PERRY, Iowa (AP) – Fire officials are on the scene of an overnight fire in central Iowa that destroyed a feed and milling business. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that Whiton’s Feed and Milling Company in Perry caught fire just before 11 p.m. Thursday.
KCCI says fire crews were still on the scene of the fire Friday morning. Fire officials say they are still looking into what started the fire.
Three months into his 10-year prison sentence on a theft charge, former Denison Fire Chief Todd McKinnon was released last week, and is currently free on probation. The Omaha World-Herald reports the 43-year old McKinnon’s sentence and fine was suspended, and he was instead placed on three years probation. McKinnon is still required to pay the City of Denison restitution amounting to just over $10,265. He also owes the Crawford County EMS Association slightly more than $8,265.
McKinnon was charged with theft in December 2011, following an investigation that uncovered nearly $96,000 in questionable Fire Department spending from 2005-2010. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in March 2013. He lost an appeal of his sentence in January.
McKinnon served as Denison’s first paid fire chief from January 18th, 1999, to January 3rd, 2010.
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St. Albert 2, Tri-Center 1
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West Central Valley 2, North Polk 0
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Harlan 1, Dallas Center-Grimes 0
Glenwood 2, Creston 1
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Sioux City North 6, Abraham Lincoln 0
Sioux City West 4, Thomas Jefferson 0
GARY A. JESSEN, SR., 70, of Omaha, died Wed., May 28th, at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. A Celebration of Life service for GARY JESSEN, SR., will be held 11-a.m. Sat., May 31st, at St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery, west of Exira. Kessler Funeral Home in Exira has the arrangements.
A family visitation will be held the evening (Fri., May 30th), from 4-to 7-pm, at the Kessler Funeral Home in Exira.
Burial will be in the St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery west of Exira.
GARY JESSEN, SR., is survived by:
His wife – Vickie Jessen, of Omaha.
His sons – Jeffrey (Sandy) Jessen, of Wahoo, NE; Gary Allen Jessen, Jr., of Omaha, & Timothy Brandon of Lincoln, NE.
His daughter – Tanya Jessen-Pray & husband Tony, of West Plain, MO.
His sister – Ruth Crouch, of Manilla.
Other relatives, and friends.
Authorities says no injuries were reported following two recent accidents in the listening area. One of the incidents happened Thursday afternoon, in Red Oak. Officials say a 1997 Ford F-150 pickup driven by 75-year old Joseph Hale, of Red Oak, was backing out of a parking stall in front of the U-S Bank on E. Reed Street, when, due to the angle and height of his truck, he was unable to see a 1996 Ford Contour driven by 20-year old Brooke Carpenter of Red Oak, as she was coming around the square. The pickup backed into the car, causing a little more than $1,500 in damage altogether. The accident happened at around 2:10-p.m. No citations were issued.
The other accident happened just before midnight, Wednesday, in Page County. Sheriff’s officials say a 1999 Ford Escort driven by 31-year old Karly Jean Glidden, of Braddyville, was traveling south in the 2800 block of T Avenue at around 11:55-p.m., when the woman swerved to miss a deer. Her car went into the west ditch, causing damage to the front end, and resulted in both the driver’s and passenger’s side airbags deploying. The car sustained $4,500 damage. Glidden was cited for Failure to Provide Proof of Insurance.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is signing into law a bill that legalizes the use of cannabis oil to treat severe epilepsy and one that lessens the penalties for people who unknowingly expose someone to HIV. He’s also signing bills that offer additional tax credits for installing wind and solar energy systems. The cannabis bill is a victory for mothers of children with epilepsy who persistently lobbied lawmakers.
The HIV bill changes current law and imposes a 25-year prison sentences only when someone intends to transmit a disease without a partner’s knowledge.
The wind energy bill extends the deadline for putting in place wind energy projects and the solar bill increases the annual tax credits available for installing solar energy systems to $4.5 million from the current $1.5 million.
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