(Red Oak, Iowa) – A man and a woman were arrested Tuesday evening in Red Oak. Red Oak Police says 40-year-old Susan Marie Wasson, and 38-year-old Anthony Charles Wasson, both from Red Oak, were arrested at around 7:45-p.m. in the east 200 block of Nuckols Street, in Red Oak. Both were charged with Violation of a No Contact Order. They were transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 cash-only bonds, each.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (KCRG) – A Burlington, Iowa man was arrested and faces charges of attempted murder and child endangerment for allegedly shooting his father in the face over an argument about stinky feet. KCRG-TV reports a criminal complaint says 48-year-old David Carpenter called police on Sunday, admitting to the shooting and that his child was in the room where the incident happened.

Police responded to a home in the 2000 block of Monarch Drive in Burlington at around 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 11. The father was taken to the hospital for his injuries. Officers at the scene said there were two children under the age of 14 at the home.

Detectives said the father was in the hospital when he told them that he and his son, David, were having a heated argument about David’s stinky feet. A criminal complaint for David Carpenter says he made a comment about shooting his father as the argument escalated. Then David allegedly went into his bedroom to retrieve a firearm, before walking back to the living room where his father was sitting in a motorized scooter.

The complaint says David was yelling at his father about guns when he pulled the firearm out from behind his back, pointed at his father’s face, and accidentally pulled the trigger. Detectives said David admitted that at least one of his kids was in the living room watching TV when the incident happened.

Carpenter faces charges of Attempted Murder and Child Endangerment. Officials have not reported the condition of the father who was injured in the shooting.

(Radio Iowa) – Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States is on a tour of Midwest states, to discuss the stakes in Ukraine’s battle with Russia. Ambassador Oksana Markarova says she was encouraged by conversations she had during her visit to the Iowa State Fair yesterday (Tuesday). “So many people just said that they keep us in their prayers and there is nothing more I want to hear because this is what we need in this moment, you know, more prayers and more weapons,” Markarova said.

Russia invaded Ukraine in February of 2022 and this past week thousands of Ukrainian troops have crossed into Russian territory.  “We are the army that actually is holding the ground against Russia, which was supposed to be the second most powerful army on the globe,” she says. Last week, the Pentagon announced the U-S has provided over 55 BILLION dollars in military assistance to Ukraine in the past two and a half years.

Markarova says the U-S is Ukraine’s number one strategic partner, but Ukraine’s war time experience is of value to the U-S as well as Europeans. “We have now the largest battle tested army among all our of friends and allies,” Markarov said. “…The reason why we want to be members of the NATO is not for NATO to defend us, but for NATO to become stronger because we will have a lot to contribute to it.”

Markarova also met with Governor Reynolds, Des Moines city leaders and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst yesterday (Tuesday). Her trip was arranged by the German Marshall Fund, an organization that promotes alliances among the U-S and European nations.

(Radio Iowa) – The Democratic candidate in Iowa’s second congressional district is calling for repeal of the IOWA law that bans most abortions and an end to the taxpayer funded accounts for private K-through-12 students in Iowa. Sarah Corkery of Cedar Falls, says those issues can motivate potential supporters of her bid to unseat Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson.

“I say: ‘If you’re mad about women’s rights and you’re mad about education, you’ve got to turn up in Iowa to get anything done,'” Corkery says. Corkery, whose father is a retired Lutheran minister, says Iowa’s private schools are lovely places, but the vast majority are Christian schools.

“We are Christianizing the next generation and it’s not right,” Corkery says. “We should all be able to have our own beliefs and our own thoughts.” Corkery would support a bill in the U-S House to make abortion legal in all 50 states, by putting the language from the overturned Roe v Wade decision in federal law.

Sarah Corkery, Democratic candidate in Iowa’s second congressional district, speaks at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 13, 2014 (RI photo)

“I truly believe all medical decisions should be between a person and a doctor and there should be no government involvement in this conversation at all,” Corkery says, “so we’ve got a long ways to go from a six week ban to where it’s just a protected health care decision.”

Corkery made her comments late Tuesday afternoon at the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair.

(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department says there were no injuries during a collision this (Tuesday) afternoon, but a brand new car sustained several thousand dollars damage. According to the police report, a pickup truck driven by 55-year old Shawn Bakken, of Creston, was stopped at the posted T-intersection of Devoe and Sumner Streets.

Bakken saw a truck with a trailer making a right hand lane turn in the close lane/right lane, with a vehicle behind it in the same lane. A 2024 Subaru Outback driven by 49-year-old Kerri Stode, of Orient, was traveling north in the left lane. The pickup pulled out to make a left turn south, but Bakken didn’t see the Subaru on the other side of the trailer.

When the pickup pulled out in front of the car, the vehicles collided. The accident happened at around 1:50-p.m. Police say the 2021 Chevy Silverado sustained an estimated $1,000/minor damage, while the Subaru sustained damage estimated at $7,000.

The Police report said Bakken failed to yield the right-of-way from a stop sign, but there were no citations issued.