(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – A Page County man escaped injury during a rollover accident last week, in Guthrie County. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office says 43-year-old Charles Leroy Dailey, of Clarinda, was driving a 2014 Peterbilt semi tractor pulling a grain hopper trailer, and making a left hand turn from White Pole Road unto Talon Avenue, when the vehicle and trailer rolled onto its passenger side. Authorities say Dailey was driving too fast to enter the intersection.

Accident, which happened at around 1-p.m. on Aug. 28th, caused an estimated $40,000 damage to the semi, registered to Schmitt Farms Trucking, in Clarinda.

(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – Five teens were injured when an SUV rolled-over Monday evening in Guthrie County. According to the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office, a 2003 Chevy Tahoe driven by a 16-year-old from Guthrie Center, was traveling South on Locust Avenue (a Level B road) at around 5:10-p.m., Monday, when the teen lost control and over-corrected, causing the SUV to strike a tree stump before it overturned and rolled into the east ditch. the teen – who was wearing his seat belt -was not injured.

(Guthrie Center) – A motorcycle accident last week in Guthrie County claimed the life of a man from Dallas County. According to the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office, 59-year-old Brady Brian Patrick, of Linden, was traveling east on 310th Street at around 7-p.m. on August 27th, when his 2005 Harley Davidson motorcycle left the road and entered the north ditch. Patrick was ejected from the machine and suffered severe hear trauma.

Stuart EMS transported Patrick from the scene to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, where he died the following day. A witness to the crash told authorities they were traveling west on 310th Street, and upon entering the first curve, noticed the motorcycle cross the center line of the road. The motorist crossed into the oncoming lane to avoid coming into contact with the cycle. When the motorcycle passed the witness’ pickup truck he saw the cycle begin to wobble and enter the ditch. They turned around and found Patrick in the ditch, before notifying 911.

(Iowa DNR News) – Iowa’s statewide pheasant population is at a 20-year high, and state wildlife experts are forecasting a banner year for hunters. “The mild winter really put us over the top this year,” said Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife research biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR). “Our adult hen survival was excellent; our adult rooster survival was excellent. That really drove the population increase.”

Bogenschutz coordinates the annual August roadside survey of small game populations, covering 225 30-mile routes. The 2025 survey counted more pheasants, quail, cottontail rabbits and partridge than last year. The survey results are available online by clicking the 100 Years of Pheasant Hunting graphic at www.iowadnr.gov/pheasantsurvey. “Chick survival wasn’t as good as last year, but we had so many more nests that it offset the drop in the number of chicks per hen,” he said. Statewide, staff reported 1,038 pheasant broods, which is 338 more than last year.

“We had an early hatch which is good because the nesting season got wet later and that may have impacted chick survival or re-nesting efforts,” Bogenschutz said. The statewide average of 28 birds per route is the highest since 2005. Regionally, the northwest region was the highest since 2005; northeast region was the highest since 1998; west central similar to last year; east central highest sense 2007; south central highest since 2017; and southeast, highest since 2020.

Bogenschutz said if hunter participation is similar to 2023, the pheasant harvest could be in the 600,000-700,000 range. “Last year was a decent year for pheasant hunting. 2023 was a good year for pheasant hunting. This year could be excellent,” he said.

The Iowa DNR and Pheasants Forever are celebrating 100 years of pheasant hunting in the Hawkeye State. The first season was held Oct. 20-22, 1925, when 13 counties in north central Iowa were opened to pheasant hunting. Hunters were allowed a three-rooster limit, for a half-day of hunting. An estimated 75,000 hunters participated.

Hunters can commemorate the 100^th anniversary by purchasing a hard card featuring Iowa Pheasants Forever Print of the Year. Pheasants Forever is offering commemorative apparel featuring both the 100 Years of Pheasant Hunting graphic and PF logo through an online, pop-up store. The store will be accepting apparel orders as the pheasant season approaches.

Pheasant season

Oct. 25 – Jan. 10, 2026

Youth only pheasant season – Iowa residents only, age 15 or younger

Oct. 18-19

(Radio Iowa) – One of the 15 “Sleep in Heavenly Peace” chapters in Iowa is holding a bed building event tomorrow (Wednesday), in Manchester. Keith Kramer is leader of the Delaware County chapter that formed four years ago to provide beds to kids who didn’t have one. “Once you see it, you get so involved with it,” Kramer said.

So far, Kramer’s group has made 450 beds for kids who’d been sleeping on floors or couches. Kramer said people in the community are helping to provide not just the bed frame, but sheets and pillows “Had a gal drop off six brand new quilts. She just made them,” Kramer says. “And talk about a labor of love with these quilts for these kids. It’s the one thing they’ve got. It’s something to hang onto.”

A previous “Sleep in Heavenly Peace” bed building event in Delaware County. (Photo by Janelle Tucker, KMCH)

Wednesday’s bed building event starts at 10 o’clock in the Beef Barn on the Delaware County Fairgrounds. Kramer and his team have assembled all the tools necessary to build the bed frames, they’re inviting more volunteers to join the effort. “Come for the experience,” Kramer said. “…Probably the bed thing is when they go back home and they’re talking to someone on the phone and they’re saying, ‘What did you do today?’ ‘Well, let me tell you. We built beds.’”

The Delaware County chapter of “Sleep in Heavenly Peace” is making beds not only for kids in their county, but has expanded to build beds for children in some of the cities and towns in neighboring Buchanan and Dubuque Counties. The national “Sleep in Heavenly Peace” website has an application form. It can be filled out by the legal guardian of a child between the ages of three and 17 or some other family member, a school or government agency can contact the group and request a bed for a child who doesn’t have one.

The organization’s website shows more than 325 “Sleep in Heavenly Peace” chapters nationwide have made almost 290,000 beds and have requests to make nearly 164,000 more. The group has chapters in the Iowa cities of Ames, Camanche, Des Moines, Muscatine, Shenandoah, Sioux City and Spirit Lake, plus the following counties have chapters: Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Union, Warren and Washington.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s economy improved slightly during August, along with the Midwest as a whole, according to a monthly survey of supply managers in Iowa and eight other states. Despite the minor gains, Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says the region’s economy is moving sideways, as it’s been seeing similar gains and losses for months.

Goss says tariffs enacted by the Trump administration — and by other nations in retaliation — are slowing everything down. “Tariffs are having some significant impacts and I think the impacts are, it’s just spreading across the globe and it’s not just the U.S., it’s other nations and it’s hurting the economy, hurting the U.S. economy, hurting the global economy,” Goss says. “Four out of five report tariffs pushing prices higher, not significantly higher, but higher.”

Ernie Goss (Creighton University photo)

The survey shows weakening confidence about the future, as Goss says only one in ten supply managers expect improving economic conditions for their firm over the next six months. The survey showed employment losses for the region during August for the fifth straight month, as Goss says the Producer Price Index for the month rose.

“That’s been growing, but it’s not being passed on to the consumers. So where is it going? It’s cutting profit margins,” Goss says. “In other words, businesses are absorbing the price increase, the tariff increase and also the importers and the distributors, and of course the exporters, that’s outside the U.S. exporting into the U.S.”

Federal reports say Iowa’s manufacturing sector exported more than $7-billion dollars in goods for the first half of 2025, compared to just over $8-billion for the same period in 2024. That’s a drop of nearly 11-percent. Goss says the nation saw an increase in non-farm jobs of less than one percent, while manufacturing alone lost about 13,000 jobs. “The region is actually, over the last year, I’m talking about year-over-year, has gained some jobs but you wouldn’t know it,” Goss says. “We’re just not seeing enough growth in manufacturing jobs and it’s showing up in the manufacturing economy.”

On the survey’s zero-to-100 scale, growth neutral is 50. The survey says Iowa’s overall Business Conditions Index for August stayed below growth neutral, but rose to nearly 46 from just under 44 in July. Across the region’s agricultural sector, Goss says there’s concern as bumper crops will only push prices south, while lowering net farm income.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Senator Joni Ernst has released a video statement to announce she will not seek reelection in 2026. “This was no easy decision. I love my state and country,” Ernst said.”It’s the very reason I decided to wear our nation’s uniform and run for election in the first place.”

Ernst, who is 55, served in the Iowa National Guard, did a tour of duty in Iraq, and was the first female combat veteran elected to the U.S. Senate. She also served as Montgomery County’s Auditor and a state senator before running for the U.S. Senate in 2014. “Having been raised in a family that has given me so much love and support now, as our family ages and grows, it’s time my time for me to give back to them.”

Ernst’s first grandchild was born in February of last year.

(Radio Iowa) – University of Iowa researchers are recruiting farmers with dementia and their caregivers to participate in an educational series tailored to their specific needs. U-I associate professor of public health, Kanika Arora says most dementia safety programs are focused on residential settings.  “If you look at the standard dementia safety recommendations that are used in residential settings, like removing power tools or removing tractors or seizing work completely, that can be impractical, at least in sort of the early stages of dementia, which can feel — this can feel intrusive, and this might not even work,” she says.

The Farm Families Coping with Dementia series consists of four weekly sessions that covers the entire scope of agricultural hazards.  “Like livestock or heavy equipment, firearms, even residing in an agricultural sort of like a farmstead or being farm adjacent, like you know, you still have concerns related to wandering in a cornfield, for instance, which can be extremely dangerous,” Arora says.

The next training starts in October. State data shows more than 66 thousand Iowans who are 65 and older have Alzheimer’s Disease.