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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – MidAmerican Energy has decided against building a second nuclear power plant in Iowa and against building any major power plant for now.  The Des Moines Register reports  that MidAmerican says there is no approved design for the nuclear plant it wanted to build and there are too many questions about limits on carbon emissions from a natural gas plant. Iowa has one nuclear power plant, the Duane Arnold plant near Palo.
 
MidAmerican Vice President Dean Crist told the newspaper that a feasibility study found that 700-acre sites near Thurman in southwest Iowa and Wilton in southeast Iowa would have worked for a new nuclear plant, which was expected to cost around $1 billion.  MidAmerican says it will refund $8.8 million that its customers paid for the feasibility study.

Police in Red Oak tasered a local man Monday night, after he ran from authorities following a traffic stop. The Red Oak Police Department reports 18-year old Shae Daniel Lewis, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 11:40-p.m. in the 900 block of east Senate Avenue, following a brief foot pursuit. Officials say Lewis was a passenger in a vehicle that had been stopped in the City View parking lot, in Red Oak.

Immediately after the vehicle was pulled over, authorites say Lewis jumped out and took off on foot southbound, toward Senate Avenue. Officers chased the man and several times ordered him to stop. When he failed to comply, officers deployed an X-25 Taser, which hit Lewis in the back and caused him to drop to the ground. Lewis was allegedly found to be intoxicated, and under the legal age to consume alcohol.

After being brought to the Montgomery County Jail and booked in, officials discovered Lewis allegdly brought a controlled substance into the facility. He was subsequently charged with a felony count of entering contraband into a jail facility, possession of marijuana/serious misdemeanor, and public intoxication as well as interference with official acts, both of which are simple misdemeanors. Lewis was also cited for being in possession of alcohol under the legal age.

He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $5,000 cash bond.

Police in Red Oak cited two people for drinking under the legal age, Monday night. Officials say 19-year old David Anthony Daugherty the 3rd, of Elliott, was cited for driving while suspended and possession of alcohol under legal age, following a traffic stop in the 2400 block of north 8th Street, at around 11:50-p.m., Monday. A passenger in the vehicle, 19-year old Bryce Dalton Uhlenberg, of Red Oak, was cited for Possession of alcohol under the legal age. Both were released on their respective citations.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

Police in Red Oak were investigating a case of criminal mischief Monday, that resulted in about $100 damage to a residence. Authorities say they received a report earlier in the day from a Red Oak woman who discovered that her storm door glass had been shot out by a BB, which was recovered at the scene. Columbia Magnuson told officers she had heard a noise in her home Sunday night, but didn’t check to see what it was.  Anyone with information is asked to contact the Red Oak Police Department at 712-623-6500.

Authorities in Page County are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person or persons responsible for the theft and destruction of a vehicle stolen from Shenandoah. Sheriff Lyle Palmer said his office received a call today (Monday) at around 7:30-a.m., about a vehicle that had been burned o a property owned by Troy Nielsen, at 1018 140th Street in Page County. Nielsen discovered the burned out shell of a 2001 Ford Taurus while checking his property. An investigation revealed the car had been reported stolen from the vicinity of 702 south Elm Street in Shenandoah, sometime between 10-p.m. Saturday and 7:30-a.m. today (Monday). It belonged to Meagan Mattson. The vehicle and its contents were a total loss. The car was valued at $6,000.

Anyone with information about the theft and/or arson of the Mattson, or any other vehicle in Page County, is asked to call their local law enforcement agency, or, the Page County Sheriff’s Office at 712-542-5193, the Clarinda Police Dept. at 542-2194, or the Shenandoah Police Dept. at 246-3512.

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — A jury has been selected for the trial of a 21-year-old western Iowa man charged with killing his mother in Early and kidnapping another woman. The Messenger in Fort Dodge reports a jury of seven men and six women was seated Monday afternoon. The trial for Kirk Levin will begin Tuesday morning with opening statements. The trial was moved from Sac County to Webster County because of publicity about the case.

The 21-year-old Levin, of Early, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his mother and third-degree kidnapping in the abduction of a woman who later escaped.