(Updated 10-a.m.) (Braddyville, Iowa) – The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports an Atlantic man and two other people were arrested early today (Monday), in connection with a burglary investigation in Page County. 31-year-old Keith James Land, previously of Clarinda, 29-year old Savannah Ashley Taylor, of Council Bluffs, and 27-year-old Aaron Robert Gerald Cole, of Atlantic, were arrested on two felony counts each of Theft in the 2nd Degree. Cole also has a hold from the Iowa Regional Correctional Facility, in Council Bluffs, for escape from work release. All three were being held in the Page County Jail on $10,000 bond, each, pending further court appearances. Cole was also being held without bond on the escape hold.

Aaron Robert Gerald Cole

Keith James Land

Savannah Ashley Taylor (Photo’s courtesy the Page County Sheriff’s Office)

Authorities say shortly after midnight, the Page County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a burglary in progress at 2648 320th Street, in rural Page County (Between Braddyville and Blanchard), about one-mile from the Iowa-Missouri State line. The vehicle left the area prior to Nodaway County, Missouri Sheriffs Deputies, and Page County Deputies’ arrival. Information on the vehicle’s whereabouts was determined by Fremont County Dispatch, and broadcast throughout the area. Shenandoah Police conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle in Shenandoah.

A 2017 Hull trailer owned by a man from Shenandoah was found to be stolen. The trailer was being towed by the stolen pickup. Authorities say an investigation into the crime is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to call the Page County Sheriff’s Office, at 712-542-5193.

The Creston Police Department reports officers arrested 23-year-old Stephanie Dawn Miller, at around 10-a.m., Sunday. Miller was taken into custody for Sexual Abuse in the 2nd Degree/1st offense. She was released from custody on a Promise to Appear in court.

The broadcast News at 7:07-a.m., from News Director Ric Hanson.

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The Creston Police Department says no injuries were reported following an accident Sunday afternoon, at the intersection of W. Adams and N. Elm Streets. Authorities say a 2021 Chevy Equinox driven by 42-year-old Shantrey Paulann Cochran, of Creston, was stopped westbound at a flashing red light on west Adams. A 2006 Saturn Ion driven by 42-year-old Crystal Marie Mack, of Creston, was stopped at the same red light, but heading south on N. Elm. Police say Mack failed to yield, and struck the SUV, which was already half-way into the intersection. The collision happened at around 12:51-p.m.

Damage to the vehicles amounted to $2,000. No citations were issued at the scene.

(Anamosa, Iowa) – The Iowa Department of Corrections, Saturday, said an inmate at the Anamosa State Penitentiary died Saturday morning. Authorities say 69-year-old Robert Wilcoxen was pronounced dead at 7:15-a.m.  He had been serving a life sentence out of Scott County, for Kidnapping in the 1st Degree. His sentence began April 7, 1995. No cause of death was given.

A motorcycle accident Saturday afternoon in eastern Iowa resulted in the death of the machine’s operator. The Iowa State Patrol reports the accident happened at around 12:30-p.m. in Clayton County, when a 2003 Harley Davidson motorcycle went out of control while rounding a curve in the area of Great River Road (Clayton County Road X-56) and Pleasant Avenue, near the Pleasant Ridge Recreational Area. The cycle entered the west ditch, and continued down the ditch.

An overhead tree branch struck the head and neck area of the motorcycle’s operator and sole occupant, 62-year-old Barry R. Woodson, of Marion (Iowa), causing fatal injuries. The State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, Guttenburg Police, and Holy Cross EMS.

(Radio Iowa) -Autumn arrives this week, but forecasters don’t expect much change in terms of the warmer, drier weather for the next month or so. Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, says October temperatures look to stay above-normal. “Those above-normal chances of above-normal temperatures are really holding pat,” Fuchs says, “especially from Colorado through Nebraska up into the Midwestern states where that probability is 50 to 60% probability of seeing above-normal temperatures during that time, which is pretty high.”

After months of drought, Fuchs says the predictions show little change in rainfall is likely in the month ahead.”For precipitation, we’re seeing above-normal chances of below-normal precipitation in portions of the Central Plains,” Fuchs says, “but as we go further east, we start seeing equal chances to above-normal chances of above-normal precipitation during the month of October.”

Fuchs says the trends for the 90-day outlook aren’t much different. “There’s above-normal chances of above-normal temperatures and for precipitation, we’re seeing some of the area above-normal chances for above-normal precipitation,” Fuchs says, “but a lot of equal chances and above-normal chances of below-normal precipitation.”

Fall arrives Wednesday.

(Radio Iowa) -Two Democrats have announced they intend to try to unseat Republican Secretary of State Paul Pate in 2022. Both were speakers this weekend at Polk County Democrats Steak Fry. Clinton County Auditor Eric Van Lancker  is in the middle of his fourth term as commissioner of elections in Clinton County. “We need a voting advocate running elections in this state,” Van Lancker says. Van Lancker accuses Republican lawmakers of implementing what he calls “ugly stuff” to try to undermine confidence in elections.

“In fact, our state is home to some of the most cynical and short-sighted political attempts to manipulate turn out than anywhere in America right now,” he says. According to Van Lancker, some mail-in ballots will go uncounted due to an election law change Republicans passed this year. “Ending counting absentee ballots at the end of an Election Night is absolutely irresponsible when we have bar code technology that tells us when a voter returns their ballot in good faith,” Van Lancker says.

Joel Miller has been Linn County Auditor for more than 14 years. “Let’s make voting easy again,” he said. Miller criticizes Republican lawmakers for cutting the early voting period in half since 2016 and for limiting every Iowa county to having just one drop box for absentee ballots. “Folks, let’s call that for what it is: voter suppression,” Miller said. “It’s a coordinated attack on Iowans and our current secretary of state seems very comfortable standing by while our right wing legislature chips away at our voting rights.”

Miller reminded the crowd that he was sued for defying Secretary of State Paul Pate’s order not to mail out absentee ballot request forms that included the voter’s registration number and home address. “I was sued for expanding voter participation and keeping voting safe during a deadly pandemic,” Miller said. “I am proud to face that lawsuit any day of the week.” Miller lost that lawsuit. During a speech in Coralville Saturday, Pate touted Iowa’s voter I-D law and criticized the Freedom to Vote bill Senate Democrats have drafted.

“Right now they’re trying to do end runs on the Constitution. They want to steal our elections from the states,” Pate said. “They want to nationalize elections.” Pate did not mention the two Iowa Democrats who’ve announced they hope to challenge him in 2022. Pate urged his fellow Republicans to remember to vote THIS November in city and school board elections. “The school boards…we have people there trying to tell us how to run our lives in a fashion that we don’t support,” Pate said. “so this vote is important.”

Paul was among the speakers at the 2022 campaign kick-off for Republican Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks reelection.

(Iowa City, Iowa) – A semi-tractor-tranker trailer accident in eastern Iowa Sunday afternoon, claimed the life of a man from Indiana. The Iowa State Patrol reports 65-year-old Robert Wayne Swiedals, of Clear Lake, IN., died at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, in Iowa City, after the 2020 Peterbilt he was driving ran off Intertstate 80 westbound, near mile marker 260. The accident happened at around 1:15-p.m. Officials say the semi is registered to RJ’s Transporation, LLC, out of Rosedale, LA.

The truck & tanker it was pulling entered the north ditch. Swiedals was ejected from the cab and flown from the scene to the hospital. The accident remains under investigation by the ISP. Johnson County HAZMAT, Cedar County Sheriff’s deputies, DOT MVE officers and AirCare assisted at the scene.

(Urbandale, Iowa) – A man on a bicycle died after he was struck by a vehicle at around 7:17-a.m., Sunday, in Urbandale. According to Urbandale Police, the accident happened in the 8500 block of Meredith Drive. A preliminary investigation identified the driver of the vehicle as 67-year-old Deborah Jackson, from West Des Moines. Police identified the bicyclist as 55-year-old Eric Christopher Lindberg, of Des Moines.

Authorities say Jackson was traveling  east on Meredith Drive when her vehicle struck the eastbound bicycle in the outside lane. Emergency personnel attempted life saving measures at the scene, but Lindberg died at the hospital. The accident remains under investigation.