Rescue crews from Anita and Wiota, along with Medivac Ambulance, were called to the scene of a tractor-trailer rollover accident, in Cass County this (Tuesday) morning. According to dispatch reports at 9:46-a.m., the semi blew a tire on Interstate 80 westbound near the 72 mile marker and struck a bridge before it entered the north ditch and rolled onto its side. The driver, Pedro Diaz Alvarez, from Florida, suffered a minor hand injury but refused transport to the hospital.

Photo courtesy Cass County Emergency Mgmt. Coordinator Mike Kennon.

Sheriff’s officials in Union County say a man from Polk County was arrested Monday afternoon on two Union County warrants for Failure to Appear in court, on Child Support matters. 52-year old Christopher Lee Thurmond, of Des Moines, was being held in the Union County Jail on $1,500 bond.

And, a Lorimor woman reported to the Sheriff’s Office, Monday, that sometime over the weekend, someone got into her house and took her TV valued at $600, and $690 in cash. The incident remains under investigation.

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The Cass County Board of Supervisors will hold their regular weekly meeting 8:30-a.m. Wednesday, at the courthouse in Atlantic.

On their agenda is action on an order approving Audubon County’s plan of reimbursement to Cass County for Administrative Assistant Services rendered to the Audubon County Attorney’s Office, and action on a Resolution calling for Cass County Engineer Charles Bechtold to execute the certification on completed work and final acceptance, with regard to Farm-to-Market roads.

The Board will also act to set ordinance hearing dates on an ordinance to establish a policy for the construction and reconstruction of roadways and bridges on the Cass County Secondary Road System.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday for a 30-year-old man accused of killing another man in the northwest Iowa community of Sloan. The Sioux City Journal reports Timothy Schroeder has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, going armed with intent and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Prosecutors say Schroeder shot to death 29-year-old Dustin Wilder at Wilder’s home on Jan. 9, 2015.

The City of Atlantic’s Planning and Zoning Commission will meet this (Tuesday) evening in the Council’s Chambers at City Hall. On the agenda for their 5:30-p.m. session, is the consideration of two alleys to be vacated. In the New Business portion of their agenda, the Commission will discuss the proposed vacating of an alley located between Birch and Locust, and 13th and 14th Streets.

The alley was the subject of a dispute between two property owners. During a civil lawsuit that City was involved in, Judge James Richardson failed to overturn the City’s opinion that the alley was a property alley, and therefore would have no reason to maintain the strip of land. City Administrator John Lund says since the Judge did not specify WHO owns the land, the City is back to square one, with no idea who owns it. In the absence of such a determination, he says, it is assumed the City has some jurisdiction. If the Commission does not object, the City, according to Lund, feels it would be reasonable to abandon any claim or title to the affected strip of land.

Old Business will include discussion pertaining to the vacating of an alley west of 1315 Birch. At their last meeting on June 14th, the matter was tabled because the Commission had questions for City Administrator John Lund, who was not able to attend the meeting, and out of concerns for neighbors.

In the City’s analysis, it was noted officials inspected the property and proposes that only the southern part of the alley, south of the creek, be vacated. Lund recommends the Commission pass a motion to abandon part of the alley, or the entire alley, depending on a response from abutting property owners.