An official with the Audubon County Memorial Hospital and Clinics has informed KJAN News, that the health care provider “Is in the process of responding to a matter that has caused the temporary disabling of some computer systems. No critical patient care equipment has been impacted, and the hospital remains operational.”

ACMH Privacy and Compliance Officer Kolton Hewlett also said in his statement, “We regret any concern that this matter has caused and are actively working to restore all impacted systems.”

Midwest Dental, in Atlantic, was also affected by a temporary computer system issue, but it was quickly locked down by their security programs, and has not affected any patient records or information.

Red Oak Police report a woman from Cass County was arrested a little before 11-a.m. today (Thursday). 27-year old Michelle Lynn Eden, ofGriswold, was taken into custody on charges that include Harassment in the 3rd degree, and Disorderly Conduct. The charges stem from an incident that occurred Tuesday, at the Red Oak Dollar General Store. Eden was arrested in the 100 block of E. Coolbaugh Street and transported to the Montgomery County Jail, where her cash bond was set at $300.

(Radio Iowa) — A filmmaker from New York is in Sioux City this week, doing research for his follow up to a documentary made in the late 1970’s. Jay Shapiro’s film will look at the aftermath of Zenith’s decision in 1977 to close their electronics manufacturing plant in Sioux City. Shapiro says “I think I got into it really asking questions about automation and automating jobs away and sort of globalization, these really big words and these big ideas that you can sort of get lost in the theory of them…I stumbled on George’s film just on youtube and found it to be such an incredible document.”

George Lindblade’s documentary was titled “We Didn’t Want It to Happen This Way.” It told the story the 15-hundred Zenith jobs in Sioux City that were shifted to facilities in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mexico. Now, 42 years later, Shapiro is hoping to talk to people who worked at Zenith in Sioux City or who had family members impacted by the closing.

(Radio Iowa) — A Des Moines man is in custody after a high speed and long distance chase. Shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, a Knoxville policeman stopped a car for an equipment violation. What the officer didn’t know is that the car had been stolen Saturday night in an armed car-jacking in Des Moines. The officer asked two of the three people inside the car to get out, then 22-year-old Daniel Ogden of Des Moines took the wheel and took off. Ogden turned onto Highway 14, with speeds of over 110 miles an hour. The chase moved to Highway 163 where law enforcement twice used stop strips to try to stop the car, with no luck.

The chase ended when Ogden hit a mailbox in a cul de sac in Pleasant Hill. That’s 34 miles away from where the pursuit started. Ogden was treated at a Des Moines hospital, released and taken to the Marion County Jail. The charges Ogden is facing not having a valid driver’s license, speeding, second degree theft and participating in a felony.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The execution date for a notorious Iowa drug kingpin who killed witnesses and children in 1993 has been scheduled for Jan. 15. Dustin Honken is among five federal death row inmates whose execution dates were announced Thursday by the Justice Department. The announcement came as Attorney General Bill Barr directed federal capital punishment to resume for the first time in nearly two decades.

Honken was convicted at trial in 2004 of five counts of murder during a continuing criminal enterprise and numerous other counts. The jury found that he killed two dealers who were to testify against him during a 1993 investigation, a mother and her two children. Their bodies weren’t recovered for years. Honken, a resident of Britt, expanded his meth-making and distribution enterprise in the following years.

Iowa doesn’t have the death penalty, but the federal jury recommended a death sentence for the children’s murders. Honken’s girlfriend, Angela Johnson, also was sentenced to death but her punishment was reduced to life in prison in 2014.

Officials with the Iowa Judicial Branch report 16 Iowans have applied with the State Judicial Nominating Commission to fill the vacancy on the Iowa Court of Appeals that occurred when Judge Gayle Vogel retired on July 1, 2019. Among the applicants scheduled to be interviewed Monday, August 5th, is Julie Schumacher, District Court Judge, Third Judicial District in Schleswig, and Molly Weber, Assistant Attorney General, Iowa Attorney General’s Office, in Adel. (You can view the entire list of applicants here: https://www.iowacourts.gov/newsroom/news-releases/list-of-applicants-and-interview-schedule-for-iowa-court-of-appeals-vacancy/ )

The commission welcomes written comments from the public about the qualifications of any of the applicants. Comments must be submitted to the commission members via email no later than 5:00 p.m. August 2, 2019 at the email addresses on the State Judicial Nominating Commission website and by email to the Secretary of the commission at sjnc@iowa.gov.

The commission will meet Monday, August 5, 2019, in the Iowa Supreme Court Courtroom on the fourth floor of the Judicial Branch Building to interview the applicants for the vacancy. The public is invited to observe the interviews in the courtroom. The interviews will be live streamed and the videos archived on the Iowa Judicial Branch YouTube channel. Immediately following the interviews, the commission will begin deliberations to select a slate of three nominees from the group of applicants.  Once the commission selects its slate of nominees, the commission will forward those names to the governor. The governor will then have thirty (30) days in which to appoint the new judge.