The Creston Police Department reports a local woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a Union County warrant for Assault. 20-year old Mandee Barnes, of Creston, was taken into custody at around 1:45-p.m. and subsequently released on a $300 bond. And, 19-year old Isaac Hayes, of Johnston, was arrested in Creston a little 12-a.m. today (Wednesday) on a Guthrie County warrant for Probation Violation. Hayes was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting transport to Guthrie County.

Creston Police said also, a woman living in an apartment in the 100 block of Manor Drive, in Creston, reported on July 5th, that sometime between July 2nd and 4th, her debit card was fraudulently used to purchase digital downloads from Microsoft through her old XBox account. The loss was estimated at $25.

PIERCE, Neb. (AP) – A pilot has been flown to an Iowa hospital after the crash of his crop-dusting plane in northeast Nebraska. The Pierce County (Nebraska) Sheriff’s Office says first responders were sent around 2 p.m. Tuesday to a field 7 miles west and 2 miles north of Pierce. The plane was spraying fields before the crash.

The unidentified pilot was taken to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City for treatment. The Sheriff’s Office says the plane is owned by Bloomfield Ag & Aerial Service. The cause of the crash is being investigated.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa City man accused of having sex with an incapacitated woman has taken a plea deal. Court records say 26-year-old Nathan Schloss pleaded guilty Monday to five counts of invasion of privacy and one count of assault without intent to cause serious injury. Prosecutors dropped 35 other counts in exchange for Schloss’ pleas. His sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 14.

Authorities say Schloss sexually abused the woman between May and September 2013 and recorded the encounters. Police say officers discovered the videos after Schloss turned in a hard drive to show them a video of his former roommate torturing a cat. The roommate received probation.

University of Iowa researchers say they’re finding cancer-causing chemicals in some older Iowa schools. Children may be exposed to airborne P-C-Bs in schools that were built between 1950 and the mid-1970s. P-C-Bs were banned in 1979. Keri Hornbuckle, a U-I professor of civil and environmental engineering, says they expected to find more airborne P-C-Bs outside of schools. Hornbuckle says, “We were surprised to find that many schools have indoor concentrations of PCBs that is much higher than outside, suggesting that there are direct sources of these chemicals inside of schools.”

Hornbuckle says likely sources include old caulking around windows and fluorescent light fixtures. Replacing those materials can reduce the concentration of P-C-Bs in a school. Hornbuckle says it’s long been known P-C-Bs are in some foods and that’s how scientists expect children take in most of those chemicals.  “Our study showed that inhalation of PCBs in their schoolrooms could also be another large source of PCBs,” she says. “Our estimation is that it could be similar to that that they get from their food.”

The report says P-C-B levels found so far in Iowa schools are below what’s considered dangerous by the Environmental Protection Agency, but Hornbuckle says they’re high enough to be concerning.

(Radio Iowa, w/thanks to Katarina Sostaric, Iowa Public Radio)