The Creston Police Department reports the arrest at around 11:10-p.m. Tuesday, of 33-year old Johnny Gossett II, from Creston. Gossett was taken into custody for Domestic Assault/3rd or subsequent offense. He was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting a Bond Hearing.

And, two people were arrested in Creston Tuesday, for Violation of a Protection Order. 34-year old Skylar Rufenacht, of Creston, and 33-year old Samantha Meek, of Mt. Ayr, were arrested at a residence in the 800 block of N. Jarvis Street, at around 3:30-p.m. Rufenacht was being held in the Union County Jail, Meek was being held in the Adams County Jail. Both were awaiting a Bond Hearing.

(Radio Iowa)  A Le Mars police officer was fired from his job after posting questionable material on social media. Le Mars Police Chief Kevin Vande Vegte issued a news release Tuesday afternoon stating Officer Jeremy Singer had engaged in misconduct involving social media activity depicting comments and behavior unbecoming of a police officer. Vande Vegte says he was first made aware of the situation on Sunday, of which he immediately place the officer in question on administrative leave. Vande Vegte says a misconduct investigation was initiated. Based on the results of that misconduct investigation, Jeremy Singer was dismissed from his duties as a police officer effective Tuesday, September 15th.

Vande Vegte says the city of Le Mars took this matter seriously and the actions and comments made by Officer Singer are not representative of the values in place to ensure that there is trust between the police department and the community of Le Mars. Singer had been a police officer with the Le Mars Police Department for just about three years.

The Iowa Department of Public Health’s Coronavirus dashboard today (as of 10-a.m.), said there are 775 new (Positive) COVID-19 cases (for a total of 76,050 to-date) and one death has taken place, since 10-a.m., Tuesday (for a total of 1,234 to-date). Officials say 5,164 lab result have been processed since Tuesday. The data show: 4,620 new Negative cases (For a total of 633,911); 55,005 Iowans have recovered from the virus since the pandemic began. IDPH reported 712,919 Iowans have been tested for COVID-19.  Officials reported an 8.6% positivity rate over the last 14 days.

Of those who died, 856 had a pre-existing condition, and 653 of the deaths took place at a Long-Term Care (LTC) facility. In the KJAN listening area: Guthrie, Montgomery and Shelby Counties have one more positive case each, of COVID-19. Pottawattamie County has 33 new cases, Harrison and Madison Counties have two new cases, each, and Mills County shows four new, positive cases. No deaths have been reported across the KJAN listening area since Sept. 12th.

Across the State, hospitalizations have increased by six, to 291. The number of patients with COVID-19 who are in an ICU is up five, to 79; eight more people were admitted to a hospital with symptoms of the virus, for a total of 44, and 32 patients were on ventilators, three more than reported Tuesday. In western/southwest Iowa, hospitals report No change to the data from Tuesday into today: There are 11 hospitalized; Six in an ICU; There were no new admissions, and one person remains on  ventilator.

There are two more LTC outbreaks, at 38, with 901 patients/staff testing positive for COVID-19, and 442 have recovered.

Here are the latest positive case numbers for southwest/western Iowa (County; Positive Case #’s; number of persons who have (recovered); {deaths since the outbreak began}.

• Cass County: 122 cases; (113); 2 deaths
• Adair County: 57 cases; (40); 1 death
• Adams County: 27 cases; (21)
• Audubon County: 46 cases; (30); 1 death
• Guthrie County: 206 cases; (155); 5 deaths
• Montgomery County: 84 cases; (78); 5 deaths
• Pottawattamie County: 1,861 cases; (1,561); 36 deaths
• Shelby County: 235 cases; (224); 1 death.
• Madison County, 188; (148); 2 deaths
• Harrison County, 164 cases; (149); 2 deaths
• Union County: 105 cases; (84); 3 deaths.
• Mills County: 153 cases; (110); 1 death.