The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest Wednesday of 36-year-old Jesse Donald Trost of Red Oak on a statewide Carroll County Warrant for Contempt of Court by Resisting Order and Process of District Court. Trost was arrested at 4:00pm on South 4th Street in Red Oak. Trost was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $1,000 cash or surety bond.

(Radio Iowa) Governor Kim Reynolds will interviewed the three women who’ve been nominated for an opening on the Iowa Supreme Court on Friday, July 27th. The state Judicial Nominating Commission submitted the three candidates to the governor last week, to replace a justice who is retiring in September.

“I do a personal interview with each individual and have an opportunity to get to know them and I want somebody that’s going to follow and uphold the law,” Reynolds told reporters today. “That’s what I’m looking for.” The Iowa Supreme Court is likely to decide whether the state’s new law that bans most abortions is constitutional. The governor was asked Wednesday if the issue is a consideration as she decides which woman to place on the court.

“Is the abortion issue going to be a factor?” a reporter asked. Reynolds replied: “I want somebody that will follow the law and will revere the constitution.” Reynolds did not indicate which of the three candidates she has interviewed. The three nominees are District Court Judge Susan Christensen of Harlan; Terri Combs, an attorney from West Des Moines and District Court Judge Kellyann Lekar of Waterloo. Two women have previously served on the state’s highest court, but all seven justices on the court today are men. Iowa’s is the only state supreme court in the country that’s made up entirely of men. The new justice Reynolds appoints will have her name placed on the Iowa ballot in what’s called a retention election, but unlike the federal government, the Iowa Senate has no role in confirming judges.

City officials in Greenfield, Wednesday afternoon, issued a BOIL water ORDER, which is a downgrade, and replaces the higher priority Bottled Water Advisory previously issued. Now, water used for drinking, cooking or brushing teeth must be boiled and cooled prior to consuming.

Levels of toxins were lower than expected with recent testing resulting in the reduction of the advisory. GMU says that turbidity (or cloudiness) of the water in the system was not at acceptable levels during recent testing and that is why it is still necessary to boil water before consumption to assure the removal of potential disease-causing organisms. The finish water coming out of the treatment plant has been put back in compliance for standards but officials say it will take a while for the water that was not up to standard to move through the distribution system.

GMU will inform customers when they no longer need to boil their water. They did mention that the water is considered safe for animal and livestock consumption at this time.

(A copy of the Boil Order is pictured below. Click on the image to enlarge.)

ACKLEY, Iowa (AP) — A north-central Iowa man and his girlfriend have been charged with kidnapping after police say the couple tortured the man’s 8-year-old son for months by locking him in a basement enclosure for hours every day, withholding food and having a dog bite him.

The Hardin County Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that 39-year-old Traci Lynn Tyler and 30-year-old Alex Craig Shadlow, both of Ackley, are each charged with kidnapping. An arrest affidavit says the abuse happened between July and September 2017 when the boy was locked at least 9 hours a day in an enclosed 6-foot square space under the basement stairs, where he had to sleep on concrete with no bedding and had no access to a bathroom.

Police say Tyler also beat the boy with a fly swatter handle and urged her dog to bite and attack the boy, leaving permanent scarring on his back and limbs. Authorities were alerted to the abuse by the boy’s school.

WINTERSET, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds is defending a harassment investigation that ended with a state trooper being fired after a 10-month paid leave and examined whether a powerful captain responded appropriately to concerns.

Reynolds said Wednesday that the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Administrative Services followed appropriate procedures and ultimately terminated trooper Wade Karp on July 3. Reynolds declined to reveal what the investigation found related to Iowa State Patrol Capt. Mark Logsdon, who oversees the governor’s security detail.

A state employee had accused Logsdon of failing to act after she informed him she was afraid of Karp after receiving unsettling Facebook messages from him seeking a relationship. Karp was placed on paid leave last September when the woman then complained to others.

The state has refused to release the findings of its investigation, calling them confidential personnel information.