The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports three recent arrests. At around 5:30 this (Friday) morning, 36-year old Charity Nicole Dresen, of Walnut, was arrested for Trespassing and Driving While Barred, after a deputy investigated a reported domestic disturbance involving her ex-husband, in Walnut.

At around 9-p.m. Thursday, a Pott. County Deputy arrested 28-year old Rachel Ann Johnk, of Oakland, for Aggravated Domestic Assault with Injury. According to the sheriff’s report, Johnk’s roommate, 21-year old Ashley Hansen, of Oakland, called to report she had been assaulted. An investigation determined both women suffered apparently minor injuries in the altercation.

And, 33-year old Anthony Frank Trovoto, of Missouri Valley, was arrested Thursday night for having a concealed weapon, driving while barred, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a controlled substance. A Pott. County Sheriff’s Deputy driving on Highway 6 just east of Interstate 80 noticed a truck on the side of the road with its blinker on.

When he stopped to check on the vehicle which was still running, the Deputy found Trovoto inside slumped forward against the steering wheel, and a dog in the passenger seat. An investigation determined drugs and paraphernalia were in the truck, along with two knives (one was 6-inches long, the other 8-inches). Also inside the vehicle was a baggie which field tested positive for meth, a glass meth pipe, a wooden box with marijuana and a straw.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – Friends of an Iowa farmer who died in July have come together to help with his final harvest. The Daily Nonpareil reports 59-year-old LaVerne Burck died after being diagnosed with lung cancer, leaving his daughter Jessica about 1,300 acres in Pottawattamie County.

About 30 of LaVerne’s friends and members of the farming community teamed up to harvest the field, and some donated equipment for the job. A few area businesses provided fuel for equipment.

The group started their work on Sept. 8 harvesting corn and soybeans on the farm, which has been in the family since the 1870s, and the harvest is nearly complete.

Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers said today (Friday), one of his Officers was assaulted while making an arrest Thursday night. At around 10-p.m., officers were summoned to 208 W. Main St.  for a reported burglary in progress, at one of the apartments. Upon arrival, officers encountered and arrested 34-year old Joshua Jay Martin, of Clarinda.

Martin allegedly resisted arrest and grabbed one of the officers around the neck. Brothers said the (Unidentified) officer did not suffer any injuries requiring medical treatment. Martin was subdued and taken into custody on a complaint for felony burglary in the third degree, theft in the fifth degree, interference with official acts by resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia.

It’s alleged Martin broke into an apartment rented by 36-year old Jason Mallott, of Clarinda, and stole bicycles and bicycle parts. Martin is currently being held in the Page County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Police reports concerning the incident have been forwarded to the offices of Page County Attorney Carl M. Sonksen for review and consideration of formal charges being filed.

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

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The Creston Police Department reports four recent arrests. 18-year old Taylor Duane Giles, of Creston, was arrested for 5th Degree Theft. Giles was cited and released on a Promise to Appear in Court. 20-year old Jacob Jack Davis, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. Davis was being held in the Union County Jail pending an appearance before a Magistrate.

23-year old Evin Lawrence Scadden, of Creston, was arrested for Violation of Probation. He was later released after posting bond. And, 39-year old Mark Stephen Hallberg, of Lorimor, was arrested on a Union County warrant. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $2,000 cash or surety bond.

The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson

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The American Red Cross is preparing to respond as Hurricane Matthew slams into the southeast coast of the country.  Iowa Region Red Cross spokesperson, Kara Kelly, says national officials are checking with the states that are not in the path of the storm to line up help. “There is a major call for volunteers nationwide to go anywhere from South Carolina to Florida to help, so we are making those  opportunities available to folks. But at the same time….we still have a flooding operation happening in north and eastern Iowa and we still want to make sure we take care of folks at home too,” Kelly says.

Two Iowa volunteers from Ankeny may be heading out to help with the Hurricane recovery sometime today (Friday). She says they were actually scheduled to head out Thursday, but the airport in Orlando closed and they are not waiting. Kelly says if you are interested in volunteering for the Red Cross the first step is to register. “I would say now is the time to get signed up, because if it becomes a very significant operation — which we anticipate it could be —  we could start sending people pretty quickly. And sometimes that training could happen pretty quickly,” Kelly says.  “The best thing to do at this point is to go to Red-Cross-dot-org and sign up to get into the system. At the very minimum you can take some of those on-line trainings and then we will see what happens.”

She says it has been a significant amount of time since we’ve seen a hurricane of this magnitude. “We’re just asking people to be prepared if you’ve got friends or families in those areas. Make sure you contact them, you know where they are going to be, and hopefully they are heeding those warnings to evacuate,” Kelly says.

In Florida alone where some areas could get as much as 10 inches of rain, the Red Cross is prepared to open or support as many as 100 evacuation shelters and has more than 30 emergency response vehicles standing by. In South Carolina, the Red Cross plans to open or support 19 evacuation shelters and dozens of additional shelters are ready to open in Georgia and North Carolina.

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Hillary Clinton’s daughter told a crowd in Sioux City late yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon that the country’s values “are at stake” in this year’s election. “I never thought I would see in my lifetime the almost normalization of hate speech that we are witnessing from the Republican nominee and his campaign,” she said. That was part of Chelsea Clinton’s answer to a woman in the crowd who said — while asking a question — that Hillary Clinton has been subjected to a “smear campaign” since the 1990s.

Chelsea Clinton, who is 36, told the crowd she doesn’t remember a time in her life when her mother wasn’t being attacked. And she asked Iowans to examine her mother’s record. “Mom’s been fighting for maternity and paternity leave for, literally, longer than I’ve been alive,” Chelsea Clinton said, getting laughter from the crowd, “and for early childhood education and for investments in our public education system and so much more that I know go really to the heart of our values as a country.”

More than 100 people attended the event in Sioux City. Chelsea Clinton also made a campaign stop in Dubuque yesterday (Wednesday). A spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee issued a written statement in response to the trip, saying Hillary Clinton’s “dishonesty and lies have demonstrated she is the wrong person to lead our country.”

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Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University President Steven Leath says he’ll be more cautious after facing criticism over his use of university airplanes and a private $1.1 million land deal with his boss. Leath told the student government that he misjudged how both issues would be perceived. He said, “I’ve learned my lesson.”

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four Iowa men and a woman from Nebraska will serve shorter prison sentences after President Barack Obama granted them clemency. Most of the 102 offenders in Thursday’s announcement committed drug crimes considered nonviolent. Among them, Rodger Lee Moran, of Des Moines, was serving life for selling methamphetamine. His sentence was shortened to 20 years and Kenny Siepker of Carroll had six years knocked off his 31 years.

ST. LUCAS, Iowa (AP) — The remains of a Navy chaplain have been returned to his hometown in Iowa nearly 75 years after he died during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Chaplain Aloysius Schmitt was aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma when the Dec. 7, 1941, attack happened. The Telegraph Herald reports Schmitt helped other sailors escape the sinking ship before he died. The Navy announced in September that Schmitt’s remains had been identified.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The long-time secretary of a women’s sorority group that focuses on personal integrity and service to others has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for taking more than $1.6 million over 14 years from the organization. Andrea G. Baker of Elkhart was sentenced Thursday to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.66 million in restitution to the Ames chapter of the Chi Omega Alumnae Association.

ST. LUCAS, Iowa (AP) – The remains of a Navy chaplain have been returned to his home in Iowa nearly 75 years after he died during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Chaplain Aloysius Schmitt was aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma when the Dec. 7, 1941, attack happened. The Telegraph Herald reports that Schmitt was among a group of sailors who discovered a small porthole as the ship was filling with water. Schmitt had the chance to escape but refused and hoisted others through the porthole and out to safety.

The battleship capsized within minutes, and Schmitt became the first chaplain killed during World War II. The Navy announced in September that Schmitt’s remains had been identified. A visitation and remembrance was held for the chaplain Wednesday in his hometown of St. Lucas, Iowa. His burial will be held in Dubuque, Iowa, on Saturday.