DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than a dozen military veterans have been given a 30-day notice to leave a transitional housing facility in Des Moines. Station KCCI reports that a Department of Veterans Affairs official dropped off the notice at the 180 Degrees facility last week, but VA officials have declined to discuss the issue. The VA subsidizes 180 Degrees for each client and says there’s a dispute between 180 Degrees and the owner of the home, Makar Limited Partnership. Makar said in an email to 180 Degrees that expenses outlined by the rental agreement were not paid by 180, thus breaching the agreement.

Gerald Murphy is managing partner of Makar Limited Partnership, and he declined to answer specific questions regarding the dispute between Makar and 180 Degrees. Navy veteran Kurt Gabrielson lives at the home and says he has a post-traumatic stress disorder and problems with alcohol. He says that being forced out is “overwhelming.”

Creston Police say two people were arrested Sunday, and one incident of vandalism was reported, Saturday. Authorities say 41-year old Brandie Sue Whitney, of Creston, was arrested just before Noon, SUnday, on a warrant for Failure to Appear in court on a Driving While Barred, charge. And, at around 1:25-p.m., 43-year old Amy Louise Kay Smith, of Des Moines, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on an outside agency warrant for Probation Violation, on an original Possession of a Controlled Substance/3rd or subsequent offense, charge.

Whitney and Smith were being held for Union County in the Adams County Jail, where Whitney’s cash-only bond was set at $4,000, and Smith was being held without bond, pending an appearance before the magistrate.

And, a woman residing in the 500 block of N. Chestnut Street, in Creston, reported Saturday evening, that sometime between 10:30-p.m. Friday and 4:40-p.m. Saturday, someone broke out the back window of her 1986 Olds Delta 88, that was parked across the street from her home.

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ESTHERVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say officers have captured an inmate who assaulted a jailer before fleeing custody in northwest Iowa. The Emmet County Sheriff’s Office says the 19-year-old attacked the jailer around 7:20 p.m. Friday and then fled out a door the jailer had just opened at the jail in Estherville. The inmate was apprehended 45 minutes later by an Estherville officer and a K-9.

The inmate has been identified as Divine Watkins. He’s been charged with escape and assaulting the jailer. He’d been jailed while awaiting prosecution on burglary and other charges.

(Radio Iowa) — A state senator from southeast Iowa wants to adjust the financing for students who attend school outside the district in which they live. It’s called “open enrollment.” For 30 years, Iowa parents have been able to enroll their kids in public school districts outside the one in which they live. Senator Tom Greene, a Republican from Burlington, says it’s “a real financial issue” for districts that are losing students.”I think open enrollment is here to stay,” Greene says. “It’s not going to change and I understand that, but what I want to do is change the funding mechanism.” Greene is proposing that the home district — where the student lives — keep of 12 percent of the “per pupil” spending for each student who “open enrolls” into another district.

Green says that means all the state and federal tax dollars would follow a student to the other school, but the taxes paid by local property owners would stay put. Green says sending property tax dollars to another district is “taxation without representation.” “The Burlington School District totally surrounds the West Burlington School District. The West Burlington School District has 800 and 900 students; 53 percent of those students reside outside the boundaries of the West Burlington School District,” Greene says. “A huge amount of money comes into the West Burlington School District from outside, but those taxpayers have no say in how that money is spent. That’s my biggest concern.”

Before his election to the state senate, Greene was a member of the Burlington School Board and served as its president.