The former principal of Red Oak Community High School has taken a new position at Saint Albert Catholic Schools. The Council Bluffs Daily NonPareil reports Jedd Sherman is teaching biology, anatomy and physiology and environmental science at the private high school in Council Bluffs. He spent 11 years teaching at the high-school and middle-school level.

Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports three juveniles who escaped from the Clarinda Academy early Wednesday morning, have been apprehended. Brothers said at approximately 1:20 a.m., officials from the Clarinda Academy reported the escape of three male juveniles from the facility. A 14-year old white male from Sioux City, Iowa, a 15-year old black male from Waterloo, Iowa and a 16-year old black male from Moreno Valley, CA., left one of the campus dormitories.

At around 2:50-a.m. the 15-year old back male from Waterloo was located and apprehended without incident by Clarinda Academy staff near the power substation located east of Clarinda.  At about 7:25- a.m., the 14 year old white male from Sioux City and the 16 year old black male from Moreno Valley, CA., were also located and apprehended without incident by a Clarinda Police Officer. Those teens were taken into custody about one-mile west of Clarinda.

All three escapees have been returned to the custody of the Clarinda Academy.

An Atlantic man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly violating the terms of his probation. Atlantic Police report 57-year old Terry Calhoun was booked into the Cass County Jail.

(Updated 6-p.m. Wed,)

Today (Wednesday) was the deadline to file nomination papers for county office. Nomination papers had to have been filed with the County Auditor by 5-p.m., in order for candidates to be included on the ballot for the Nov. 4th General Election.

In Cass County only two non-partisan offices are short nominees. Both are on the CASS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION COUNCIL. Those who filed their nomination papers by the deadline include:

Edna Township Clerk: Daniel Schrier, of Cumberland; Union Township Clerk: Cheryl R. Christensen, of Cumberland; Edna Township Trustee: Travis Erickson, & Rodney Penton, both of Cumberland; Union Township Trustee: Brent Paulsen, & Daryl Schrier, both of Cumberland.

Hospital Trustee (northwest) – Ned Brown, & Leanne Pellett, both of Atlantic; Hospital Trustee (southwest) – Jerry Putnam, of Griswold; Soil & Water – Frederick W. Kay, & Greg Zellmer, both of Atlantic; County Ag Extension Council – Kristi Plagman, of Cumberland, Todd Weppler, of Lewis, & Brad Pellett, of Atlantic; Gage Zellmer, of Atlantic, & Chad Becker, of Wiota.

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FREMONT, Neb. (AP) – A 53-year-old Iowa man has been imprisoned for stealing dozens of brass vases from an eastern Nebraska cemetery. The Fremont Tribune says Gary Hostetter, of Carter Lake, Iowa, on Monday was given 20 to 60 months. He had pleaded no contest to a theft charge. Dodge County Attorney Oliver Glass has said Hostetter admitted taking 45 vases from Memorial Cemetery in Fremont earlier this year.

Dodge County Jail records say Hostetter remained in custody on Tuesday.

A Pottawattamie County man was arrested Tuesday morning on a charge of Driving While Barred. 27-year old Corey Michael Ware, of Council Bluffs, was arrested following a traffic stop at around 9:50-a.m., in Red Oak. Ware was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $2,000 bond.

Police in Red Oak report a local man was arrested Tuesday evening on assault and other charges. 39-year old Gary Matthew Stephens, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 5:35-p.m. in Red Oak, on charges of Domestic Abuse Assault and Interference with Official Acts.

A woman from Nebraska was arrested Tuesday afternoon, following a pursuit in Fremont County. According the sheriff’s department, 25-year old Jessica Ann Hall, of Omaha, faces charges that include Possession of Stolen Property, Felony eluding, and several traffic violations. She was being held in the Fremont County Jail on bond in excess of $10,000. Charges are also pending in Nebraska.

Authorities say the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office was informed a 2008 white, Dodge pickup truck had been stolen from the Fareway Parking lot in Nebraska City, NE. A deputy observed the vehicle traveling north on Interstate 29, and when he pulled up behind pickup, the vehicle sped-up. The deputy activated his emergency lights and sirens in an attempt to get the driver…later identified as Hall…to stop.

Instead, the pickup increased to speeds in excess of 100-miles per hour. Both the pickup and the deputies’ cruiser left the interstate at the Bartlett exit and headed east on Wausbonsie Avenue, toward Tabor. About one-half mile west of town, stop sticks were deployed by Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope.

The pickup ran over the stop sticks, which punctured both front tires of the vehicle. The pursuit continued through Tabor and finally ended about a mile east of town, when both front tires on the pickup went flat, making it undriveable. Hall pulled over and was subsequently taken into custody without further incident.