Two people were arrested on separate OWI charges over the past few days, in Pottawattamie County. The Sheriff’s Office says at around 10:20-p.m. Saturday, a Deputy on patrol on Highway 92, noticed a Ford Mustang pulled off onto the shoulder at mile marker 10. Following a check on the driver, 44-year old Jose Maginang Poyaoan was taken into custody for OWI/1st Offense. And, at around 8-p.m. Friday, a Deputy on patrol near Underwood located a Chevy HHR parked in the roadway in the 22,000 block of Mahogany Road. A check on the driver resulted in the arrest of 37-year old Meranda A. Dexter, for OWI/1st Offense.

The Pott. County Sheriff’s Office reports also, a few inmates at other jail facilities were transported to the Pott. County Jail to address warrants/charges in Pottawattamie County. They include:

• 37-year old Justin Lee Conant, who was transported from the Harrison County Jail on a warrant for Possession of a Controlled Substance/1st offense.
• 72-year old Edward O. Stevens, who was transported from the Sarpy County, NE. Jail, on a warrant for Sexual Exploitation by a School Employee.
• and, 49-year old John David Stone, of Braddyville, was transported from the Page County Jail to the Pott. County Jail, on a warrant for Driving While Barred/Habitual Offender.

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Police in Creston report a man wanted on a Union County warrant was arrested Friday morning. 37-year old Charles Keeton, of Creston, was taken into custody on a warrant for Violation of Pre-trial release, on original charges of Murder in the 2nd Degree and Dominion/Control of a Firearm or Offensive weapon by a felon. Keeton was being held in the Union County Jail until making his initial court appearance. Keeton is alleged to have shot Christy Hribal during the early morning hours of June 19th, during her visit to a residence in Creston. Hribal was airlifted from the scene to a Des Moines hospital, where she later died.

Creston Police said also, 44-year old Hyvis Orleana Thatcher, of Creston, was arrested Sunday afternoon, on two Union County warrants for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia & Theft in the 5th Degree, along with Possession of a Controlled Substance/Methamphetamine – 1st offense. Thatcher was being held for Union County, in the Adams County Jail, where her bond totals $1,300.  And, 24-year old Avery Ibbotson, of Creston, was arrested Sunday morning, for Driving While Suspended. He was later released on a $300 bond.

Creston Police received a report Friday afternoon, from a woman who said that sometime late Thursday night or early Friday morning, someone broke into her shed in the 300 block of E. Irving Street. Two cans of gas valued at $50, were stolen. Saturday afternoon, a Creston woman reported someone cut the fuel line on the 2009 Chevy Colbalt, while it was parked in a lot near her residence in the 100 block of Manor Drive. The incident, which happened sometime between 6:30-p.m. Friday and 12:20-p.m. Saturday, resulted in a loss of about $400.

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MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — A man has been accused of shooting to death a woman at a recreation area in eastern Iowa. Muscatine County court records say 23-year-old David Hatfield, of Muscatine, faces a murder charge. Authorities say he fatally shot his girlfriend, 18-year-old Kaitlyn Palmer, at Saulsbury Recreation Area on Wednesday. Authorities say she died Thursday at an Iowa City hospital. The court records say Hatfield initially told investigators that Palmer had shot herself in the head. He later acknowledged that he’d shot her.

The Griswold School Board will meet this evening at 5:30, in their Board Room at the High School. On their agenda are updates from KPE architects/Estes Construction, with regard to district facilities projects, as well as discussion pertaining to Daycare. New Business includes an Early Retirement Policy, and information on: Certified Enrollment; and the Teacher Leadership and Compensation Program.

The Audubon School District’s Board of Education will meet tonight in a regular session. Prior to the start of their 7-p.m. meeting, the Board will hold a work session for Policy Review, at 6:30. Both take place in the High School Boardroom. On the regular agenda, is action on: A School Budget Review Committee (SBRC) request for On-Time Funding; Requests to use the AC Gym for private basketball workouts, and to allow Exira-EHK to pick up an Open Enrolled student, along with action on an Early Retirement Plan.

The Board will receive the district’s final enrollment numbers, an Audit Update, and discuss the upcoming school elections, among other matters.

LEDGEVIEW, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say the pilot of a small plane was killed and the driver of a pickup truck was critically injured Thursday afternoon, in a collision near a private airfield in eastern Wisconsin. The pilot – identified as John Fiddelke, of De Pere, WI., and who died at the scene – is the brother of Atlantic Photographer Fred Fiddelke, who is also a part-time announcer here at KJAN.

Authorities say the fixed-wing, single-engine plane was coming in for a landing in Ledgeview at around 4:50-p.m., Thursday, when it struck the pickup, which was traveling west on a Brown County highway. The driver of the pickup, Patrick Schounard, who is from Greenleaf, WI., was rushed to the hospital, where he was being treated for serious injuries. The Brown County Sheriff’s Office sent its crash reconstruction unit to the scene near Green Bay. Federal aviation officials are also investigating.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A former janitor has been sentenced to two years for taking pictures of women in an eastern Iowa college locker room. Linn County court records say 46-year-old Jeffrey Pospisil was sentenced Friday on two counts of invasion of privacy. He’d pleaded guilty in September. The investigation began when students at Cornell College in Mount Vernon reported seeing a cellphone held in an open doorway leading to the locker room. A coach found Pospisil in the area. He was an employee with a business that provides custodial service for the college.

He told police he had been texting on the phone. But a search of the phone revealed more than 100 images taken in the locker room as students were fully or partially nude.
Pospisil was fired from his job.

WASHINGTON (AP) — If the FBI discovers that foreign hackers have infiltrated the networks of your county election office, you may not find out about it until after voting is over. And your governor and other state officials may be kept in the dark, too. There’s no federal law compelling state and local governments to share information when an electoral system is hacked. And a federal policy keeps details secret by shielding the identity of all cyber victims regardless of whether election systems are involved.

Election officials are in a difficult spot: If someone else’s voting system is targeted, they want to know exactly what happened so they can protect their own system. Yet when their own systems are targeted, they may be cautious about disclosing details. They must balance the need for openness with worries over undermining any criminal investigation. And they want to avoid chaos or confusion, the kind of disruption that hackers want.

The secrecy surrounding foreign hacks is not a hypothetical issue. The public still doesn’t know which Florida counties were breached by Russian agents in the 2016 election. Rick Scott, Florida’s governor in 2016 and now a U.S. senator, was not told at the time and didn’t learn most of the details until this year. And the threat to electoral systems is real. Federal officials believe Russian agents in 2016 searched for vulnerabilities within election systems in all 50 states. And the nation’s intelligence chiefs warn that Russia and other nations remain interested in interfering in U.S. elections.

Meanwhile, experts worry the White House hasn’t highlighted the threat as President Donald Trump argues it’s OK for foreign countries to provide damaging information on his political rivals, a matter now the subject of an impeachment inquiry led by House Democrats. In general, it’s up to electoral agencies to disclose when they’ve been hacked. That, plus the federal policy protecting the identity of cyber victims, could mean that state election officials might not be told immediately if one of their local election offices experiences a breach. In addition, the whole situation could be considered classified as part of a federal investigation.

At least two states — Colorado and Iowa — have implemented policies to compel local officials to notify the state about suspected breaches involving election systems. Due to the criminal nature of cyber breaches, law enforcement officials may seek to withhold releasing certain information long after the incident. In June, a majority of Americans expressed at least some concern that voting systems are vulnerable to hackers, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Yet election officials want to ensure they have a good understanding of what happened before going public so they don’t contribute to the confusion that the hackers may be trying to achieve.

Cyber intrusions are inherently complicated, taking time to understand and contain. There is also a concern of inadvertently releasing information that could invite further compromises or undermine an investigation. Matt Dietrich, spokesman for the Illinois State Board of Elections, said it would be hard to imagine that any election office would seek to keep something like that quiet today. “In 2016, it was a story and then it was dealt with and then it kind of went away for a year,” Dietrich said. “That is not going to happen this time. It will be a national and a worldwide story. We all know this. We all know we are going to be under the microscope.”