Adams County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched at around 7:50-p.m. Sunday, to a reported dispute at a residence in the 400 block of Loomis Avenue. Upon further investigation, deputies arrested Michael Simpson, of Corning, for Domestic Abuse Assault. Simpson was transported to the Adams County Jail.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

DOUGLAS, Neb. (AP) — An Iowa man has been arrested in California on suspicion of fatally shooting the parents of his former live-in girlfriend at their home in southeast Nebraska. The Nebraska State Patrol says 36-year-old Brindar Jangir was arrested Saturday near San Diego as he tried to re-enter the United States from Mexico.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska resident accused of stabbing to death a woman in northwest Iowa has had her trial set for the fall. The trial of Melissa Camargo-Flores, of Dakota City, Nebraska, had been scheduled to begin Feb. 19, but a judge last month granted her attorneys’ request for a delay. The Sioux City Journal reports that on Friday, the judge set the new trial date for Oct. 22. Camargo-Flores has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the April. 8 killing of 24-year-old Kenia Alvarez-Flores.

PEOSTA, Iowa (AP) — State environment officials say a fish kill in northeastern Iowa was caused by farm manure runoff. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says in a news release that it is investigating the Dubuque County fish kill near Peosta. Investigators say more than 200 fish were killed by the runoff, which they traced to Lawler Dairy farm in Peosta. The agency says the farm applied liquid manure to a nearby field, and melting snow and rain caused it to run off into an unnamed creek.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials in the Omaha area are reevaluating the city’s flood-control measures, shortly after heavy rains caused dozens of counties and cities in the state to declare a state of emergency. An official with the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District tells the Omaha World-Herald that a flash flood event caused by heavy rain in the Papillion Creek Basin is Omaha’s biggest flooding vulnerability. The NRD will finish updating its watershed management plan this spring.

DOUGLAS, Neb. (AP) — An Iowa man has been arrested in California on suspicion of fatally shooting the parents of his former live-in girlfriend at their home in southeast Nebraska. The Nebraska State Patrol says 36-year-old Brindar Jangir was arrested Saturday near San Diego as he tried to re-enter the United States from Mexico.

Jangir is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the March 23 homicides in Douglas, Nebraska.

Authorities say Jangir used a stolen shotgun to kill Randal and Annette Grimes.
The affidavit says Randal and Annette Grimes were the parents of a woman Jangir was living with in Sioux City, Iowa, until she moved out March 12. The affidavit says she told officers Jangir threatened to kill her and her parents if she ever left him.

The Adair County Board of Supervisors, Monday, will act on appointing a new County Auditor. Their meeting takes place 9-a.m. in the Adair County Secondary Roads’ Office Building.

Current Auditor Mindy Schaefer resigned last month after 11-years on the job. Her last meeting was March 27th, and her last day on the job was Friday, March 29th. Schaefer moves into her new position Monday, as the Union County Assessor. The Adair County Supervisors published a notice of their intentions to appoint a person to succeed Schaefer rather than hold a special election. It’s expected they will move to appoint her Deputy Auditor Mandy Berg to the higher post. Berg has served the County for eight-years.

After making Berg’s appointment, the Board will act on the appointment of a Deputy Auditor and Information Technology/Elections Deputy.  Adair County residents have 14-days following the appointment to submit a petition calling for a special election. If there are no petitions, Berg will continue as Auditor until the term expires in 2020.

In other business, the Adair County Board of Supervisors will hold a Public Hearing with regard to a road classification for Quebec Ave to a Level C road, and County Engineer Nick Kauffman will present a resolution for the Board to sign, with regard to reducing the level of maintenance to area service “C” Road (E-10, Grove Township), as well as his regular report on Maintenance and Activities. The Board will also receive a Manure Management Plan (MMP) Update.

Deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, early Saturday morning, arrested 38-year old Neil Donavon Lundgren, of Essex. Lundgren was taken into custody at around 2:05-a.m. in the area of 270th and D Avenue, for OWI/1st Offense. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

Deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office assisted Red Oak Police in the arrest of a man early this (Sunday) morning, for Public Intoxication. 31-year old Michael Jeffrey Fronce, of the Omaha/Council Bluffs area, was taken into custody at around 1:54-a.m. and brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where his bond was set at $300. At around 1:10-a.m. today (Sunday), Red Oak Police arrested 33-year old David James Harman, of Red Oak, for Public Intoxication. He was taken into custody with the help of sheriff’s deputies, following a reported intoxicated patron outside the Red Coach Inn. Harman was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.

Two men were arrested on drug charges at around 6:45-p.m. Saturday, in Red Oak. Authorities say a traffic stop on Highway 34 at Ironwood Avenue, resulted in the arrest of 39-year old Jacob Theile, of Omaha, for Possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of prescription pills w/out prescription, and possession of a controlled substance. Officers also arrested 26-year old Trey Owens, of Lincoln, Nebraska, for Possession of paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance. Both men were being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond each.

STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential contenders Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar expressed support Saturday for strengthening antitrust laws and enforcement to break up big agriculture monopolies. “You’ve got these giant corporations that are making bigger and bigger profits … and they’re putting the squeeze on family farms and small farms,” Warren said at the Heartland Forum, which was focused on rural issues.

The U.S. senator from Massachusetts called for breaking up some of the biggest farming corporations “so that they not only do not have that kind of economic power, so that they’re wiping out competition, so they’re taking all the profits for themselves … but also so that they don’t have that kind of political power.”

While supporting an antitrust approach, Klobuchar, a senator and Minnesota Democrat, also proposed putting a fee on corporate mergers to help investigate noncompetitive practices. “If we stifle competition through monopolies, we’re not just going to bring up the prices for consumers, we’re going to stifle entrepreneurship,” she said.

Targeting monopolies was a key part of the agriculture policy Warren rolled out this week, which included a handful of proposals aimed at helping family farmers compete in a market increasingly saturated by major corporations. Klobuchar and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney, another White House hopeful who attended the forum, also rolled out rural-focused policies this week.

Klobuchar announced a $1 trillion infrastructure plan that would help expand access to rural broadband and strengthen roads and bridges. Delaney offered a comprehensive rural plan that included proposals to strengthen family farmers and rural infrastructure. Other White House contenders at the forum were former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, who is considering launching a bid.

The attention on agricultural communities and issues is the result of a recognition that Democrats need to do more to win over rural voters, especially in places like Iowa. The state has long been a presidential battleground, but Iowa has trended more solidly Republican over the past two election cycles, a troubling sign for Democrats seeking to oust President Donald Trump.

STORM LAKE, Iowa (AP) — Some Democratic presidential candidates expressed support Saturday for the Nevada political candidate who alleged former Vice President Joe Biden kissed her on the back of her head in 2014. But they didn’t say it disqualifies Biden from joining the race.

Speaking to reporters in Iowa, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro said they believed Lucy Flores. She wrote in New York magazine that she felt uncomfortable with her interactions with Biden.
Warren and Castro said it’s up to Biden to decide whether he should join the race.
Biden spokesman Bill Russo said in a statement that Biden doesn’t remember kissing Flores.

The rally’s organizer, Henry R. Munoz III, said in a statement Saturday that he spoke to several key people and staff who attended the rally and that they “do not believe that circumstances support allegations that such an event took place.”

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In the wake of disastrous flooding in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa earlier this month, officials have created an on-demand webinar to help people deal with the serious health dangers that remain after major flooding.

The Central States Center of Agricultural Safety and Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health collaborated with the AgriSafe Network to create the webinar.

Major safety concerns include chemicals released from barns, homes and other on-farm sources and businesses; contaminated well water; human and animal communicable diseases; and mold.

More farm and ranch flood-related resources are available on the Central States Center website.

ACKLEY, Iowa (AP) — A central Iowa man accused of abusing and locking his 8-year-old son in a space under the basement stairs will go to trial in September. Television station KCCI reports that Alex Shadlow’s kidnapping trial has been moved to the Dickinson County Courthouse due to pre-trial publicity.

Authorities say the boy was locked up for at least 9 hours a day last summer in a space under the basement stairs at the couple’s Ackley home. Authorities say the couple withheld food from him and made him endure dog bites. He slept on concrete and had no access to a bathroom.

Shadlow’s fiance, 40-year-old Traci Tyler, was tried on similar charges last month. She is still waiting for a verdict.