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No injuries were reported following two separate accidents Friday, in Montgomery County. An accident occurring at 2nd and Oak Streets in Red Oak at around 3:40-p.m., happened when a car driven by 16-year old Erica Sherman, of Red Oak, rear-ended a pickup being driven by 16-year old Kendra Hardy, also of Red Oak. According to Red Oak Police, the pickup was traveling westbound on Oak Street and had stopped at the intersection with 2nd, and intending to make a left turn. Sherman didn’t notice the truck had come to a compete stop. The resulting collision caused $3,400 damage altogether, with the 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Sherman sustaining the brunt of the damage. No citations were issued.
Earlier in the day, Friday, an accident occurred that involved a 2009 Chevy Cobalt driven by 17-year old Cheryl Hallcock, of Elliott. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says the teen was traveling north on County Road M-63 at around 7:45-a.m, when several deer entered the road. When the teen took evasive action in an effort to miss the animals, she lost control of the car, which entered the west ditch, crashed through a field fence, and became stuck in an alfalfa field owned by Judy Sandin.
Damage from the mishap was estimated at $3,000 altogether. No citations were issued.
WANDA J. JUHL, 76, of Harlan , died Thu., April 11th, in Council Bluffs. A Memorial service for WANDA JUHL will be held 11-a.m. Wed., April 17th, at the Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan.
WANDA JUHL is survived by:
Her husband – Lowell Juhl, of Harlan.
Her sons – Rodney Doyle, of Stafford, KS, & Richard (Barbara) Doyle, of Commerce City, CO.
Her step-sons: David (Kristine) Juhl, of Anacortes, WA, & Jeff Juhl, of Irwin.
Her daughter – Arlene Doyle, of Harlan.
Her sister – Eleanor (Ray) Thompson, of Council Bluffs.
12 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, other relatives & friends.
416 AM CDT SAT APR 13 2013
EARLY THIS MORNING…PARTLY CLOUDY. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. WARMER. HIGH IN THE MID 50S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH IN THE AFTERNOON.
TONIGHT…CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF LIGHT SHOWERS BEFORE MIDNIGHT AND EARLY MORNING. A CHANCE OF LIGHT SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EARLY IN THE MORNING. NOT AS COOL. LOW IN THE UPPER 40S. SOUTHEAST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.
SUNDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN THROUGH MID MORNING…THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT SHOWERS BEFORE NOON. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTH WIND 15 TO 25 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST 15 TO 20 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. COLDER. LOW IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH THROUGH MIDNIGHT.
MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. COOLER. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
MONDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN. LOW IN THE MID 30S.
TUESDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS. HIGH IN THE MID 40S.
Police in Council Bluffs are investigating recent incidents of copper theft. Three such incidents this past week resulted in combined $32,000 loss. Authorities say thieves took copper from a business and two empty houses. The theft were reported on Thursday. Glenco Electric reported copper tubing from two air-conditioning units, valued at $10,000, stolen from the 500 block of 10th Street sometime between Wednesday and Thursday. The Department of Housing and Urban Development reported copper wire and line, valued at $12,000, stolen from a vacant home in the 2800 block of Avenue E sometime between April 5 and Thursday. And, officials say Jean Edwards, of Council Bluffs, reported copper wire and pipe, valued at $10,000, stolen from a vacant home in the 2600 block of Eighth Avenue sometime between Wednesday and Thursday.
Back on April 1st, we told you that authorities in Council Bluffs were asking residents to keep an eye out for unusual activity in areas where homes or businesses are vacant or foreclosed, as those are the types of places where thieves target air conditioning units for their copper tubing, and the thefts are happening in broad daylight. Officials had said 34 air conditioning units were reported to have been damaged or stolen, most of them in a concentrated area, since January 1st.
No arrests have been made in connection with any of the incidents.
A district court judge Friday, sentenced a Glenwood man to life in prison for the 2011 death of his infant son. According to The Daily NonPareil, Judge Mark Eveloff handed down the life sentence against 36-year old Jason Curtis, and ruled out the possibility of parole. Curtis was convicted on a charge of 1st degree murder connected to the death of his 5-month-old son, Jackson Curtis, who died July 14, 2011, as a result of head injuries. The jury decided the boy’s injuries were inflicted by his father. Their verdict was reached in February.
Assistant Pottawattamie County Attorney Amy Zacharias said the sentence wasn’t a surprise because first-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence. During the hearing Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber noted that his office offered a plea deal of child endangerment causing death, which would’ve carried a 50-year sentence with no mandatory minimum, meaning Curtis likely would’ve been out in 11-12 years with good behavior, but Wilber told the paper Curtis wouldn’t take responsibility for his actions, and the verdict, along with the judge’s decision was the consequence.
Curtis pleaded guilty in 2010 to a charge of child endangerment, stemming from injuries his then 4-month-old daughter had suffered. For the plea, he received a deferred judgment, which means the charge would have been erased had he stayed out of trouble.
Sheriff’s officials in Fremont County say a Shenandoah woman has been indicted for the “Theft of funds of the United States by a bank employee.” The charge against 39-year old Tiffany Ann Stanley stems from an investigation into a robbery at the Great Western Bank in Riverton, on November 17th, 2012. The indictment handed down in U-S Federal Court for the Southern District of Iowa on March 27th, lists the amount of the theft at $25,716.40. Stanley was arrested and later released, with orders to appear in court for her trial on June 10th.
The Omaha branch of the FBI assisted the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office in conducting the investigation.
Democrats in the Iowa Senate have voted to hire 13 new state employees to inspect large livestock facilities and they warn that without them federal inspectors may step in. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants large-scale confinements inspected once every five years and the E-P-A is in discussions with the state over how many state inspectors it would take to do the job. Senator Dennis Black, a Democrat from Grinnell, says retaining jurisdiction at the state level is important.
“EPA barks once and then they bite and that was advised to me in a phone call. Whether it was intimidation, whether it was fact, anything else — I could care less,” Black says. “Bottom line is the EPA claims to have drawn the line in the sand and stated: ‘Iowa you will clean up your act. You will see to it that your waters are cleaner.'” Republican Governor Terry Branstad and Republicans in the Iowa House want to hire five new inspectors rather than 13.
This is one of hundreds of budget decisions that must be resolved before the 2013 legislative session concludes.
(Radio Iowa)
A key Republican Party insider expects three Iowa G-O-P office holders who’ve been mentioned as potential candidates for the U.S. Senate to decide against running. Doug Gross, a former chief of staff for Republican Governor Terry Branstad, talked politics during an appearance on this weekend’s “Iowa Press” program on Iowa Public Television. “I do not expect Steve King to run,” Gross says. “I know he was here last week indicating that he’s analyzing it and usually when I’ve worked with politicians over the years, when they’re analyzing something, they’re usually trying to figure out how not to do it — because usually their gut tells them when they’re going to do it.”
Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey have confirmed they’re considering a run for the U.S. Senate, too, but Gross doesn’t think either will. “So I don’t think we know who the candidate’s going to be right now,” Gross says. Democratic Senator Tom Harkin announced in late January that he will not seek re-election in 2014. In early February, Democratic Congressman Bruce Braley announced he would run for the seat. “It’s the first time it’s been open in decades. It’ll be hotly competitive, very competitive in an off-year when Republicans have a very good chance of winning. I think we’ll have a good candidate, I just can’t tell you who it’s going to be yet,” Gross said, with a laugh. “…There are more people eligible to run for senate than those who happen to hold a particular office at a particular time.”
Gross ran for governor in 2002, losing to Democrat Tom Vilsack. His advice to whomever decides to run: be prepared to work hard. “Particularly as a Republican, you need to go to every county. I mean, it isn’t just Chuck Grassley’s schtick. As a Republican, you’ve got votes in every county and you need to go to every county and it’s a big state, so you really have to work it hard, so one thing I am concerned about is I’d like to see our candidates come forward this summer, no later than this summer because people need to get to know them it they’re going to have a good shot at winning,” Gross said. “One of the mistakes I think I made back in 2002 was getting in too late.”
Gross formally announced his candidacy on March 4th of that year, just three months before the primary. Gross went on to narrowly win the primary with nearly 36 percent. Bob Vander Plaats — in the first of his three runs for governor — got just over 32 percent and former state Representative Steve Sukup got nearly 32 percent. Vilsack lost in November to Democrat Tom Vilsack.
(Radio Iowa)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs signed former Kansas State linebacker Zac Diles on Friday. Diles has spent six seasons in the NFL after he was drafted in the seventh round by the Houston Texans. He has appeared in 67 games with 31 starts for the Texans, Colts, Buccaneers and Titans, making 223 tackles with a sack and an interception.
Diles appeared in all 24 games in two seasons for the Wildcats. He began his college career at Fresno City College, where he started 22 games over two seasons.