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Authorities in Council Bluffs are asking for your help in finding a special needs woman who jumped out the window of a facility at 2065 Nash Boulevard late Wednesday evening. Bluffs Police Sgt. Dave Dawson says 21-year old Kyla Jones left the area in an unknown direction after she leaped from the building at around 8:50-p.m., Wednesday.
The woman was last seen wearing a dark gray long sleeve shirt and grey sweatpants. She’s 5-feet five-inches tall, and weighs about 162-poounds. Jones left her cell phone behind when she took off, and police say they’ve exhausted all leads in trying to find her.
If you see Kyla Jones, call your local police department, immediately.
A juvenile was arrested and later cited into juvenile court, following an assault which occurred Wednesday afternoon on a school bus. Red Oak Police say 11-year old Jackson Michael Kelly, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 4:30-p.m. on a Serious Assault charge, for allegedly striking another student on the bus.
Kelly was later released into the custody of his mother, Holly Ann Kelly, and will appear in juvenile court at a later date.
A single-vehicle accident Wednesday afternoon just east of Marne, resulted in a passenger in the vehicle being flown to a hospital in Omaha. According to reports, 16-year old Lily Elliott, of Marne, was flown by LifeNet helicopter to Creighton University Hospital. The teen was injured when the van she was riding in slid through the intersection at 580th Street and Eastland Road, and crashed at around 2:35-p.m.
The accident happened, as the driver of the 2010 Dodge Caravan, 37-year old Jamie Elliott, of Marne, tried to slow down for the stop sign at the intersection. The van skidded into the north ditch and hit a utility pole. The driver and two other children in the van were not hurt.
The Omaha World-Herald reports three Republicans have announced they will seek the Iowa Senate seat being vacated by Joni Ernst, who won election to the U.S. Senate earlier this month. Once Ernst resigns from her State Senate seat, Gov. Terry Branstad will call for a special election to fill the vacancy.
State Rep. Mark Costello of rural Imogene, Fremont County Board member Cara Marker-Morgan of Hamburg and Clarinda school board member Seth Watkins have all announced their candidacies.
One person was critically injured Tuesday afternoon in a truck accident southeast of Council Bluffs. Officials with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office told the Omaha World-Herald, that the accident occurred about 5:30 p.m. at 22338 Pioneer Trail. 80-year old Francis Hedrick of rural Council Bluffs was taken by medical helicopter to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
The Sheriff’s Office said Hedrick was eastbound on Pioneer Trail in a 2003 Ford F-150 pickup truck as a 1983 GMC flatbed straight truck was backing out of a driveway. The pickup struck the back of the straight truck, the Sheriff’s Office said, and the crash left Hedrick briefly trapped in the Ford after the vehicle’s dashboard was pushed into him.
He was taken by a Lewis Township rescue squad to the Lewis Central High School parking lot, where he was transferred to the medical helicopter, the Sheriff’s Office said. His injuries were not considered life-threatening, authorities said. Hedrick was listed in good condition Wednesday.
The driver of the straight truck, 32-year old Travis Tyson, of Bellevue, was not injured. The Sheriff’s Office said Tyson cited for unsafe backing and failure to yield.