ORANGE CITY, Iowa (AP) — Northwestern College says it’s received a $6 million gift for its new science building, the largest single gift in school history. The $24.5 million building will be named for benefactors Jack and Mary DeWitt, who live in Holland, Michigan. The building will have classrooms, laboratories and faculty offices for the college’s biology, chemistry and nursing department, as well as space for student-faculty research. It is scheduled to open in August. Jack DeWitt served on the college board of trustees for 13 years.

(Updated) — The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest at around 12:56-a.m. today (Tuesday), of 19-year old Dalton Scott Jipsen, of Elliott. Jipsen was driving a vehicle that was pulled over at around 12-a.m. on Brothers Avenue, near the intersection with Highway 59. Mills County Deputies, with assistance from the Mills County Sheriff’s Office K9 Unit, searched the vehicle, and discovered 61 grams of marijuana and THC wax. Jipsen was taken into custody for Possession of a Controlled Substance, Failure to Affix a Drug Tax Stamp, and Speeding. His bond was set at $6,000.

And, 33-year old Toby Lee McCunn, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 1:50-a.m. today (Tuesday), for Driving While Revoked. His bond was set at $1,000.

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Officials with the Creston Police Department report two arrests took place, Monday. 31-year old Autumn Bolser, of Creston, was arrested for Assault with Injury. She was being held in the Adams County Jail on a $1,000 bond. And, 31-year old Brandon Clayton, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Union County warrant for Failure to Serve a jail sentence on an original, OWI/2nd offense, charge. Clayton was being held in the jail to serve the balance of his sentence.

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MARION, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man was fatally injured when his pickup truck rolled atop him at a restaurant drive-thru in a Cedar Rapids suburb. The accident occurred just before noon Monday at a Dairy Queen in Marion. Police say the man’s pickup broke down while he was in line at the drive-thru. It rolled atop him after he got out to fix it. Police say he died at a hospital. Police identified him as 74-year-old Curtis Schantz, who lived in Alburnett.

Officials with the Iowa DCI report that at around 3:23-p.m., Monday, the Waukon Police Department was dispatched to a shooting at a residence on Jean Road in Waukon. A male subject was transported by ambulance to Waukon Veterans Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of relatives.  An autopsy will be conducted by the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office. The case remains under investigation and the public is not at risk. The Waukon Police Department was assisted by the Allamakee County Sheriff’s Office, the Iowa State Patrol, and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

Road construction work for the expansion of U.S. 20 in Ida and Sac counties will require closing the roadway to traffic between Ida County Road M-25 (near Galva) and U.S. 71 (near Early) from noon Monday, Apr. 23, until Friday, Sept. 28, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s District 3 Office. Motorists will be directed around the work zone on a signed detour using Ida County Road M-25, Ida/Sac County Road D-15, and U.S. 71.

WINTERSET, Iowa (AP) — Two people have been given probation for setting fire to a historic Madison County covered bridge featured on the cover of the novel “The Bridges of Madison County.”
Court records say 19-year-old Joel Davis and 20-year-old Alivia Bergmann were sentenced Monday to five years of probation and given deferred judgments. Both had pleaded guilty to arson charges stemming from the fire last April.

Under deferred judgments, the convictions can be wiped from their records if the two successfully complete their probation terms. A third person, Alexander Hoff also has pleaded guilty. He’s scheduled to be sentenced Monday. The bridge near Winterset also was featured in the 1995 movie adaptation of “The Bridges of Madison County.”

The Iowa Pork Producers begin their 16th annual search for Iowa’s Best Tenderloin Wednesday. Pork Producers spokesman, Ron Birkenholz says the tenderloin is an item many restaurants across the state have on the menu. “We’re hoping for another good turnout — we had over three-thousand nominations last year with 271 different establishments named in the contest,” Birkenholz says. “We know there’s a lot of good tenderloins out there and we hope people will nominate them,” Birkenholz says.

Nominations for the best tenderloin can be submitted at the I-P-P website www.iowapork.org Birkenholz said the deadline for all entries is June 5th. He says the contest generates good publicity for the eateries. “It’s good for the business, all of the past winners have told us that their business has increased exponentially after wining the contest. Even the runners up — we name a top five — and even those restaurants see a major increase in their business,” according to Birkenholz.

2017’s Best Pork Tenderloin in Iowa was from the Grid Iron Grill in Webster City.

The winning tenderloin is announced during “Pork Month” in October. It’s something he says the creators of the tenderloins anxiously await. “It puts them on the tenderloin map if you will,” Birkenholz says, “we have people all over the midwest that follow this contest and love tenderloins and want to go to the winner’s restaurant and try it. So, it’s a great deal for the entire industry.”  Last year’s winning restaurant was the “Grid Iron Grill” in Webster City.

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