(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – A man riding a motorcycle was seriously injured Saturday afternoon, during a collision with a Dodge pickup truck. Council Bluffs Police reports the crash victim, 18-year-old Reese Schlotfeld, of Council Bluffs, was transported by rescue squad to the UNMC in Omaha. A report on his condition was not released. Police say he’s one of the same motorcyclists suspected of fleeing from police about 5-minutes earlier.

Authorities say about at about 4:25-p.m., a Council Bluffs Police Office attempted to stop two motorcycles on Frontage Road near the 3600 block of W. Broadway. When the officer activated his cruiser’s emergency lights and siren, the two cycles drove off-road through an open field, away from the officer. At that point, the chase was terminated and the officer turned-off his emergency equipment before going back into service on patrol. The last known siting of the motorcycles by police, was in the 3400 block of Avenue A.

At around 4:30-p.m., authorities were notified about a personal injury crash involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck at 26th and Avenue A.  Witnesses said the motorcycle were seen driving recklessly on Broadway and through residential yards at high rates of speed. A report of a black SUV (Not a police cruiser) was seen following the cycles at one point. The case remains under investigation by the Council Bluffs Police Special Operations/Traffic Unit. Charges are pending in the case. The driver of the pickup truck, 50-year-old David Petersen, of Council Bluffs, was not injured.

Anyone with information about the owners/operator of the black SUV, should call 712-328-4948.

(Western Iowa) – Voters across the State will be heading to the polls Tuesday, to select those who will lead Iowa in County, State and Federal positions. Area results will be posted on the KJAN News page as soon as the become final from either the County Auditor’s Office or Secretary of State’s website, whichever comes first. In addition, listen for Radio Iowa’s statewide election reports at the following times, Tuesday:

• 8:06 p.m.
• 8:30 p.m.
• 9:06 p.m.
• 9:30 p.m.
• 10:06 p.m.
• 10:30 p.m.

Locally, there are no contested races in Cass County, but Adair County voters will determine who fills the County Supervisor District 4SE seat on the Board of Supervisors. Republican Nathan Baier, and Doug Davidson are running for the position.

In Adams County, six people are running for one of five seats on the non-partisan Adams County Extension Council. The candidates include: Chris Gilbert; Laura Bowman; Sue Privett; Rex Townsend; Kyle Shipley, and Clifford Mann. Gilbert, Mann and Townsend are running for re-election to the Extension Council.

There are no contested seats in Audubon County, but in Pottawattamie County, four people are running for three seats on the Board of Supervisors. They include Republicans Jeff Jorgensen, Susan Miller, and Scott Belt, along with Democrat Jeff Shudak. Scott Belt is running as an incumbent.

There are no contested races in Montgomery and Shelby Counties. In Guthrie County, Republican Maggie Armstrong and Democrat Tom Flanary, are competing for the District 3 seat on the Board of Supervisors. Democrat Michael Herbert and Republican Steve Smith are vying for the District 4 seat. And, Democrat John Maschman is hoping for a win over his challenger, Republican Dana Minteer, and claim the job of Guthrie County Attorney.

There will also be a question about an IOWA Constitutional Amendment with regard to the right to keep and bear arms:

(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department report there were three arrests Saturday. At around 2:40-a.m., Saturday, 32-year-old Shey Peterson, of Wisconsin, was arrested at the Creston/Union County Law Enforcement Center. He was charged with OWI/1st offense and later released on bond.

And, at around 1:35-p.m. Saturday, 51-year-old Jennifer Lynne Vankerckvoorde and 54-year-old Steven Frank Vankerckvoorde, both from Norwalk, were arrested in the Creston Fareway Store parking lot. The woman was charged with Possession of drug paraphernalia. She was cited, and then released. Steven Vankerckvoorde was charged with Poss. of a Controlled Substance/marijuana-1st offense. He was later released on bond.

(Radio Iowa) – Five Iowa State University students who served our country in uniform will be honored this (Monday) afternoon with a ceremony in the Gold Star Hall of the Memorial Union. Rita Case, with I-S-U’s military-affiliated Student Center, says more than 600 names of former I-S-U students are carved in the hall’s wall and several veterans are singled out every year.
We read the names and we have history,” Case says. “We research all year on who we pick that year and tell their stories and if their families are nearby, or we can get a hold of a family member, we try to invite those families to come.” The annual ceremony that spotlights the stories of individual veterans began in 2003.  “This is a really meaningful ceremony,” Case says, “and then it makes these names that are on the walls that we walk by come alive.”

The Gold Star Hall’s origins date way back to 1928, when the names of Iowa State students who died in World War One were carved into the walls of the newly opened Memorial Union. Five veterans are being featured this year. This year’s honorees are: Howard Medin of Algona and James R. Davis of Ames, both of whom served in World War Two; Ramon Roderick Davis and Donald Scott Wilkins, both of Ames, both who served in Korea; and Vietnam veteran Ronald Edgar Riede of St. Louis, Missouri. Honoring five veterans is a little unusual for the service.  “We usually only honor about three but we found a new name for the wall when we were researching one of the Davis’s we discovered they had a brother who was lost in the Korean War that was also an Iowa State student that we did not previously have listed on our wall.”

The veterans honored in the hall served in conflicts including: World War One, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, USS Liberty, Iraq and Afghanistan. The ceremony is scheduled for 3:15 P-M. The names and stories of each veteran listed on the wall are available in an online database on the Memorial Union’s Gold Star Hall website: mu.iastate.edu