The Iowa State Patrol has released additional information about a crash that happened Saturday afternoon on Interstate 80, west of Adair. Officials say a 2004 Buick LeSabre driven by 68-year old Linda Weston, of Audubon, was traveling west on I-80 at around 1:30-p.m., when for reasons unknown, the car drifted to right. Weston over-corrected, sending the vehicle across the westbound lane and into the median, where it rolled multiple times before coming to rest upside down and bursting into flames. The fire was quickly extinguished.

Weston, and her passenger, 96-year old Clarence Pfundheller, of Audubon, who were wearing their seatbelts, were injured. Weston was transported by Anita Rescue to the Cass County Hospital and then by Midwest Medair helicopter to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. Pfundheller was flown from the scene by LifeNet helicopter to Methodist.

Deputies with the Adair and Cass County Sheriff’s Offices, and crews from Anita and Adair Fire and Rescue Departments assisted at the scene.

The Creston Police Department reports three people were arrested over the weekend. Saturday evening, 34-year old Krystal Smith, of Creston, was arrested on a Union County warrant for Failure to Appear, on an original Possession of Drug Paraphernalia charge. Smith was being held in the Ringgold County Jail on a $300 bond. Early Saturday morning, Creston Police arrested 21-year old Mason Wagaman, of Creston, for Criminal Mischief in the 4th Degree, and 21-year old Godofredo Rodriguez (Address unknown), for Public Intoxication. Both men were later released on bond from the Union County Jail .

And, last Thursday morning, a Creston resident reported to police that his debit card was used without permission, to make numerous transactions at various retailers. The card was used between Nov. 2nd and 3rd. The loss was estimated at $1,250.

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There’s an urgent call for Iowa families to open their homes to take in foster children and to adopt. Bambi Schrader, recruitment supervisor for Iowa KidsNet, says there’s a critical need for families to shelter sibling groups, teenagers and children who are older than eight-years-old. “We have about 4,000 children in the foster care system,” Schrader says. “In 2015, there were 2,560 children referred into foster care. Unfortunately, we only have about 2,100 foster homes across our state right now so we’re in desperate need.”

There’s a continual waiting list for children in Iowa seeking “forever homes.” “A lot of times children are waiting longer in shelters or residential treatments or unsafe situations or there are being multiple children placed into a home where they might’ve only taken one or two children, now they have three or four,” Schrader says. “We want to make sure each child has their own unique home that meets their needs.”

For many children in foster care, it could take three years to be adopted. She says there’s a need for every type of family as kids come in all types. “We need everything from two-parent households to single-parent households, same-sex couples,” Schrader says. “We need some older couples that maybe aren’t looking to adopt but would take an infant that we want to reunify.”

Private adoptions may take several years and tens of thousands of dollars, but she says state adoptions through Iowa KidsNet are essentially free. The adoption process may take six months and it includes a home study, 30-hours of classwork and a background check. “Having lots of money or having a nice, fancy home is not what the kids need,” Schrader says. “They need people who care about them. They need people who love them. They need people to be there after school and people who will say, ‘No, you’re wearing that to school. Go change your clothes,’ or put discipline into their lives. A lot of our kids don’t have that or when they do have it, it was done in a harmful way.”

More than 23,000 children age out of the foster care system nationwide every year. Last year in Iowa, 39 children aged out with no family or permanent home. Learn more at www.IowaKidsNet.com or by calling 800-243-0756.

(Radio Iowa)

A traffic stop this (Monday) morning in Red Oak resulted in a Clarinda man being arrested on drug and other charges. 25-year old K.C. Franklin Liles was arrested at around 1:30-a.m. for Possession of a Controlled Substance-Marijuana/2nd offense, and Driving While Suspended. Liles was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 cash bond.