OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three of nine current and former Omaha Tribal officials who admitted using federal funds to give themselves bonuses have been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay restitution. The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal reports that former members Mitchell Parker and Amen Sheridan and current member Jeff Miller were given five years of probation at their sentencing Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. Parker and Sheridan were ordered to pay more than $13,400, and Miller was ordered to pay more than $40,200. They’d pleaded guilty.

Prosecutors say the former and current officials misused federal funds by awarding nearly $389,000 in bonuses to themselves. Officials say the bonuses were paid from Indian Health Service funds meant to provide health care to members of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, who reside on the Omaha Reservation in Macy in northeastern Nebraska and in western Iowa.

HOLSTEIN, Iowa (AP) — After six decades of construction, an expansion project to build a four-lane expressway across northern Iowa is finished. The Des Moines Register reports that a ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Friday in Holstein for the completed U.S. Highway 20 corridor. The corridor now extends 302 miles (486 kilometers) to connect Sioux City with Fort Dodge, Waterloo and Dubuque. Road widening of the expressway’s first 3-mile section started in 1958. But the remaining miles have taken 60 years to complete.

Gov. Kim Reynolds and Rep. Steve King will join Iowa Department of Transportation officials in celebrating the alternative to the often-congested Interstate Highway 80 across Iowa’s midsection. Shirley Phillips is president of the U.S. Highway 20 Corridor Association, a lobbying group representing communities along the route. Phillips says members are ecstatic and never thought they’d see the project’s completed.

ACKLEY, Iowa (AP) — A trial has been rescheduled for a central Iowa man accused of locking his 8-year-old son in a basement. A judge granted the delay for 30-year-old Alex Shadlow. He and 39-year-old Traci Tyler have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping charges. Authorities say the boy was locked up for at least 9 hours a day last summer in a space under the basement stairs at the couple’s Ackley home. Authorities say the couple withheld food from him and made him endure dog bites. He slept on concrete and had no access to a bathroom.

Shadlow’s new trial starting date in Dickinson County is Jan. 7. The trial was moved there because of trial publicity in Hardin County. Tyler’s trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 5 in Cerro Gordo County. Shadlow had requested separate trials , citing the likelihood that his defense would conflict with that of Tyler.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports an Avoca woman turned herself-in to the Sheriff’s Office Monday afternoon. 38-year old Carolin Sue Mills was arrested on a warrant for Probation Violation, and turned over to Corrections Staff. An inmate at the jail, 23-year old Cody James McAuliffe, of Council Bluffs, was served with a warrant Monday morning, for Violation of Probation. He was then returned to the custody of Corrections Staff.

The Atlantic Police Department has released a report containing numerous arrests. On Sunday, 39-year old Bridget Barnholdt, of Atlantic, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance (Marijuana), and on a Cass County warrant for OWI/2nd offense. Also arrested Sunday, was 18-year old Robert Mwalia, of Atlantic, for Public Intoxication.

On Saturday, 26-year old Carly Seddon, of Atlantic, was arrested for Disorderly Conduct, Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree, and Trespass/1st offense. Last Friday, 23-year old Shawn Jensen, of Atlantic, was arrested for Public Intoxication and Disorderly Conduct. On Oct. 11th, 18-year old Rene Cole, of Atlantic, was arrested on Cass County warrants for Burglary in the 3rd Degree, Theft in the 3rd, and Conspiracy to Commit a Non-forcible felony.

On Oct. 10th, 25-year olds Curtis McCoy and Jacob Sweeney, both of Atlantic, were arrested for Burglary in the 3rd Degree, Theft in the 3rd, and Conspiracy to Commit a Non-forcible felony. And, 56-year old Paul Hansen, of Atlantic, was arrested for Assault Causing Injury, and Criminal Mischief in the 5th degree. On Oct. 7th, 24-year old Nicholas Renner, of Atlantic, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault. The previous day, 19-year old Parrish Wright, of Atlantic, was arrested for Attempted Burglary/3rd degree (Vehicle related). Wright was cited into court and released.

On Oct. 2nd, 28-year old Justine Jacobs, of Atlantic, was arrested for Disorderly Conduct, and on Oct. 1st, 27-year old Kawaichy Alafen, of Atlantic, was arrested for OWI.

Police in Glenwood report two recent arrests, and three, non-injury accidents. On Monday, 29-year old Levi Charles Daniels, of Bellevue, NE, was arrested on a warrant for 5th Degree Theft. His bond was set at $300. And on Sunday, 33-year old Jeremiah Louis Roenfeld, of Malvern, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. His bond was set at $1,000.

The accidents occurred Oct. 10th, 13th and 14th, and involved the following drivers: Eugene Murdock, of Glenwood, who was cited for Failure to Obey a Stop sign, and Lora Haefele, of Bellevue, NE; Benjamin Mouw, of Council Bluffs; Samantha Joslin and Tevis Langel, both of Glenwood. Again, no injuries were reported in any of those accidents.

Exira-EHK Superintendent Trevor Miller had some good news to report during Monday evening’s school board meeting. He said the District was up 13.46 students with concurrent classes factored-in. That means more money for the District next year. Miller also discussed the District’s financials. He said their Unspent Authority went up, and the District is staying at its 19-percent ratio, which is good, because the State’s fluctuate is between 5 and 15, so it looks better for the next few years, because school officials assumed enrollment would be going down. That, he says, always helps with the complicated school finance formulas.

In other news, the Exira-EHK Board awarded Viking Construction of Exira, the contract for the roofing and siding of the Weight Room building. Work on the project will likely begin later this Fall or Winter, depending on the weather. They also approved the Special Education Report to the state, which showed a positive ending near the end of the fiscal year instead of a negative deficit. Also approved was the district’s Certified Annual Report (CAR), along with the Transportation report.

INWOOD, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man died in a northwest Iowa farm accident. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office says the accident occurred Friday on a farm northwest of Inwood. The office says 59-year-old Paul DeBoer was operating the machine when it rolled over and pinned him. DeBoer was pronounced dead at the scene.

More State and area news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Construction has begun on a world-class skate park in downtown Des Moines after years of fundraising. The Des Moines Register reports that ground was broken Monday for Lauridsen Skatepark. Officials say the skate park will be the second-largest in the country, with 65,000 square feet of skating surface. It covers five-acres of riverfront land just northeast of Wells Fargo Arena.

The park was first proposed in 2004, but raising the $3.5 million needed was slow going. A recent $1 million donation from Nix and Virginia Lauridsen and a $400,000 grant from Prairie Meadows helped push the total raised to $3.3 million, and donations are still being sought to cover the remaining $200,000.

The park will have a lower level pedestrian walk, a plaza, a downhill snake run and several skate bowls and pools for skateboarders.