Police in Creston report a Central Iowa man was arrested Tuesday evening for allegedly Failing to Comply with the State’s Sex Offender Registry. 30-year old James Clark, of Pleasant Hill, was also charged with Theft in the 5th Degree. Clark was being held in the Union County Jail on a $5,000 bond.

Three other men were arrested Tuesday, in Creston: 23-year old Michael Cox, of Creston, was arrested at his home on a Union County Warrant for Failure to Appear on an original charge of Public Intoxication, and a new charge of Theft in the 5th Degree. Cox was later released on a Promise to Appear in court; 18-year old Kendrick Davis, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Union County warrant for Probation Violation. Davis was later released on $2,000 bond. And, 23-year old Tyler McKay, of Creston, was arrested late Tuesday night for Public Intoxication/1st offense. McKay was being held in the Union County Jail on $300 bond.

Creston Police said also, a person with the United Methodist Church in Creston, reported Tuesday that sometime Tuesday afternoon, someone fired a BB gun at the north windows of the Early Childhood Building. Damage was estimated at $300.

(7-a.m. News)

The State Historical Museum in Des Moines is taking its show on the road. Museum spokesperson Jeff Morgan says an exhibit called “Iowa History 101” will be touring the state. “It’s going to be housed in a 38 foot long Winnebago RV that’s going to visit all 99 Iowa counties beginning next spring,” Morgan says. The traveling exhibit will also feature artifacts from each of Iowa’s 99 counties. Morgan identified a couple of the items.

“A 1917 prototype of Iowa’s state flag that was designed by Dixie Cornell Gebhardt of Knoxville,” Morgan said. Another feature will be a 1928 record of the song “Sugar” featuring jazz musician and Davenport-native Bix Beiderbecke. Mike Wolfe, star of the television show “American Pickers,” took part in an event Tuesday to announce the new exhibit at Antique Archaeology in Le Claire.

“Mike Wolfe is our exhibit partner and will be providing the voice and video talent for the multimedia components of the exhibit,” Morgan said. The Iowa Historical Museum RV will start touring in the spring and admission will be free. EMC Insurance Group is the exhibit’s presenting sponsor.

(Radio Iowa)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The board that oversees Iowa’s three public universities says it wants to use a new two-year budget system that would include some tuition increases. The Iowa Board of Regents announced Tuesday it wants the Legislature to support a plan that would increase state funding to the universities by two percent each year for the budget years that end in 2018 and 2019. Additional money would go to the University of Northern Iowa in the first year.

The plan would also increase tuition rates by two percent each year for in-state undergraduate students. The board will vote in September on a $12.7 million request in new dollars for the first year. That includes $4.6 million for the University of Iowa, $3.7 million for Iowa State University and $4.4 million for UNI.

Firefighters from Marne and Atlantic were called early this (Wed.) morning to report of two semi-tractors on fire at the exit 51 off-ramp of Interstate 80 eastbound. The call came in at around 4:50-a.m.   One of the semi’s was pulling another. Both were said to have been fully engulfed in flames and were a total loss. No one was in either cab when crews were dispatched. Flames were visible at least one-mile away, by law enforcement and fire fighters responding to the scene.

Images from the Marne Fire and Rescue Facebook page

In a separate incident, Griswold Fire was called to the scene of an overturned fuel truck at around 5-a.m. today (Wednesday). The accident happened near 650th and Wichita Road. No injuries were reported. Some diesel fuel was leaking from the vehicle after the crash. No other details are available.