MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Corrections, Monday, said 26-year old Antwane Dwayne Lee Jr., who was convicted of Robbery 2nd Degree in Story County, failed to report back to the Marshalltown Residential Center as required, Sunday.

Lee is a six-foot tall, 250-pound black male. He was admitted to the work release facility on June 20, 2024. Persons with information on Lee’s whereabouts should contact local police.

Antwane Dwayne Lee Jr.

(Monroe County, Iowa) – A pedestrian crossing a road in southern Iowa Monday evening was struck and injured by a pickup truck. The Iowa State Patrol reports the pickup, driven by 57-year-old Andrew Alan Hackett, of Albia, was eastbound on 3rd Avenue west in Albia, when the vehicle struck a pedestrian on the west side of the intersection with Highway 5. The pedestrian was traversing across the eastbound lane of 3rd Avenue west, when they were struck. The accident happened at around 5:10-p.m.

Hackett, and 67-year-old Sue E. Henderson, of Albia, were injured in the collision. Hackett refused transport to the hospital. Henderson was transported by Monroe County Ambulance to Methodist Hospital.

The collision remains under investigation.

(Radio Iowa) – The State Appeals Board has approved a three-point-four MILLION dollar settlement with the mother of a resident at the state-run Glenwood Resource Center who died after inadequate care at the facility

Thirty-year-old Joshua Ramspott had cerebral palsy and had lived his entire adult life at the facility in Glenwood, which provided care to residents with profound intellectual and physical disabilities. He died in a Council Bluffs hospital in early 2022. Two state investigations concluded Glenwood staff failed to provide Ramspott with extra fluids after a kidney infection and he died several weeks later of sepsis.

The Glenwood Resource Center was closed this past June. Two U-S Justice Department Investigations concluded the facility provided inadequate care and subjected some residents to unethical experiments.

(Radio Iowa) Precincts around the state are open from 7 a.m. ’til 8 p.m. and Iowa law requires voters to show a photo I-D, like a driver’s license, in order to cast a ballot. Iowans who’ve moved will have to provide proof of their new residence with a utility bill or some other document that shows their new address. There’s curbside voting for Iowans with mobility issues.

Two poll workers, one from each political party, will deliver voting materials outside so the person can mark their ballot while sitting inside their vehicle.

Voters are allowed to take selfies with their ballot, with the emphasis on the word selfie. Including someone else in the picture or having someone take a picture of you with your ballot is not permitted.

(Radio Iowa) – Voters in 59 counties are deciding bond referendums in this year’s election. Iowa Western Community College president Daniel Kinney says his school is presenting voters with a 55 million dollar plan that does not raise taxes, but maintains a current property tax levy. The plan would expand Iowa Western’s dual enrollment program, so more students could earn college credits while they’re still in high school. It also would double student slots in key transportation-related programs on the Council Bluffs campus and expand other training options.

“The ability to really look and focus on career and technical education programs such as diesel tech, auto tech, welding, our CDL program, H-VAC,” he says, “all those type of needed skills that every one of our rural communities need.” Expiring bonds would be replaced with new bonds financed under current tax rates in the community college district. “This would allow us to just basically hold our tax levy rate at the current rate we’re at,” Kinney says.

If the plan’s approved, a Transportation Building on Iowa Western’s Council Bluffs campus would be built to house a new transportation logistics program as well as diesel, automotive and C-D-L training programs. Industrial training labs also would be created and other facilities in Atlantic, Clarinda and Council Bluffs would be renovated. Kinney says the over-arching goal is to respond to gaps in Iowa’s workforce.

“Somebody to come in and fix your car or fix your tractor and stuff like that,” Kinney says. “…CDL — I mean having the drivers out there to get the products into our communities, but also having our product outside what’s being manufactured in our local communities.”

Thirty-one public school districts have bond issues on this year’s General Election ballot. A 165-million dollar plan would consolidate Waterloo’s two high schools. Residents in five counties and nine cities will also decide bonding for local projects, including a new fire station in Fort Madison, a recreation complex in Boone, and a new county jail in Sac County.