The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports one person suffered possible, minor injuries during a rollover accident this (Friday) morning. 34-year old Fernando Rivas, of Lenox, was traveling east on Highway 34 at around 11-a.m., when he lost control of the 2013 Nissan he was driving. The car entered a ditch and rolled onto its top, sustaining $7, 500 damage. Rivas was cited for Failure to Maintain Control.

Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers advises that the Clarinda Police Department administrative phone line 712-542-2194 is working again as of 2:00 p.m. today (Friday). The system had been done since 11-a.m. Thursday.

Windstream Communications isolated the problem and repaired the system in under 30 minutes. Chief Brothers wants to thank everyone for their cooperation during the phone outage.

The Adair County Sheriff’s Office report ALL PHONE SYSTEMS and 911 SYSTEMS ARE BACK UP AND FUNCTIONING. The lines become unavailable late this (Friday) morning, and 9-1-1 calls were re-routed, but again. ALL LINES ARE FUNCTIONAL.

Sheriff Jeff Vandewater said all telephone lines coming into the Adair County Sheriff’s Office were severed at approximately 10-a.m. today (Friday). A local plumbing contractor with a small backhoe dug into the lines directly behind (south of) the Sheriff’s Office. Vandewater says the error may not have been the plumbing company’s fault, as they say indicated that the ground was improperly marked.

Regardless, the Sheriff’s Office thanks you for your patience, and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office for fielding the calls.

State policymakers are beginning to suspect more and more Iowans are shopping online rather than in bricks-and-mortar stores in the state. Data shows wages in Iowa are on the rise, but state sales tax receipts are barely growing.  David Roederer, the governor’s budget director, says “We’re trying to determine whether or not it is a softening of spending or whether it is a change in the way Iowans are purchasing products.”

Iowans are to pay the state sales tax on purchases they make online from retailers with a “physical presence” in the state, but House Speaker Linda Upmeyer, a Republican from Clear Lake, says some businesses do not calculate the taxes for online purchases. “Maybe it’s simply making Iowans more aware that they owe that tax and they’re obligated to send that in if it’s not being collected,” Upmeyer says. “It doesn’t mean that they, but they’re on their own to submit it.” Upmeyer hears from Main Street businesses in Iowa who say it’s unfair competition from online retailers. “There’s also people that don’t want us to collect it,” Upmeyer says.

State sales tax receipts increased just one percent in February compared to the same month a year ago. In the past EIGHT months, sales tax payments to the state are up a little less than one-and-a-half percent. Experts had predicted consumer spending in Iowa would grow twice that much.

(Radio Iowa)

Sheriff’s officials in Page County arrested a Clarinda man Thursday morning on a warrant for Probation violation. 33-year old Kenneth James Johnson was arrested at the Page County Courthouse, in Clarinda. Johnson was taken to the Page County Jail where he was unable to post $2000 and was being held pending further court proceedings.

The Adair County Sheriff’s Office reports there is currently a technical issue with the Sheriff Office’s phone lines. All administrative lines will only continually ring. That includes 911. HOWEVER, 911 calls will automatically be transferred over to a neighboring county and then they can reach the Adair County Sheriff’s Office through  radio communications for emergency dispatch.

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) – Midland University has dropped plans to reopen the former Dana College campus in Blair. The university announced Friday that it will focus on improvements in its Fremont campus and on finding a permanent home for MBA, other graduate and nontraditional programs in Omaha.

In June 2013 Midland announced that it was raising money to use on the Dana campus. The 126-year-old Lutheran college closed in 2010, and many of its students transferred to Midland University in Fremont, about 20 miles away. Midland officials say the Dana campus required a significant amount of money to maintain an aging physical plant and a challenging path to acquire accreditation. The officials concluded that the costs of reopening Dana were prohibitive compared to other growth options.