DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines authorities have released the name of a woman whose body was found in a parked minivan. Police identified the woman as 49-year-old Angela Eubanks, who lived in Waukee.

The body was reported about 8 a.m. Thursday in the vehicle parked at Broadlawns Hospital in northern Des Moines. The van apparently had been parked there for several days. Police considered the circumstances suspicious.

Police say an autopsy found no evidence of traumatic injury and that toxicology tests are being run. Their investigation is continuing.

The Cass County Board of Supervisors met this (Friday) morning, in Atlantic. Cass County Auditor Dale Sunderman reports, having received two applications for membership on the Cass County Food Policy Council, motions were made and seconded to approve the appointments of Nancy Jensen and Jake Theis, both of Atlantic, as a members to the Cass County Food Policy Council. Their terms will expires Dec. 31st, 2020.

After County Engineer Charles Bechtold reviewed current road projects, the Board approved Federal-aid Agreements for bridge projects located along Lansing, Newport and Tucson Roads, the combined costs of which amount to a little more than $1.4-million.

The Board’s next meeting isn’t until Oct. 14th.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says beginning Saturday (October 1st), letters to and from inmates held in the Cass County Jail, can no longer be dropped off or picked up at the Cass County Sheriff’s Office. All inmate correspondence will need to be sent through the U.S. Mail.

Creston Police report an arrest of an Osceola woman on Thursday. At 2:42pm officers arrested 45-year-old Carole Lynette Cooper of Osceola on the charge of shoplifting.  She was arrested at 806 Laurel Street in Creston, cited, and released.

The traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall is making a stop in Urbandale this weekend at Living History Farms.
Joy Wehmas, a member of the group “Team Welcome Home Iowa” that helped to coordinate the visit, said it was an awesome sight with so many motorcycles leading the display into the area Wednesday.  Iowans are encouraged to stop by through Sunday to see the half-scale replica wall and the educational display. There are programs held each day at 11:00 am and a military tribute concert at 3:00 pm on Saturday.  The closing ceremony will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon with the display closing at 3:00 pm.  It will be taken down and loaded onto trucks and taken to it’s next location.  Wehmas says it all goes by quickly but is an amazing experience.  To find out more about the exhibit and events at Living History Farm, go online to TeamWelcomeHomeIowa.com.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Opening statements are expected to be delivered Friday in the trial of a man accused of shooting a Sioux City police officer. Isaiah Mothershed has pleaded not guilty two counts of attempted murder and five counts of robbery. Authorities say Mothershed pulled a gun from a couch while his hands were handcuffed behind his back and then shot Officer Ryan Moritz in a leg while being arrested Feb. 7.

Police say that as officers struggled with Mothershed, the gun fired again, wounding Mothershed in a leg. Mothershed also is accused of several robberies and break-ins and of firing a shot at a homeowner who interrupted a break-in.

Members of the Facilities Committee of the Griswold Community School District will hold a work session on Monday, October 3 at 5:00 p.m. at the Griswold Community School District’s Middle School / High School Library for the purpose of assessing current educational facilities.

Tyson Foods says its Tyson Fresh Meats subsidiary in Council Bluffs will spend 27 million dollars to expand production at the plant to be able to make more of its beef and pork products and meal kits that it distributes to grocery stores. A company news release says the expansion will allow them to add 350 jobs to bring the total number of employees to 14-hundred. The company also operates a pepperoni plant in Council Bluffs and a bacon plant in Omaha, for a total of two-thousand employees in the Council Bluffs-Omaha area. Work on the expansion in Council Bluffs is already underway, and the company says it should be completed by July of 2017.

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The Cass County Memorial Hospital’s Board of Trustees will meet this afternoon to act on approving an offer of employment to the Board’s selection for Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The meeting begins at 2-p.m.

30 people applied for the position left vacant by the termination on June 7th of Todd Hudspeth. Former CEO Pat Markham (whom Hudspeth had succeeded following her retirement) is serving as the interim top officer for the Cass County Health System until the new CEO is in place. The field of 30 applicants was narrowed down to six finalists who went through four sets of interviews with 25 people in four individual groups representing Board Members, the Administrative Team, medical providers and Health Department directors.