Authorities in Adair and Guthrie Counties are searching for a man who allegedly violated the terms of a No Contact order in Casey, Monday night. 25-year old Marcus Anthony Terrell, from Albia, fled authorities when they encountered Terrell at the residence in Casey a little after 10-p.m., Monday.

Sheriff’s officials say Terrell told an Adair County Deputy he “wasn’t going back to jail,” and fled out of the home before jumping into a pickup truck and leading the Deputy on a high-speed chase. Terrell managed to evade law enforcement and is believed to have left the area.

Warrants are being requested for Marcus Terrell in both Adair and Guthrie Counties, on charges of Violating a No Contact Order, Interference with Official Acts, Eluding, and Driving While Barred.

The Cass County Conservation Board say it will hold a “Geocache the T-Bone Trail” Ride. Persons wanting to participate in the FREE program will meet at the Interstate 80/T-Bone Trail Trailhead Shelter, North of Atlantic, on June 3rd, at 10-a.m.

GPS units and guides will be available for checkout, but you’re asked to pre-register in order to guarantee a GPS unit for the event. Bicyclists, walkers, strollers, everyone is welcome to come out and celebrate National Trails Day!

The Cass County Conservation Board will be geocaching from the trail. The event will be cancelled if there is inclement weather.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The wife of a southwestern Iowa legislator who died after battling cancer says she’ll run for his House district seat. The Daily Nonpareil reports  Carol Forristall announced her candidacy today (Tuesday). Her husband, Greg, died last week. The Republican had represented District 22 in the House since 2007. The district covers much of Pottawattamie County.

Carol Forristall says that before her husband died, he asked her to run. She says that as a legislator, she’d focus on providing Iowans the best schools in the nation, protecting agriculture and providing tax relief for middle-class families. She’s a longtime music teacher.

A special election is scheduled for June 27. The winner would serve through 2018, the remainder of Greg Forristall’s term.

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say the fatal crash of a glider near Blair Airport occurred soon after the aircraft’s canopy opened unexpectedly as the glider was being towed aloft. Nebraska authorities have identified the pilot as 59-year-old Michael Boska, who lived in Glenwood, Iowa. The crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

Witnesses say that after the canopy opened, Boska lost control of his glider. It went airborne but soon plunged and crashed while still attached to the tow plane. Federal investigators have been called in.

The Cass County Health System’s (CCHS) next “Heathy U” series is set to take place at Noon on May 25th, in Conference Room 2 (just past the main Atrium entrance). CCHS CEO Brett Altman will be there to talk about all that’s happening with CCHS, including “Upcoming changes, new providers, new service offerings, and how this all fits into [their] vision to be the best rural hospital in the country for patients to receive care, employees to work, and physicians to practice.”

Altman joined CCHS in January 2017 after serving as President and CEO at Skiff Medical Center in Newton, Iowa.

Brett Altman, DPT, MBA, FACHE (photo submitted)

He began his career at Skiff as the Director of Physical Therapy in 1994, and over the past 22 years, he moved up through the organization serving as Director of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Interim CEO, Clinical Operations Officer and Chief Operating Officer before becoming CEO in 2014.

Healthy U is a free educational lunch series at Cass County Health System held monthly in Conference Room 2. The public is invited and welcome to attend, but reservations are required as lunch is provided for all attendees. Call 712-243-7479 to reserve your seat.

The southern part of Winneshiek county suffered heavy storm damage after a round of severe weather went through the area Monday night. Winneshiek county emergency management coordinator Sean Snyder says the most localized damage came in the southwestern portion of the county. Large hail did a lot of damage. “In Fort Atkinson the homes on the west side of people’s properties are completely shredded. Kind of looks like Swiss cheese in a way — it’s heavily damaged,” Snyder says.

Wind and hail damage was reported in Calmar and Ossian as well. Snyder says officials from the National Weather service office in La Crosse, Wisconsin will be on the scene today.He says they’ll do an assessment and match the damage with the models they produced to confirm how accurate their models were and can maybe explain the type of storm that hit.

The National Weather Service had issues a tornado warning for the area around 7 p-m.

(Radio Iowa)

In an update to our earlier reports, authorities say two young girls died, and two adults, a male and female, were injured, one of them critically, during a house fire in Guthrie Center early Monday morning. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says the Guthrie Center Fire Department was called to a fire at a house on main street at 12:27 a-m.

The person who suffered critical injuries was flown to a hospital in Omaha for treatment. The D-C-I says autopsies will be used to identify the two young people who died. No names have been officially released. The State Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – Iowa Rep. Todd Prichard is joining the race for governor.
Prichard, a 42-year-old Democrat who grew up in Davenport, says he’ll seek higher wages and help the middle class to expand. He says: “I know that we can do better.”
Prichard says he’ll also focus on improving educational opportunities in the state.

He won the seat for House District 52 in a special election in 2013. The district includes Floyd and Chickasaw counties. The Democratic field for governor has grown in recent weeks. It includes former party chairwoman Andy McGuire and state Sen. Nate Boulton. Polk County Conservation Director Rich Leopold and party activist Jon Neiderbach also say they’re running. Businessman Fred Hubbell says he’s considering a run as well.

SPENCER, Iowa (AP) – A former pastor in northwest Iowa had been given five years in prison for having sex with people he was counseling.

Former DaySpring Assembly of God pastor Kevin Grimes was sentenced Monday in Clay County District Court. He’d pleaded guilty to two felony and one misdemeanor count of sexual exploitation by a counselor. Prosecutors dropped three other counts in exchange for Grimes’ pleas. The 52-year-old also must register as a sex offender.

Grimes had worked as chief executive officer of the Spencer Dream Center, which provides social services to the community. Prosecutors allege Grimes engaged in sexual conduct with some clients while providing mental health services to them.

The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports two Pottawattamie County men have been sentenced to 10-years each in prison, followed by a five-year term of supervised release each, for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.

On January 4th, 31-year old Frank Moises Torres and 40-year old Brandon Wayne Moore, both of Council Bluffs, pled guilty to the distributing meth in the southern district of Iowa, beginning as early as August, 2016. A drug trafficking investigation led to the charges in Council Bluffs and southwest Iowa. The investigation was conducted by the Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Fore, Council Bluffs Police, and the Iowa DCI.

Torres and Moore were sentenced last Friday in Council Bluffs Federal Court. Their cases were prosecuted by the U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.

(9-a.m. News)