The Audubon Community School District’s Board of Education met Monday evening, and learned from Superintendent Dr. Brett Gibbs, that their certified enrollment numbers are down this school year. Gibbs said the numbers were certified for the State on Oct. 15^th. (Click on the left side of the audio bar to listen)

Gibbs said projections indicate they’ll drop a little bit again next year, as well, but they numbers will work their way back up as their larger classes start working their way through.

Since the certified count day on Oct. 15^th, they’ve picked up six more students, and Gibbs says they can only hope they stay until next year so they can get payment from the State for them. Gibbs said the Certified Enrollment is only part of the equation his and other districts use to set their budget.

Gibbs said if there’s no increase in State Aid, with the current enrollment that would amount to a loss of almost $140,000 for the district. Without firm numbers being set two-years ahead by the legislature, he it makes it difficult to determine a budget for reductions and savings to compensate for the decline in funds.

SIDNEY, Iowa (AP) – A former city official in southwest Iowa accused of falsifying drinking water quality tests has made a plea deal for probation. Online court records say 36-year-old Mark Travis pleaded guilty Monday to knowing discharge of a pollutant. Prosecutors dismissed a charge of felonious misconduct in office. The records say Travis was sentenced to a year of probation and fined $625. He also was given a deferred judgment. Under a deferred judgment, Travis’ record will be cleared of the conviction if he successfully completes the probation.

Authorities say Travis falsified Sidney’s monthly operation reports given to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources from 2009 to 2015.

Police in Council Bluffs are investigating a case of attempted murder. Authorities say at around 9:30-p.m. Tuesday, officers were dispatched to 125 Park Avenue for a report of shots fired. Officers arrived and located several persons involved in the incident standing outside the residence. An investigation determined an unknown male arrived outside the home in a light colored four door car.  The man got out from the back of the vehicle and displayed a revolver type handgun before firing several rounds at two males standing outside the home.

One round entered the home, which was occupied by several people. No one was injured. The suspect then fled the area in the vehicle he arrived in. Detectives located the victims of the incident and interviewed them.

The investigation is ongoing by the Criminal Investigation Division. Anyone with any information that was in the area at the time of this incident is encouraged to contact this Division at 712-328-4728 or they may call Crime Stoppers at 712-328-7867.

Police in Creston arrested a woman on drug charges, Tuesday night. 18-year old Jazzmyn Casteel, of Creston, was arrested just after 10-p.m. following a traffic stop. She faces charges that include OWI 1st, Possession of Paraphernalia and Possession of a Controlled Substance. Casteel was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1000 bond.

And, at around 3:50-p.m., Tuesday, 27-year old Terry Hankins-Lund, of Osceola, was arrested at 901 N. Elm Street in Creston, for Public Intoxication. Hankins-Lund was being held in the Union County Jail on a $300 bond.