The Cass County Conservation Board is considering a resolution to open the east half of the Turkey Creek Wildlife Area to public hunting. The Turkey Creek Wildlife Area is located between Atlantic and Lewis, just off Highway 6. The area is currently not open to public hunting, and the Conservation Board feels the area is underutilized.

A public hearing will be held August 27th beginning at 5-p.m. to address the matter. The hearing takes place at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Office at Cold Springs State Park, at Lewis. Input will be taken at that time with regard to a proposal to open the area to public hunting.

If you have any questions, please call Micah Lee with the Cass County Conservation Board, at 712-769-2372.

Officials with ISU Extension in Shelby County say a networking program that empowers women in agriculture to become better business partners and owners is being offered to area women, beginning Aug. 25th, in Harlan. “Annie’s Project” is a six-week course designed especially to help farm women develop their management and decision-making skills. Online registration is available at http://www.aep.iastate.edu or at the Shelby County office.

Farm women participating in Annie’s Project courses become better business partners and owners by learning to manage and organize critical information for their own farms, while establishing networks with other farm women and agriculture business professionals.  According to ISU Extension and Outreach farm specialist, Shane Ellis, Annie’s Project covers five areas of agricultural risk management: financial, human resources, legal, marketing and production.

According to a 2012 survey conducted by Iowa State Extension and Outreach, 47 percent of Iowa’s farmland is owned by women. Annie’s Project supports these women by providing an agricultural business education program that empowers farm women who want to be more knowledgeable about their agricultural enterprises.

The program will be held at the Shelby County Extension Office: August 25th, Sept. 1st, Sept. 8th, Sept. 15th, Sept. 22nd and Sept. 29th. They begin with a light supper at 5:45 p.m., followed by the program from 6-until 9-pm.

More than 33 states have implemented Annie’s Project sites since its inception in 2002. For more information, contact Amanda at 712-755-3104. Annie’s Project in Iowa is supported by Farm Credit Services of America and the USDA Risk Management Agency.

EMMETSBURG, Iowa (AP) – Authorities have filed terrorism and other charges against a 55-year-old man accused of firing a bullet that struck a crop-dusting plane in northern Iowa. Online court records say John Metzger, of Whittemore, also is charged with stalking with a weapon, intimidation with a dangerous weapon and going armed with intent.

The Palo Alto County Sheriff’s Office says the plane owned by Steier AG Aviation was hit in a wing flap while spraying a field in Fairfield Township on July 31. The plane landed safely at Steier’s landing strip in Whittemore. The pilot, whose name hasn’t been released, wasn’t injured.

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A Union County man wanted on a warrant for failure to appear in court on original charges of Domestic Abuse Assault by impeding Air/Blood Flow causing serious injury, and False Imprisonment, was arrested Tuesday night, in Creston. Creston Police say 55-year old Michael A. Fry, of Creston, was taken into custody at around 9:15-p.m. and brought to the jail in Creston, where he was being held while awaiting a bond hearing.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A man has been placed on three years of probation and ordered to spend 15 weekends in jail for helping his son avoid getting arrested after shooting a Sioux City officer. 55-year old Levon Dean Sr. and several others were sentenced Tuesday for their roles in aiding Jamal Dean avoid arrest. Levon Dean had pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by obstruction or interfering with governmental functions. Several others, who are family members and friends of Jamal Dean, were sentenced as well.

According to prosecutors, Jamal Dean shot Sioux City police officer Kevin McCormick during a traffic stop on April 29, 2013. Prosecutors say his father picked him up near the scene of the shooting. Jamal Dean was sentenced 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder for the police shooting.

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Authorities in Shelby County say a man who fell out of the bed of a pickup truck Sunday afternoon, was seriously injured and flown to a trauma center in Omaha. According to the sheriff’s department, Steven Gross, of Shelby, was holding onto inflatable rafts in the bed of a pickup traveling on Highway 44, when Gross was tossed out the back of the vehicle. The accident happened east of Harlan, at around 5:45-p.m.

Gross was transported to Myrtue Memorial Hospital in Harlan before being flown to the Nebraska Medical Center for additional treatment. A report on his condition is currently not available

The second trial for a Pottawattamie County man charged in the sexual abuse of a teenager, has been delayed again. The Daily NonPareil reports trial for 47-year old John Osborn, of Council Bluffs, was put off, pending an appeal by the Iowa Attorney General’s Office.

In May, Fourth District Court Judge Richard Davidson granted Osborn a new sexual abuse trial. After a March bench trial, Davidson had found Osborn guilty of four counts of third-degree sexual abuse in connection to alleged sexual conduct with a 14-year-old girl last summer. Defense attorney Jordan Glaser filed a motion for a new trial or judgment of acquittal, citing new evidence. Davidson granted the motion for a new trial.

The attorney general’s office filed an appeal of that decision shortly thereafter, arguing that the original verdict should stand. The second trial had been scheduled to start on Aug. 4, but Fourth District Court Judge James Heckerman issued a stay of the trial pending the appeal. The attorney general’s office explained that its attorneys would file a legal brief in the coming days, with the defense then allowed 30 days to file a rebuttal.

The Iowa Supreme Court will review the case and either decide to hear it or send it to the Iowa Court of Appeals. Either way, the appeal will be heard in a Des Moines courtroom. Once a decision has been made, the matter will return to Pottawattamie County court. If the appeal is denied, a new trial will begin. If the court rules in favor of the state, the case would go to sentencing, pending a possible appeal by the defense.

Red Oak Police say an investigation into an alleged shoplifting incident Tuesday afternoon at a grocery store, resulted in the arrest of a 51-year old man from Red Oak. Officials say Glen West Otis was taken into custody for Theft in the 5th degree, at around 12:35-p.m. Otis was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 cash bond.