The Mills County Sheriff’s Office, Monday, said 55-year-old Dale Clifford Greedy, of Sidney (IA), was arrested on I-29, mile marker 40, at around 2:25-a.m. Sunday. Greedy was charged with OWI/3rd offense, Driving While Barred,and Operating a vehicle without the Ignition Interlock. Bond was set at $5,000.

(Radio Iowa) – Supply chain issues continue to impact businesses in Iowa, including the Ankeny-based Casey’s convenience store chain. Chief financial officer, Steve Bramlage, talked about the issue during a recent conference call on their third-quarter results. “While supply chain challenges have improved since the second quarter — notably in cups — the company still experienced disruption within prepared food and dispensed beverage,” Bramlage said.

He says supply shortages continue for one item in particular. “Bakery items — specifically our popular glazed donuts — continue to be in acute short supply as our vendor partners experience COVID-related disruptions,” he said. Bramlage says the supplies they are able to get for their prepared food are costing more — and the company has passed some of the cost on to customers. “The merchandise team was able to partially offset the cost increases with a round of proactive menu price increases and a more significant round of increases is scheduled for mid-March,” Bramlage said.

The company says its inside sales improved in its third-quarter as traffic into stores continues to improve.

(Radio Iowa) –  State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald says he supports withdrawing any state investments in Russian companies, but it’s difficult to do today given the status of Russia’s economy.  “The ruble has crashed and the stock market in Russia is closed,” Fitzgerald says, “…so if you wanted to sell out you can’t and if you sold out, you get pennies on the dollar.” Roby Smith is the Republican who’s running against Fitzgerald, a Democrat, in this fall’s election. Smith recently released a statement saying the State of Iowa needs to strategically divest of any Russian securities it may hold and prevent any future investment in Russia with Iowa’s public funds. Fitzgerald has signed onto a statement with 38 other state treasurers calling for public pension funds and other state and local governments to divest from Russia.

“We’ll be pushing for more measures,” Fitzgerald says. “If a pension fund like IPERS has been hurt, well maybe we can sue and get Russian assets like all of those yachts you see floating around that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars because we’ve been damaged by Putin and there’s a good legal argument to be made.” Fitzgerald made his comments this weekend on Iowa Press on Iowa P-B-S.

The state treasurer says IPERS — the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System — has mutual funds that have investments in Russian entities. And Russian-linked investments account for about one-half of one percent of the portfolio for the state-run College Savings Iowa plan.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Glenwood Police Department today (Monday), reported that a Windsor, Colorado man, 40-year-old Joshua Coots, was arrested Sunday. Coots was being held in the Mills County Jail without bond, until seen by a Magistrate. He’s been charged with Domestic Abuse Assault.