The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports one person was seriously injured Sunday afternoon, after a car rear-ended a pickup pulling a trailer. Officials says the driver of the car, 35-year old Chad Newberg, of New Market, was transported by LifeNet helicopter to the Nebraska Medical Center following the crash. A report on his condition is not currently available.

The accident happened at around 4-p.m. west of Highway 2 near J Avenue, northwest of Yorktown. Authorities say 63-year old Terry James Dammann, of Clarinda, was legally parked on the shoulder of Highway 2, sitting his vehicle and making a phone call, when a 2000 Mercury Cougar car driven by Newberg plowed into a trailer being pulled by Damman’s 2012 Ford F-150. The trailer was hauling a golf cart, which was destroyed in the crash.

Dammann suffered non-life threatening injuries during the accident. He was transported by Shenandoah EMS to the Shenandoah Medical Center. Newberg’s car was totaled in the crash. The damage to Damman’s vehicle, trailer and golf cart amounted to $8,500. The accident remains under investigation, and charges are pending.

Officials with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach looking to hear from Iowans about how Iowa State in partnership with counties can best serve citizens, is holding a town hall meeting today (Monday), in Atlantic. The meeting begins at 10:30-a.m. in the Cass County ISU Extension and Outreach Office, located at 805 West 10th Street (next to the Cass County Community Center). It’s one of five such meetings scheduled to occur around the state.  The other meetings will take place in Ames, Storm Lake, Oskaloosa and Waterloo.

Cathann Kress, ISU Extension and Outreach vice president, and Terry Maloy, Iowa Association of County Extension Councils executive director, will participate in the conversations with Iowans. Kress says they want to gather feedback about what they’re doing well, where they need to improve, and what needs to be addressed.  She says  “All Iowans – citizens, community leaders, decision makers, partners, staff and extension council members – are welcome” to attend the meetings.

For more information about the town hall meetings or specific locations, please contact the Guthrie County Extension and Outreach Office at 641-747-2276.

A Council Bluffs man died during a motorcycle accident Saturday, near Underwood. According to Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker,  38-year-old Joshua Suhr, who was not wearing a helmet, died Sunday, after being flown by helicopter to Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha. The accident happened at around 6:20 p.m. Saturday near Pott. County Road L-34 and Sumac Road.Wintesses told authorities two southbound motorcycles traveling on L-34 passed them at a high rate of speed. Suhr, who was on one of the cycles, apparently wasn’t able to negotiate the curve near Sumac Road, and lost control of the vehicle.

A Red Oak man was arrested Sunday afternoon on a Possession of Controlled Substance/Marijuana, charge. Officials with the Red Oak Police Department report 50-year-old Anthony Ambrose Hill was taken into custody in the 800 block of North Broadway Street, in Red Oak. Hill was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $1,000 cash bond pending an appearance before the magistrate.

During their second face-to-face debate, Republican Congressman Steve King and his Democratic challenger, Christie Vilsack, disagreed over the size and scope of the federal food stamp program. King argued the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP is being abused by recipients. “We had a fellow that bailed himself out of jail with his EBT card, his Electronic Benefits Transfer card. e have tattoo parlors that in neon lights advertise that they’ll tattoo you and you can pay for it with your Food Stamp card,” King said. “Now we have to do something about this.”

Vilsack defended the food stamp program, citing recent statistics indicating hunger among children had increased by four percent in Iowa. “We have a moral obligation to make sure that we take care of people,” Vilsack said. “But the most important thing about SNAP is that…14 cents of every dollar for SNAP goes into the pocket of a farmer.” King favors cutting the food stamp program by 16-billion dollars over the next five years and he accuses Democrats of trying to “grow the dependency class” by expanding the food stamp program.  “We’ve watched the numbers of people on food stamps go from 19 million up to at least 44.7 and maybe as many as 47 million people in just a few years and we’re watching the Department of Agriculture spend millions of dollars to advertise to get more people to sign up for food stamps,” King said. “Now that doesn’t demonstrate, necessarily, a need. Wants are not necessarily needs.”

Vilsack’s husband, former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, runs the U.S. Ag Department that administers the food stamp program.
“Ninety-three percent of the people who get SNAP payments are senior citizens, they’re children who are hungry and they’re working poor,” Vilsack said. “So I’d like to know, Congressman King, which of those people you want to refuse SNAP payments to.” King offered this response: “Nobody in this room believes that 93 percent of the food stamps go to senior citizens unless you redefine senior citizens,” King said, getting applause from his supporters in the crowd and boos from Vilsack’s. “So we saw a lot of this on Thursday night. There’s nothing to rebut and I’d be happy to answer the next question asked from a panelist.”

King and Vilsack met in their first debate last Thursday. Saturday’s event was held at the Clay County Fair in Spencer before a live audience. The start of the debate was delayed until after the conclusion of the Iowa/Iowa State football game.

(Radio Iowa)

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa man with an extensive criminal history has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for robbing a Sioux City bank.  Prosecutors say 53-year-old Stephan Hall, of Sioux City, was sentenced to 125 months in prison for robbing the First National Bank on Feb. 13th.  Authorities say he entered the bank and changed $2 into coins. He then re-entered the bank and handed the same teller a note and fled with money.  Prosecutors say Hall was arrested after authorities quickly identified the robber and discovered his planned escape route, which included a flight out of Omaha, Neb.  Hall spent some of his childhood at a state facility for juvenile delinquents. Later he was convicted of robbery, assault, burglary, escape, domestic abuse and gun possession.

The Iowa State Patrol says  a central Iowa woman was seriously injured during a crash Saturday morning, in Pottawattamie County. Officials say 69-year old Bonnie Irene Frowick, of Des Moines was flown by Life Net helicopter to Creighton University Hospital in Omaha, following the crash at around 8-a.m. Saturday on Interstate 80 westbound, just west of the I-29/I-680 split.

The accident happened as a 2000 Ford Focus driven by Frowick was traveling east in the westbound lanes of I-80 near the 27.5-mile marker. A semi, driven by 22-year old Daniel Lee Rivas, of Los Angeles, CA, was westbound on I-80 and saw the approaching car traveling in the wrong direction. Rivas attempted to swerve into the right lane to avoid a collision, but another semi was already in that lane, making the transition impossible.

Rivas’ semi, registered to Schneider National Carriers, Inc., hit the car, causing significant damage to both vehicles, which remained in the left lane for about 2-hours, until they were removed, and the lane re-opened to traffic.

Sheriff’s officials in Mills County says a combine harvesting corn north of Silver City, Saturday, may have sparked a field fire that resulted in several acres being burned. Authorities said volunteer firefighters from Mills County and surrounding areas responded to the blaze near 287th and Cary Road. No buildings were damaged, and no injuries were reported.

Police are looking for two men robbed a gas station in Council Bluffs early Saturday morning.

On Saturday shortly after midnight, officers responded to a reported robbery at the Lake Manawa BP Gas Station on Veterans Memorial Highway in Council Bluffs.

Subsequent investigation revealed that two suspects entered the gas station with one suspect armed with a handgun.  They demanded money from the cash registers and stole an undermined amount of cash as well as cigarettes and a phone.  The suspects then fled the area.

A nearby witness saw the suspects get into a red car which they said might be an early 2000’s model Mitsubishi Eclipse or Eagle Talon with Nebraska plates.  The suspects fled the scene traveling west on Veterans Memorial Highway.

One suspect was described as being a black male wearing a black or navy hoodie with dark sweatpants and a purple bandana over his face.  The second suspect is described as being a black male wearing a gray hoodie with light gray sweatpants and a purple bandana over his face.

No injuries were reported with the robbery.