SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday for a 30-year-old man accused of killing another man in the northwest Iowa community of Sloan. The Sioux City Journal reports Timothy Schroeder has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, going armed with intent and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Prosecutors say Schroeder shot to death 29-year-old Dustin Wilder at Wilder’s home on Jan. 9, 2015.

The City of Atlantic’s Planning and Zoning Commission will meet this (Tuesday) evening in the Council’s Chambers at City Hall. On the agenda for their 5:30-p.m. session, is the consideration of two alleys to be vacated. In the New Business portion of their agenda, the Commission will discuss the proposed vacating of an alley located between Birch and Locust, and 13th and 14th Streets.

The alley was the subject of a dispute between two property owners. During a civil lawsuit that City was involved in, Judge James Richardson failed to overturn the City’s opinion that the alley was a property alley, and therefore would have no reason to maintain the strip of land. City Administrator John Lund says since the Judge did not specify WHO owns the land, the City is back to square one, with no idea who owns it. In the absence of such a determination, he says, it is assumed the City has some jurisdiction. If the Commission does not object, the City, according to Lund, feels it would be reasonable to abandon any claim or title to the affected strip of land.

Old Business will include discussion pertaining to the vacating of an alley west of 1315 Birch. At their last meeting on June 14th, the matter was tabled because the Commission had questions for City Administrator John Lund, who was not able to attend the meeting, and out of concerns for neighbors.

In the City’s analysis, it was noted officials inspected the property and proposes that only the southern part of the alley, south of the creek, be vacated. Lund recommends the Commission pass a motion to abandon part of the alley, or the entire alley, depending on a response from abutting property owners.

Police in Creston arrested four people on separate charges, Monday evening. 22-year old Patrick Iiams, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center (LEC) on a Union County Warrant for Violation of Probation on original charges of Public Intoxication 3rd or Subsequent, 5 counts of Assault on Persons in Certain Occupations – Bodily Injury, and for Violation of Probation. Iiams was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting a bond hearing.

23-year old Brittony Miller, of Creston, was arrested at her home Monday, on a Union County Warrant for Violation of Probation on an original, Possession of a Controlled Substance, charge. Miller was being held in the Ringgold County Jail while awaiting a bond hearing.

30-year old Juan Gonzalez, of Creston, was arrested Monday on a charge of Driving While Barred. He was later released from the Union County Jail on $2000 bond. And, 19-year old Keegan Williams, of Creston, was arrested Monday evening on two Union County Warrants for Failure to Appear on original charges of  Theft 4th degree and Violation of Probation. Williams was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting a bond hearing.

Iowa Lottery spokesperson, Mary Neubauer, says they are sending out a reminder for you to be sure to check all of your tickets as a big prize in the Mega Millions game has not been claimed. “It’s starting to be a little unusual,  but there is certainly plenty of time for whoever won this prize to still come in and claim it,” Neubauer says. “But it has been more than a month now since somebody won a million-dollar Mega Millions prize here in Iowa, and whoever won hasn’t come forward yet.”

The winning ticket was  at a Kum & Go store on Ashworth Road in West Des Moines. “It won the million-dollar prize in the drawing on May 20th.  That ticket came just one number away from having a share of the jackpot that night,” Neubauer says. She says prizes sometimes go unclaimed, and they don’t want that to happen in this case.

Neubauer says if you have a ticket that you haven’t checked yet, you should take a look at it to be sure it is not the winner. Winners have one year to cash in a winning ticket after the drawing. The ticket was the third one purchased in Iowa to win a prize of at least one million dollars in 2016. The winner of the prize has to claim it at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.

(Radio Iowa)

LUCAS, Iowa (AP) – Authorities have released the name of a woman who died after a horse she was riding fell on her. The accident occurred Saturday afternoon at Stephens State Forest near Lucas in south-central Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says 58-year-old Carole Renaud, of Lacona, was riding with a friend when the horse lost its footing and fell. It landed on top of Renaud. Renaud was flown to a Des Moines hospital, where she later died.