The Adair County Sheriff’s Office reports an Adair man, 28-year old Bryan Dean Schultz, was arrested at around 9-p.m. Friday, on warrants charging him with Kidnapping in the 3rd Degree, Harassment in the 1st Degree, and Domestic Assault with a Weapon/1st offense. Schultz was being held in the Adair County Jail on a $65,000 cash-only bond. Additional details are currently not available.

At around 3:30-a.m. July 30th, 29-year old Rachael Ellen Ragan, of Greenfield, was arrested by Greenfield Police, for Domestic Abuse Assault/2nd offense. Authorities say she hit and scratched on the head and neck, 28-year old Matthew Meads, of Greenfield. The incident took place during a verbal argument between the couple that turned physical.

Meads, who was arrested for Assault with bodily injury, said Ragan flicked cigarette ashes on him, so he spit at her. That’s when she allegedly hit and pushed him several times in the face, neck and chest. Ragan told Police she was spit on, pushed to the ground and held down by Meads. She claimed that while he held her down, he stood on her foot, causing scratch marks and bruising. Ragan and Meads were transported to the Adair County Jail and later released on $1,000 cash or surety bonds, each.

On July 29th, 57-year old Joseph Alvin Hahn, of Adair, was arrested by Adair County Sheriff’s Deputies. Hahn was taken into custody on an Adair County warrant for Gathering Where Controlled Substances are Used, and Possession of a Controlled Substance/2nd offense. He was being held on a $7,000 cash or surety bond in the Adair County Jail.

And, on July 28th, 52-year old Henrik Leonard Rater, of Casey, was arrested on a warrant for a Controlled Substance Violation. He was being held in the Adair County Jail on a $25,000 cash or surety bond.

(Radio Iowa) — The Libertarian Party of Iowa and one of its 2018 candidates have filed a lawsuit challenging a recent change in Iowa election law. Jake Porter of Council Bluffs, last year’s Libertarian candidate for governor,  says it will likely reduce the number of third party candidates who run for office.

“Voters should ultimately have options on the ballot and it goes against our democratic process to deny them options and that’s what this does.” Since 1953, third party candidates have had until mid-August to submit the paperwork necessary to get their names on the General Election Ballot. The new state law that goes into effect for the 2020 election moves the deadline up five months, to mid-March. Porter says it increases the advantages Democrats and Republicans already have.

“I think it was done as part of what I call ‘The Incumbent Protection Act,'” Porter says. “A lot of times they don’t like challenges and I think that was probably why it was put in there.” Porter says if the law stands and there’s more than one candidate vying for an office, some candidates who file papers in mid-March won’t get their party’s endorsement at summertime conventions.

“The Libertarian Party of Iowa and the Green Party — all their candidates would have to file at the same time that the Republicans and Democrats do,” Porter says. “Now, if we had a primary, that would make sense, but since we don’t, that means we cannot get on the ballot later on like it’s always been done.”

The lawsuit has been filed in federal court. There’s been no comment on the lawsuit yet from Governor Reynolds or Republicans who hold the majorities in the Iowa House and Senate.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A western Iowa Republican lawmaker says he’s holding a campaign fundraiser featuring U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley at a shooting range despite calls for him to cancel the gun-centered event following weekend mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.

State Rep. Steve Holt says his Sweet Freedom Celebration in Denison remains scheduled Monday night. Holt posted on his campaign Facebook page Sunday that “mental deviants have killed innocent people in El Paso and Dayton” and he offered his prayers. A writer responded that gun safety legislation was needed more than prayers.

Holt then noted his support for the Second Amendment. He blamed the shootings on “the loss of our value system brought about in part by idiotic far-left ideology that forced Biblical values from our schools, the media and the public square…”

Grassley’s staff didn’t immediately verify whether he would attend the event.

A man from Lenox was arrested today (Monday), in Montgomery County. 21-year old Benjamin P. Moreno was taken into custody on a warrant for Violation of Probation, on an original OWI/1st offense charge. Moreno was processed at the Montgomery County Jail, and released after posting bond.