The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest on Saturday at 11:45 p.m. of 25-year-old Christopher Floyd Birdtail of Red Oak on a charge of Harassment 1st Degree. Birdtail was arrested at 1310 Broadway Street in Red Oak and booked into the Montgomery County Jail on $2,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) – The Marengo company that was the site of an explosion and fire in December has complied with a judge’s order to give the Iowa Department of Natural Resources a list of chemicals present at the time. The Attorney General’s Office says C-6-Zero attempted to submit the list by the deadline but the company was delayed by technical issues. The A-G’s Office says it has obtained the list Friday and had passed it to the D-N-R.

(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports five recent arrests. A little after 2-a.m. Sunday, 23-year-old Maria P. Hawthorne, of Nebraska, was arrested in Creston for OWI/1st offense. And, at around 10:25-p.m. Saturday, 50-year-old Matthew David Walden, of Creston, was arrested for OWI/1st Offense. Both subjects were being held in the Union County Jail on a $1,000 cash or surety bond.

At around 6:40-a.m., Saturday, 43-year-old Stacy Marie Jones, of Creston, was arrested at her home on a charge of Domestic Abuse Assault causing injury/1st offense. Jones was transported to the Adams County Jail and held on a $300 bond.

Just before 2-a.m. Saturday, 45-year-old Kerry Lee Starlin, of Creston, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. She was later released on a $1,000 bond.

And, at around 5:14-p.m. on Feb. 23rd, 53-year-old Danny Ray Bird, Jr., of Creston, was arrested at the Creston/Union County Law Enforcement Center. Bird was charged with Assault w/intent to cause pain/injury. He was later released on bond.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa State University is moving ahead with plans to renovate the Scheman Building after getting approval from the Board of Regents. The I-S-U athletic department oversees its operation as part of the Iowa State Center complex I-S-U’s Shawn Norman says Scheman has gotten a lot of use through the years. “This is a 48 year old building has thousands of people come through for events. And one thing that we want to do in this project is the renovation of the first and the second floor,” Norman says. He says they will upgrade the lobby, restrooms, entrances, lighting and food and beverage amenities.

“But the one big thing is the Benton Auditorium space, we want to make that a flexible event space that we can have these people that come in these visitors that visit our museums in our athletic events,” he says. Norman says they also want to improve the link to other facilities. “We want to elevate the walkway between the Seaman Building and the Hilton Coliseum. But we want that to be evaluated during the process to see if there’s any repairs that are needed. So this would not have anybody having to move out…so everybody, everything would be good in that instance,” Norman says. “…our estimated budget is about ten to 12 million dollars at this point. So funded by athletic operating revenues.”

Norman says they won’t know how long the renovations will take until they get estimates back from the designers.

(Radio Iowa) – The Woodbury County Sheriff released more information Sunday on a shooting in Sergeant Bluff Friday evening. Sheriff Chad Sheehan says it appears 43-year-old Raymond Rogers shot his estranged wife and the man she was living with, and then shot himself. Deputies who responded to a shots fired call looked through a window and saw Rogers on the floor. “Deputies immediately entered the residence. And inside the residence were able to rescue a 12 year old boy who was seeking refuge inside the residence during the time of the attack while removing the boy. Deputies discovered a both a male and a female victim both suffering from what appeared to be serious life threatening gunshot wounds,” he says.

The 50-year-old man, Gerele Jones died, and the woman, 40-year-old Ashley Rogers was taken to the hospital. Raymond Rogers is hospitalized in critical condition. Sheriff Sheehan credited the boy with calling deputies in the midst of the shooting. “I can’t imagine what that young man went through while this was going on he had the courage to make a phone call and give us information that was that was vital to us getting there quickly,” Sheehan says. He says the boy is the son of Jones, who was killed.

“Any chance that anyone would have had to survive this incident is due to the due to the courage that this young this young boy this young man exhibited that evening,” he says. Sheehan says it is fair to term the case as a murder and attempted suicide — though the investigation has not been completed.