(Radio Iowa) — A seven-year-old girl escaped injury after she climbed up a water tower in Estherville this (Thursday) morning and got stuck at the top. Estherville Police were called shortly after 10 a.m. about a missing girl with autism. Police officers immediately began searching the neighborhood on foot and with a drone, but at about 10:30, a family member who spotted the girl on the water tower. The tower is near the family’s home.

Estherville Fire Chief Dick Beaver says the fire department used its aerial truck to reach the girl. “She was at the top of the water tower, just hanging on,” eh says. “We didn’t know she had her head stuck until we got somebody up there in the aerial.” Crews had to use a saw to free the girl.

“They were attempting to get her off and then figured out her wasn’t going to come out the way it went in,” the chief said. “…That’s when they made the decision…that would be the fastest way.” After the girl was freed and brought down from the tower, she was checked over by E-M-Ts and paramedics, then released to her parents.

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says an Iowa teen has been arrested after leading a trooper on a chase in south-central Nebraska that reached speeds of 115 mph.

The patrol says the incident began Wednesday evening near Gibbon, when a trooper spotted a sedan speeding on Interstate 80 at more than 100 mph. The trooper tried to stop the car, which had been reported stolen from Sioux City, Iowa, but the driver continued at high speeds and passed other vehicles on the shoulder. Officials say the car eventually exited at The Archway monument at Kearney before driving into a pond. A witness told police the driver escaped and ran off.

A trooper found the suspected driver — a 17-year-old boy — about 10 minutes later and arrested him.

An official with the Audubon County Memorial Hospital and Clinics has informed KJAN News, that the health care provider “Is in the process of responding to a matter that has caused the temporary disabling of some computer systems. No critical patient care equipment has been impacted, and the hospital remains operational.”

ACMH Privacy and Compliance Officer Kolton Hewlett also said in his statement, “We regret any concern that this matter has caused and are actively working to restore all impacted systems.”

Midwest Dental, in Atlantic, was also affected by a temporary computer system issue, but it was quickly locked down by their security programs, and has not affected any patient records or information.

Red Oak Police report a woman from Cass County was arrested a little before 11-a.m. today (Thursday). 27-year old Michelle Lynn Eden, ofGriswold, was taken into custody on charges that include Harassment in the 3rd degree, and Disorderly Conduct. The charges stem from an incident that occurred Tuesday, at the Red Oak Dollar General Store. Eden was arrested in the 100 block of E. Coolbaugh Street and transported to the Montgomery County Jail, where her cash bond was set at $300.

(Radio Iowa) — A filmmaker from New York is in Sioux City this week, doing research for his follow up to a documentary made in the late 1970’s. Jay Shapiro’s film will look at the aftermath of Zenith’s decision in 1977 to close their electronics manufacturing plant in Sioux City. Shapiro says “I think I got into it really asking questions about automation and automating jobs away and sort of globalization, these really big words and these big ideas that you can sort of get lost in the theory of them…I stumbled on George’s film just on youtube and found it to be such an incredible document.”

George Lindblade’s documentary was titled “We Didn’t Want It to Happen This Way.” It told the story the 15-hundred Zenith jobs in Sioux City that were shifted to facilities in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mexico. Now, 42 years later, Shapiro is hoping to talk to people who worked at Zenith in Sioux City or who had family members impacted by the closing.

(Radio Iowa) — A Des Moines man is in custody after a high speed and long distance chase. Shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, a Knoxville policeman stopped a car for an equipment violation. What the officer didn’t know is that the car had been stolen Saturday night in an armed car-jacking in Des Moines. The officer asked two of the three people inside the car to get out, then 22-year-old Daniel Ogden of Des Moines took the wheel and took off. Ogden turned onto Highway 14, with speeds of over 110 miles an hour. The chase moved to Highway 163 where law enforcement twice used stop strips to try to stop the car, with no luck.

The chase ended when Ogden hit a mailbox in a cul de sac in Pleasant Hill. That’s 34 miles away from where the pursuit started. Ogden was treated at a Des Moines hospital, released and taken to the Marion County Jail. The charges Ogden is facing not having a valid driver’s license, speeding, second degree theft and participating in a felony.