A near t-bone collision in Creston early Tuesday morning, resulted in two people being transported to the Greater Regional Medical Center, to be checked out and treated for possible, minor injuries. Creston Police say a 2008 Buick Enclave SUV driven by 64-year old Deborah Vandevender, of Creston, was traveling east on Lake Street at around 7:54-a.m., and approaching the uncontrolled intersection with Bureau Street, at the same time a 2001 Hyundai XG-300 driven by 17-year old Zane Powell, of Creston, was traveling south on Bureau Street and approaching Lake Street.

The car struck the SUV on the driver’s side tire and door, causing $10,000 damage altogether. Powell, who was not wearing a seat belt, was transported by his parents to the hospital. Vandevender was taken to the facility by ambulance. Police cited Powell for Entering intersections from a different highway.

A man from Nebraska was arrested Tuesday evening, in Red Oak. Authorities say 27-year old Richard Michael Haynes, of Omaha, was taken into custody at around 5:20-p.m. for simple Assault. Haynes was arrested in the 700 block of E. Washington Street and transported to the Montgomery County Jail, where his bond was set at $300.

(Radio Iowa) — Do you get grouchy when you don’t get enough sleep? An Iowa State University study finds losing a few hours of sleep makes you angrier, especially in frustrating situations. I-S-U psychology professor Zlatan Krizan had test subjects maintain or reduce their sleep patterns, then come to the lab to perform mundane tasks while listening to various levels of distracting noises. Those who changed their patterns lost about five hours of sleep over two nights.

“Individuals who followed their regular sleep routine experienced less anger and in general, less distress the second time than the first time,” Krizan says. “It makes sense. We tend to get used to annoying things over time, but those individuals who lost sleep, they did not show anything of the kind. As a matter of fact, they showed an opposite trend.”

The researchers found anger was substantially higher for those who were sleep-restricted. Although the results may seem relatively obvious, the study is one of the first to provide evidence that sleep loss causes anger. Krizan says we should all take note of the results. “If we’re getting in conflicts and we’re aware that we’re sleepy or the other person is sleepy, we should remind ourselves that the anger may not be as bad or due to personal disagreements per se, but may be amplified by these kinds of physiological factors,” Krizan says.

The study concludes that people who are sleep-restricted showed a trend toward increased anger and distress, reversing their ability to adapt to frustrating conditions over time. Krizan says no one has shown this before. “That really points to you being sleepy as a cue to you being prone to anger or potentially getting angered more easily,” Krizan says. “That’s something that we should recognize in ourselves and in others.”

Most adults need seven-to-eight hours of sleep nightly for adequate rest, but Krizan notes, studies find many of us — for whatever reason — often don’t get that much shut-eye. The research is being published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

(Radio Iowa) — The director of the Iowa Department of Transportation says in the past 11 years, the number of “structurally deficient” bridges on state-maintained highways in Iowa has been reduced by 80 percent. “From 2006 to 2017, we’ve driven that number down from 256 to 51.”

And Iowa D-O-T director Mark Lowe expects just 46 state-owned bridges to be classified as “structurally deficient” when the state budgeting year ends on June 30th.  “It just reflects a continued focus on bringing up the condition of the system, so of the 24,000 bridges in our state, 4000 are on our primary system. That means that less than one percent of the bridges on our primary system right now are structurally deficient,” Lowe says.

The Iowa D-O-T’s website has an “Iowa Bridge Condition Index” which indicates whether a state-maintained bridge is in good, fair or poor condition. The D-O-T notes that if a bridge is rated in good condition, that means it is “adequate for today’s traffic and vehicle loads.” Bridges rated in poor condition are “NOT unsafe,” according to the D-O-T, but should be considered for repair, replacement and additional monitoring — or perhaps limits on the weight of vehicles that may travel over the bridge.

The vast majority of Iowa bridges — 24-thousand — are on highways, roads and streets maintained by cities and counties.