(Red Oak, Iowa) – A traffic stop at around 12:30 this (Thursday) morning north of Villisca, resulted in a pursuit with speeds exceeding 122-mph, and ended with the arrest of a man from Pottawattamie County. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says Deputies initiated the traffic stop at the intersection of Highways 71 and 34. During the stop, the driver, Robert Christopher Greenwood, of Council Bluffs, fled, with deputies pursuing him north on Highway 71. Greenwood’s vehicle ran out of gas and came to a stop in Lyman.

Greenwood was arrested with assistance from the Montgomery County K-9 Unit, Cass County Sheriff’s Office and the Adams County Sheriff’s Office. He was treated at the scene by Griswold Rescue. Greenwood faces charges that include Felony Eluding (a Class-C felony), Driving While Barred, and Interference with official acts.

He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $10,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) – The University of Iowa received approval Wednesday to make improvements to two key buildings. U-I Vice President Rod Lenhertz asked the Board of Regents to approve the design to build out the seventh floor of the Stead Family Children’s Hospital to expand the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. “It would add an additional 28 NICU patient rooms and all support spaces that are also present on the sixth floor,” he says. The seventh floor was left as a shell when the hospital was built in anticipation of future expansion. Lenhertz says the project is projected to cost 41 million dollars and will be funded by University Hospitals building usage funds. Lenhertz also requested permission to approve the design plans to restore the third floor ballroom to the Iowa Memorial Union. He says the ballroom space was needed for the art department after the 2008 flood.

“That ballroom was reconfigured and redesigned after 2008 as a temporary museum space. All with the understanding that upon our completing our Stanley Museum of Art, which is complete and has been active obviously, we would return that space for use for our student life and I-M-U folks,” he says. Lehnertz says the ballroom was a popular place for student events and to rent out for other events before the flood.

” It’s 51-hundred square feet serves as many as 300 visitors and we will return that space back to its pre-flood state. It’s a two-point-four million dollars project and we would start construction on that this spring,” Lehnertz says. The work on the ballroom restoration is expected to be completed in the fall. The University of Iowa also received approval to plan a new parking ramp west of the College of Dentistry. The ramp would hold between one-thousand and 12-hundred parking stalls with an estimated project budget of 55 to 60 million dollars.

(Red Oak, Iowa)  – Police in Red Oak report two men were arrested on separate charges, Wednesday. A little after 7-p.m., 24-year-old Brandon Lane Good (no address given) was arrested following a report of a possibly intoxicated driver in the 1600 block of W. Broadway, in Red Oak. Officers located the vehicle in the 200 block of E. Hammond Street. Good was taken into custody for OWI/2nd offense, Child Endangerment, and Driving While Revoked. His bond was set at $2,000.

And, at around Noon, Wednesday, Red Oak Police arrested 30-year-old Collin Scott McClung, of Carson, for Harassment in the 3rd Degree. McClung was taken into custody in the 100 block of W. Coolbaugh Street, and was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa [KCCI] — Drake University is set to announce its initial recommendations for major budget cuts on Friday. In November the college projected it would need to make more than $10 million in cuts to balance its budget. Drake says that figure is now about $6 million after the college generated some savings ahead of the coming fiscal year. The school cites a decline in student enrollment as the primary factor driving the cuts.

Now, months later, the college will be sending emails to faculty, staff and students announcing where it will be looking to make the cuts. Faculty who could be let go will find out Friday morning. The rest of the students and faculty will learn what programs the college is recommending to be cut or changed on Friday afternoon.

There will be several months of meetings about the recommendations before final cuts are made in May.