The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports a warrant was issued Wednesday for the arrest of a Cass County man in connection with ongoing harassment. Authorities say 64-year old Duane Edwin Myers is wanted for Harassment by Communication/Intimidation, after deputies were called to a home on Contrail Avenue in Griswold, just before 9-p.m. Wednesday. The father of an 18-year old female advised deputies his daughter was just harassed by their neighbor, identified as Myers, and that the problem is an ongoing issue.

And, a Des Moines woman was cited Wednesday afternoon for Possession of a Controlled Substance (Nearly 50 grams of marijuana), following a traffic stop on Interstate 80 in Pottawattamie County, near mile marker 10. After the 2016 Chevy Suburban was pulled over for speeding at around 12:45-p.m., a probable cause search was conducted, and the driver, identified as 29-year old Katren Elizabeth Anne Delger, was cited and then released from the scene.

MANLY, Iowa (AP) – A woman has been accused of stealing more than $9,300 from a northern Iowa high school athletics booster club when she was treasurer. Online court records say 37-year-old Autumn Dillavou is charged with theft. Authorities say she took the money from the Central Springs High School Athletic Booster Club in Manly from May through December 2016.

The Creston Police Department reports 40-year old Teresa Earley, of Creston, was arrested at around 5:50-p.m., Wednesday, for Driving While Suspended (DWS). Earley was taken into custody in the 1100 block of Patt Street, and later released from the Union County Jail on a $300 bond.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) – A paddle wheel boat built in Dubuque back in 1969 that was out of commission for about four-years, has returned to cruising the Alabama’s Black Warrior River. The popular “Bama Belle,” which was repaired under its new owner, Jasper, Alabama-area businessman Craig Dodson, has begun offering weekend cruises.

The 90-foot long, 54-ton Bama Belle, which can carry 149 passengers, has been part of Tuscaloosa’s river scene since 2001, but it stopped offering cruises in June 2012 after holes developed in the engine cooling systems’ coolers on the bottom of the boat, causing an engine to fail.

After it was built in Iowa, the Belle was christened as the “Captain Ann,” but later renamed “Emerald Queen,” and was based in Destin, Florida. In 2001, the boat was renamed the Bama Belle and brought to Tuscaloosa.

The “Bama Belle” and its owner Craig Dodson (A-P photo)

The Council Bluffs Police Department reports a Nebraska man was arrested this (Thursday) morning for Theft in the 2nd Degree, in connection with the recovery of a stolen vehicle. 29-year old Terry L. Eddy, of Omaha, was arrested following a traffic stop at around 2:34-a.m. in the 2600 block of Avenue B, in Council Bluffs.

Uniform patrol officers located a stolen 1998 Honda Accord traveling west bound on Avenue B and made a coordinated traffic stop before taking Eddy into custody without incident. Authorities say the vehicle he was driving had been reported stolen out of Omaha on Wednesday (February 22nd, 2017).

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – The University of Iowa is eliminating academic scholarships expected by more than 2,400 resident students for the 2017-18 school year. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that a letter being sent by university President Bruce Harreld blames the Legislature’s decreasing university funding by $8 million. University officials estimate that cutting the scholarships will save the university about $4.3 million.

The university already has reduced its Summer Hawk Tuition program, tightened residency requirements for out-of-state students and raised the minimum number of credit hours required for students to live in the dorms.

Harreld told state lawmakers Wednesday that the cutbacks were necessary because of the $8 million reduction in state funding that the university is required to handle over the next four months.