A crash between two SUV’s Sunday afternoon in northern Iowa’s Humboldt County, left a teenager dead and two adults injured. All three were from neighboring Kossuth County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2008 Pontiac Torrent driven by 16-year old Olivia Bachman, of Whitemore, was traveling west on Humboldt County Road C-54 at around 4:50-p.m., Sunday, when she failed to stop at the intersection with County Road P-66, south of Thor.

Her SUV collided at the intersection with a northbound 2010 Toyota Highlander, driven by 64-year old Paul Doster, of Algona. Both vehicles entered the northwest corner of the intersection, where the Pontiac struck a utility pole and rolled onto its top. The Toyota came to rest in the ditch.

Bachman, who was wearing her seat belt, died at the scene. Doster, and his passenger, 63-year old Susan Doster, of Algona, both of whom were wearing seat belts, were transported to separate hospitals. Paul Doster was taken to the Humboldt Hospital by Humboldt Ambulance, while Susan Doster was flown by Mercy Air Ambulance to the Mayo Hospital, in Rochester, MN.

Bachman had just begun her Junior year at Algona High School. In an email sent to parents late Sunday night the school says that grief counselors will be on hand over the next few days to assist students in any way needed.

Assisting the State Patrol at the scene, was fire crews from Humboldt, Renwick and Thor, and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — The father of the 20-year-old Iowa woman whose body was found in a cornfield last week wants people to remember her by “celebrating something wonderful.” Rob Tibbetts urged the hundreds of people at his daughter, Mollie Tibbetts’, funeral on Sunday afternoon to remember her passion for life and her desire to help others.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An elections worker with the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office says a petition seeking to add a conservative candidate for attorney general to the November ballot appears to have fallen short of the 1,500 signatures needed. Elections assistant Wes Hicok says the group turned in pages of signatures ahead of the 5 p.m. Saturday deadline, with a formal review of the paperwork taking place Monday. The effort aimed to put attorney Patrick Anderson, of Des Moines, on the ballot.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are looking for new ways to fight a fast-spreading tree species that crowds out other plants, destroys valuable ranchland and threatens the Great Plains from Texas to the Dakotas. Eastern red cedar trees are native to the Plains but have spread out of control without the natural prairie fires that kept them in check centuries ago. The issue has caught the attention of Nebraska lawmakers, who will convene a hearing Friday at the state Capitol.

PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (AP) — A Pleasant Hill man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend’s father. The Des Moines Register reports that 27-year-old Ricky St. John was sentenced Friday. In a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the November death of 46-year-old Timothy Neal. St. John had been charged with first-degree murder in the case.

(Radio Iowa) — Iowa’s political community is mourning this weekend’s death of Arizona Senator John McCain. McCain ran for president twice. His 2000 “Straight Talk Express” mostly by-passed the Iowa Caucuses, but in early 2007 McCain brought his second campaign for the White House to Iowa. He was in Iowa on October 26th of that year. It was the 40th anniversary of his capture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

During an interview with Radio Iowa that day, McCain credited Colonel Bud Day of Sioux City — one of the other P-O-Ws in the “Hanoi Hilton” — with literally saving his life. “Bud Day was the senior ranking officer in almost every situation and he inspired us to do things that we otherwise were incapable of,” McCain said. “And so it’s not that these are bad memories. Many of them are the most wonderful memories of my entire life.”

McCain has written that it was during those years as a P-O-W that he “fell in love with his country” and he voiced the same sentiments during that Radio Iowa interview. “You don’t appreciate America until you’re parted from her company,” McCain told Radio Iowa that day. “And then you really appreciate what a wonderful nation we live in.” Nearly four decades after he returned to American soil, McCain had landed the G-O-P’s presidential nomination. McCain finished fourth in the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, then he kept campaigning here in the spring, summer and fall of 2008.

“I want to be president because I want to inspire a generation of Americans to serve a cause greater than their self-interest,” McCain said in most speeches. At a McCain rally in September of 2008 in Cedar Rapids, a group of protesters began yelling and McCain’s supporters in the crowd started chanting to drown them out. “You know what, my friends? The one thing Americans want us to do is to stop yelling at each other, don’t they?” he asked, chuckling.

McCain returned to the Iowa campaign trail once more, in 2014, to campaign with Joni Ernst. Ernst, who won that U.S. Senate race, this weekend called McCain “a true American hero” and praised his “tenacious spirit.” Senator Ernst said McCain was a mentor who “personified service to our country.” Senator Chuck Grassley also praised McCain’s tenacity and courage, including his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Grassley and McCain have served in the senate for the past 32 years and Grassley noted McCain’s humor, saying McCain often greeted him by saying: “Nothing runs like a Deere” or joking about having a daily glass of ethanol.

McCain was an outspoken critic of what he called “ethanol subsidies.” All four of the Iowans serving in the U.S. House have issued statements on McCain’s passing, describing McCain as a statesman, hero and patriot. Congressman Steve King praised McCain for using “every day of his life in preparation for or actively serving our country. Congressman David Young said McCain was a patriot who “inspired many to give the best they could to make community and country better.”

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — The father of the 20-year-old Iowa woman whose body was found in a cornfield last week wants people to remember her by “celebrating something wonderful” __ not by the way she died. Mollie Tibbets’ father, Rob Tibbetts, urged the hundreds of people at his daughter’s funeral on Sunday afternoon to remember her passion for life and her desire to help others. Her body was found last Tuesday after a suspect lead police to the field where her body had been since July 18.

To highlight his call to celebrate “wonderful” things, Rob Tibbetts recognized a couple who had just married the day before during his eulogy inside the gymnasium at Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom High School. Tibbetts graduated from the school in 2017.
“Today, we need to turn the page. We’re at the end of a long ordeal,” he said. “But we need to turn toward life __ Mollie’s life __ because Mollie’s nobody’s victim. Mollie’s my hero.”

Davenport Bishop Thomas Zinkula led the funeral Mass. More than 1,000 people filled the gymnasium for Tibbetts’ funeral in the central Iowa city of 1,500 where she grew up. Tibbetts had been staying in Brooklyn during a summer break from her studies at the University of Iowa.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera is charged with first-degree murder in Tibbetts’ death. Authorities have said Tibbetts was abducted while running in July, and an autopsy showed that she died from stab wounds.

Rivera is being held in lieu of a $5 million cash-only bond, and he is suspected of being in the United States illegally. He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole, if convicted.

Several hundred people attended a Funeral Mass for the University of Iowa student whose body was found last week in a cornfield outside her hometown. The funeral Mass was held Sunday afternoon inside the gymnasium of BGM High School in Brooklyn, Iowa. Twenty-year-old Mollie Tibbetts attended the school before her death. Bishop Thomas Zinkula of Davenport, led the funeral. Mollie Tibbetts’ father, cousin and one of her teachers who spoke at the service. Cristhian Bahena Rivera is charged with first-degree murder in Tibbetts’ death. Investigators say the 24-year-old Mexican farmworker led them to a cornfield Tuesday where Tibbetts’ body had been left since her July 18 disappearance. Tibbetts had been staying in Brooklyn during a summer break from her studies at the University of Iowa.

Today’s West Central Iowa Pullers Mid-America Pulling Association Tractor Pull will be held at the Cass County Fairgrounds beginning at 11:30-a.m. instead of 1-p.m., as originally planned (Due to the rain). Lunch on grounds by Cass County Beef Producers.