(Shelby, Iowa) – Shots were fired in Omaha early this (Monday) morning, leading to a high-speed pursuit that crossed state lines. KETV says according to Omaha Police, an officer saw someone firing shots from a vehicle near 33rd and Leavenworth streets and tried to pull them over. Officers said the vehicle refused to stop and police pursued it through downtown Omaha and into Iowa. Scanner reports said a gun was tossed out the window of the vehicle, during the chase.

Council Bluffs police took over the pursuit, which was eventually stopped on Interstate 80 near Shelby, at around 4:30-a.m. Omaha Police said Officers took the driver, 30-year-old Cachelle Martin, into custody. Charges are pending. Omaha police said they will seek to extradite Martin to Nebraska.

GRAND JUNCTION, Iowa (KCCI) – A woman is parting ways with a homemade quilt to benefit the family of Ahmir Jolliff. Joliff was shot and killed at Perry High School on Jan. 4. Ellen McElroy made the quilt just months after her son Arnold Thomas died. Thomas was hit by a truck when he was just nine years old. But until recently, she said the quilt hasn’t seen any use- and shops have valued it at over a thousand dollars.

McElroy decided to enter the piece in a silent auction hosted by Perry High School, with all proceeds going to Joliffs family. She told KCCI, “I know what they’re going through, and it’s not an easy situation,” Ellen McElroy said. “If it even helps them that much, it’ll be worth it to me.”

The bidding on the auction closes tonight (Monday), at 8 o’clock.

WEBSTER COUNTY, Iowa (WHO-TV) — Three people are dead following a shooting at a rural Webster County home Sunday night. The Webster County Sheriff’s Office said a 911 call came in around 7:40 p.m. from a juvenile that two people had been shot at 2101 140th Street. That’s about nine miles north of Fort Dodge. The caller told dispatchers the suspected shooter had fled on foot.

Deputies with the WCSO arrived minutes after the call and found 39-year-old Molly Barlow and 63-year-old Phyllis Versteeg in the garage area. Both had been shot. The deputies attempted life-saving medical care until paramedics arrived, but both victims died at the scene. In a search of the home by deputies and officers with the Fort Dodge Police Department, the body of 41-year-old Duran Barlow was located. The WCSO said it appeared he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation was called in to process the scene and conduct interviews. The investigation into what happened continues but the WCSO said there is no threat to the public.

(Creston, Iowa) –  A woman from Creston was arrested Sunday afternoon, on drug charges. Creston Police report 34-year-old Rachel Marie Colburn was arrested at 417 Wyoming Avenue, and charged with Possession of Controlled Substance-Methamphetamine/1st Offense, and Possession Drug Paraphernalia. Colburn was taken to the Union County Jail and later released on a $1,300 bond.

Also arrested at the same location, was 44-year-old Robert Todd Jackson, of Creston. Jackson was charged with Driving Suspended. He was cited and released from the scene with Promise to Appear in Court.

GLENWOOD, Iowa — The Iowa Dental Board suspended a Glenwood dentist’s license following his conviction for assaulting a patient. 65-year-old Dr. Calvin Weber was charged with improper sexual contact with, or making lewd, lascivious or improper remarks or advances to, a patient. A judge found him guilty, and sentenced Weber to pay an $855 fine and time served.

The Emergency Adjudicative Order prohibits Dr. Weber from practicing dentistry until a hearing is held in his case. The Board called Dr. Weber an “imminent threat to public safety.”

In the 1990s, Weber lost his license to administer anesthesia after three female patients said he inappropriately touched them during their appointments. The board disciplined him for “gross immorality or dishonorable or unprofessional conduct.”

A hearing on his license was tentatively scheduled for January 19th, but upon request, a Continuance was granted until further order of the Board.

(Radio Iowa) – The Des Moines Civic Center is launching a new Explorer Series tomorrow (Tuesday) night that will include in-person talks from a NASA engineer who puts robots on Mars, a deep-ocean underwater photographer, and Mike Libecki, who describes his life as a National Geographic Adventurer the following way. “I’m a professional climber and explorer, and you know, you could even call it a professional child. I absolutely love what I do,” Libecki says. “I travel around the world climbing and adventuring, supporting science, going to places no one’s ever been to before. Honestly, it’s a dream come true.”

Libecki will present what he’s calling “Paddling with Polar Bears.” It documents one small part of his exploits in the high Arctic, though his job has taken him to all seven continents, including Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and the peaks of Nepal and Peru. “The best part about my lifestyle is getting to go on these expeditions and travel around the world, but the second best part is coming back to share these stories,” Libecki says. “These are places that few people get to experience and to bring these emotional stories back and share them with people, it’s one of the best parts of my life.”

Lebecki talked with Radio Iowa from his rural home in the mountains of Utah, a place he says is only accessible by snowmobile or skis during the winter. While Iowans who long for adventure in their lives might think this state has little to offer, Libecki disagrees, saying Iowans can use the current environmental challenges to steel themselves for even more harsh conditions elsewhere on the globe. “Iowa is a great place to train for Antarctica and Siberia in the winter, I mean, from what I understand it gets pretty darn cold out there,” Libecki says. “These adventures take me to places with minus 60-70 degrees where we’re climbing and adventuring, so we’re up against the most difficult challenges and climates on the planet.”

Saying he’s obsessed with climbing the world’s most remote and untouched mountains, Libecki says he’s completed more than 100 major global expeditions, reaching summits from Afghanistan to Antarctica, Greenland to Guyana, Siberia to Socotra, and most places in between. “I’ve got some pretty tough criteria how I define an expedition, and that’s being 100% self-reliant in places you can’t be rescued,” Libecki says. “I have a question that I ask myself and that’s why ration passion? The time is now and we’ve got to live this life. It’s an absolute gift to have enthusiasm about something in life.”

Libecki’s appearance on Tuesday night will be followed by, “Beyond Earth: The Quest for Life on an Icy Moon” on March 21st, and “Aboard SeaLegacy 1: Documenting our Blue Planet” on May 13th.

(Radio Iowa) -The Waterloo Community School District is considering merging its two largest high schools into one. Waterloo East and Waterloo West’s buildings are a combined 160 years old and the district hopes to combine its nearly two-thousand high schoolers under one new roof by 2028. The plan also involves renovating both the old schools for lower grades and raises some financial concerns for residents like Michael Chapman.”I’d love to see a new building, that’d be great, but we’re not putting in a new building, we’re actually spending the same money twice, which is where my concern lies,” he says. “No matter which way it was sugarcoated, it still seems like twice the amount of money’s going to be spent.” Chapman has kids in the district and says he hasn’t had a chance to make his voice heard.

“I think it should go back to the drawing board. This current idea that we’re going into was kind of done maybe behind doors, maybe without a lot of community input. This is rearranging how our entire school system is to operate,” Chapman says. Renovation costs for both high schools are comparable to the new facility. A committee has been planning for more than a decade to convert the old schools for 8th and 9th grades, with the new center for grades ten through 12. A combined school would make Waterloo’s the 10th largest high school in Iowa.