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FOR SALE: Three-wheel golf cart. Has an older 2-cycle engine but is in really good shape. Asking $700. Call 712-249-5980
NELIGH, Neb. (AP) – A northeast Nebraska man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new husband has pleaded not guilty. The pleas were entered on Wednesday for 33-year-old Matthew Hinrichsen, of Ewing, in Antelope County District Court. Hinrichsen has been charged with arson, two weapons counts and two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 25-year old Victoria Lee, a former City Councilperson from Missouri Valley, and her husband, 30-year-old Alex Vargas.
Investigators found the couple’s bodies on Dec 8th, 2012, in a burned-out mobile home near Ewing. Hinrichsen was being held without bond at the State Prison in Lincoln, NE. His trial is set to begin April 8th.
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The Iowa Supreme Court has issued a ruling that has an impact on water and railroads. In the spring of 2007 Union Pacific workers noticed a hole in the roadbed under their tracks in Hardin County and filled the hole with rock. The railroad did not know the hole was caused by the collapse of a nearly 100-year-old clay drainage tile, and the rock repair caused water drained by the tile to back up and flood farm ground. The local drainage district fixed the broken tile and sent a bill to the railroad.
The total bill — including crop losses — was over 100-thousand dollars. The railroad refused to pay, saying state law requires them to repair bridges and culverts, and a tile is not a culvert. The district court sided with the drainage district and said the railroad had to pay. But the Iowa Supreme Court ruling says the legislature was very specific in making the railroads responsible for bridges and culverts, and did not use the word drains to cover repairs to any pipes that drain water. For that reason the court said a tile is not a culvert and the railroad is not required to pay for tile repairs.
The court information says there could be hundreds of such tiles under the railroad bed that will be impacted by the ruling.
(Radio Iowa)
Two former government employees in southwest Iowa are accused of selling nearly $20,000 worth of county-owned scrap metal to a local salvage yard and pocketing the money for themselves. An investigation by the State Auditor’s office was launched after the Adair County Auditor received an anonymous letter outlining concerns with the sale of old iron and used bridge planks. Deputy State Auditor Tami Kusian says Duane Jameson and Cindy Butcher, who worked in the Adair County Engineer’s Office, sold the materials over a 10 year period. “The checks were being written to the two employees and we identified those being deposited in their accounts,” Kusian says.
Kusian says Adair County authorities learned of the alleged activity in January. Jameson was the Road Superintendent, while Butcher was the Engineer’s Office Shop Clerk. Both were fired last week. Kusian says the checks issued to Jameson and Butcher ranged from roughly $200 to $7,000. The state investigation covered the period between December 2001 and December 2011. Kusian says they identified $19,734 of undeposited collections.
The State Auditor’s report has been turned over to the Adair County Attorney and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.
(Radio Iowa)
Many Iowans will are wearing red today (Friday) for a good cause. Cassie Wessing, with the Des Moines Chapter of the American Heart Association, says National Wear Red Day is designed to raise awareness about the number one killer of women – heart disease. Wessing is hoping Iowans will take it a step further and “go red” the entire month. “Wear red, decorate your house, business or office red. Anything you can think of. We want the whole world to be red through the month of February,” Wessing says. National Wear Red Day, held annually on February 1, was created 10 years ago.
“At that time, women didn’t really think of heart disease as a disease for them, it was an ‘old man’s’ disease,” Wessing says. “Even health care professionals didn’t really think of treating women and heart disease in personal ways and according to their body types.” The American Heart Association reports, since the first Wear Red Day 10 years ago, 21% fewer women are dying from heart disease. “We started this campaign, really, to raise awareness that heart disease is the number one killer of women. It’s not just happening to men,” Wessing said.
Other events are scheduled this month in Iowa to raise both awareness and money toward the fight against heart disease. That includes The Heart Ball on February 16 at the Embassy Suites in downtown Des Moines.
(Radio Iowa)
The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Thursday, approved a request by Teddi Grindberg with Healthy Cass County, to place signs or banners in the courthouse promoting community wellness.
The signs are made possible as part of a 5-year, $88,000 per year, Community Transformation grant. The grant comes from the Centers for Disease, Control and Prevention which was funded through a number of states, including Iowa. In Iowa, there were 26 counties chosen for the grant, which focuses on community wellness. Funds for the grant flow through Cass County.
Grindberg, whose office is at the Nishna Valley YMCA in Atlantic, says there are a number of different wellness aspects that are focused on locally. The first year, 2012, focused primarily on the City of Atlantic. But the idea is to move the focus from community-to-community in Cass County, with emphasis on several areas. That includes: smoke-free multi-unit housing; chronic disease management, and work site wellness.
Teddi says they are also working with Live Healthy Iowa and other ways to make the communities in the county more physically active. Another aspect of the Community Transformation Grant, is information placed at strategic locations on an on-going basis, geared toward promoting health awareness, such as high blood pressure, etc. She says new messages will be placed at different locations every three months or so.
The messages will be on easels in the courthouse, so as to not mar the finish on the walls.
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...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS CANCELLED…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS CANCELED THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY, WHICH WAS SET TO EXPIRE AT NOON TODAY (FRIDAY). ALTHOUGH WIND CHILL VALUES ARE INCREASING AND NO LONGER MEET WIND CHILL ADVISORY CRITERIA…THEY WILL REMAIN COLD FOR THE REST OF THIS MORNING. BUNDLE UP IF YOU GO OUTDOORS.
JAMES ARTHUR REDMAN, 83, formerly of Walnut, died Thu., Jan. 31st, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Sioux City. Services for JAMES REDMAN will be held at a later date. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Avoca is in charge of the arrangements.
Burial will be in the Layton Township Cemetery at Walnut.
JAMES REDMAN is survived by:
His wife – Joyce Redman, of Elk Horn.
His sons – Jeffrey Redman, of OR, and Brent (Marlene) Redman, of FL.
His daughter – Rene Redman, of NV.
and 3 grandchildren.