Police in Creston report the arrest Monday afternoon of a man from Lorimor. 37-year old Cortney Darwin Lynam was taken into custody at around 4:30-p.m. on a charge of 2nd offense Public Intoxication. Lynam was being held in the Union County Jail on $1,000 bond.

A traffic stop early this (Tuesday) morning in Red Oak resulted in the arrest of a woman from Villisca. 21-year old Amanda Lee Smith was pulled over at around 2:30-a.m. in the 1800 block of Broadway, in Red Oak, and taken into custody for OWI-drug related/1st Offense.

The woman was being held at the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center on $1,000 cash bond.

An incident in Red Oak Monday night lead to the arrest of a man on a burglary charge. Red Oak Police say Luke Daniel Rinehart, of Red Oak, was taken into custody on a felony 3rd Degree burglary charge. Rinehart was arrested at around 6-p.m. at 301 1st Avenue, after he allegedly barged into the home at, according to police, and attempted to inflict bodily injury on a male resident inside the residence.

Rinehart was being held at the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center on $5,000 bond.

A free, grant writing seminar will be held in Adair County on Wed., Jan. 28th. Officials with the Empowering Adair County Foundation say the Joe Sorensen with the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines will be the featured speaker at the events, scheduled to take place in Stuart, from 9-until 10-a.m, in Adair from Noon until 1-pm, and in Greenfield, from 3-until 4-pm, Jan. 28th. The seminar i Stuart will be at the AmericInn hotel meeting room, in Adair at the Adair City City Hall meeting room #320, and in Greenfield at the Warren Cultural Center’s Green Room.

The workshops will be informational and provide beneficial guidance for anyone to use when completing a grant application, the process for which can be very competitive, making it more difficult to have your application accepted for funding requests. The seminars offer you a way to create a more professional grant application.

Light snacks will be provided during the morning and afternoon sessions, and a light lunch will be supplied for the noon workshop.  Anyone is welcome to attend, and again there is NO charge. For more information, or to register for one of the three workshops, call Angie Engles or Deena Wells (Adair County Extension and EACF Representatives), at 641-743-8412 (or, email dwells@iststate.edu). The registration deadline is Friday, Jan. 23rd.

A Montgomery County man was arrested Monday night on an assault charge. Red Oak Police say 22-year old Dustin James Danick, of Red Oak, was taken into custody in the alley behind 506 E. Coolbaugh Street at around 10:15-p.m., and charged with Domestic Abuse Assault. Danick was being held without bond in the Montgomery County Jail.