A juvenile female who ran away from the Clarinda Academy Tuesday afternoon, was apprehended less than  one-half hour after she was reported missing, not far away from the Academy campus. The Clarinda Academy is a residential foster care facility that provides residential treatment to at-risk and delinquent male and female youth from several states.

Page County Sheriff Lyle Palmer said Tuesday, that the Sheriff’s Office was notified the Native American female was missing at around 2:34-p.m. She had been missing for an hour prior to the facility notifying Law Enforcement.

Personnel from the Sheriff’s Office conducted a search of the area to the west of P Avenue on 190th Street after receiving a phone call a little after 2:30-p.m. from an observant citizen.  Just before 3-p.m., personnel from the Sheriff’s Office located the juvenile on 190th Street approximately .4 mile west of N Avenue, or about 4.5 miles from the Clarinda Academy grounds.  She was apprehended without incident and transported back to the Clarinda Academy where she was turned over to Academy staff.

The run-a-way report was taken by the Clarinda Police Department.  The Page County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Clarinda Police Department and observant citizens of rural Page County.

The Harlan Police Department reports two people were arrested after officers were called to a disturbance at 2104 Lincoln Avenue, Monday. 35-year old Kristina Namanny and 19-year old Justin Dickinson, both of Harlan, were taken into custody and transported to the Shelby County Jail where Dickinson was charged with domestic abuse assault with strangulation. Namanny was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and prohibited acts penalties.

Last Friday, 26-year old Chasta Keys, of Harlan, was arrested following a traffic stop. Keys was taken to the Shelby County Jail where she was charged with driving under suspension and operating a non-registered vehicle. Keys was previously arrested Feb. 2nd as well, on an active warrant out of Council Bluffs. On that date, she was transported to the Shelby County Jail where she was also charged with driving under suspension and cited for operation of a motor vehicle without registration.

On Feb. 5th, 44-year old Larry Lange, of Harlan, was taken into custody when officers were called to an unconscious male in 1400 block of 7th Street. Lange was taken by ambulance to Myrtue Medical Center where he was cleared to be taken to the Shelby County Jail. Lange was charged with intoxication in public and disorderly conduct.

And, on January 29th, Harlan Police were called to the scene of an assault that took place in the 500 block of Main Street. As a result of the investigation a complaint was filed with the Shelby County Clerk of Court charging 38-year old Jason Anderson, of Walnut, with assault for allegedly striking Judden Flanery.

AMES, Iowa (AP) – An audit is questioning whether Iowa State University President Steven Leath violated policy by storing and transporting firearms in campus housing and airplanes without written approvals. A Board of Regents report says ISU has no documentation that Leath applied for and received waivers required to bring guns on school property. Leath stores firearms at the president’s mansion, the Knoll, and has brought them on university planes to hunt during fundraising trips.

University policy bans weapons, without advanced approvals for storage and transportation. The report says Leath received verbal approval to store weapons at the Knoll following a campus police inspection.

ISU says Leath believed that approval also applied to transportation and that documentation likely existed but couldn’t be found due to administrators’ retirements. Leath’s obtaining a new waiver. The audit came after the Bleeding Heartland blog reported in November that Leath’s hunting trips likely violated the weapons policy.

Iowa State University expects to lose tens of thousands of dollars unloading an airplane it purchased 2 1/2 years ago for his President Steven Leath’s travel. A notice seeking a broker to handle the sale says Iowa State will likely list the 2011 Cirrus between $429,000 and $480,000, and is willing to negotiate to have it sold within 90 days.

That range is less than what a university statement called the “exceptional price” of $498,000 it paid in 2014 – before the broker gets paid a likely five-figure fee. Such depreciation wouldn’t be unusual. But Leath told reporters in December that he expected to make money or break even on the planned sale, announced the day an audit found he used it for a mix of official and personal business.

The Atlantic City Council, Wednesday evening, has a full agenda to work through. They’ll start out at 5:30-p.m. in their chambers at City Hall, with a Public Hearing with regard to signage for a local roofing and siding company whose office is at 700 Walnut Street. Business owner Scott Prociw, on Feb. 1st, requested a hearing about issues he has with the City requiring him to remove four large signs on his property, that just happen to be blocking the view of a building to the south, where Mayor Dave Jones has his insurance office. Three other businesses are also located in the same building as Jones’ office.

The issue is whether the signs are legal under the City Zoning Ordinance. The City claims no permit was submitted prior to the signs being erected, that the minimum elevation does not meet 10-feet, and that there is a limit of two signs on the property. Prociw obtained a permit in January for a sign currently exists on the building itself. Under the Code, at least three of the other signs must be removed. City Administrator John Lund is expected to recommend the Council take no action on the matter, and instead allow Prociw to request a meeting of the Board of Adjustment, at a cost to him of $150. He could also request multiple variances costing $200 each, according to Lund. If Prociw does not want to state his case in front of the BoA, Lund will recommend the signs in the parking lot be removed.

In other business, the Council will act on an order to Adopt the Proposed FY 2018 City of Atlantic Budget, and set the date/time for a Public Hearing on Budget as March 1st, 2017, at 5:30-p.m.  The final budget must be submitted to the State of Iowa by March 15th. The proposed budget amounts to just under $12.5-million, which is a decrease over the FY 2017 budget of 14.78%, or more than $1.847-million.

The Budget calls for a property tax increase of 1.48-percent.

The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Wednesday, will hear from a representative with Wellmark Insurance, with regard to the FY2016 Group Health program, and act on renewal of the program for FY2018. The Board will also act on appointing a Weed Commissioner for March 2017 through February 2018, and set the date for a Public Hearing on the FY-2017-18 Cass County Budget. The meeting begins 8:30-a.m. Wednesday in the Supervisors’ Board Room at the Cass County Courthouse.

In Greenfield, the Adair County Board of Supervisors meeting gets underway at 9:30-a.m. (which is 1/2 hour later than normal), in the Court Room at the Adair County Courthouse. During their session, the Board will discuss and/or act on Township Clerk wages, receive follow-up correspondence from/with the DNR, with regard to Solid Waste, and hear from Wellmark representative Lacie Litton, with regard to Health Insurance Renewal.