Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County report a Braddyville man was arrested early this (Thursday) morning on an OWI charge, following an incident which occurred in the 400 block of south 3rd Avenue in Villisca. 21-year old Payne David William Dotson was taken into custody at around 1:50-a.m. and charged with OWI/1st offense. Dotson was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) – The St. Louis Cardinals have signed reliever David Aardsma to a minor league contract, hoping the veteran can fill the team’s final bullpen spot. The Cardinals made the move Wednesday. Aardsma began this spring with Cleveland. The 32-year-old Aardsma likely leaps to the front of a list of candidates that includes Kevin Butler, Scott McGregor and Jorge Rondon.
Aardsma is 23-15 with 69 saves and a 4.23 ERA in a seven-year major league career. The righty was 2-2 with a 4.31 ERA in 43 games for the Mets last year after missing almost two seasons with injuries. Aardsma joins shortstop Jhonny Peralta in the Cardinals’ clubhouse. After Peralta finished a 50-game drug suspension last year with Detroit and later signed a $53 million, four-year deal as a free agent with St. Louis, Aardsma tweeted: “Apparently getting suspended for PED’s means you get a raise. What’s stopping anyone from doing it?”
The Omaha World-Herald reports seven men, all Republicans, will seek three seats on the Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors. The filing deadline to run for a county office was 5-p.m. Wednesday. The seven board candidates include three incumbents: Scott Belt, Lynn Leaders and Loren Knauss. The four other candidates are Justin Schultz, Tim Wichman, Steve Leaders and Brian Lund. No Democrats are running for the board.
In other Pott. County offices up for election this year, two Republican incumbents — County Attorney Matt Wilber and County Treasurer Lea Voss — are the only candidates for their posts. There are three candidates for the County Recorder’s Office. The two Republican candidates are Mark Brandenburg and Bill White, while Flory Blount is the lone Democrat running. There will be a Republican and Democratic primary election on June 3 for all of those offices, even those with just one candidate running.
In the Republican primary, the top three vote-getters in the County Board race will move on to the November general election, as long as each receives 35 percent or more of the vote. If any or all of the three top candidates don’t receive at least 35 percent of the vote, a special party convention will convene shortly thereafter to select the three who will move on to the general election. The Republican primary will also reduce the two recorder candidates to one, with the same 35 percent provision applying. Anyone interested in running as an independent for office must file between Aug. 4 and 27, according to the County Auditor’s Office.
In Harrison County, there are two seats on the County Board, the candidates are incumbents Walter Utman and Robert Smith, plus challengers Russell Kurth and Harold Bertelsen. All are Republicans. For county treasurer, Shelia Phillips and Sandy Royer, both Republicans, are the candidates.
And in Mills County, Patricia McSorley and Ashley Kissel, both Republicans, are running for county attorney. For one seat on the County Board, incumbent Richard Crouch will be challenged by Thomas Pina. Both are Republicans.
Authorities in Pottawattamie County say a Council Bluffs man was arrested on suspicion of a third drunken-driving charge after police pulled him over with his 3-year-old son in the vehicle. Police told the Daily NonPareil 39-year old Scott E. Thomas, of Council Bluffs was arrested around 6:50 p.m. Saturday following a traffic stop in the 2700 block of Avenue A, after an officer observed Thomas driving erratically in a pickup and pulled him over, according to the Council Bluffs Police Department.
Police said Thomas’ 3-year-old son was in the back seat. Thomas refused a blood-alcohol test and was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment, driving while disqualified, operating a vehicle while intoxicated-third offense and a tail- and brake-light violation.
357 AM CDT THU MAR 27 2014
EARLY THIS MORNING…CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN AND PATCHY DRIZZLE. BREEZY. NOT AS COOL. SOUTH WIND 20 TO 25 MPH. CHANCE OF RAIN 30 PERCENT.
TODAY…CLOUDY…BREEZY. A CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN THROUGH MID MORNING…THEN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE NOON. SHOWERS LIKELY AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTH WIND 15 TO 20 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY UNTIL EARLY MORNING THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN AND LIGHT SNOW IN THE EVENING…THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN BEFORE MIDNIGHT. BREEZY…COLDER. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH DECREASING TO 10 TO 15 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.
FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 40S. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
SATURDAY…SUNNY…WARMER. HIGH IN THE UPPER 50S. EAST WIND AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 60S.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Ralston, NE., elementary school teacher has been sentenced to over 14 years in prison for inappropriately touching young students. A Douglas County, NE., district judge issued the sentence Wednesday to 60-year-old Nicholas Richter. He has more than 100 days of credit for time served, and he must serve about seven years before he is eligible for parole.
Richter was found guilty in December of three counts of sexual assault of a child. His first trial in August ended in a hung jury. Three young boys ranging in age from 10 to 12 testified that Richter groped them during classes. A middle-aged man also testified that Richter groped him three decades ago, when Richter was teaching in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Representative Bruce Braley is pushing to protect a federal grant program aimed at testing schools and homes for cancer-causing radon. Braley, a Democrat who is running for U.S. Senate, distributed a letter to other lawmakers Wednesday in an effort to maintain the State Indoor Radon Grant Program.
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Barge operators say persistent ice in the Mississippi River is delaying traffic along the water by about a month. The National Weather Service says the Mississippi still has ice in a stretch of river that extends from Minneapolis to Clinton in Iowa. The depth of the ice varies from 5 to 10 inches.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities in Council Bluffs are investigating the discovery of a man’s body in a creek. The Council Bluffs Police Department says a resident spotted the unidentified man yesterday afternoon in Mosquito Creek, below an area bridge. The Daily Nonpareil reports officials believe the man was in his late 40s or early 50s. An autopsy has been scheduled.
INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Fire crews in central Iowa are battling a blaze that has spread along a three-mile stretch near a highway. Deputy Rob Fisher with the Warren County Sheriff’s Office tells the Des Moines Register the fire began yesterday afternoon west of Interstate 35 near Indianola. It has spread over an area about three miles long and up to a half mile wide. No injuries were reported last night.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A tax break extension for the Iowa Speedway at Newton has won the Iowa House’s approval. The House voted 82-14 in favor of the measure Wednesday, returning it to the Senate for final consideration.
The racetrack in Newton already receives a state sales tax rebate, but it will expire on Jan. 1, 2016. The tax break has been contingent upon 25 percent of Iowa Speedway’s ownership remaining in the state. That requirement would be removed under the proposal, since the Speedway was bought by NASCAR last year. The plan also would extend the tax break by 10 years and would maintain a rebate limit of $12.5 million.
Rep. Thomas Sands, a Republican from Wapello, says approving the extension would benefit not only Newton, but the entire state.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The only problem Iowa had with playing three senior linebackers last season is that it now has to replace them all at the same time. The Hawkeyes have six months to find three new starters, and the process of replacing the core of an exceptional defense began this week with the start of spring practice.
James Morris, Christian Kirksey and Anthony Hitchens keyed a defense that finished ninth in the nation at just 18.9 points allowed per game in 2013. They’re all gone though, and backups Travis Perry, Quinton Alston and Reggie Spearman are first in line to replace them.
Two Cass County Health System staff members have recently completed training to become Certified Application Counselors (CAC) for the federal health insurance marketplace.
Nancy Templeman (right) and Melissa Namanny are have been trained to assist
individuals with the health insurance marketplace and are now Certified Assistance
Counselors. (Photo submitted)
Melissa Namanny, Accounts Manager at Atlantic Medical Center and Nancy Templeman, Medicare Billing Coordinator at Cass County Memorial Hospital, have both earned the certification. CACs provide assistance to community members as they work through the process of qualifying for and purchasing insurance via the new healthcare insurance marketplace. Services are free and available to all community members.
Steve Lewis, Chief Financial Officer for the Cass County Health System says“We are very pleased to have Melissa and Nancy receive this certification so we can provide this important service to our community. This process can be challenging and confusing, and we want to provide any assistance we can to ensure people can get the insurance coverage they need.”
Melissa and Nancy are able to answer questions about the application process as well as what to do once a person completes the application if they are referred to Medicaid rather than private insurance. They can also direct individuals to local, state and federal resources for additional assistance. While the open enrollment deadline for this year is March 31st, changes insurance status due to things like death, divorce, change in full-time student status, and other personal circumstances may allow individuals to sign up for insurance after open enrollment ends. Melissa and Nancy can help determine application eligibility throughout the year.
If you need assistance or more information about the health insurance marketplace, contact Melissa at Atlantic Medical Center, 712-243-2850, or Nancy at Cass County Memorial Hospital, 712-243-3250.
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