrisburg, Pa., before beginning his work in Shenandoah. He was disciplined by the Pennsylvania Board of Medicine in November 2011. That board concluded Ray had engaged in unprofessional conduct and, during an evaluation, failed to diagnose and manage complications in a timely manner. The Pennsylvania board put Ray on indefinite suspension.

Police in Harlan say no injuries were reported following two, separate, recent accidents. On Saturday, vehicles driven by Donna Stephens, of Woodbine, and Jeanne Beilenberg, of Harlan, collided as Beilenberg’s 2002 Ford was traveling south in the 2300 block of the 23rd Street frontage road. Stephens was pulling out of the service station when her 1985 Chrysler  hit the Ford in the rear end, causing minor damage to both vehicles.  The damage amounted to $800. There were no citations.

And, on September 3rd, Mellisa Fitzpatrick, of Harlan, was cited for failure to yield upon entering a through highway and failure to have insurance, after her 1999 Dodge collided with a 1997 Ford driven by Eric Rose, of Harlan. The accident at the intersection of 8th and Chatburn Avenue, happened as Rose was traveling west on Chatburn and Fitzpatrick was heading north from Southwest Avenue and crossing Chatburn.

Fitzpatrick’s vehicle hit Rose’ car on the driver’s side, causing his vehicle to veer into a stop sign, while Fitzpatrick’s car to come to rest on the grass, past the curb line.