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(Creston, Iowa) – Police in Creston report the arrest Monday afternoon of a man wanted on a Union County warrant. 43-year-old Garrett Ashley Harper, of Creston, was arrested at around 4:42-p.m. on the warrant for Harassment 3rd Degree. Harper was taken to the Union County and held without bond until seen by a Magistrate Judge.
(Johnston, Iowa) – Officials with the Iowa Army National Guard have announced the official homecoming ceremony of the 1133rd Transportation Company, following their successful mission in Poland. The Guard says “The dedicated men and women of the 1133rd, based out of Mason City and Iowa City, have been home with family, loved ones and friends for the past 90 days. This upcoming official ceremony will be in correlation with a Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program, that promotes well-being of Service Members and their families.” The Ceremony takes place at the Waterloo Convention Center on Saturday, Dec. 2nd, beginning at 8:30-a.m.
The 1133rd Transportation Company, consisting of approximately 160 Soldiers, deployed to Poland on 6 Nov. 2022. Their mission focused on providing critical logistical support, transportation services, and assistance to the local communities during times of need. Their efforts have been instrumental in enhancing the overall response capabilities and stabilization in the region.
During their deployment, the 1133rd Transportation Company showcased their exceptional skills, adaptability, and teamwork logging more than 1.5 million miles driven over the course of 10 months. The media, public and families are encouraged to attend to show support for this great group of men and women with the Iowa National Guard.
DETAILS:
What: Approximately 160 Iowa Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 1133rd Transportation Company, headquartered in Mason City with a detachment in Iowa City, will be honored in a formal welcome home ceremony.
When: Saturday, Dec. 2 at 8:30 a.m.
Where: Waterloo Convention Center, 200 W 4th St, Waterloo, IA 50701
JASPER COUNTY, Iowa — An arrest has been made in the deadly August crash that killed a 17-year-old girl from Montezuma. According to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office, 18-year-old Benjamin Kelne, of Grinnell, faces involuntary manslaughter and reckless driving charges, among others, in the rollover crash that happened Aug. 26 in the 5300 block of Jewel Street. Kelne was also charged with possession/purchase of alcohol, careless driving and failure to maintain control.
Chloe Hutchcraft, a 17-year-old senior at Montezuma High School, was Kelne’s passenger. She was taken to a Des Moines hospital by medical helicopter, where she died two days after the crash.
CLINTON, Iowa — A lottery player has 2 million reasons to be thankful after buying a Powerball ticket over the holiday weekend. According to the Iowa Lottery, someone purchased a ticket in Clinton that won $2 million in the Nov. 25 Powerball drawing. The ticket was sold at Clinton Liquor, 1641 S. Bluff Blvd., and matched the first five numbers (27-33-63-66-68 ) but missed the Powerball (9). The player added the Power Play option, which doubled the $1 million prize. The ticket sold in Clinton was the only one in the country to win a $2 million prize Saturday, the Iowa Lottery said in a news release.
Prizes above $250,000 must be claimed in person at the Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.
There are now two unclaimed $2 million prizes in Iowa. The other Powerball ticket worth $2 million was sold in Tiffin for the Oct. 7 drawing. The next biggest unclaimed prizes in Iowa, as of Nov. 27, are two $50,000 Powerball winners — one sold in Adel and one sold in Des Moines.
(Radio Iowa) – A lawsuit is claiming an insurance company involved in a 97-million dollar medical malpractice judgement used the record-setting verdict as propaganda to persuade Iowa lawmakers to enact tort reform. The lawsuit suggests the family involved was willing to settle the case out of court for an amount covered by the company’s medical malpractice insurance policy.
The lawsuit was filed by three doctors who own an O-B-G-YN clinic in Coralville. It accuses a Minnesota insurance company of acting in bad faith and trying to force the clinic to declare bankruptcy.
(Radio Iowa) – Most Iowa farmers are out of the fields and now doing end of the season maintenance on their combines. The U-S-D-A crop report shows just a few farmers still combining corn in southern Iowa. Last week’s report showed twelve percent of the corn in south-central Iowa remained to be harvested, while all the other districts had less than four percent remaining.
The corn harvest ends up nine days ahead of the five-year average. Farmers will be hoping for more moisture from now until spring, as the crop report shows only 33 percent of the state with topsoil moisture that’s adequate and only 26 percent of the subsoil moisture condition is rated adequate.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Environmental Council has found Iowans will pay 333 million dollars over the next five years to remove nitrates from drinking water supplies if nitrogen pollution rates don’t change. Alicia Vasto is the water program director for the Iowa Environmental Council. The group has reviewed data from the state agency that issues permits for construction and operation of livestock confinements. “Our report outlines the costs of agricultural pollution, particularly from livestock operations here in Iowa, for everyday Iowans,” she says.
Vasto says the costs are eye-popping and include treatment for life-threatening health conditions. “Nitrate pollution is linked to increased incidences of cancer and a report just earlier this year found that Iowa has the second highest rate in the nation for overall cancer incidence,” Vasto says, “so there’s a growing body of research that is saying the drinking water standard for nitrate is not actually protective enough for these long term health risks.”
A Stanford University study found the risk of premature births doubled among women whose drinking water contained nitrates. The Iowa Environmental Council’s report concludes every Iowan is paying direct or indirect costs associated with nitrates. “When the nutrients in that manure or in that fertilizer can’t be taken up by plants, it leaves the farm fields and enters in our waterways,” Vesto says, “so that contamination can be very costly in terms of health care costs or drinking water costs, but also just costly to quality of life.”
According to the U-S Environmental Protection Agency, more than 250 new livestock confinements were built in Iowa in 2022. The Iowa Environmental Council cites state records which indicate there are more than nine-thousand a animal feeding operations in Iowa of various sizes. “There can be major spills or leaks from manure storage systems,” Vesto says, “but most of the contamination that is problematic is from the application of manure to farm fields.”
Vasto notes that every state agency is reviewing all state rules and regulations and that includes the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, which oversees confined animal feeding operations. “We should be keeping in mind that when we loosen regulations, costs will increase for everyday Iowans,” Vasto says, “but if we increase enforcement and regulations we can help prevent some of those costs.”
It costs a lot to remove nitrates from drinking water. It costs the Des Moines Water Works 10-thousand dollars a day to operate its nitrate removal facility when nitrate levels are high.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa D-N-R is easing off the collection of information on bobcats and otters in the state as it appears the two species are doing well. D-N-R furbearer biologist Vince Evelsizer says they had been collecting teeth samples from trappers who caught the animals. “So as to keep an eye on the age distribution of otters and bobcats. Make sure we were not over harvesting those species. So, for now we are taking a break from doing that,” he says. Evelsizer says they will still keep an eye on the populations in other ways. “We see either otters or Bobcats dip and start to go down with their population then we’d start asking them to collect keys for aging purposes again to see what kind of age distribution we have,” Evelsizer.
Evelsizer says the re-emergence of both bobcats and otters is a good thing for the state. “They’re considered to be a basically a wildlife success story for both of them, otter and bobcats are both doing well,” he says. “Bobcats came back into Iowa on their own and otters were reintroduced into Iowa.” Bobcats got a lot of attention and reports to the D-N-R as they started showing up more and more in the state.
Otters and bobcats are a comeback success story in Iowa. (DNR photo)
Evelsizer says people seemed to be more used to seeing them now, and it is fun when they are spotted. “They’ll get a lot of neat reports from land owners and homeowners that see them on their trail cameras or their surveillance cameras and stuff and are usually pretty excited to see a bobcat,” he says. “You know, they’re fairly secretive animal and so when they see one on their cameras, they have a chance to see one that was on their property. Maybe it’s a nice daylight photo.”
The D-N-R says otters were reintroduced in Iowa in 1985 and by 2006 had spread statewide. Bobcats had been an endangered species until their numbers started rebounding and a limited bobcat season began in 2007.
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) – Sioux City Police say one man has died after a pursuit Sunday night ended in a crash. According to the Sioux City Police Department, at about 7:50 p.m. Sunday officers tried to stop a 2014 Dodge Charger that was reported stolen earlier in the day.
Police say the driver, later identified as 24-year-old Gunnar Lee Kratz of Sioux City, refused to stop for police and a pursuit began. Police say the pursuit went through the west and north sides of Sioux City. At about 8 p.m. police say Kratz lost control of the car and crashed in the 1700 block of Floyd Blvd. The crash closed that area of Floyd Blvd for several hours.
Kratz was taken to a local hospital where he later died from injuries he received in the crash.
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