A traffic stop early this (Wed.) morning in Villisca, resulted in an arrest. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says 23-year old Makayla Dawn Hudson, of Red Oak, was pulled over at around 2:40-a.m. and subsequently arrested for Driving While Suspended. Hudson was brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where her bond was set at $300.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

The Iowa Senate has unanimously approved a bill designed to accelerate the access terminally ill Iowans have to medications being tested in federally-approved drug trials. Republican Senator Rick Bertrand sponsored the bill after Todd Oss — a Sioux City native who’s been diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease — told Bertrand this so-called “right to try” legislation was being considered in other states. “He currently is in let’s just say the sunset of life,” Bertrand says, “and I think that with the passage of this gives him some satisfaction that there’s going to other options for patients that are terminally ill in the state of Iowa.”

Terminally ill Americans can seek a “compassionate care” waiver from the federal government to try medications that have gotten initial approval for clinical trials, but aren’t yet available by prescription. That process, however, requires a lot of paperwork and a lot of time. Senator Jeff Danielson, a Democrat from Cedar Falls, says this bill would speed access not only to medications, but to devices being tested as treatment for incurable illnesses like Huntington’s Disease, A-L-S, and advanced forms of cancer.

“I think we all know an Iowan who’s been in a circumstance with a terminally ill diagnosis,” Danielson says, “and we’d do anything we can to improve their quality of
life.” In other action Tuesday, all 50 senators approved a bill that would allow pharmacists to dispense a 90-day supply of prescription drugs. Senator Joe Bolkcom, a Democrat from Iowa City, says there are thousands of Iowans who have taken the same drug for years as treatment for a chronic condition like high blood pressure.

“Allowing a pharmacist to dispense a 90-day supply will reduce the number of trips Iowans have to make to the pharmacy, decrease out-of-pocket expenditures,” Bolkcom says. Walgreens is the country’s largest retail drug chain and the company has found that patients who are able to buy a 90-day supply of their prescription drugs are more likely to use cheaper generic medication and have saved an average of 23 dollars a year.

This bill AND the “right to try” bill must clear the Iowa House and be approved by the governor before the policies would become state law.

(Radio Iowa)

A Sheriff’s Deputy from Guthrie County was injured during a crash between a car and a Sheriff’s Department SUV. The Iowa State Patrol reports Deputy Kent Gries, of Guthrie Center, who was wearing his seat belt, suffered minor injuries, and was transported by Guthrie County EMS to the Guthrie County Hospital, following the crash that occurred at around 3-p.m. Tuesday on the northwest side of Bagley.

Authorities say Deputy Gries was traveling east on Highway 141 in a 2015 Chevy Tahoe, when a 2004 Hyundai Elantra traveling south on Quail Road, failed to stop at the intersection. The car struck the SUV on the driver’s side door, causing the SUV to spin and enter a ditch. The car, driven by 20-year old Kylee Sheeder, of Panora, came to rest on the road.

Sheeder, who was not wearing a seat belt, told authorities she had no recollection of failing to obey the stop sign. The incident was captured on the SUV’s dash cam.