*Results are unofficial until canvassed by the Board of Supervisors  (**Winners)

All the results (including uncontested races) can be seen HERE:

CITY OF ANITA

Mayor (elect 1):

Ben Daughenbaugh                              96**

Kevin Littleton                                       57

City Council At-Large (elect 2):

Mark Harris                                         116

Cheryl Sokol                                         146**

Roger L. Huffman                               146**

CITY OF ATLANTIC

City Council Ward 3 (elect 1):

Pat McCurdy (I)                                    49

Mike McDermott                                  211**

City Council Ward 4 (elect 1):

Linda J. Hartkopf (I)                          89

Shawn Sarsfield                                   158**

CITY OF LEWIS

Mayor (elect 1):

Rick Sanny 37

Russell Hansen 80**

City Council At-Large (elect 3):

Roy O. Wheatley  53**

Betty F. Auten      48

Russell L. Miller  36

Leland M. Baxter  13

Ryan Lockwood    56**

Larry W. Perdue, Jr.   35

Donna Roberts  82**

ATLANTIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

Director At-Large (elect 3)

Kristen Holoday                       386

Gini Jordan                               765**

Jordan Dailey                           257

Jodi Stowater-Goodrich         510**

Laura McLean (I)                     612**

(Sac City, Iowa) – Officials with the Sac County Attorney’s Office report a man from Lytton was sentenced Monday to four consecutive 10-year prison sentences, after being convicted on four Class-C felony counts of Lascivious Acts with a Minor. According to the report, the victim of Antonio Pharms was under the age of 14 when the offenses were committed.

Pharms was ordered by District Court Judge Derek Johnson, to immediately begin serving his sentences, the maximum allowed by law. He was also be placed on the Iowa Sex Offender Registry for the remainder of his life.

The crime was investigated by the Sac County Sheriff’s Office and prosecuted by Sac County Attorney Ben Smith.

Publicly accessible court file information on this and other cases, can be found HERE.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – Officials with the Red Oak Police Department report the arrest at around 11-a.m. Tuesday, of  a man wanted on a Red Oak P-D warrant for 5th Degree Theft.  32-year-old Cody Robert Cunningham, of Grandview, MO., was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 cash bond.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – Police in Glenwood report a man from Glenwood was arrested today (Tuesday), for Possession of Marijuana/3rd offense. 58-year-old Ralph Springs was being held in the Mills County Jail on a $2,000 cash or surety bond.

DES MOINES, IA – The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports that on November 2, 2023, a Des Moines man was sentenced to 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to the crime of transportation of child pornography and two additional years for violating his term of federal supervised release.

In 2022, Adam Christopher Evans, 39, amassed an extensive collection of child sexual abuse material. Over several months, Evans stockpiled over 500 images and 69 videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children, including infants and toddlers.

In 2021, Evans was convicted in federal court of failure to register as a sex offender. He was required to register as a sex offender because of a 2011 conviction for sexual exploitation of a minor under Iowa law. Evan’s supervised release was revoked, and he was sentenced to two years consecutive to his 32-year sentence.

Following his prison term, Evans will be required to serve 10 years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

Homeland Security Investigations and the United States Probation Office investigated this case. Assistant United States Attorney Laura M. Roan prosecuted the case.

The case was prosecuted as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s “Project Safe Childhood” initiative, which was started in 2006 as a nationwide effort to combine law enforcement investigations and prosecutions, community action, and public awareness in order to reduce the incidence of sexual exploitation of children. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc and click on the resources tab.

The Holocaust Rails exhibit at the Sioux City Railroad Museum has become a busy place for student tours. Lou Ann Linblade help create the exhibit that is a replica of the cattle cars that the Nazis used to transport European Jews to concentration camps.

The exhibit opened in the fall of 2022 and Linblade says they offer a special lesson plan to teachers based on the exhibit displays.

The exhibit was created as part of “Tolerance Week” and includes photos of Holocaust camp prisoners and video displays, along with numerous items donated by concentration camp survivors and their families.