SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A former care provider in Sioux City has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing from her clients. The Sioux City Journal reports that 50-year-old Lisa Sembach-Preston was sentenced Tuesday. She’d pleaded guilty to two counts of dependent adult abuse and two counts of theft. The judge also ordered her to repay nearly $85,000 to Crossroads of Western Iowa, a Council Bluffs-based nonprofit that provides services to adults with disabilities and mental illnesses.

The records say Sembach-Preston was responsible for each victim’s bank accounts and financial matters. The thefts occurred from February 2015 through April 2017. Authorities say she used the money to pay for furniture, clothes and a trip to Las Vegas.

Sheriff’s officials in Pottawattamie County report the arrest Tuesday night, of a Council Bluffs man. 19-year old Seth Thomas Morgan was arrested following a traffic stop in Walnut. He was taken into custody on a warrant for Credit Card Fraud (Under $1,500 value), and transported to the Pott. County Jail. 33-year old Justin Paul Toth, of Cleveland, TX., was arrested Tuesday afternoon, following an investigation into a stolen vehicle and a disturbance on I-29 northbound, near mile marker 60. Authorities say a stolen truck, goose-neck trailer loaded with a skid-steer were recovered. Justin Toth was arrested for Theft in the 1st Degree – motor vehicle related. His bond was set at $10,000.

32-year old Christopher Alan Pierce, of Creston, was transported from the Union County Jail to the Pott. County Jail, Tuesday, on a Pott. County warrant for Contempt of Court/resistance of an Order. And, 34-year old Jason Paul Crouse was transported from the Fremont County Jail to the jail in Pottawattamie County, on a Pott. County warrant for Conspiracy/Intent to manufacture/deliver false methamphetamine under 5-grams.

(Radio Iowa) — She’s been a staple for housewives and avid readers for nearly seven decades, but 100-year-old Evelyn Birkby is ready to say “goodbye” to her loyal readers. Birkby’s final “Up a Country Lane” column appeared in today’s (Wednesday’s) edition of the Shenandoah Valley News Today. Birkby’s weekly column got its start in 1949 in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel. “Mr. Archie had put in the newspaper that he wanted a farm wife to write a weekly column,” Birkby says.

Birkby’s husband encouraged her to do it. Birkby’s son, Bob, says his mother got a piece of advice before her first column and heeded that advice through each of her over 3,600 weekly entries. “He said: ‘Always put in a recipe,’ because people loved recipes and she as she began writing, she also realized that she didn’t know how to cook very well,” he says. “She asked a lot of friends and listeners and readers to send recipes and she would test them on her family and so dinner at our house would often be something that we did not recognize because it was something that she was trying out for the first time.”

Birkby grew up in Sidney as the daughter of a Methodist minister. She attended Simpson College and was briefly a school teacher before having children. Over the years, she’s authored columns in unique settings, including frequently bringing her work on family camping trips that spanned the country. “The minute I would get that old typewriter out on my picnic table, here would come neighbors who were camping nearby to find out what I was going,” she says. “Well, if there’s anything that can kill a column, it’s people looking over your shoulder and asking you what you’re up to.”

Birkby says new technology has helped her writing process, as she started out on a manual typewriter. “I made a carbon copy and filed the carbon copies until one day, computers came into my life and I was delighted,” she says. “It was the smallest computer you ever saw and I loved it because now I had a spellchecker!” A decade ago, Birkby began losing her eyesight and her son, Bob, has helped type out her columns. Birkby also has appeared regularly on K-M-A, the Shenandoah radio station — and she’ll continue to make appearances monthly. She plans to keep writing, with her son’s assistance, so she can record some of her favorite memories from the past 100 years.

The Creston Police Department reports the arrest at around 1:30-p.m. Tuesday, of 34-year old Samantha Hays, of Creston. Hayes was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Union County warrant for Violation of a Protection Order. She was subsequently released on a Promise to Appear in court.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A man accused of killing an Iowa high school student almost 40 years ago wants his trial moved out of Linn County. The attorney for 65-year-old Jerry Burns, of Manchester, said in a filing Monday that pretrial publicity made it unlikely Burns could receive a fair trial in Linn County. The trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 10.

Police arrested Burns Dec. 19, 39 years to the day after 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was killed. Her body was found the next day inside her family’s car at a Cedar Rapids mall. She had been stabbed in the face and chest.