The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports 18-year old Reese Bryan Carver was arrested a little after 1-a.m. today (Wednesday). His arrest for OWI/1st offense, followed and investigation into a suspicious vehicle in the 11,000 block of Red Fox Ridge Road, in Council Bluffs.  Tuesday night, 54-year old William Dean McKnight, of Omaha, was arrested in the 700 block of W. Broadway, in Council Bluffs for Public Intoxication/3rd or subsequent offense.

Authorities say 47-year old Karl John Schmidt, of Council Bluffs, was arrested Tuesday, after he turned himself-in on a Violation of Parole warrant. Four people were transported from the Douglas County, Nebraska Jail to the Pott. County Jail, Tuesday:  32-year old Nina Marie Camarillo, was wanted on a Pott. County warrant for Child Endangerment/Abandonment; 33-year old Katherine L. Woitaszewski was wanted on a warrant for Conspiracy to manufacture/deliver fake meth, unlawful possession of a prescription drug, and Drug Tax Stamp violation; 31-year old Nathan Lee Taylor was  wanted on a warrant for Burglary in the 2nd degree resulting in injury, and Violation of a No Contact or Protective Order; and, 25-year old Diamonique Lovejoy was wanted in Pott. County, for Violation of Probation.

Pottawattamie County Chief Deputy Rob Ambrose reports a man from Cass County was injured during a motorcycle accident on Highway 92, Tuesday afternoon. 40-year old James Mueller, of Griswold, was traveling west on Highway 92 at around 3-p.m., when an eastbound car driven by 40-year old Christopher Olsen, of Atlantic, swerved to miss an animal on the road and entered the westbound lane. Mueller locked-up the brakes on his 2006 Harley Davidson, causing the cycle to slide out of control.

Mueller reportedly suffered from a shoulder, and other possible injuries during the accident, that happened about 5-miles west of Griswold near 500th Street. He was transported by ambulance to Treynor, and then by helicopter to an undisclosed hospital. A report on his condition was not available. No citations have been issued.

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Fire crews from Anita and Wiota were dispatched to the scene of a semi in the median between westbound mile markers 73-and 74 off I-80, this morning. The call went out at around 7:20-a.m. Authorities said the semi was leaking a small amount of fuel from its left fuel tank, and smoke was possible coming from a part of the truck. No injuries have been reported, and additional information was not immediately available. Expect traffic to be traveling slower than normal through the area.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A driver has been given probation and suspended prison time for the crash death of another driver in Des Moines. Polk County District Court records say 35-year-old Grant Uhe was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation and a suspended sentence of 10 years in prison. He’d pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide by reckless driving.

Police say Uhe was driving more than 75 mph (121 kph) in a 30 mph (48 kph) zone on April 19 last year before his pickup truck crashed into a car driven by 19-year-old Tyler Wilcox. Police say Wilcox died later at a hospital.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Democrat Theresa Greenfield raised more than $1.1 million from July through September in her campaign for the seat held by Republican Sen. Joni Ernst.
Greenfield, a Des Moines-area businesswoman, ended the quarter with more than $1.2 million cash on hand. The $1.1 million marks somewhat of a slowdown in fundraising pace from the first quarter, when she launched her campaign and subsequently raised more than $625,000 in less than a month, but it matches what Ernst raised during the second quarter of the year.

Greenfield’s campaign says 92% of her contributions this quarter were $100 or less, and noted she’s significantly outpacing what Ernst raised around this same time during her first run for Senate. Greenfield is one of four Democrats competing to take on Ernst, but she’s received the support of a number of national Democratic groups.

Ernst is seen as a top target for Democrats next fall, though the Republican senator enjoys a high approval rating in multiple polls.

A Creston man was arrested late Tuesday morning, for Driving While Revoked. Creston Police say 43-year old Kevin Cavin was arrested in the 200 block of N Elm, and later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

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WINTERSET, Iowa (AP) — A south-central Iowa county has imposed a moratorium on new wind turbine installations. Madison County supervisors voted 2-1 on Tuesday to adopt the moratorium, which will run through October 2020 unless superseded by a new ordinance. The moratorium also applies to new solar energy installations. It won’t affect a 52-turbine wind farm already under development in Madison County. The supervisors say that during the moratorium they’ll develop an ordinance to guide construction of renewable energy projects.

The county health board passed a resolution in August calling for wind turbines to sit at least 1.5 miles from homes. Such a setback would be five times greater than MidAmerican Energy has proposed for its most recent wind farm project. The county supervisors have taken no action on the health board recommendation.

(Radio Iowa) — Studies on cancer patients from Iowa and Nebraska who are undergoing chemotherapy find there are great benefits from low-intensity exercise. Creighton University Professor Eric Bredahl, in the department of exercise science, says even moderate physical activity can help slow tumor growth, while reducing damage to the heart that happens during chemotherapy. “The risk of dying from heart failure becomes greater with each round of chemotherapy,” Bredahl says. “By using exercise and trying to understand those adaptations, we can then employ that exercise prior to, during or even after chemotherapy to preserve or attenuate that decline in cardiac tissue.”

Researchers say even low impact exercise, such as walking and doing yoga, can make a noticeable difference.  “When people go through chemo, they often have a number of side effects that decrease their quality of life. They can’t eat, they feel lethargic, they feel fatigued, their muscles become weaker,” Bredahl says. “If we add resistance training in, we know they eat more, so they maintain a greater capacity to perform their activities of daily living, they feel better.”

An exercise regimen isn’t possible for all patients undergoing chemo, which is why Bredahl plans to take research a step further. “There’s still a number of cancer patients who, due to physical limitations, core morbidities, can’t exercise. What can we do to improve their quality of life?” Bredahl says. “We’re trying to look at different compounds that can be given concurrently with chemotherapy to try to minimize the damage to healthy tissue.”

The research finds exercise can decrease the chance of major issues during chemotherapy and will eventually lead to a greater health outcome, as the side effects of chemo become less apparent.