Police in Glenwood report a man was arrested Tuesday, on an OWI charge. 49-year old Brian Courtier, of Glenwood, was arrested for OWI 1^st Offense and Eluding. His bond was set at $2000 cash (or surety).

Police in Harlan say one person was transported to Myrtue Memorial Hospital following an accident Monday at 8th and Chatburn Streets. Officials say Bruce Heilesen, of Harlan, complained of head and neck pain, after his 1998 Honda collided with a 2000 Dodge. Heilesen was transported to the hospital by private vehicle.

Officials say the accident happened as Heilesen was traveling west on Chatburn Avenue, in the outside lane.  The Dodge, driven by Dorothy Lefeber, of Harlan, was traveling east on Chatburn and had stopped to turn north. Her view of Heilesen’s Honda was obstructed by a westbound truck traveling in the inside lane Chatburn. Heilsen’s vehicle made contact with the right front tire area of the Dodge during the collision.

Damage from the mishap amounted to $4,000.  No citations were issued.

Police in Harlan, Saturday, arrested a man on drug charges, following a traffic stop. 43-year old Steven McDonald was taken to the Shelby County jail where he was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia, prohibited acts penalties, and driving while barred.

Last Friday, Harlan Police arrested 58-year old Ronald Daeges, after officers investigated a report of a person urinating on a tree.  When officers arrived they found Daeges unconscious on the ground.  Daeges was taken to Myrtue Medical Center.  Once he was cleared by the hospital staff, Daeges was taken to the Shelby County jail where he was charged with intoxication in public.

And, there were two arrests last Thursday (April 14th), in Harlan. 49-year old Timothy Turner, of Harlan, was taken into custody when officers responded to a report of man who had wrecked his bicycle and was having difficulty getting up.  Turner was taken to the Shelby County jail where he was charged with intoxication in public. And, 52-year old Karla Frohwein-Leinen, of Harlan, was arrested after officers were called to a disturbance at the Lincoln Pines apartments.  Frohwein-Leinen was taken to the Shelby County Jail where she was charged with trespassing.

Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports his officers Tuesday evening served three arrests warrants that were issued following a drug investigation conducted jointly by the Iowa Division  of Narcotics Enforcement, the Page County Sheriff’s Department and the Clarinda Police Department. The investigation involved the alleged felony distribution of marijuana.

Taken into custody was 19-year old Dylann James Everett, 21-year old Skyler William Shane,  and 22-year old Brandon James Sweet, all of Clarinda. All three individuals were booked into the Page County Jail and later released from custody after posting bond in the amount of $5,000 each, pending further action in Page County District Court.

All information has been forwarded to the office of Page County Attorney Carl M. Sonksen for the consideration of formal charges.

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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – The last of three defendants has been sentenced in the death of a Council Bluffs man. On Tuesday 23-year-old Christopher King, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was given five years in prison. He’d pleaded guilty to theft after prosecutors lowered the charge.

Iowa authorities say King, Caine Petersen and Sarael Duncan robbed 20-year-old Jacob Combs of marijuana on Aug. 15 last year in Council Bluffs. Authorities say Combs jumped onto Petersen’s vehicle as the three men fled but then fell or was thrown, suffering head injuries. Combs died in a hospital later that day.

Petersen, of Council Bluffs, and Duncan, of Omaha, Nebraska, were given 10 years in prison after making their plea deals.

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Sheriff’s officials in Adams County say a Union County man was arrested early Tuesday morning on drug & other charges, following a traffic stop near the intersection of Highway 34 and Sycamore Avenue.

Chevy Van Sauer

26-year old Chevy Van Sauer, of Creston, was placed under arrest at around 2:25-a.m., for Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver (Methamphetamine), Driving While License Revoked, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Sauer was being held in the Adams County Jail on $25,000 bond.

One-quarter of Iowa’s school teachers will be instructional coaches or mentors to other teachers in their district during the next school year. All 333 Iowa school districts will be splitting 150-million dollars in additional state funding for this teacher leadership initiative. Mike Sherwood, superintendent of the Webster City and Northeast Hamilton School Districts, says putting the focus on instruction is important.

“It is at the classroom level and directly supports the work teachers do at the classroom,” Sherwood says. “It provides another layer of support as teachers move from isolated teaching environments to collaborative environments.” Governor Branstad invited Sherwood to speak about the program Tuesday morning, during Branstad’s weekly news conference. Sherwood is using the extra state funding to pay teachers on staff extra to be mentor teachers, plus he’s hiring an expert in the latest digital technology.

“It will be somebody that will work directly with classroom teachers on integrating that directly into their lessons,” Sherwood says. Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds says Iowa will have “the most extensive teacher leadership system” in the country next fall when all 333 districts are participating in the program. “With higher expectations for all students today, Iowa is better at supporting the work that teachers must do,” Reynolds says. Governor Terry Branstad says rewarding teachers who take on more responsibility will hopefully keep some teachers from leaving the profession. And Branstad says measuring student achievement is part of the process.

“We want to make sure that we’re preparing Iowa students and the future Iowa workforce for quality careers and jobs in the future,” Branstad says. Branstad convened the “Future Ready Summit” yesterday (Tuesday), in Des Moines. More than 750 teachers and administrators as well as business and labor leaders attended, to discuss ways to equip students with the right skills.

(Radio Iowa)

The Iowa Natural Resources Commission has given preliminary approval for the 2016-2017 deer hunting seasons. D-N-R spokesman, Kevin Baskins, says the proposed season will look much like this year’s. “We really are not seeing any changes, we’re looking at a status quo type season compared to last year. And I think that reflects that we have a herd population that is stabilizing over a great part of the state,” Baskins says.

While he says the population is stabilizing, it’s not uniform across the state. “We still have parts of the state that have an abundance of deer, and the antlerless quotas we have that we have reflect that,” Baskins says. “We still see an area of northwest Iowa where we’ve probably gone a little too far in terms of reducing deer. Up there we still have some buck only restrictions for some of those counties during the early muzzle loader season and the first shotgun season.” Baskins says the D-N-R has a variety of different ways to keep track of the deer population.

“We do it through surveying our hunters, through looking at road kills, and also right now we are still kind of wrapping up some of our spotlight surveys where we go out at night and run some routes to determine what we are seeing out on the countryside,” Baskins says. He says they also talk with landowners about any damage that may be done to crops by deer. Baskins says they have a deer task force that helps set up the hunting

“That includes people who are deer hunters, obviously the agricultural production groups, and also insurance companies,” Baskins says. “And one of the goals that was established by that task force was to get kind of to where we were in the 1990s when everything seemed to be in balance in terms of not having too many complaints from any of those three groups.”

There is a hearing on the proposed seasons on June 1st. You can send written comments to the Department of Natural Resources, Dale Garner, Wildlife Bureau Chief, Wallace State Office Building, 502 E. 9th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0034; by e-mail at Dale.Garner@dnr.iowa.gov or by Fax at 515-725-8201. You can see the full proposal on the Iowa D-N-R’s website at: www.iowadnr.gov/hunting.

Here are the proposed dates for the deer hunting seasons.
DEER SEASONS
Regular Gun 1 Dec. 3-7
Regular Gun 2 Dec. 10-18
Bow Oct. 1-Dec. 2 and Dec. 19-Jan. 10, 2017
Early Muzzleloader Oct. 15-23
Muzzleloader Dec. 19-Jan. 10, 2017
Youth Sept. 17-Oct. 2
Disabled Hunter Sept. 17-Oct. 2
Holiday Antlerless-Only Dec. 24-Jan. 2

(Radio Iowa)