GLENWOOD, Iowa (AP) — Organizers have kicked off fundraising for a $1.8 million trail system in southwest Iowa. The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reports that the trial would stretch 2 1/2 miles, starting at a trailhead next to Glenwood Community High School. The location will include parking for 100 vehicles and a pavilion with a restroom and clothes-changing facility.

The trail would run along Keg Creek, then east to the city athletic complex. Officials expect to install three new bridges over Keg Creek, along with three culvert crossings over creek tributaries as part of the trail system.

Officials hope to connect Glenwood’s trail to the Wabash Trace and eventually to the Keystone Trail system across the Missouri River in Bellevue, Nebraska.

A traffic stop at around 10:40-p.m. Saturday, in Adams County, resulted in the arrest of a man for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Sheriff’s officials say 18-year old Jackson Soll, of Corning, was arrested after deputies detected the odor of marijuana coming from his vehicle. After conducting a probable cause search, numerous smoking devices were found in the vehicle. Soll was taken into custody and transported to the Adams County Jail, where his bond was set at $300.

A pedestrian was killed when being struck by a vehicle while the victim was walking along Highway 20 in eastern Iowa, late Saturday night. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a 2012 Chrysler driven by 24-year old Angela A. Young, of Cuba City, WI., was traveling east on Highway 20 in Dubuque County, when her vehicle struck the pedestrian on the road, just before the Peosta exit (Exit 308). The accident happened at around 11:40-p.m.

The victim died at the scene. Their name was being withheld pending notification of family. The State Patrol was assisted at the scene by Dubuque County Sheriff’s Deputies, Peosta Police and Centralia Police and Fire Departments.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 1:20-a.m. CST

URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — Republicans are finding themselves squeezed between a polarizing president and the hundreds of angry voters shouting them down at raucous town halls. The national pushback is leaving some Republicans wary, complicating President Donald Trump’s ability to get his agenda through Congress.

UNDATED (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that age alone is enough to show a person needs protection from elder abuse under a state law enacted in 2014. The ruling Friday comes in the case of 69-year-old Judith Chapman, who successfully obtained an elder abuse protection order against her adult son, John Wilkinson Jr., in late 2014. Chapman sought the order after she said her son tried to force her out of her mobile home.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A Waterloo man has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in the July shooting death of another man. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that 25-year-old Jacques Dominique Williamson pleaded guilty Friday to a single count of intimidation with a dangerous weapon. Williamson had been charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder for his role the July 17 drive-by shooting that killed 21-year-old Otavious Brown and injured Dewon Campbell Jr. and Aundrey Roberts Jr.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Polk County judge has ordered law enforcement not to disclose confidential information in the case of a man accused of killing two Iowa police officers after the man’s attorney asked for a gag order. Lawyers for Scott Greene complained about a Polk County Jail employee’s comment Feb. 17 on a newspaper Facebook post. Greene has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges in the Nov. 2 slayings of Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin and Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ten Iowa Department for the Blind employees have been laid off to provide more money to a program that would focus on job training for teenagers. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that the layoffs occurred Thursday. Eight of those who lost their jobs worked in the library, helping the blind access books.

Department director Emily Wharton says new federal requirements mean the department must spend more of its budget on job training. Wharton says the agency is required to spend 15 percent of the money it gets on services for teenagers and young adults to help them become employed and successful. Books, she said, can be accessed through audio and digital Braille.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Polk County judge has ordered law enforcement not to disclose confidential information in the case of a man accused of killing two Iowa police officers after the man’s attorney asked for a gag order. Lawyers for Scott Greene complained about a Polk County Jail employee’s comment Feb. 17 on a newspaper Facebook post regarding Greene’s request for a change of venue. Details about the comment were sealed by the court.

Greene has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges in the Nov. 2 ambush-style slayings of Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin and Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio. The shootings took place about two miles apart within minutes of each other as both officers sat in their patrol cars. Authorities have said that Greene turned himself in hours later.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that age alone is enough to show a person needs protection from elder abuse under a state law enacted in 2014. The ruling Friday comes in the case of 69-year-old Judith Chapman, who successfully obtained an elder abuse protection order against her adult son, John Wilkinson Jr., in late 2014.

Chapman transferred title of her mobile home to Wilkinson, telling him that when she died, the trailer would be his. Wilkinson later demanded $35,000 to transfer title back to his mother. When she refused, he posted eviction notices on her door.

On Friday, Justice David Wiggins wrote that the law defines vulnerable adults as those 60 or older who are unable to protect themselves because of “age or a mental or physical condition.”

Police in Clarinda late Friday night arrested a man wanted on a felony warrant for Stalking. At around 11:55-p.m., 43-year old Shane Michael Alan LeRoy Lorenz, of Des Moines, was arrested after officers conducted a traffic stop at 16th & Lincoln Streets in Clarinda, and discovered Lorenz was wanted on arrest warrants from Polk County.

Lorenz was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Page County Jail and held on a $10,000 cash only bond, pending return to Polk County.

Iowa’s Attorney General announced seven lawsuits this past week against contractors who hit underground gas pipelines. State law requires contractors to phone Iowa One Call 48 hours before digging to have the lines marked. Iowa One Call communications manager, Ben Booth, says there’s no excuse for contractors who fail to make the call.

He says the call has been mandated since 1992 and became a law in 1993. “If you are a professional working in the industry, there’s no excuse not to know,” Booth says.
The law covers anyone in Iowa, and Booth says they try to keep everyone informed. “We do constantly have outreach…to target homeowners and new homeowners who may not know what the requirements of the law are,” Booth says. “For cases involving professional contractors, you do have to wonder if it is a matter of trying expedite your process and trying to avoid having to wait the required 48 hours — not planning effectively.”

Booth says not planning ahead is not an excuse to break the law. And he says saving a little time by digging without calling can end up costing contractors. “In the long run, you are really potentially opening up a much bigger can of worms by not waiting, by not planning appropriately,” Booth says.

The Attorney General says the seven lawsuits covered five counties. Four of the lawsuits have been resolved or have agreements pending Anyone planning to dig can notify the Iowa Once Call Notification Center or go online at www.iowaonecall.com, or by phone at 811 (or toll-free at 800-292-8989). The center is open 24-hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

(Radio Iowa)

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