Police in Mason City responded at around 4:30-p.m. Thursday, to a shooting near a storage facility that involved a railroad police officer. Upon arrival, officers found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. A railroad police officer was also present. The unidentified shooting victim was transported to Mercy Medical Center. The unidentified railroad officer was evaluated for minor injuries. The incident remains under investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

Mason City Police were assisted at the scene by Union Pacific Railroad staff at the Mason City yard, the Mason City Fire Dept., Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Office, and the Iowa State Patrol.

The Creston Police Department reports two men were arrested a little before 1-a.m. today (Friday), following an incident at a residence in the 300 block of N. Walnut Street, in Creston. Authorities say 33-year old Manuel Luke Richardson, of Creston, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault. He was being held in the Union County Jail without bond. And, 24-year old Denzel Christopher Marlow, of Altoona, was arrested for Interference with Official Acts. Marlow was later released on a $300 cash bond.

Medivac Ambulance was dispatched to the scene of a vehicle in the ditch early this (Friday) morning, north of Atlantic. The accident occurred a little after 6-a.m. on north Olive Street, near the ADM Grain facility. The female driver of the vehicle was complaining of neck pain. Roads in the area were slick at the time, with fog having frozen on an already wet surface. No other details are currently available.

Police in Council Bluffs arrested a man this (Friday) morning, after they were dispatched a little before 3-a.m., to 305 N 6th Street, for report of a suspicious male. The suspect gave the responding officers a false name, threw punches at the officers and ran from them before officers were able to gain control of the him and place the man in handcuffs.

Michael Wickman

The suspect, identified as 31-year old Michael Wickman, of Council Bluffs, was transported to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Wickman will be charged with two counts of Assault on Police Officers, False Information, Interference with Official Acts and Eluding when he’s released from the hospital. The officers involved also suffered minor injuries during the incident.

FAIRFIELD, Iowa (AP) — A Canadian woman was found by snowmobilers after she spent three days stuck with her car on a muddy rural road in southeast Iowa. Seventy-two-year-old Terry Harnish, of Hubbards, Nova Scotia, was visiting friends on Thanksgiving when she took a wrong turn onto a dirt road outside Fairfield. Her car became mired in mud up to its wheel wells, and she was unable to walk to one of the farmhouses she’d passed. The Des Moines Register reports that she spent the next three days in her car, surviving on a tea drink and marzipan cake.

Fairfield police Lt. Colin Smith says Harnish had ended up on a dirt road that’s just not traveled this time of year. The heavy snow that fell Sunday proved her salvation, because it brought out two teenage snowmobilers whose attention she attracted with her car lights and horn. Their father used a tractor to take Harnish back into Fairfield.