The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest just before 9-a.m. today (Tuesday), of 36-year old Deena Morales, of Corning. Morales was charged with Harassment and brought to the Adams County Jail, where her bond was not set.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest just before 9-a.m. today (Tuesday), of 36-year old Deena Morales, of Corning. Morales was charged with Harassment and brought to the Adams County Jail, where her bond was not set.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A judge says the second trial of a Sioux City man charged with murder will be held in Council Bluffs. On Friday the judge granted 48-year-old Elias Wanatee’s request for a change of venue, citing pretrial publicity. The judge said Monday the trial will be held in Pottawattamie County District Court, starting Feb. 28.
Wanatee’s first trial ended in a mistrial in December after jurors couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. Wanatee is charged with first-degree murder in the Feb. 17, 2016, stabbing death of 50-year-old Vernon Mace in Sioux City. There were no eyewitnesses, and police never found the weapon. Defense attorney Jason Dunn has suggested that Wanatee acted in self-defense.
An Iowa State University agricultural economist believes there may be an opportunity for a modest price rally for commodities during the spring. Chad Hart says this year is looking very much like last year, and farmers will need to strike while they can to capitalize on any potential price rally. “We look at prices that time versus now, we’re up on the corn side a little, we’re up on the soybean side by about a dollar fifty. That’s despite having record crops this past year,” Hart “Well, that speaks about this demand that continues to build and work through these crops. And hopefully as we sort of found last year, as we worked through the spring of 2016 we sort of saw a price rally from April to June, and we’ve got the potential to do the same thing over again as we look into 2017.”
Analysts believe the South American crop production will also be good this year, but Hart says it, too, is resembling last year when flooding damaged some of the crops. That’s already showing up in the markets. “We’ve added about 50 cents to the soybean price…so far this year and this month. The South American soybean crop looks big — but can they get it out of the fields, will they be able to — that uncertainty is helping to raise prices right now,” Hart says.
The Iowa State University Extension Grain Marketing Specialist says producers, and trading partners are watching closely the actions of the Trump administration on trade, as it will play a big factor in the prices as well. ‘That is where we are seeing the biggest growth in that demand, and that’s going to be, let’s call it an issue that the administration is going to have to wrestle with over the entirety of the Trump administration — how to continue to promote and grow agricultural trade as we renegotiate some of these trade agreements,” Hart says.
So much of U-S agricultural trade depends on the value of the dollar in foreign nations. Hart says the value of the dollar has been on the increase, however, trading partners have not been deterred from purchasing U-S grown commodities. Hart says he’s hearing that the dollar will continue rise in the coming months, but the demand for the commodities to feed animals is driving the price despite what’s happening with the value of the dollar.
Hart suggests farmers to look at perhaps conducting some forward contracting to take advantage of price rallies when they occur.
(Radio Iowa)
ORANGE CITY, Iowa (AP) – A woman has been given five months in jail and four years of probation for injuring a toddler at her northwest Iowa day care. Sioux County prosecutors say Dianna Winder, of Maurice, was sentenced Monday. She also was given a suspended prison term of five years. A jury had found her guilty of felony child endangerment causing injury and misdemeanor assault causing injury.
The incident leading to the charges occurred on Nov. 11, when the 15-month-old boy’s mother pick him up and noticed marks on his face. The mother says Winder said she didn’t hit the boy.
LaVon Eblen visits with Cass County Naturalist Lora Kanning about Cass County Conservation events.
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Audubon Police Chief Matt Starmer reports a 17-year old female was referred to juvenile authorities, Sunday, on a charge of simple assault. The unidentified teen was cited and released to a parent. And, 24-year old Kyle Christopher Larson, of Audubon, was arrested Sunday for Domestic Abuse. Larson was transported to the Audubon County Jail and held pending an appearance before a magistrate.
The proposed Elite Octane, LLC Ethanol plant in Atlantic, is not going to happen. The Cass County Board of Supervisors were scheduled Wednesday morning, to act on approving a Development Agreement between the County and ethanol plant officials that would have authorized $8.5-million dollars in Tax Increment Payments. The agreement would have also Pledged Certain Tax Increment Revenues to the Payment of the Agreement, but Nick Bowdish, President of N Bowdish Companies, which represents the ethanol group investors, told KJAN News they reached an impasse over discussions about the amount the plant would pay for electricity, and have informed Board Chair Gaylord Schelling and Auditor Dale Sunderman, the deal is dead. (Click on the left side of the audio players below to hear comments)
Steve Tjepkes, Atlantic Municipal Utilities General Manager told KJAN News last week, that the AMU Board declined to approve a request from Elite Octane to reduce their electrical rate to 5.6-cents per kilowatt hour. Elite Octane officials told the Board that if they were unable to get that rate, AMU should transfer its service territory to Mid-American Energy, which likely can charge 5.5-cents per kwh. Tjepkes says the AMU Board voted against transferring the service territory to Mid-American because of a contractual obligation AMU has with its regional power provider.
Bowdish said since there’s no chance of getting a reduced rate, he’s “Out of ideas,” on how to make the project work.
Bowdish said the company could have explored “self-generation” of electrical power, but that would have been too costly.
He says from this point, he’s stepping back from involvement in the project.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) – A man from Lebanon has been arrested in connection with a scheme to smuggle guns purchased in Iowa to his country. Federal authorities arrested 42-year-old Fadi Yassine this week as he got off a flight in New York City. He made a court appearance Monday in Brooklyn, New York and will be transferred to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to face charges of conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control act.
Four Cedar Rapids residents with ties to Lebanon were sentenced to prison for their role in the conspiracy last year. Investigators say that Yassine purchased guns in Lebanon that the Iowa residents had shipped there, and told one of the conspirators which guns to purchase. Yassine is also accused of giving one of the conspirators $30,000 cash to buy more guns.
RONALD EUGENE PLUMB, 83, of Olathe, KS, died Jan. 20th, in Olathe. A Celebration of Life for RONALD PLUMB will be held 11-a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18th, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home, in Harlan.
Visitation at the funeral home is from 10-until 11-a.m., Saturday (Feb. 18th.)
Burial will be in the Harlan Cemetery.
RONALD PLUMB is survived by:
His wife – Twyla [Savereide] Plumb, of Olathe, KS
His daughter – Peri Anne (Dennis) Marquardt, of Overland Park, KS.
and 3 grandchildren.
The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports a traffic stop Sunday resulted in the arrest of two Atlantic men. 26-year old Uriah Simeon Joiner, of Atlantic, was arrested for OWI/2nd Offense and Possession of Marijuana/1st Offense. And, 33-year old Mike Wayne Henson, of Atlantic, was arrested on a charge of Possession of Marijuana/1st Offense. Both men were booked into the Cass County Jail and released later in the day, Sunday, on their own recognizances.
Last Saturday, Cass County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 26-year old Zachary Michael Bagshaw, of Cumberland, on a charge of OWI/1st Offense. Bagshaw was taken to the Cass County Jail and released later that day on his own recognizance.
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