The driver of a motorcycle suffered minor injuries during an accident in Atlantic that involved an SUV, Saturday evening. Atlantic Police Officer Devin Hogue told KJAN News the cycle was headed west on 7th Street at around 6:20-p.m., when a Jeep Grand Cherokee stop at the intersection with Elm Street, and proceeded to cross the street heading northbound.

Both vehicles stopped, but apparently did not collide. The motorcycle ended up on its side in the middle of the intersection, with the driver suffering from possible leg injuries. The driver was transported by Medivac Ambulance to the Cass County Memorial Hospital. No names were released.

No charges had been filed as of Saturday evening, and the accident remained under investigation. Deputies with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office and personnel with the Atlantic Fire and Rescue Department assisted at the scene. The both vehicles were driven away following the initial investigation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska law enforcement officials say they have found a man who told employees of a west Omaha hospital that he had a body in his car. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Department says the 50-year-old man was stopped in western Iowa shortly after the incident Friday morning at Methodist Women’s Hospital emergency room.

Hospital staff say the man walked in around 9 a.m. and told them he had a body in his car. Employees said they found no body or blood in the car, even though the man insisted the body was there. The man then drove off.

Sheriff’s officials say the man’s cellphone information was used to find him. No body or evidence of foul play was found in his car. The man was not arrested, but the investigation continues.

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials say two northwest Iowa lakes have been found to be safe for swimming and boating after fish kills were discovered there earlier this week. The Sioux City Journal reports that dead freshwater drum, a species of fish, washed up on the northwest shore of East Lake Okoboji on Thursday. Fisheries biologist Mike Hawkins with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says thousands of small fish also washed up on a one-mile portion of Big Spirit Lake the same day.

Hawkins says the kills are not connected. He says the drum were most likely killed by disease spread through overpopulation. He says the small fish died from a pocket of low oxygen on Big Spirit Lake.

Officials with SIRWA (The Southern Iowa Rural Water Association), said that as of Friday, August 8th, the Boil Water Advisory is still in effect for customers in NW Adams, Montgomery, SE Cass Counties and the Cities of Grant, Carbon, Brooks, Bridgewater and Lyman; account numbers beginning with 047, 048, 081, 082, 084 and 005.

For more information, click on this link: http://www.sirwa.org/html/outages.html

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MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says there will be deer hunts this fall at DeSoto and Boyer Chute national wildlife refuges. There will be two hunts at DeSoto: Oct. 18-19 and Dec. 20-21. Both hunts are muzzleloader and antlerless deer only.

All hunters must possess a DeSoto access permit for the hunts. These are free and can be obtained on the DeSoto’s website, http://www.fws.gov/refuge/desoto/, at the visitor center or by contacting Mindy Sheets at mindy_sheets@fws.gov or 712-388-4802.

The Boyer Chute hunt will run Dec. 13-21. This hunt also will be antlerless and muzzleloader only. DeSoto and Boyer Chute national wildlife refuges sit north of Omaha, Nebraska, along U.S. Highway 30 between Missouri Valley, Iowa, and along U.S. Highway 75 near Fort Calhoun, Nebraska.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports five recent arrests. On Tuesday, Aug, 5th, deputies arrested: 30-year old Thomas Lee Roush, of Council Bluffs, for Driving Under Suspension. Bond was set at $300; 32-year old Justin Wayne Schomburg, of Malvern, was arrested in Malvern, for being a Fugitive from Justice. Shomburg was being held in the Mills County Jail without bond. And, 26-year old Kody Joseph Hastie, of Omaha, was arrested Tuesday for OWI 1st offense. His bond was set at $1,000.

And on Thursday, Aug, 7th, Mills County deputies arrested 36-year old Cory James Chilton, of Hastings, for OWI/1st offense. Bond was also set at $1,000. 37-year old Billy Ray Hunter, of Glenwood, was arrested on a warrant for Burglary in the 3rd, Theft in the 4th and Theft in the 5th degrees. High bond was set at  $5,300.

CARROLL, Iowa (AP) – Two men will plead guilty in connection with the theft of hundreds of flagpoles that had been intended to display flags at a Carroll cemetery over the Memorial Day weekend. The Carroll Daily Times Herald reports 37-year-old Christopher Gay and 20-year-old Chance Kinney, both of Lake City, filed plea agreements Monday. They each faced two felony theft charges. The agreement called for one of those charges to be dropped. Earlier, 18-year-old Jerad Reed, of Lohrville, pleaded guilty to theft.

All were accused of stealing two trailers from the Carroll American Legion with about 550 metal flagpoles and then trying to sell them at two salvage yards. The businesses refused and later identified some of the suspects. The legion planned to fly flags on the poles at the Carroll Cemetery.

CHEROKEE, Iowa (AP) – Authorities have apprehended a 42-year-old man who failed to return to an Iowa sex offender treatment program. The Iowa Department of Human Services announced Friday that U.S. marshals apprehended Cory West on Thursday night at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, motel. Police had been searching for West since Sunday after he didn’t return from his job to the Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offender in Cherokee, Iowa.

The Wapello County Court ordered West into the civil commitment program at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute in 2011. He became eligible for a transition release program last fall. The commitment program provides long-term inpatient treatment for violent sexual predators who have served their prison terms but are considered likely to commit future offenses.

West will remain in custody in Oklahoma pending extradition to Iowa.

A giant pig, raised by a group of Iowa State University graduates in honor of a fallen friend, is the winner of the Iowa State Fair’s Big Boar contest. “Peabody” weighed in at 1,273 pounds. Peabody was also the nickname for Brad Peyton, who recently died of pancreatic cancer. He was 57. His friend, David Schaefer, said Peyton grew up showing pigs at the State Fair and longed to win the Big Boar contest.

“Peabody”

“Two years ago, we had another boar that was presented and finished second to a boar from Indiana,” Schaefer said. Peyton’s pig in 2012 was named “Fred Hoiboar” and was presented by Iowa State men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg. The team that raised Peabody sold T-shirts, raising $3,000 for the Shining City Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Peyton helped found that builds medical clinics and other projects in remote, underserved areas of China, Africa, and other countries.

“He was an incredible guy,” Schaefer said of Peyton.”He had a lot of passion for people who don’t have a lot.” Peabody will be on display for the remainder of the Iowa State Fair, which ends on August 17. The five-year-old boar beat out “Big Mac” who weighed in at 1,142 pounds. This year’s winner of the State Fair’s “Super Bull” contest (that’s B-U-L-L) is “Big Daddy.”

The bull, raised on Stalcup Farms in Prescott, tipped the scales at 3,012 pounds.

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“Big Daddy”