For the second time in less than a week, a female from Creston has reported the theft of an Apple Watch from their school locker. Thursday night, a woman reported her son’s Apple Watch was taken from a locker at the Creston High School. The incident happened sometime between 4:30-and 6:30-p.m., Thursday. The watch was valued at $250. On Friday, a female from Creston reported to Police that sometime between 4:30-and 7-p.m. Thursday, someone stole a Series 1, black, Apple Smart Watch from her locker, at school. The watch was valued at $250. No arrests have been reported.

Sioux City’s 185th Iowa Air National Guard Refueling Wing has received a special honor. Base Commander Colonel Larry Christensen announced at the 185th Headquarters that they’d won the “Outstanding Unit Award.” He says the award is not only a reflection on the unit, but also the community and the support they give. Christensen says this is the 9th time the unit has earned the award, and this one is for the 2015 to 2016 time period. Christensen says that seems like a long time ago, but he says it takes them some time to evaluate the units.

The 185th’s main mission is mid-air refueling, flying and maintaining eight K-C-135R Stratotanker aircraft. They have personnel stationed all over the world on a constant rotational basis and some will soon go on a new mission: “We’re currently in South America, Africa, the Middle East, but we shift every once in a while. And we are going to have a shift here shortly,” Christensen says. “We’ll continue to deploy where we are at, but we will also move over towards the Pacific, over towards Guam,” Christensen says.

The 185th Air Guard unit is comprised of over 900 full and part time members.

(Radio Iowa)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man in central Iowa has claimed his $1 million prize in the Powerball lottery game. Iowa Lottery officials say George Dickerson, of Colfax, bought a ticket on Dec. 30 that eventually ultimately the first five numbers of that night’s drawing but missed the Powerball number and, thus, the jackpot. Dickerson bought the ticket at a Kum & Go convenience store in Colfax.

The jackpot eventually climbed to nearly $560 million. A lone Powerball ticket sold in New Hampshire matched all six numbers Saturday night, one day after another single ticket sold in Florida nabbed a $450 million Mega Millions grand prize.

Police in Council Bluffs attempted to make a traffic stop at around 1:30-a.m. today (Monday), ended-up witnessing an accident. They’re looking for a person in the vehicle who was allegedly responsible for the collision. Authorities say Police tried to conduct a traffic stop in the 1200 block of 5th Ave on a 2007 Chevy Monte Carlo with an expired registration. As the officer went to stop the vehicle it made an abrupt turn north bound on South 12th Street. The car left the roadway and struck railroad tracks belonging to the Union Pacific Railroad. When the vehicle became disabled on the tracks, a male front passenger fled on foot from the scene.

Officers conducted a high risk stop on the vehicle. The parties from the vehicle were detained for further investigation. They were later released from the scene.  The party who ran from the vehicle had reportedly grabbed the steering wheel causing the vehicle to crash. As of this report he has not been located.  The vehicle had to be towed from the scene. Union Pacific Railroad was contacted and representatives came to the scene to check the tracks for damage. It does not appear as if the tracks were damaged.

Anyone with information in reference to this case is encouraged to contact the Council Bluffs Police Department at (712) 328-4728 or Crime Stoppers at (712) 328 – STOP (7867).