A woman from Creston reported to the Creston Police Department late Monday morning, that sometime overnight Sunday into Monday, someone took from her wallet, her ID, debit and credit cards. The wallet was inside her home located in the 400 block of N. Jarvis Street. The loss was estimated at $5.
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A Des Moines man is facing charges for abusing his dog – abuse that was captured on video. Scott Wilson, with the Animal Rescue League of Iowa, says 32-year-old Willard Street was arrested after Des Moines Police were notified about the incident last week. “A concerned citizen had a security camera and caught, on video, Mr. Street placing a dog in the backseat of his car and then leaning over and with a closed fist, punching the dog repeatedly in the head,” Wilson said. The dog, an adult pit bull, does NOT have “obvious external injuries,” according to Wilson.
Willard William Street Mugshot
ARL staff removed a total of three dogs from Street’s property. Street is charged with one count of animal neglect and two counts of failure to license a pet. All three dogs are now being cared for by the ARL. According to Wilson, this type of animal abuse is more common in the state than most Iowans probably realize. “We probably hear about one or two a month – something like this around the state,” Wilson said. “The really scary thing is this was reported because someone did get it on video, so you have to consider there are probably a lot of cases like this that never get reported.”
The ARL of Iowa is urging state lawmakers to pass legislation to strengthen punishments for animal abusers in the state.
(Radio Iowa)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say seven people have been killed — including two teenage sisters — on Iowa roads as a winter storm swept the state Monday, leading to dozens of crashes and a 50- to 70-car pileup near Ames. The Des Moines Register reports that 17-year-old Avery Arneson and 13-year-old Aiden Arneson, sisters from Decorah, died a two-vehicle crash around 8:30 a.m. Monday on a county road in northeast Iowa. Four other teens were injured and hospitalized in that crash.
In Cedar Rapids, two men died in a crash on Interstate 380 that police say was weather-related, and one person died and several people were critically injured in the pileup that closed Interstate 35 near Ames. On I-80, police say a person was killed in a crash east of Grinnell around 1:20 p.m., and another person died and two others were injured at 1:40 p.m. near Durant.
There were many accidents along Interstate 80 in western Iowa. Two separate crashes occurred in Cass County, one at around 4:30-p.m. at the Wiota Exit (Exit 64), involved multiple vehicles and blocked both lanes. Anita and Wiota Rescue responded to the scene, along with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office and Iowa State Patrol. Atlantic Fire and Rescue and Medivac Ambulance along with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office and ISP responded to a crash near the Highway 71/Atlantic Exit (Exit 60), late Monday morning. Another crash blocked I-80 westbound between Exits 110 and 113 (DeSoto and Van Meter. Other accidents were reported on I-80, near Avoca.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Attorneys for Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz and his neighbors say they’ve settled a dispute over a private road and the coach’s refusal to join a homeowner’s association. A trial was scheduled to start Tuesday in the dispute that pitted Iowa’s highest-paid public employee and his wife against the three other families who live on Saddle Club Road outside Iowa City.
Neighbors filed a lawsuit after the Ferentzes refused to join a homeowners’ association and ignored a $9,500 assessment for road repairs. Neighbors say the Ferentzes trespassed by erecting privacy fencing and landscaping in the shared easement and roadway. Homeowners’ association attorney Adam Tarr says his clients “look forward to working with the Ferentzes instead of against them.”
The Ferentzes’ attorney, Mark Roberts, says, “the neighbors will all be glad to resolve this matter without a trial.”
Despite many challenges in the ag industry, the new president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association says he looks forward to the opportunities ahead in 2018. Gregg Hora (HORE-uh) of Fort Dodge replaces the retiring president Curtis Meier, of Clarinda. Hora says this is an exciting era to be raising hogs in Iowa. “The pork industry has been changing with the times, modernizing our facilities, the way that we house our pigs, the efficiencies and the health status of what we do with our pigs in the barns,” Hora says. “Part of that in this structured change is worker safety and worker productivity. We have new technologies that we’re implementing on the farms.”
One of his primary objectives is making more improvements across the industry in the year ahead. “Some of our goals have to do with continued training and education of our members from the environmental perspective, what we do around our farms and what we do around our pig buildings,” Hora says. “The PQA or pork quality assurance and the trucker quality assurance or TQA are two important aspects that we do with all of our farm workers.”
Hora says it’s vital that pork producers are good neighbors in their communities, calling the pork industry the bedrock of rural Iowa. He says the state’s pork industry continues to have annual growth of two-to-three percent which he calls a job creator. We always talk about efficiencies as an important aspect but consistent improvement is another aspect,” Hora says. “Iowa Pork, along with a number of different ag organizations, continue to have leadership training programs where we’re talking about quality improvements.”
Hora is a contract grower with three finishing sites in Webster County. He finishes 25-thousand hogs per year and raises corn and soybeans on nearly 2,000 acres. He is also the president for the Webster County Pork Producers.
(Radio Iowa)
Today: P/Cloudy to Cldy w/snow developing this afternoon. High 13. SE @ 10.
Tonight: Light snow. (1-2” new accum. Possible) Low 8. V @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cloudy. High 20. W @ 5-10.
Thursday: Mo. Cloudy. High 28.
Friday: Mo. Cloudy w/light snow. High 23.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 15. Our Low this morning was -13. We received 3 inches of snow Monday, which melted into .53″ liquid value. Last year on this date our High was 48 and the Low was 30. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 54 in 1966, and the Low was -27 in 1982.
Governor Kim Reynolds is signalling she’s likely to approve Republican legislators’ plan to provide a one percent increase in general per pupil support of Iowa’s public school. That’s a roughly 32 million dollar boost — less than the 54 million dollar increase Reynolds recommended last month.
The governor says this decision won’t be the last on school funding. She says “I think we can make it work, but I think it’s part of a larger picture and I don’t think you can talk about it in isolation. That’s the problem with funding. I mean, it’s not just one little piece. There’s a lot of additional funding that will be appropriated to school districts all across the state.”
Republicans in the legislature are debating how much to forward to schools to help cover transportation costs, particularly rural schools with bus routes that cover large geographical areas. There’s also discussion among Republican lawmakers about extending the statewide one-cent sales tax that is set to expire in 2029. That money is used to finance school infrastructure, but schools say they’ve already used most of those taxes as collateral for building projects underway.
(Radio Iowa)
BOYS BASKETBALL
Alta/Aurelia 71, OA-BCIG 49
Fremont Mills, Tabor 57, Clarinda 49, OT
Stanton 66, Lenox 26
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Atlantic vs. Creston-Orient-Macksburg, ppd.
Boyer Valley, Dunlap vs. Coon Rapids-Bayard, ccd.
Greene County vs. Winterset, ppd. to Feb 10.
IKM-Manning vs. MVAO-CO-U, ppd.
Paton-Churdan vs. Ar-We-Va, Westside, ccd.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Fremont Mills, Tabor 62, College Springs South Page 33
Lenox 43, Stanton 26
Red Oak 71, Southwest Valley 51
South Sioux City, Neb. 62, Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 47
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Atlantic vs. Creston, ppd.
Boyer Valley, Dunlap vs. Coon Rapids-Bayard, ccd.
IKM-Manning vs. MVAO-CO-U, ccd.
Paton-Churdan vs. Ar-We-Va, Westside, ccd.
West Central Valley, Stuart vs. Glidden-Ralston, ccd.
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