The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office reports 38-year old Clinton Johnson, of Athelstan, was arrested Wednesday, in Athelstan, on a Department of Corrections warrant for Parole Violation. Johnson is being held at the Taylor County Jail without bond.

The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Wednesday morning, reviewed a recommendation from the County Compensation Board, who suggested a five-percent pay raise for Elected Officials. The Supervisors did not take any action on the recommendation during their meeting, but when it comes time to making a decision during the budgeting process, they may choose to accept the Compensation Board’s recommendation, or reduce the percentage, but they cannot go above the recommended amount. Regardless of which way they choose to act, the percentage must be the same for each of the elected officials.

Supervisor Mark O’Brien pointed out that in the last 10-years, the Board of Supervisors has approved a combined 23.5-percent in pay raises. During the same time, the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Federal Employees has been around 13-percent. He said Cass County has given more raises than the national government. A trend toward population decline, he said, means less people will assume the tax burden for the pay increases.

The Supervisors agreed to inform elected officials that they may base their budgets on a 2.8-percent increase, at least for now, but again no official action will be taken until they begin work on the FY2020 budget.

The Creston Police Department reports one arrest occurred Wednesday afternoon. 24-year old Jordanne Beardsley, of Creston, was arrested on the 100 block of E. Adams Street, on a charge of Driving While Suspended. Beardsley wass being held in the Adams County Jail on a $300 bond.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A western Iowa woman accused of having sex with a teenage boy staying at the Child Saving Institute shelter in Omaha, has been sent to prison. Douglas County, Nebraska, District Court records say 24-year-old Hanna Dickerson, of Neola, was sentenced Tuesday to two years. She’d pleaded guilty to attempted sexual abuse of a protected person. Prosecutors lowered the charge in exchange for her plea.

The 17-year-old boy was a ward of the state who told investigators that he and Dickerson engaged in sex several times in July and August 2017. Her job at the institute was to supervise wards of the state, sometimes overnight. The institute specializes in adoptions, emergency foster care and family therapy.

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a woman whose body was found alongside a highway near Muscatine in eastern Iowa. The Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office identified the woman as 20-year-old Lea Renae Ponce, who lived in Fairfield. The sheriff’s office received a call around 1 a.m. Tuesday that reported a woman lying on a side of Iowa Highway 38. Arriving deputies found the body.
Officials are awaiting autopsy results.

Red Oak Police arrested a man on a Public Intoxication charge late Wednesday night. 31-year old John W. Jett, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 10:35-p.m. in the 1200 block of Senate Avenue. He was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $300 cash bond.