The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of an Emerson man on Tuesday morning. At about 6:00 a.m. Deputies arrested 21-year-old Adam Dennis Letts of Emerson after he was stopped for operating a vehicle with expired license plates. He was also charged with Driving While License Barred and on a Warrant from Bremer County for Driving While License Barred. He was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $750 bond.

The Glenwood Police Department reports two arrests from this past Friday, September 24th.

51-year-old Bryan Dennis of Council Bluffs was arrested for Driving While Revoked. His bond was set at $1,000 cash or surety.

40-year-old Jerry Ward of Council Bluffs was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance and for providing false identification info. Bond was set at $1,300 cash or surety.

The Iowa State Patrol responded on Monday to a multi-vehicle pileup on Interstate-80 near mile marker 24. Four vehicles were eastbound on I-80 around 2:01 p.m. when traffic was slowed due to a lane closure. A 2020 Freightliner Cascadia driven by Gagandeep Singh Dhaliwal of Brampton, Ontario was traveling in the right lane approaching the other vehicles when it failed to slow for traffic. The Freightliner veered to the left and collided with the rear driver side portion of another 2020 Freightliner driven by Vitaliy Isoita of Sedalia, Missouri and then side swiped a 2015 Chevy Equinox driven by Rhiannon Kelley of Council Bluffs. Another unidentified vehicle was rear-ended by the second Freightliner due to the initial impact.

The Equinox went into the median and the Freightliner that initiated the accident stopped on the center-line and blocked both lanes of traffic. No injuries were reported during the crash and no further details were known at this time.

Cass County Engineer Trent Wolken reports that the bridge replacement project on Boston Rd., one mile east of Hwy 6/Hwy 71 in Cass County, is now open to traffic. The project was completed on time by Murphy Heavy Contracting of Anita.

The project was part of a federal Competitive Highway Bridge Program (CHBP) grant.  The State of Iowa was awarded this $33.4 million grant in 2019.  There were 68 county bridges across the state selected to be built in bundles, where a single construction contract contains multiple bridges.  Cass County’s bridge on Boston Rd. was bundled with a bridge in Guthrie County and built during this construction season.

The county appreciates the work of all parties involved and thanks the public for their patience while the bridge was closed.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Villisca man following a traffic stop on Monday. At 8:46 p.m. Deputies initiated a traffic stop in Villisca at the Casey’s General Store. Upon investigation the driver, Justice Guy Myers of Villisca, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. He was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $491.25 bond.

The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest of 18-year-old Kaydence Reanne Fussell of Red Oak at 4:18 p.m. on Monday for Simple Assault, a simple misdemeanor. The charge stemmed from an incident earlier in the day at the Red Oak High School. Fussell was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond.

The Adair County Sheriff’s Office has released details on 5 recent arrests.

On September 19th Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 42-year-old Sara Nicole Demey of Greenfield at 207 NW 2nd Street at 7:00 p.m. on a charge of Interference with Official Acts. She was later cited and released.

Also on September 19th at 7:14 p.m. Deputies arrested 27-year-old Reece Johnson of Greenfield at 212 SE Kent Street for Disorderly Conduct-Fight/Violence. Johnson was cited and released.

On September 22nd at 6:51 p.m. Adair Police arrested 29-year-old Jackson Lee Norton of Stuart on charges of Possession of a Controlled Substance-Marijuana and Possession of a Controlled Substance- Methamphetamine and Xanax. Norton was also arrested on September 23rd at 12:38 p.m. by Adair Police on a charge of Felony Forgery. Norton was held on $1,000 bond on the first charges and $5,000 cash or surety bond on the Forgery charge.

On September 23rd at 11:01 a.m. Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 19-year-old Haily Ann Walston of Atlantic in Greenfield on a charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance. She was later released on her own recognizance.

(Radio Iowa) The state has had a program to help low-income Iowans pay their heating bills for 40 years and is now adding one to help with water bills. Christine Taylor oversees both programs — and says they’ve received 10 million dollars in federal funds for the water side.

Taylor says they can also help those behind on the water bills catch up.

She says you can sign up for the Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program at your area community action agency.

Taylor says thousands of Iowans could be impacted.

Taylor says the water bill issues are not new for many.

She says the program will pay the water companies and they do not send the money directly to the users.

MINBURN—A boil advisory for the Dallas County city of Minburn and some residents of Woodward has been lifted after test results showed tap water is safe to drink.

DNR and Xenia Rural Water issued the precautionary advisory Saturday following a water main break and pressure loss that drained the Minburn water tower.

After completing repairs and flushing, Xenia sent water samples for laboratory testing to determine if bacteria had entered the water system.

(Radio Iowa) The Iowa Department of Public Health’s website shows influenza activity in the state has been low, but it’s starting to increase. Public health and hospital officials are urging Iowans to get flu shots. Nola Aigner-Davis of the Polk County Public Health Department says Iowa’s medical system is under stress due to the pandemic.

Aigner Davis says the rise in the Covid patient count in Iowa hospitals comes as Iowans who waited to seek care for a serious illness are now hospitalized, too.

The flu shot is available to anyone who is six months or older. According to Iowa Department of Public Health data for August, 16 schools reported at least 10 percent of students were absent due to the flu.