(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Glenwood Police Department reports the arrest on Monday, of a woman from Hastings (IA). 43-year-old Sara Rainey was arrested for OWI/1st offense. She has since posted a $1,000 cash or surety bond, and was released.

(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department say a man residing in the 500 block of N. Chestnut Street, in Creston, reported Monday morning, an incident of vehicle vandalism. The man’s truck was spray painted sometime between 1-a.m. and 5-a.m., Monday, with the damage estimated at $2,000.

(Mount Ayr, Iowa) – Sheriff’s officials in Ringgold County report a Clarke County man faces charges following an injury accident that occurred early Saturday morning (July 1st) in southern Ringgold County. Authorities say 43-year-old Jaycob Leroy Waske, of Murray, was traveling west on Highway J-55 a little after 3-a.m., in an are open only to local traffic, due to construction. The report said Waske ignored signs leading toward the construction and drove through warning cones indicating a roadway drop-off of approximately one-foot in the westbound lanes leading to the bridge.

The 2008 Chevy Impala he was driving then struck the bridge deck at a high rate of speed, totaling the car and damaging the construction area. Waske and his passenger, 45-year-old Joshua Lewis, of Mount Ayr, were treated at the Ringgold County Hospital and later transferred to Mercy in Des Moines, as the result of suffering multiple fractures during the crash.

Jaycob Waske was charged with Interference with Official Acts, and cited for Failure to Obey a traffic control device (Signs), along with Leaving the scene of an accident-Failure to provide aid or information after an effort to hide the accident from law enforcement. His bond was set at $300.

Jaycob Waske (Ringgold County S/O photo)

(Knoxville, Iowa) – A single-vehicle crash Tuesday evening in Marion County resulted in the death of a woman who was a rear-seat passenger in an SUV. The Iowa State Patrol reports 34-year-old Whitney Marie Brown, of What Cheer, was a passenger in a 2013 Chevy Equinox driven by 49-year-old Tamara Goodlife, of Altoona, when Goodlife failed to negotiate an “S” curve on southbound Highway S-45, west of Knoxville.

The vehicle went off the road and into a ditch until it came to a driveway, and vaulted over it. The SUV then went airborne and struck a tree on the other side of the ditch. Brown was not wearing a seat belt, and died at the scene of the crash, which took place at around 5:15-p.m., Tuesday. Three other occupants of the vehicle were injured and transported to the local hospital.

(Radio Iowa) – Fort Dodge police say a person was fatally shot shortly before 10 o’clock last (Tuesday) night. The 15-year-old male victim was found in the street on the southwest side of the intersection of 15th Street and Fourth Avenue South. The teen was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was being withheld until all family members are notified. Fort Dodge and Webster County authorities continue with their investigation.