Sheriff’s Officials in Adams County report a Corning man was arrested Saturday evening on an Attempted Murder charge. 50-year old Rex Kinser was taken into custody after he called the Adams County Sheriff’s Office and said he was looking for another person, and intended to kill that person. Kinser was booked into the Adams County Jail.  

Sheriff’s Officials report also, a Lenox man was arrested Saturday afternoon on an Adams County warrant charging him with felony Sexual Abuse. 33-year old Peter Davidson was originally arrested April 27^th on a charge of 3^rd degree sexual abuse, stemming from an investigation by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Human Services. He was subsequently released on $10,000 bond.   

Davidson was arrested again, Saturday afternoon, on a felony charge of 2^nd degree sexual abuse. He later posted a $5,000 bond and was released. No details were provided concerning the circumstances of the alleged incidents.

A collision between a small car and a motorcycle Saturday evening in Montgomery County resulted in one injury and the cycle bursting into flames. According to the Iowa State Patrol, 41-year old Patricia O’Neal, of Clarinda, was flown by Lifenet Helicopter to Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha following the crash on Highway 71, at around 5:25-p.m. Officials say O’Nea was traveling north on 71 on a 2005 Harley Davidson motorcycle and started to turn east onto 155th Street, when she turned back onto 71. 31-year old Jamie Lagassie, of Atlantic, was behind the cycle and and attempting to pass it on the left as it was turning right. When the cycle merged back on to 71, it was hit by Lagassie’s 2012 Ford Focus. O’Neal was thrown from her cycle, which then burst into flames. A report on the womans’ condition was not available late Saturday night. Lagassie was not injured in the crash.

An Essex teen was injured during a single vehicle accident this (Saturday) morning in Fremont County. The Iowa State Patrol says a passenger in a 1999 Plymouth Neon, 18-year old Tabitha Morris, of Essex, was transported by Shenandoah Rescue to the hospital in Shenandoah after the car went out of control, slid across a farm drive and entered a drainage ditch before coming to rest on its left side in the ditch. The accident happened on Highway 2, at around 6:20-a.m., about 1 mile east of Farragut, and took place when the driver of the car, 21-year old Trevor Vermillion, of Farragut, passed out at the wheel. Officials say Morris was not wearing her seat belt. A report on her condition was not available. Vermillion was not injured.