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Two people were arrested on separate assault charges over the past few days, in Creston. Authorities say on Sunday, 34-year old Trel Peterson, of Creston, was arrested at his home on a Cass County warrant for Assault causing bodily injury.
Trel Peterson
He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond. And, Friday afternoon, 48-year old Aleacha Crocker, of Shenandoah, was arrested for Assault with the Intent to Injure. She was released from the Union County Law Enforcement Center on a Summons to Appear in court.
And a woman residing in the 300 block of N. Division Street, in Creston, reported to Police Friday afternoon, that sometime between Noon and 2:30-p.m. Thursday, someone stole a package from outside her residence, that had been delivered by the USPS. The package contained a hooded sweatshirt valued at $80.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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(Updated 7:38-a.m.) JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — A tornado briefly touched down Monday evening in the Des Moines suburb of Johnston, uprooting trees and damaging traffic signals. The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado (rated an EF-1). The twister in the Johnston area packed winds of up to 95 miles per hour, tracked for 1.6-miles, and was a maximum of 50-yards wide. It began at around 6:26-p.m. and ended three minutes later. No injuries were reported.
In eastern Iowa, winds gusted up to 67 mph in Newton, and high winds Monday night near Luxemburg lifted the roof off a barn and crashed it into another building, causing it to collapse onto a hog nursery building. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports the nursery building then caught on fire, killing 300 hogs inside.
The Weather Service said more severe weather is expected today (Tuesday), with thunderstorms, heavy rain and a chance of tornadoes. The rain could lead to localized flooding.
(Radio Iowa) — A new documentary series explores the consequences of unplanned pregnancies outside of marriage more than a century ago, and it features a true story from Iowa. Colleen Bradford Krantz produced the series called, “Unintended: Unlocking a Nation’s Pregnancy Secrets.” Krantz says one case from 1913 involved a family from the northeast Iowa town of Hopkinton and an incident led to charges being filed. “There was a trial in this story and it actually would’ve happened in Charles City but the old courthouse there was gone,” Krantz says. “Through a lot of searching online, we ended up discovering the old courthouse in Webster City and after taking a look at it, it was the perfect filming location for recreating this trial that happened.”
Krantz says she relied heavily on the local talent pool from the Hamilton County area in recreating what transpired at the courthouse. “We worked with the community theater there to provide us with all the extras in the scenes,” she says. “So, we had them as the jury member and also as the courtroom audience members.” In addition to supplying trained actors, the community theater was even able to provide those actors with period costumes, which Krantz says was a tremendous help.
The series is being released in stages on the platform Vimeo with more segments coming in June and July. Find a link through Krantz’ website: www.pinkspear.com.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The meat and poultry industry has historically relied on immigrant labor to do some of the most dangerous jobs in America, from employing refugees to a notorious record of hiring immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Now that reliance and uncertainty about the pandemic is fueling concerns about possible labor shortages to meet demands for beef, pork and chicken.
In this photo provided by Cristobal Francisquez, his parents Paulina and Marcos Francisco pose for a photo in front of their house in Sioux City, Iowa, Monday, May 25, 2020. They bought the home after years of working in a meatpacking plant and other food processing jobs. (Cristobal Francisquez via AP)
Companies struggling to hire are spending millions on fresh incentives. Whether there’ll be long-lasting difficulties hinge on if employees feel safe, unemployment, industry reforms and President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
(Radio Iowa) — Iowa hunters reported a record number of wild turkeys taken in the just-ended season at the same time the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is studying the population decline of the birds. D-N-R wildlife research biologist Jim Coffey says they’re researching a disease known as L-D-P-V. “L-D-P-V stands for Lymphoproliferative Disease — which is a relatively new disease to the wild turkey world. And we are not sure what the impact is or has been on wild turkeys,” Coffey says. Hunters were asked to submit a lower leg bone from their birds — and they will be tested for the disease to try and answer some questions.
Coffey says they want to know if the state has the disease and then where the disease is located in the state. “And then we’ll start to look at that data compared to some of our historical bird surveys and population estimates to see if there is any kind of correlation.” He says the wild turkey decline has happened in other states and each is trying to figure out why. “There’s several speculations — and Iowa has chosen to kind of look at the L-D-P-V version of it — whereas other states are looking at other aspects, so we can double up our efforts in trying to solve this mystery.”
He says getting the information from the samples supplied by hunters will let them move to the next step. “Usually the typical pattern in diseases pass through. They impact the population and then they fall off and the population recovers,” Coffey says. “The first aspect is to try and determine do we have it and then is there anything that we can do as managers — was it something that we just have to plan for in our hunting strategies– so that we have to look at how many birds are available to the people of Iowa to hunt.”
Coffey encourages hunters who still have a lower turkey leg and want to participate in the study to go online to www.iowadnr.gov/turkey to request a packet.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 73. Winds East at 5-10. Hazardous Outlook: A round of non-severe showers and thunderstorms will cross the region this morning. Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected this afternoon with damaging winds, a few quickly forming tornadoes possible and locally heavy rainfall that may lead to localized flooding.
Tonight: Mo. Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstorms. Low 60. N @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstrms. High 78. Winds variable @ 5-10.
Thursday: Mo. Cldy w/showers. High around 76.
Friday: Mo. cldy w/showers. High around 75.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 75. Our Low this morning, 63. We received .08″ rain from 7-a.m. Monday thru 5-a.m. today. Last year on this date we reached a High of 79 and the Low was 57. The Record High on May 26th in Atlantic was 100 in 2018. The Record Low was 30, in 1901.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state’s online COVID-19 dashboard (https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/) shows (As of 6:45-a.m. today), 461 deaths have been attributed to the virus since record keeping began two months ago. Figures also showed 134,505 were tested for the virus, 17,644 have tested positive, 116,560 tested negative, and 9,401 had recovered. The most recent numbers were released as the mayors of seven Iowa cities penned an editorial appearing in the Des Moines Register calling on federal officials to approve federal aid for cities.
For Cass and surrounding Counties, the number of positive test results and (the number of recovered), have not changed much over the past three days. Cass County 11 positive cases (1 recovered); Adair County: 8 (3); Adams County: 5 (1); Audubon County: 12 (9); Guthrie County: 43 (29); Montgomery County: 6 (5); Shelby County: 31 (24) and Pottawattamie County: 215 (122).
In RMCC Region 4 (Southwest/western Iowa), seven people are hospitalized for COVID-19, three are in an ICU, and no one was admitted to a hospital. Those figures have also held steady for the past few days. Across the State, 377 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, 118 are in an ICU, and 33 were admitted over the past 24-hours. There was also another Long-Term Care facility outbreak across the State, bringing the total back up to 37 from the previous figure of 36. The number of deaths at those facilities stands at 244. Patients and staff who’ve tested positive number 1,585. The number recovered is 669.
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