Officials with the Audubon County Emergency Management Office report a bridge replacement project on 200th Street in Audubon County will require the closure of 200th Street, between Dove and Eagle Avenues (Douglas Township sections 22 and 27).

Work on the project will begin tomorrow (Tuesday, September 19th), weather permitting. The bridge will be replaced with a culvert. The project is expected to take about four-to-six weeks to complete.

Officials are asking emergency response teams to plan alternate routes. Anyone with questions is asked to contact the County Engineer at 712-563-4286.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Administrators say a swastika was carved into an elevator on campus at Drake University in Des Moines and a racist message left outside an African-American student’s dorm room in a cowardly attack.

The Des Moines Register reports that the message was left on a whiteboard on the door of a first-year student over the weekend. In an email to students Sunday, Drake University President Marty Martin called the content of the message “the most offensive of racial epithets” and the vandalism “cowardly.” He says the markings and message have been removed.

Martin encouraged anyone with information about the vandalism to report it.

Two passengers in an SUV were injured Sunday night, when their vehicle was rear- ended by another SUV on northbound Interstate 29 in Mills County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2015 Ford Explorer driven by 36-year old Russell D. Hill, of Omaha, rear-ended a 2000 Ford Explorer, driven by 43-year old Jeremy Ewoldt, of Persia. The accident happened at around 9:33-p.m. Sunday, near mile marker 42.

Following the collision, Hill’s SUV came to rest in the median, facing south. Ewoldt pulled his SUV onto the right shoulder of I-29 and stopped. Two passengers in his Explorer were transported by EMS to a local hospital. Their names were not immediately available.

The accident remains under investigation.

A collision between a car and an SUV Sunday night in Mills County, sent two people from Nebraska to the hospital. The Iowa State Patrol reports the drivers of the vehicles, 42-year old Ko Be, and 23-year old Johnathan Lindeman, both of Omaha, were transported to Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs and the UNMC in Omaha, respectively, with Lindeman transported to the UNMC by LifeNet, and Ko Be transported to Mercy, by Pacific Junction Rescue. Both drivers were wearing their seat belts.

The Patrol says Ko Be was traveling north on Interstate 29 at around 10:15-p.m., when Be fell asleep at the wheel of a 2007 Toyota Highlander. The SUV struck the rear of a 2002 Ford Escort, driven by Lindeman, near mile marker 34.5, causing the Ford to leave the road to the right and rollover, before coming to rest on the edge of a farm field.

The Toyota also left I-29 and came to rest near the edge of a farm field.