Rescue crews and law enforcement responded Monday evening to an accident on I-80 westbound between mile-markers 49 & 50. Dispatch reports said the collision involved a semi and an SUV. Both vehicles were located in the north ditch, following the crash, which was reported at around 5:43-p.m.

Marne Fire and Rescue and Walnut Rescue were dispatched to the scene. Reports indicated at least one person was transported by LifeNet helicopter to the UNMC in Omaha. Additional details were not immediately available late Monday evening.

(Radio Iowa) – Northwest Iowa authorities are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another wounded outside a rural residence near Luton today (Monday). Woodbury County Sheriff Chad Sheehan says first responders were dispatched to the scene at about 1:30 p.m. A wounded female was taken to a hospital and a man at the scene was dead. Sheehan says authorities got a description of a suspect and a vehicle.

“A vehicle matching the description was stopped down in Sloan,” the sheriff says, “and we believe that we have a suspect in custody, but this is very preliminary in the investigation.” The names of the victims have not been released.

The Adams County Sheriff’s Office, Monday, reported three arrests occurred between May 14th and May 24th. Authorities say at around 8:25-p.m. on the 24th, Deputies arrested 24-year-old Trey Mills, of Kent, on a warrant for Failure to Appear (in Court).

On or about 11:15-p.m. May 22nd, Adams County Deputies arrested 30-year-old Carlos Gutierrez, of Creston, on a Probation Violation warrant. His cash-only bond was set at $1,000.

And, or or about May 14th, Deputies in Adams County arrested 37-year-old Kimberly Bloom, of Corning, on warrants for Failure to Appear.

Police in Shenandoah said Monday, a local man was arrested Sunday evening, on a drug charge. Authorities say 18-year-old Isaiah Scott Carpenter, of Shenandoah, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance/1st offense – Marijuana. His arrest took place after the Shenandoah Police Department’s K9 Unit conducted a traffic stop on a suspicious vehicle in Waubonsie Park in Shenandoah.

Carpenter was transported to the Page County Jail, where he was being held on $1,000 bond.

(Updated 5:30-p.m.) Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater reports, that at around 10:24-p.m., Sunday, the Adair County Communications Center received a cellular 911 call requesting an ambulance to a wind turbine tower site located southeast of Stuart, with regard to a patient who had suffered apparent, unknown injuries. Stuart Fire and Rescue Units were paged to respond.

MidAmerican Energy officials say one of its workers got stuck in a blade of a wind turbine. It happened at the Arbor Hill Wind Farm, southeast of Stuart. After extricating the patient from the scene, the patient was transported by ground ambulance to a Des Moines area hospital, where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries, and released.

All work at the site is on hold, while MidAmerican conducts its investigation.

(Radio Iowa) – A judge has ordered a change in location for the 1st degree murder trial of a Fort Dodge man accused of killing his estranged wife. Forty-four-year-old Justin Christopher Hurdel will now stand trial in Boone County. A Webster County judge ordered the change of venue due to local media coverage and a failure to select a jury in Webster County.

Hurdel is accused of killing his estranged wife in August of last year, police say he then led them on a man hunt for 17 hours. During that span Hurdel suffered a self inflicted gun shot wound to the face. The trial of Justin Christopher Hurdel is set to begin in Boone County June 22nd.

(Radio Iowa) – Ending chronic homelessness is the goal of an experiment in the Quad Cities. By mid-summer, Humility Homes and Services plans to launch what it’s calling the Supportive Housing Pilot Project. Spokesman Ryan Bobst says the project will provide a range of services to ten people for the next three years. “These are generally individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness,” Bobst says. “They’ve got a history of arrests, typically for trespassing, and then they also have a behavioral health disorder so they’re frequently in and out of our emergency shelter, in and out of the hospital, and in and out of jail.”

Funding for the pilot project comes from a pair of 100-thousand-dollar grants, from the Quad Cities Community Foundation and the Ryan Foundation of Omaha. Bobst says that’s a lot less than these ten people would cost in what’s referred to as “non-housing services.” “These ten individuals, over the same time period, would cost taxpayers nearly $1.8 million dollars by using emergency shelter, and jails, and being hospitalized for treatment,” Bobst says, “whereas we’re able to house them for a fraction of that cost.”

He says the ten participants will receive rental assistance, intensive case management, learn basic living skills, and get help with food and transportation. Humility Homes and Services is in its 31st year of offering transitional housing to homeless people in the Quad Cities.
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Iowans who received COVID stimulus checks earlier this year but don’t really need the cash are encouraged to help others who’ve been hurt by the pandemic. That’s the goal of a campaign in the Quad Cities called “Spread the Relief,” led by several religious and social service organizations. Rabbi Henry Karp, from the group One Human Family, says millions of Americans have lost their jobs, lost access to health care, and can’t afford food and housing, while others — like him — received a stimulus check but don’t really need it.

“Let’s pay it forward,” Karp says. “Let’s re-direct this money to where it needs to go, where it’s intended to go, to help save those in our society whose lives have been thrown in jeopardy.” Karp says he and his wife split up their stimulus check among 11 programs and agencies. One Human Family and the other groups have posted a long list of programs and agencies that could use donations to help people impacted by the pandemic. Other groups involved in the “Spread the Relief” campaign include the Diocese of Davenport’s Immigration Office, Quad Cities Interfaith, NAACP, and Progressive Action for the Common Good.

(Radio Iowa) – Sioux City’s 185th Air National Guard Refueling Wing has been participating with Air Guard units from Maine and Ohio in a first of its kind missile defense exercise in the United Kingdom. Major Noelle Jacobs is one of the Iowans taking part. “Part of the uniqueness of this mission is we can get with a unit from Ohio or Maine, as we have been this week, and work with them to get the mission done –whether it’s the maintainers we are using or the actual crews themselves,” Jacobs says. The exercise has more than three-thousand participants from the European nations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the U-K and U-S.

The mission is hosted by the U-S Naval Sixth Fleet and the British Royal Navy in the Western Isles of Scotland and covers the areas of the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. “It’s continuous conversation with people who are operating out of Germany. People who are operating out of Ramstein, Everybody is in a different location, so not everybody is coming out of Scotland, it’s just the K-C 135’s that are here,” according to Jacobs. She says weather has been a big issue.

“Obviously here in the United Kingdom we have a lot of inclement weather, so that’s one thing that’s affected us over the last week — trying to kind of roll with the changes of the every changing weather here,” Jacobs says. The K-C 135 air operations are staging out of the Glasgow-Prestwick Airport in Prestwick, Scotland.