Winner (I- Incumbent, Rep=Republican, D= Democrat, NBP= Nominated By Petition)

Contested Races:

County Board of Supervisors – District 2

Steven Shelley (Dem)     190

County Board of Supervisors – District 4

Jodie Jean Hoadley (Dem)     354 (56.01%) *

Doug Davidson (NBP)     273 (43.20%)

Winner (Rep=Republican, D= Democrat, NBP= Nominated By Petition)

County Supervisors (elect 1)

Gary Van Aernam (Rep.) (Incumbent)     1,577*

Dwight Jessen (Dem.)     1,033

County Ag Extension Council (elect 5)

Tauna Bohlmann     1,065

Jason Owen    1,196

Aaron Bruhn    1,386

Jill Christensen    1,466

Winner (Rep=Republican, D= Democrat, NBP= Nominated By Petition)

County Supervisors – District 1 (elect 1)

Douglas Birt (Rep.)     151

Marty Olive (Dem).     150

County Extension Council (Elect 5)

Marlene Hardisty     1,203

Don Gee     962

Cliff Mann     1,120

Rex Townsend     1,115

County Extension Council (to fill a vacancy) (elect 1)

Susan Bagby    1,311

Soil and Water Commissioner (elect 2)

Rodney Flaherty 1,317

Michael Olive     1,154

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office, Tuesday, released a report on two arrests. On Monday, 24-year old Kadie Lynn Clark, of Glenwood, was arrested at the Mills County Sheriff’s Office, on a warrant for Violation of Probation. Her bond was set at $5,000. And, at around 2-a.m. Tuesday, 39-year old Jerry Joseph Richardson, of Hastings, was arrested for Driving Under Suspension. His bond was set at $300.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the death of his infant son who was found in a maggot-infested baby swing last year. Jurors took less than an hour to convict Zachary Paul Koehn, 29, of Alta Vista, of first-degree murder and child endangerment causing death, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports . The murder conviction carries a mandatory prison sentence of life without parole. Koehn had blamed his son’s mother for the death of 4-month-old Sterling Koehn. A trial is pending for the 21-year-old mother, Cheyanne Harris.

Koehn and Harris were arrested after medics were called to an Alta Vista apartment on Aug. 30, 2017, and found the infant dead in a swing in a dark, sweltering back bedroom. An autopsy showed he’d died of malnutrition, dehydration and an E. coli infection caused by being left in a maggot-infested diaper for up to two weeks. Koehn’s defense team had argued that he had entrusted care of the baby to Harris, saying he had been working 70 to 80 hours a week as a trucker to provide for his family. His attorneys said Koehn simply failed to notice signs that Harris may have been suffering from depression, which kept her from caring for the baby. But prosecutors argued that Koehn was a meth user who also provided Harris with drugs.

Assistant Attorney General Denise Timmins told jurors that Koehn was home often enough to know that the baby wasn’t being cared for and did nothing to help him. “He let Sterling rot in that room. He left him there to die,” Timmins said. Koehn’s trial was moved from Chickasaw County to Henry County to counter pretrial publicity in the case.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Roman Catholic diocese issued an apology Tuesday for covering up an Iowa priest’s sexual abuse of boys for decades and promised to identify all priests who have faced credible allegations. The actions by the Diocese of Sioux City come in response to an investigation by The Associated Press, which last week broke the church’s 32-year silence on serial abuse by the Rev. Jerome Coyle.
In a lengthy statement Tuesday, the diocese said more disclosures of misconduct may be forthcoming. It urged all victims to come forward and vowed to use their reports and other files to create and publish a list of credibly accused priests — a step the diocese had long resisted.

Coyle admitted to then-Bishop Lawrence Soens in 1986 to having sexually abused 50 boys over a 20-year period. The diocese said that it should have notified parishes and asked victims to come forward back then, and apologized that its former leaders failed to do so. Instead, the diocese sent Coyle to a treatment center for accused priests in New Mexico, where he lived and worked as a civilian for decades. The diocese said that its current leadership should have notified the public this summer when Coyle was placed at a retirement home near a Catholic school, which he moved out of last week following AP’s disclosure of his history. But the statement said that its bishop, R. Walker Nickless, “inherited many issues from the past,” including the challenging of finding housing for accused priests who were never charged and aren’t listed as sex offenders.

“What do we do with these men? We know that you do not want them in your community. Many care facilities will not, or cannot, take them. Their families sometimes will take them in, but not always,” said the statement, issued through diocese spokeswoman Susan O’Brien. The diocese indicated that other accused priests were sent for treatment, rather than investigated by police, and “we know now that is not the way to handle any allegation of sexual misconduct.”

The statement noted that the former bishop, Soens, is now 92 and lives in a Catholic retirement home in Sioux City. After retiring in 1998, he was accused of abusing boys when he was a priest and principal in the 1960s in Iowa City, and the Diocese of Davenport paid settlements to his accusers. The statement said that Soens has not faced any misconduct allegations stemming from his tenure in Sioux City.
As for Coyle, the diocese continues to pay his pension because he is entitled to those benefits by law, the statement said.