Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports that on Saturday, October 21st at approximately 8:15 p.m., officers arrested 18-year old Jayden Anthony Morris, of Clarinda, for possession of a controlled substance believed to be marijuana. Morris was arrested on a traffic stop at 12th & Glenn Miller Drive after K-9 Raiko was deployed and the marijuana was discovered. Morris is being held in the Page County Jail on $1,000 bail. Police reports have been submitted to the offices of Page County Attorney Carl M. Sonksen for review regarding the filing of formal charges.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say three bodies were found inside a car pulled from the Missouri River in Sioux City. Police have not identified the bodies, but they are believed to be those of a missing Sioux City family. The search began Monday afternoon after someone reported that a car had been driven off a road into the water near Larsen Park.

Dangerous water conditions hampered the search. On Saturday a diver battling a current in 20 feet of water found the car several hundred feet downstream from where it had gone in. The diver hooked the car to a winch so it could be brought to shore.

The Creston Police Department said today (Monday), a woman who lives in the 100 block of E. Ringgold Street reported that sometime between 5:30- and 6:30-p.m. Sunday, someone hit their mailbox. The damage was estimated at $60. And at around 8-p.m. Friday, 59-year old  Daniel Hansen, of Creston, was arrested on a charge of OWI/1st offense. Hansen was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

A new report indicates faculty at Iowa’s three public universities work, on average, about 55 hours per week. Officials from the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa presented the results of a “faculty activities” survey to the board that governs the universities. Rachel Boon, the chief academic officer for the Board of Regents, says this is the third time in six years the survey has been conducted. “Faculty are randomly selected on which week they get it and they’re reporting on their activities throughout that week, so that we can get a sample across the entire sort of ebb and flow of a semester,” Boon says, “so it doesn’t bias towards being in midterms or being around finals week or the start of a term when things are different.”

Iowa State University provost Jonathan Wickert says the survey shows I-S-U faculty are teaching more “credit hours” and bringing in far more research dollars than they did a decade ago. “Our faculty are arguably more productive in research and education than before,” Wickert says. University of Iowa associate provost Kevin Kregel says the survey shows how much the faculty in Iowa City work with students in research labs and at the university’s hospital. “There’s experiential learning in many different avenues,” Kregel says, “…hands-on, collaborative kinds of work.”

John Valentine, U-N-I’s associate provost for faculty, says the survey shows faculty on the Cedar Falls campus are focused on preparing students for life beyond college. “Our professors spend more than 30 hours per week on student instruction,” Valentine says. “They are in the classroom teaching.” The rest of their time is mostly spent grading students’ work, overseeing research and mentoring students outside the classroom. The three state universities employ about 45-hundred full-time faculty.

(Radio Iowa)