(Radio Iowa) – About 100 workers at the Cargill plant in Cedar Rapids are on strike. The Teamsters contract for workers at the corn milling plant in Cedar Rapids expired at midnight Monday. The union sought a three-dollar-an hour pay increase over the next three years and rejected the company’s lower offer.

Cargill is a privately owned company and Cargill’s C-E-O says the marketplace is extremely challenging right now and company officials say they’re hopeful negotiations will yield a contract agreement in the near future.

The Teamsters say wages the Cargill plant in Cedar Rapids is below pay at other local plants and workers are striking for a fair wage increase.

(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports numerous recent arrests. On Tuesday, Oct. 1st:

• 53-year-old Crystal Alaine Conley, of Creston, was arrested at around 1:30-a.m,. for OWI/1st offense. She was later released on a $1,000 bond.
• 25-year-old Noah Alexander Young, of Creston, was arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. He was later released on his Own Recognizance after being seen by Magistrate.
• 22-year-old Zoe Paulette Marie Hull, of Creston, was arrested at her residence. Hull was charged with Violation of No Contact/Protective Order – Contempt, and Interference with Official Acts. Hull was taken to Union County Jail and later posted at $600 cash bond.
• 22-year-old Christopher Gage Selvy, of Creston, was Tuesday for Violation of No Contact/Protective Order – Contempt. Selvy was taken to Union County Jail and later released on a $300 bond.
• and, 45-year-old Christopher Lee Breece, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. Breece was cited and released from the scene on a Promise to Appear.

At around 12:10-a.m. Wednesday (Oct. 2nd), Creston Police arrested 31-year-old Michael Douglas Dean Kirkpatrick, of Edmore, Michigan, for OWI/1st offense. He was released after posting a $1,000 bond.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports six arrests took place over the past week:

• 37-year-old Stephanie Nicole LeMaster, of Macedonia, was arrested Sept. 24th for Possession of Controlled Substance, Accommodation-Marijuana and Possession of Controlled Substance (Bond $3,000).
• 60-year-old Hilario Villalobos Velazquez, of Omaha, NE, was arrested Sept. 27th for OWI/1st offense (Bond $1,000).
• There were two arrests on Sept. 28th in Mills County: 26-year-old Jeremy Jacob McCoy, of Tabor, and, 23-year-old Colton Jay Hale, of Red Oak, were each arrested for OWI/1st offense. Their bonds were set at $1,000 each.
• On Sept. 29th, Mills County Deputies arrested 47-year-old Gabbriel Diaz-Baeza, of Omaha, NE, for OWI/1st offense. His bond was also set at $1,000.
• And, on Sept. 29th, 55-year-old Stacy Aleen Newman, of Pacific Junction, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault with the Intent/1st offense; Reckless use of a Firearm; Criminal Mischief – 5th Degree, and Obstruction of Emergency Communication. Newman was being held without bond in the Mills County Jail.