The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports a traffic stop at around 5-p.m. Tuesday in the 2300 block of Highway 71, resulted in the arrest of 64-year-old David Carroll, from Villisca. He was charged with OWI/1st offense with a .147 BAC. Carroll was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 cash bond.

Police in Red Oak say three juvenile females were arrested Tuesday afternoon, following an incident that occurred as classes were dismissing for the day at the Red Oak High School. Authorities report Police were notified about a fight that happened at the High School. After a brief investigation, a 15-year-old female was arrested for Assault and Disorderly Conduct. another 15-year-old female and a 17-year-old was arrested for Disorderly Conduct.

All the teens were cited into Juvenile Court and released to their parents.

(Radio Iowa) – Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says some college student groups have made atrocious statements in support of Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel this month, but the answer isn’t to blacklist students.  “They’re students. Sometimes they do silly things. They do dumb things,” Ramaswamy says. “That’s part of what maturation in college is all about.” Ramaswamy says companies have a right to decide not to hire those students, but Ramaswamy says, as a free speech advocate, he believes it would be more productive to have a conversation with those students.

“I think the right answer to bad speech, especially on a college campus, isn’t suppressing that. it’s more speech,” Ramaswamy says. “It’s actually showing why those ideas are wrong.” Ramaswamy, a critic of cancel culture, has spent more time campaigning in Iowa than his primary Republican rivals. One of his leading proposals is a proposed constitutional amendment to raise the voting age to 25 — with exceptions for young adults who enter the military, work as a first responder or take the test immigrants take to become citizens.

Ramaswamy says if that policy had been in force in 2003 — when he turned 18 — he may have become “far more engaged” in politics. Ramaswamy, who is 38, told the Wall Street Journal he has cast ballots in two presidential elections — voting for a libertarian in 2004 and voting forTrump in 2020. “Keep in mind that when the voting age was lowered to 18, it was in the context of the draft for the Vietnam War and so that made immense sense at that time,” Ramaswamy says. “Today, we don’t have a draft, but I do think that we have also lost our sense of civic duty.”

Ramaswamy says his proposed constitutional amendment would make citizenship mean something. Ramaswamy calls Donald Trump the best president of the 21st century, but he suggests it’s time for the G-O-P to choose a younger nominee in 2024. “How are we going to reunite this country and take our ‘America First’ agenda even further? And I think it’s going to take a member of the different generation to do it,” Ramaswamy says. “…I’m young. I have fresh legs. I can reach that next generation and I am reaching that next generation more so than any other candidate in this race.”

Ramaswamy, a former hedge fund analyst, is the founder of companies focused on the development of prescription drugs. Ramaswamy has so far used about 15 million dollars of his own money on his campaign. After the first two televised debates, Ramaswamy saw an increase in donations of less than 200 dollars from individuals. He got two-point-eight MILLION dollars in campaign contributions from that group of donors in the last fundraising quarter.

(Radio Iowa) – The 10 acre site in Ottumwa where a hospital was demolished in 2019 is under new ownership. St. Joseph’s Hospital in Ottumwa closed in 2015. The Des Moines-based firm called Blackbird Investments acquired the property the same year and announced plans to build housing on the site. After the hospital’s demolition, the lot remained vacant.

According to the leader of a non-profit involved in negotiations, the new owner also plans to convert the site into residential property. The vacant lot has been purchased for an undisclosed price by LifePoint Health. It’s the parent company of Ottumwa Regional Health Center, the 217-bed hospital in Ottumwa.

(Radio Iowa) – Ottumwa police are investigating a fatal stabbing that happened Monday night. Police were called shortly before 11 p-m on the report of a stabbing and officers found a man outside the home. The man identified as 34-year-old Samuel Gallegos-Ramirez of Ottumwa, was transported to the Ottumwa Regional Health Center, where he died.

Police have not released any other details of the stabbing and say the body has been sent to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy. Police do say there is no known ongoing threat to the public.

The Glenwood (IA) Police Department reports 43-year-old Zachary Basye, of Glenwood, was arrested today (Tuesday), for Driving While Revoked. His cash or surety bond was set at $1,000.

All four Iowans serving in the U.S. House backed Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan for House Speaker in today’s (Tuesday’s) first round of voting. Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson reports.

Fourth district Congressman Randy Feenstra announced last (Monday) night he notified Jordan last weekend that he’d vote for him. On Saturday, third district Congressman Zach Nunn announced Jordan would get his vote to get the House organized so it can take action on important things happening around the world.

A jury today (Tuesday) found a former Butler County police officer guilty of multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. Mark Pitz reports.

No sentencing date has yet been set. Tobin still faces lawsuits from two sisters who claim he coerced them into sex on multiple occasions while he was on duty. They are also suing the Clarksville Police Department, Chief Barry Mackey, an unidentified City leader and the City of Clarksville. The sisters’ argue that some City officials knew or should’ve known what Tobin was doing and did nothing to stop it. Trials in those lawsuits are currently scheduled for February 10, 2025.

Fire departments in small towns across the state continue to have issues with finding enough volunteers to fill open spots. Parkersburg Fire Chief Russ Boersma says his department is authorized for 35 firefighters, and they only have 19.

Another challenge is the age of equipment and the cost to replace it. The chief says for example, they need to replace the oxygen tanks and masks they use when fighting fires.

There are about 850 fire departments in Iowa, and of those, 92 percent are volunteer departments.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Tuesday (Today), received an update from Cass/Guthrie County Environmental Health Executive Director Jotham Arber. He mentioned with the change in weather, they’re coming to the end of the time for septic system perc (percolation) tests.

He also let the Board know that Environmental Health can start paying to have people’s wells chlorinated.

He said there aren’t a lot of people who are certified in the department’s 4-county region to chlorinate wells, but he’s working on it.

A couple of people who had been doing those services, are retiring.

In addition to chlorination certification, there are also opportunities to get Radon testing certification. Something else homeowners should get tested if their residence is 100-years or more older, is testing of your pipes for lead.

Lead paint on the walls is another thing to watch out for, when you have young children in the home.