The Cass County Auditor’s Office reports several candidates have filed nomination papers to run during the Nov. 5th City/School Elections. The deadline to submit nomination papers to the Cass County Auditor’s Office, for persons seeking City office, and School Board candidates (Submit papers to your School District Secretary), is 5-p.m.!

Those who have filed papers today (Thursday) include:

• Jericho Schmitt, Mark Opbroek, Wayne Preister and Angela Redler – for the Marne City Council
• Ashley Hayes-Atlantic Park and Rec
• Incumbents Jim Fisher and Steven R. Havens have filed to run for re-election to the Wiota City Council,
• Duane Scott Anderson has filed to run for re-election to the Lewis City Council.
• Russell Hansen has filed to run for Mayor of Lewis.

Candidates may submit nominations for both City and School Board positions. Today is the deadline!

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — A judge has ordered a jury to return to deliberations today (Thursday) in the case of an Iowa woman accused of killing of her former boyfriend in 1992. The Muscatine Journal reports that the jury leader told the judge Wednesday that the jury was having difficulty reaching a unanimous verdict in the murder case against Annette Cahill. Prosecutors say she used a baseball bat to kill 22-year-old Corey Lee Wieneke, whose body was found in October 1992 on his bedroom floor in rural West Liberty.

Judge Patrick McElyea sent the jury members back to the jury room, and he conferred with lawyers for both sides. He had the jury members returned to the courtroom and asked them to return Thursday morning and “continue to engage in open-minded discussion and persuasion.” A witness came forward in 2017, saying Cahill had implicated herself in the death in 1992, prompting authorities to re-examine the case. Cahill is now a mother of three adult children and a grandmother.

Cahill’s first trial ended in a mistrial in March 2019 when that jury couldn’t reach a verdict.

Police in Creston report the arrest Wednesday afternoon, of 60-year old Steven Nutt. The Creston man was arrested in the 500 block of W. Taylor, for Driving While Barred. He was later released from the Union County Jail, on a $2,000 bond.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a loaded gun was found in a student’s backpack at an Iowa City school. Police say officers responding Wednesday morning to reports about a gun at Tate High School found the student outside. They seized his backpack and, after obtaining a search warrant, searched it and found the weapon. Police say no threats were made to staffers or students. Charges against the boy are pending.

Police in Red Oak arrested a man early this morning, on an assault charge. Authorities say 33-year old Brian Paul Anderson, of Hamburg, was taken into custody at around 4-a.m. in the 200 block of E. Grimes Street, for Simple Assault. Anderson was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.