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Officials with SWITA (The Southwest Iowa Transit Agency), says they’ll be offering summer excursion trips for families in Atlantic, this year. SWITA will provide transportation to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, the Walnut Splash Pad, and the Avoca Swimming Pool. Nine trips are planned, three to each location, from June through August.
The cost is just $5 per person round trip, to visit the Splash Pad or Swimming Pool, and $10 per person round trip, to the zoo. The rates are unchanged from last year, thanks to the generous donations from the Atlantic Rotary Club and other area organizations. In addition, students who have the unlimited summer fun bus pass, are allowed to ride for FREE. Admission to the zoo, pool and splash pad, as well as meals, are NOT includes in the transit price, and are the responsibility of the rider.
An adult is required to accompany all children on the trips. All buses and vehicles are equipped with seat belts that must be worn at all times, as well. All trips are open to the public, and are ADA accessible.
The schedule for future trips is as follows:
June 9, July 8, & Aug. 12th – Avoca Pool
June 14, July 20, & Aug. 2nd – Henry Doorly Zoo
June 24, July 15, & Aug. 17th – Walnut Splash Pad
For more information on the scheduled trips, visit the SWITA website at www.swipco.org, or call 243-2518.
Senator Joni Ernst has credentials that check some of the boxes on Donald Trump’s list of qualities he’s seeking in a running mate. Ernst is a combat veteran and she has experience in government at the county, state and federal level. So, if asked, would she agree to be Trump’s V-P? “That’s a hypothetical, of course, and I’m very focused on Iowa issues right now,” Ernst says. “No one from the campaign has reached out.”
Earlier this month, Governor Branstad indicated he was seeking a private meeting with Trump in order to tout Ernst as a running mate. Ernst has not met personally with Trump, but she’s talked with other members of congress who did meet Trump privately last week. “A number of my colleagues stated that they really appreciated the fact that he was very thoughtful in his responses to them,” Ernst says. “He was very serious. He was very different in those meetings maybe than what you’ll see out on a stage somewhere, what you might see in Twitter.”
A few months ago Ernst aired concerns about some of the comments Trump made on the campaign trail. “I did have concern about his tone,” Ernst says. “…I don’t agree with every statement that Donald Trump has said, but I will tell you that there are other candidates as well that I would probably not agree 100 percent with their statements either. I would like to see as we move forward more talk about policy…Now that he is the presumptive nominee, I think he has that opportunity.”
Ernst made her comments during taping of the Iowa Press program that will air at 7:30 this evening (Friday) on Iowa Public Television.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – The parties involved apparently have settled a lawsuit stemming from a medical helicopter crash that killed three people in northern Iowa.
The helicopter carrying pilot Gene Grell, nurse Shelly Lair-Langenbau and paramedic Russ Piehl went down Jan. 2, 2013, near Ventura while on their way to pick up a patient. Federal investigators blamed ice on the helicopter and said the aircraft was not equipped to fly in winter weather.
Lair-Langenbau’s family sued the helicopter operator, Med Trans Corp. Mason City television station KIMT reports that settlement details haven’t been released. Court documents filed this week show the case has been removed from the court calendar and that documents to dismiss the case will be filed by mid-June.
A federal trial in Sioux City was scheduled to begin June 6.
Police in Red Oak arrested a man early this (Friday) morning, on a Trespassing charge. 29-year old Benjamin William Hrabik, of Red Oak, was arrested in the 300 block of E. Washington Street in Red Oak, at around 12:10-a.m. He was brought to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center has held on a $300 cash bond.
Fremont County Sheriff’s Department said today (Friday), deputies discovered a one-vehicle accident near the intersection of 220th St and 230th Avenue. A deputy with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office observed a 2004 Mazda RX8 partially submerged in the drainage ditch located east of the intersection of 220th Street and 230th Ave.
An investigation determined the driver of the vehicle, 18-year old Dustin Rutledge, of Sidney, was westbound on 220th Street when he lost control of his car, which entered the north ditch. The vehicle traveled in the ditch along the creek bed, struck a culvert and came to rest in the drainage ditch. The car was a total loss. Rutledge was not injured, and left the scene prior to law enforcement arrival.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor, seatbelts were in use, and authorities say charges are pending.
Authorities in Montgomery County said Thursday that a Villisca man was arrested that day on a charge of 2nd Degree Sexual Abuse. The arrest of 30-year-old Robert Dumler was the result of an investigation involving officials with Project Harmony and the Iowa Dept. of Human Services that began May 2nd. Dumler was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $25,000 bond.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A massive frozen foods recall involves millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico. Authorities who want to stem the listeria-linked illnesses and deaths worry it’ll be difficult to get consumers to dig through their freezers for products they may have bought as far back as 2014 from one of several major retailers, including Costco, Target, Trader Joe’s and Safeway. The more than 400 products from CRF Frozen Foods in Pasco, Washington, could be contaminated with listeria.
WEST BRANCH, Iowa (AP) — No students were injured after a school bus collided with a semi-truck in eastern Iowa. The bus carrying elementary students crashed Thursday afternoon into the back of a turning semi. Iowa troopers say the collision happened at an intersection southeast of West Branch. Paramedics were on the scene to treat any minor bumps or bruises. Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash. No injuries were reported.
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Two people have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a fatal shooting at a mobile home park in the community of Key West, south of Dubuque. Eighteen-year-old Imere Hall and 21-year-old Taylor Shaw entered their pleas Thursday morning after they were arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder and robbery. Officials have issued a warrant for 19-year-old Tacari Minifee, who is wanted on the same charges.
West Des MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An official says a man and his adult son were injured when their small plane crashed south of West Des Moines. West Des Moines EMS spokesman Dave Edgar says that the 65-year-old pilot suffered serious injuries and his 30-year-old son suffered moderate injuries when their small plane crashed around 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Both have been transported to a hospital for treatment.
Authorities in Fremont County, Wednesday, arrested a man in connection with an investigation into an incident involving a gun that took place Monday morning. The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office says 25-year old Todd Michael Guiser, of Tabor, was arrested for Reckless Use of a Firearm and Child Endangerment.
An investigation determined that during the early morning hours, Monday, Guiser negligently discharged a round from a .357 revolver, inside his apartment at 204 Orange Street, in Tabor. The bullet struck a child’s Pack ‘n Play and lodged in the floor of the apartment. It was also determined that an infant was in the home, sleeping in a room adjacent to where the shot was fired.
Guiser was being held without bond pending an initial appearance with the Magistrate.