A single-vehicle accident claimed the life of a woman in Crawford County, Friday. The Iowa State Patrol reports 27-year old Christina Foote, of Dunlap, was driving a 2005 Chevy Malibu, when the vehicle left the roadway in a curve, and rolled into the ditch. Foote, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene.

The accident happened at around 2:40-p.m. near 210th Street and U Avenue, east of Dow City. The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office, Dunlap Police and Dow City Fire and Rescue.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal agency has denied disaster assistance for residents and business owners of Marshall and Polk counties who endured tornadoes in July.

Gov. Kim Reynolds’ office announced Friday the Federal Emergency Management Agency had denied the governor’s request for assistance through the Individual Assistance Program for losses from the July 19 tornadoes. In denying the governor’s request, FEMA stated that the impact from the tornadoes wasn’t severe enough to warrant the help.

The program helps survivors with housing, property replacement, medical expenses and legal services. Reynolds has 30 days to file an appeal. In August, FEMA also denied Reynolds’ request for assistance through the same program following severe storms from June 6 to July 2. The governor has submitted an appeal of that decision.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A property tax official in Arizona says Iowa Democratic candidate for governor Fred Hubbell was fined $600 for improperly claiming a home he owns there was a primary residence. Hubbell owns a home in Des Moines that he listed as a primary residence. The designations reduced his property taxes in both states.

Hubbell owns a $2 million home in Scottsdale, Arizona, built in 2007 and it carried the primary residence designation qualifying it for a $600 a year tax credit. Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen says a new Arizona law in 2012 cracked down on absentee owners, denying the exemption for homes not permanently occupied. He says more than 100,000 parcels have had the exemption removed.

Hubbell failed to respond to several notices, allowing the assessor to impose a $600 fine and remove the credit in 2014. A $1 million Des Moines home Hubbell owned from 2007 to 2016 also received a homestead exemption of up to $231 a year.
A spokesman for Gov. Kim Reynolds’ campaign criticized Hubbell for talking about wasteful tax giveaways but “when no one is looking he lines his pockets with our tax dollars every chance he gets.”

Hubbell campaign spokeswoman Remi Yamamoto says Maricopa County misclassified many homes and Hubbell’s was one of them, and he’s glad they reclassified it in 2014. She says he’s never asked for nor wanted a $600 rebate.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man has been imprisoned for holding several people at gunpoint and beating some of them inside a western Iowa apartment. The Daily Nonpareil reports that Derrick West-Jones, of Omaha, Nebraska, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Thursday to 20 years. He’d been charged with kidnapping, assault and other crimes before charges were amended.

Police say he pulled a gun June 18 after a disturbance in the Council Bluffs apartment and wouldn’t let anyone leave. Police say he also pistol-whipped and beat some of the captives with a wrench, holding them about two hours. Two people were taken to a hospital.

A Council Bluffs woman charged in the case has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and other crimes. Jawanna Moten is scheduled to go on trial Oct. 9.

A man from Illinois died as the result of a crash this (Friday) on Highway 6 and Sunnydale Road in Pottawattamie County, a few miles east of the Interstate 80 interchange. The Pott. County Sheriff’s Office says 65-year old Peter O’Mahony, of LaGrange Park, IL, died at the scene of the crash that happened at around 8:37-a.m. Authorities say O’Mahony was eastbound in a 2005 Honda Civic, when he turned onto Sunndale Road in an apparent attempt to make a U-turn. In doing so, his car was struck on the driver’s side, by an eastbound 2014 Ford Econoline van. The driver of the van was identified as 64-year old Paula Moody, of Omaha.

Following the collision, both vehicles ended-up in the ditch. The accident remains under investigation.

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(Radio Iowa) — The Iowa Board of Regents will ask the governor and lawmakers for an additional 20 million dollars state funding during the next legislative session and also plan to make annual increases in tuition at the three state schools. Board president Michael Richards told the board at their meeting Thursday they have to start taking an overall view of the four areas that are used to fund the three state universities

“State appropriations, savings and reallocation, tuition and research and funding from both public and private sources. One thing that has become clear — I believe strongly that we cannot continue to look at these segments of funding individually,” Richards says. He says they have to find a way to use all the sources to provide the funding to maintain the quality of the three state universities. “Finding the right mix is the challenge,” Richards says, “but in the end, we need to arrive at a total resources number.”

Richards says the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa are doing their part in making the best use of their resources. “Our universities have saved or reallocated more than 125 million dollars in the last decade,” Richards says. “The board’s and our university presidents take this seriously. And our enterprise has made great strides in this area. This is a priority and we must and will do more with savings and reallocations in the future.”

Richards says they will also have to ask students to pay more. “At our November meeting we intend to discuss a multi-year tuition model with a baseline percentage increase for resident undergraduates for the next several years — starting with the 2019-2020 academic year,” Richards says.

Richards says the amount of money they are asking for from the state is a fair amount.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is scheduled to visit Iowa next week to campaign for Democrats as he weighs a campaign for the 2020 presidential nomination. Iowa holds the leadoff caucus in the presidential race. According to a press release from the Iowa Democratic Party, McAuliffe is the guest at the first in a series of voter outreach events aimed at encouraging turnout for the Nov. 6 election.

McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chairman, has been in touch with some influential Democratic operatives in Iowa and nationally who say he is seriously considering a 2020 campaign.
The announcement follows last week’s announcement that New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, also weighing a 2020 campaign, is scheduled to headline the Iowa Democratic Party’s marquee fall fundraiser on Oct. 6.