A man who was allegedly making threats against two women in Council Bluffs, was stabbed Sunday evening, after breaking into the home of one of the women and allegedly trying to strangle her. Council Bluffs Police Sgt. Dave Dawson reports the suspect, 39-year old David Leroy McKee, drove away from the scene of the crime in his pickup truck, but was stopped by police and found to be bleeding. He was transported to CHI Creighton in critical condition, suffering from several stab wounds.

Dawson says the at around 5:45-p.m. Sunday, Pottawattamie County Communications Center received a call from 55-year old Linda Minard, of Council Bluffs. The woman wanted to make a police report for threats made against her and 58-year old Roberta Franke-McKee, also of Council Bluffs. Uniformed officers had not yet arrived at Minard’s residence located at 3557 2nd Avenue, when a 9-1-1- call was received at 5:50-p.m. , about an assault in progress and a possible stabbing.

When police arrived, they learned David McKee had fled in his 2002 Dodge Dakotqa pickup. The Bluffs Police Department’s Criminal Investigation determined David McKee made several calls to Minard’s cell phone throughout the day, with the last to Roberta Franke-McKee, when David McKee allegedly threatened to kill her. Mckee arrived at Minard’s residence a short time later, where he broke out the rear window and entered through the kitchen area.

During a physical confrontation with both women, McKee used his hands in an alleged attempted to strangle Roberta Franke-McKee, who grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the man. Roberta was injured during the incident, but did not require medical attention. Minard was not hurt during the confrontation. The incident remains under investigation.

A man from Rock Port, MO., was arrested Sunday evening in Adams County, following a traffic stop. The Sheriff’s Department reports 21-year old Hayden Lee Wood was taken into custody at around 7:30-p.m., for Possession of Marijuana. He was arrested after deputies smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle Wood was driving following a traffic stop on Highway 34 and Dogwood Avenue. Wood was being held in the Adams County Jail on $1,000 bond.

Red Oak Police report two people were arrested on separate charges, Sunday. Officers arrested 33-year old Tyler Anthony Bond, of Red Oak, at around 10:25-p.m. in the vicinity of Broadway and West Hammond Streets. Bond was charged with Public Intoxication and held in the Montgomery County Jail on $300 bond.

And, at around 6:30-p.m. Kristopher James Koon, of Atlantic, turned himself-in to Red Oak Police. Koon was wanted on a Montgomery County warrant for 5th Degree Theft, and on a warrant out of Pottawattamie County for Violation of Probation. Koon was being held on $2,300 bond in the Montgomery County Jail, while awaiting extradition to Pott. County.

Legislators remain at odds over the main function of the Iowa General Assembly — coming up with a state spending plan. For example, the two parties have been wrangling since January over how much state aid to forward to Iowa’s public schools for the school year that begins in August. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Gronstal of Council Bluffs says Republicans are “unwilling to compromise.”

“It’s kind of messy for them,” Gronstal says. “Their leadership says: ‘We’ve drawn a line in the concrete…not the sand. We’ve drawn a line in the concrete and we’re not going to go over that.'” House Speaker Kraig Paulsen, a Republican from Hiawatha, says Republicans in the House are sticking with their original proposal which would forward an additional one-and-a-quarter percent in general state support to public school districts.

“The members of the House Republican Caucuses, 57 of us, have had extensive conversations with Iowans about balancing on-going revenue with on-going expenses,” Paulsen says, “and that’s exactly what they have asked us to do and that’s what they expect us to do.”

The latest report from the Legislative Services Agency indicates the state collected four-point-six percent more in taxes last month when compared to April of last year. Paulsen and his Republican colleagues in the House want to develop a budget plan that’s less than what Republican Governor Terry Branstad and Democrats in the Senate have proposed. Paulsen has said the ultimate goal is to return that money to Iowans in the form of a tax cut.

(Radio Iowa)