(Corning, Iowa) – The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports four recent arrests. On Saturday (May 28th), the Sheriff’s Office received a call about a man laying on the road at 220th Street and Fig Avenue in rural Adams County. Upon further investigation, 50-year-old James Ross Woods was arrested for Public Intoxication. He was transported to the Adams County Jail and held on a $300 bond. And, a little after 11-p.m. Saturday, Deputies responded to a call about another man sitting on the road, this time at 1801 Quincy Street, in Corning. 38-year-old David Christopher Yazell was arrested for Public Intoxication. His bond was also set at $300.

On May 23rd, at around 5:34-a.m., Adams County Deputies initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle speeding 78 mph in a 55 mph zone on Highway 34, near the intersection with Dogwood. The driver, identified as Caleb Driggers, of Omaha, was arrested for Driving While Revoked and No SR-22 insurance. He was also cited for speeding. Driggers was held in the Adams County Jail on a $1,300 bond.

And, on May 19th at around 5:03-p.m., Adams County Deputies saw 34-year-old Sunita Phipps, of Creston, enter a black Jeep Grand Cherokee, and begin driving. At the intersection of Corning Carl Road and John Street, Deputies initiated a traffic stop and ended-up placing Phipps under arrest for Driving While Suspended, Interference with Official Acts, Failure to Provide Insurance (SR-22 required), along with other traffic violations. Phipps was transported to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.

**Any potential charges identified above are merely allegations, and and any defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.**

An accident involving a motorcycle trike in Montgomery County, Saturday morning, left the operator seriously injured and his passenger dead. Both were from Stanton. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a 2018 Harley Davidson operated by 66-year-old Wendell Keith Gourley was westbound on Highway 34 at around 10:10-a.m., when a gust of wind pushed the trike off the road to the right. The cycle collided with a cable barrier and six barrier posts before it rolled onto its top.

Wendell Gourley and his passenger, 66-year-old Jeannie Marie Schomburg-Gourley, were ejected from the motorcycle. She died at the scene. Wendell Gourley was transported by Air Med to the UNMC in Omaha. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and Emergency Management assisted the Patrol at the scene.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds is planning to consolidate the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs and the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown into one agency. The Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs helps Iowa veterans and their families secure military benefits and it oversees the Iowa Veterans Cemetery. According to a news release from the governor’s office, department director Steve Lukan is “leaving for employment in the private sector” and has resigned.

Reynolds has appointed Iowa Veterans Home Commandant Matthew Peterson as interim director of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The governor says she’s exploring a merger to house all veterans services in one agency.

The Iowa Veterans Home sits on a 150 acre campus and has about 500 residents. It’s the fifth largest veterans home in the country. The Department of Veterans Affairs has offices at Camp Dodge in Johnston. The agency’s website
still lists Lukan as its executive director.