One person has died and four other people were injured during a collision between a pickup and a car Sunday evening on Interstate 80, near the I-29 interchange. According to Council Bluffs Police, the vehicles collided at around 6:10-p.m., when one of the vehicles heading west on I-80 left the road, traveled down an embankment and entered the I-29 southbound/I-80 eastbound on-ramp and collided with the second vehicle . Both vehicles rolled over following the impact. The driver of one vehicle and three passengers, along with the driver of the other vehicle and one passenger, were transported to area hospitals. Media reports say a female in one of the vehicles died, while the driver of the vehicle was listed in critical condition. Bluffs Police have not released a report on any of the victims’ conditions, and no names have been released. The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the Council Bluffs Police Special Operations Unit.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A 13-year-old girl has died when the vehicle her mother was driving crashed and rolled into a field near the Nebraska-Kansas state line.  The Kansas Highway Patrol says Taylor Isaac died in the Saturday morning accident. KETV television reports her mother, 39-year-old Nicki Isaac, was driving from their home in Hydro, Okla., to a high school class reunion in Underwood, Iowa, when their 2005 Chevy Tahoe went out of control and rolled.
 
Isaac and two children, Taylor, and 14-year-old Jacob were trapped in the vehicle for four hours. The youngest son, 10-year-old Mackenzie was thrown out and waved down a passing car for help. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Jacob and Mackenzie were not wearing their seat belts.Nicki Isaac and the two boys were injured. Authorities say Nicki Issac’s foot had to be reattached, while Jacob required a back brace after he fractured a vertebra, and Mackenzie has a broken elbow.

The Underwood High School class of 1992 is raising money for the family. Isaac grew up in Underwood.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A dozen Union Pacific employees will ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange today (Monday), to celebrate the railroad’s 150th birthday. The nation’s largest railroad will also celebrate at its Omaha headquarters on Monday with a bell-ringing reception for its employees. Union Pacific is holding a number of events in 2012 to commemorate the day when President Abraham Lincoln signed the law creating the railroad on July 1st, 1862. The only problem with today’s celebration, is that it is happening one day after the actual anniversary. Union Pacific had to adjust its plans because July 1st falls on a Sunday this year.Union Pacific started laying rail in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and worked westward to meet the Central Pacific railroad. The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.

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Police officers in Clarinda investigated a property damage accident Friday evening. Officials say 16-year old Tanner Clayton Marriott, of Clarinda, was driving a 2004 Dodge Ram pickup through the Hy-Vee parking lot at around 6:10-p.m., when the vehicle was hit by a car that was backing out of a parking stall. Damage to the pickup was estimated at $500. Damage to the 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse, driven by 27-year old Timothy Mark Hudson, of Clarinda, was estimated at $2,000. Neither driver was injured. No citations were issued.

And, this past Wednesday (June 27^th ) ,Kody James Sump reported to Police in Clarinda, that golf and fishing equipment had been stolen from his truck sometime between June 13^th & 14^th,  while the truck was parked at the Clarinda Country Club or the Inda-Clar Recreation Parlor. The property was valued at $700. There are no suspects at this time and the incident remains under investigation.