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Iowans who are looking for full-time work and students who need a summer job can find plenty of options through a state agency. Jennifer Andrade, at Iowa Workforce Development, suggests starting with the website future-ready-iowa-dot-gov. “You can take a look at the job description, what are the day-to-day responsibilities for that career, what training might be required for it, who are the employers in your area that would hire for that or are hiring right now,” Andrade says. “It will tell you typical wages in your area, your region or across the state, how many people might be retiring out of that position so, what the future demand is going to be.”

Another program that’s designed to help job-seekers is called the Iowa Registered Apprenticeship program. “Our young people go to college, the traditional format, and gain a lot of student debt and may or may not get a good paying job after college,” she says. “The Registered Apprenticeship model offers a way to work for a business, start earning wages from day one and the business is investing in the apprentice to provide that technical training and education as well as that on the job experience under a mentor.”

For more information, visit iowa-workforce-development-dot-gov.

(Radio Iowa)

Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County are investigating another incident of Theft. Authorities say an incident was reported Friday evening at the Parkwest Mini-Storage, located in the 1900 block of G Avenue, where a 2001 Honda 300-EX SportstraX (4-wheel ATV) was stolen from a storage unit. The theft happened sometime between May 21st and the 26th. The loss was estimated at $3,500.

This is the stolen ATV

On Friday we reported that at around 6:30-a.m. Wednesday, Montgomery County Deputies responded to a reported burglary at a construction site in the 1700 block of 200th Street (on the west edge of Red Oak). Several tools were removed from the company’s construction trailers.

Anyone with information about either of the incidents is asked to call Crimestoppers at 1-888-434-2712, or the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office at 712-623-5107. You can remain anonymous. Crimestoppers may pay a reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to an arrested and conviction.

Police in Red Oak, Friday morning, arrested a man for allegedly Harboring a Runaway. Authorities say 43-year old Tracy Brian Schooling, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 10:30-a.m. and brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where his bond was set at $2,000.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A driver could be facing a $10,000 bill after he plowed into newly poured concrete in Lincoln, Nebraska, and became stuck.

The accident occurred Wednesday on a portion of a road repair project in the state capital. Police spokeswoman Angela Sands said Friday that police won’t cite the driver, 19-year-old Shadrach Yasiah. A police incident report says it wasn’t obvious that the concrete wasn’t dry and that Yasiah drove a 2009 Honda Civic into it through a 24-foot gap between traffic control cones.

(Photo by Mike Palm, The City of Lincoln Public Works and Utilities Department via AP)

City engineer Thomas Shafer says the driver is responsible for the repairs. He says the contractor estimated it will cost more than $10,000 to pay for removing the car, scraping out the ruined slurry, repouring more and finishing it. Social media images of the vehicle showed it had license plates out of Cass County, Iowa.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:45 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police have announced murder charges against two people already being held on other charges in connection with the January killing of a Des Moines man. Des Moines police say 50-year-old Ricky Hascall and 26-year-old Monica Fagan were each charged Friday with first-degree murder in the January death of 31-year-old Michael Huckleberry. Hascall and Fagan have been jailed since February on robbery charges in connection with Huckleberry’s death.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An attorney who served as counsel to Gov. Kim Reynolds when she was No. 2 to former Gov. Terry Branstad has been named the state’s next public defender. Larry Johnson Jr. will replace Adam Gregg, who was appointed acting lieutenant governor on Thursday. Reynolds also announced Friday that Mark Lowe, interim director of the Iowa Department of Transportation, will now be in the job permanently. Katie Averill will serve as superintendent of the Iowa Division of Credit Unions.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for forcing another vehicle off the road and stealing the occupant’s purse, as well as passing forged checks. The Sioux City Journal reports that 42-year-old Stephanie Dunscomb pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree theft and forgery. Police say Dunscomb used her vehicle to force another vehicle off the road in Sioux City on May 5, then stole the victim’s purse. Police say she also stole and forged checks in November.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A group has proposed building greenhouses along railroad tracks in Iowa’s capital. The Des Moines Register reported that a New York architect and a local venture capitalist met with the Des Moines City Council this week to share their plans for downtown. They say the project could take 20 years to build and could cost tens of millions of dollars, but that it would meet demands for locally grown food and provide research space.

Officials with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office late Friday night, released information on their social media page about a chase and two arrests that occurred Thursday night. Authorities say a Deputy with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office attempted to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation. The suspect vehicle then fled and a pursuit continued until the vehicle stopped in a farm field near the intersection of Orange Road and 800th st. Apprehended at the scene was the driver identified as 37 year old Jessie Jay Kirchner, from Burlington Iowa and 31 year old Marcia Alicia Finch, of Harlan Iowa.

Kirchner is charged with eluding, possession of controlled substances, carrying of weapons, possession of drug paraphernalia, theft, and driving under suspension. He was being held in the Shelby County Jail on a $20,000 bond.

Finch is charged with probation violation warrants, possession of controlled substances, possession of drug paraphernalia, and theft. She was being held in the Shelby County Jail, on a $25,000 bond.

The Shelby County Sheriffs’s Office was assisted by the Harlan Police Department and Medivac Ambulance.

More than 24-hundred hogs died in a fire at a hog confinement in northwest Iowa’s Plymouth County. Fire fighters from five communities fought the blaze, which was reported at about 10:30 Friday morning.

According to Kingsley Fire Chief Paul Huth, the hog barn was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived on the scene. He says the barn is totally gone. Huth says an electrical exhaust fan is what is being blamed for the fire’s origin. “The owner…had done chores in the other building and he smelled smoke…That’s when he realized a fan was engulfed [in flames]…It was blowing fire into the building and that’s what started it all,” Huth says.

The Kingsley fire chief says the fire burned for a couple of hours before firefighters were able to bring the blaze under control.

(Radio Iowa)

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for forcing another vehicle off the road and stealing the occupant’s purse, as well as passing forged checks. The Sioux City Journal reports 42-year-old Stephanie Dunscomb pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree theft and forgery.

Police say that on May 5, Dunscomb used her vehicle to force another vehicle off the road in Sioux City, then approached the victim’s vehicle. Police say she reached through a partially open passenger-side window to open the door and steal the victim’s purse, which held a wallet and checkbook.

Police soon found Dunscomb’s vehicle broken down with the victim’s purse inside it. Police say Dunscomb also stole a billfold from a home in November and later forged checks from it.

In an update to our earlier reports, the Iowa State Patrol says a Cass County man was injured during an accident that took place at around 4:15-a.m. today (Friday), southwest of Cumberland. 26-year old Devin Anthony Boots, of Anita, suffered severe head and neck injuries was transported by Medivac Ambulance to the Cass County Memorial Hospital, and then flown by LifeNet to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, after the 1999 Toyota Corolla he was driving on westbound Highway 92 (Richland Road), for reasons unknown, crossed the center line of the road and struck the driver’s side of a utility trailer being pulled by an eastbound 1998 Chevy 1500 pickup. The accident happened near the intersection with 660^th Street.

After the impact, the Toyota went out of control and spun sideways before it entered the south ditch and rolled over, striking an embankment. The car came to rest on its wheels facing southeast. The driver of the pickup, 24-year old Nicodemus Xavier Lane, of Atlantic, was not injured.

The accident remains under investigation. Crews with the Cumberland and Massena Fire and Rescue Department and Deputies with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene.