DES MOINES, IA – This Saturday, August 24, U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne will continue her 16-county tour for August with four stops in Union, Ringgold, Taylor, and Adair counties.

Rep. Axne will start the day by visiting Child Specialty Health Clinics in Creston. She will then host a “Connect with Your Congresswoman” (CWYC) in rural Ringgold County, then tour Seth Watkins’ farm with the Izaak Walton League in Taylor County. Axne will end the day with a tour of the Iowa Aviation Museum in Adair County.

Axne’s CWYC town hall events provide an opportunity for constituents to meet the Congresswoman, ask questions regarding her work in Washington, and discuss concerns facing local communities.

Saturday, August 24 Schedule:

Union County
WHAT: Child Specialty Health Clinic Tour
WHERE: Child Specialty Health Clinic, 904 E Taylor St B, Creston, IA 50801
WHEN: 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM CDT

Ringgold County
WHAT: Connect with your Congresswoman
WHERE: Hawkins Hideaway Shelter at Poe Hollow, 2434 State Hwy 2 Mount Ayr, IA 50854
WHEN: 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM CDT

Taylor County
WHAT: Seth Watkins Farm Tour with the Izaak Walton League
WHERE: 2983 230th St., Clarinda, IA
WHEN: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

Adair County
WHAT: Tour of Iowa Aviation Museum
|WHERE: 2251 Airport Rd, Greenfield, IA 50849
WHEN: 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM CDT

The main entrance of Cass County Health System will be closed for maintenance beginning at NOON, Saturday, August 24^th and will reopen on Monday, August 26^th.  Patients and visitors are asked to please use the Emergency Department entrance during this time.

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — A farmer who appeared on ABC’s “The Bachelor” has accepted a suspended two-year prison sentence for his role in a 2017 Iowa crash that killed another man.

Court records show that Chris Soules entered written consent documents on Friday agreeing to the suspended sentence and supervised release. He also agreed to pay a $625 fine. A judge must still sign off on the sentencing. Soules had been set to appear for sentencing on Tuesday. In light of the agreement, he waived his right to appear for sentencing.

Soules pleaded guilty in November to a reduced charge of leaving the scene of a serious injury accident for the April 2017 crash that killed 66-year-old Kenny Mosher. Soules was arrested after he rear-ended Mosher’s tractor. Soules called 911, performed CPR on Mosher and waited for first responders, but left the scene before officers arrived.

Soules appeared on “The Bachelor” and “Dancing With The Stars” in 2015.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The man who fatally stabbed a former Iowa State University golfer from Spain while she was playing a round near the school was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Collin Richards pleaded guilty on June 14 to first-degree murder in the Sept. 17 slaying of 22-year-old Celia Barquin Arozamena. Police said Richards stabbed her on the course near the central Iowa campus in Ames and left her body in a pond.

Richards had been staying at a homeless encampment in nearby woods. Ames police reports show that Richards struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, mental health problems and homelessness after he got out of prison three months before he killed Barquin. He had served roughly seven months behind bars for violating the terms of his probation on convictions for burglary and other crimes.

Richards, 22, told a judge earlier this month that he was sorry for his crime. He said in a handwritten letter that he wanted to show remorse “for stripping a life from society … worse, from a loving family.”

Barquin was a top golfer in Spain as a teenager and came to Iowa State to pursue her career.

Her family is aware of Richards’ expression of remorse but “they don’t give too much credit to that apology at this time,” the family’s lawyer, Leon Vidaller, told The Des Moines Register for a story published Thursday.

Authorities have not been able to explain why Richards did it, which makes the loss even worse, Vidaller said. Richards’ family and friends have said his dependence on methamphetamine and other drugs likely led to mental health issues and the violence.

Richards being imprisoned for life — a mandatory sentence — won’t bring Barquin back, but it will give the family some closure, the lawyer said.

The Creston Police Department reports an arrest on Thursday. At 1:20pm Officers arrested 60-year-old Martin Dennis Kelly of Creston at the intersection of Patt and Lincoln Streets for Public Intoxication. Kelly was taken to the Union County Jail and held on $300 cash or surety bond.