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Creston Police report one person was arrested following a traffic stop Wednesday evening. Authorities say 40-year old Dustin James Seley, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. He was released from custody on a promise to appear in court.
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a DNA sample taken from a man arrested on federal drug charges has matched those taken after four Dubuque women were raped years ago. The Telegraph Herald reports that 29-year-old Martel Fountain Sr. is charged with four counts of sexual abuse and four of burglary. Court documents say Fountain assaulted three women in 2011 after forcing his way into their homes. The documents say another was raped in 2014 after Fountain forced her into her garage.
Prosecutors say a DNA sample taken from Fountain in March 2018 after his arrest in the federal drug case linked him to the four Dubuque assaults. DNA information from those four cases had been filed in an FBI database. Fountain has since been sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Officials with the Atlantic High School report an educational mock collision will take place this (Thursday) afternoon, at the High School. The general public is asked to avoid the area along E. 14th Street between the hours of 2-to 3:15-p.m., so as to not interfere with participating Emergency vehicles. No parking is allowed in the area, and the activity is NOT FOR PUBLIC VIEWING.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska woman has pleaded not guilty to stealing from a now-closed Sears store in western Iowa. Woodbury County court records show 39-year-old Sandra Martinez, of South Sioux City, Nebraska, entered a written plea last week to the theft charge. The records don’t show that a trial has been scheduled. The records say Martinez stole $400 on the first day she worked at the Sioux City store and stole $1,000 on the last day she worked there. The store closed earlier this month — one of 80 closings the troubled retailer announced in late December.
(Radio Iowa) — Closed interstate highways and submerged train tracks are creating challenges for moving grain and livestock. But Mike Steenhoek of the Soy Transportation Coalition says washed-out county bridges and impassable gravel roads are equally important because local infrastructure connects farms to global markets. “And it’s also the system that is largely the responsibility of local and county government and these are entities that are not flush with money,” Steenhoek says.
Iowa State University livestock economist Lee Schulz says some livestock trucks early on had to take longer routes or go to different meatpacking plants. But Schulz says businesses worked together to keep up with meat processing and it may never be clear whether the flooding affected consumer prices. “It likely won’t be one that we can really isolate here is the impact — and it was a rather large impact,” Schulz says. “I think it’s something that over time we may realize a little bit but overall I don’t think it’s going to be too much of an impact on prices.”
He says prices for meat are volatile thanks to ongoing tariffs and animal diseases, so it may never be possible to tease out whether flooding affected consumer prices. Schulz says prices, especially for pork, are pretty good and demand for meat is high, despite the considerable impact on individual farms.
(Radio Iowa) — The Iowa Senate has passed a bill that would let adult women in Iowa skip the requirement of a prescription and be able to buy birth control at the pharmacy counter. Republican Governor Kim Reynolds expressed support for this concept last fall and Senator Liz Mathis — a Democrat from Cedar Rapids — praised the senate’s bipartisan 42-to-six vote. “This is really quite a big day for the state of Iowa to do this,” Mathis said. “…I’m not excluding men here, but I think women understand intimately the issues surrounding access to birth control.”
Three first-term senators — all women — urged their colleagues to vote for the bill. Republican Senator Carrie Koelker of Dyersville was one of them. “As the mother of a daughter, I think that this is another layer of options for our women in our state,” Koelker said. “It helps with family planning and unwanted pregnancies.” Chris Cournoyer of LeClaire — another Republican who was just elected to the senate last November — says the bill will give Iowa women access to affordable birth control. “It is responsible,” she said. “It is under the supervision of a pharmacist and it has been an established, proven method of birth control that has worked for women all across this country for many, many years.”
Republican Senator Tom Greene of Burlington, a retired pharmacist, says Iowa pharmacists have had six years of intense training about proper dosage levels and will recommend a women seek a doctor’s advice if there are any concerns. “It behooves all of us to make sure that young women of today have access to proper care,” Green said. First-term Senator Claire Celsi of Des Moines, a Democrat, voted for the bill, but expressed “deep reservations” about it, partly because she had an adverse reaction to birth control. “No offense to Senator Greene, but pharmacists are not doctors,” Celsi said. “Pharmacists can refuse a woman birth control — did you know that? — if they’re ethically opposed to it.”
First-term Republican Senator Mariannette Miller-Meeks, an eye doctor from Ottumwa who’s a former nurse AND the former director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, guided the bill through the senate. She urged her colleagues to trust women to make this decision. “I’m going to rely upon my experience with women and caring for women,” she said, “that we’re intelligent, that we’re capable and we’re knowledgable.” The bill now goes to the Republican-led House for consideration.
(Update) NEW BERLIN, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Lottery says a single ticket that matched all six Powerball numbers to win the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history was sold in a Milwaukee suburb. The ticket worth an estimated $768.4 million, or a cash option of $477 million, was sold in New Berlin. The city of about 40,000 people is roughly 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) southwest of Milwaukee.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CDT
MEAD, Neb. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says that there were no releases of hazardous contaminants at any of eight toxic waste sites in flooded parts of Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. The EPA on Wednesday identified the Nebraska Ordnance Plant in Mead, Nebraska, and the Conservation Chemical Corporation site in Kansas City, Missouri as heavily flooded Superfund sites that required the agency to take immediate action to prevent the spread of contaminated groundwater.
MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — A former farmhand charged with first-degree murder in the abduction and killing of 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts will have his trial moved about 250 miles away to Woodbury County. The Des Moines Register reports that a judge on Wednesday approved a motion filed earlier this month to have Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s first-degree murder trial moved out of Poweshiek County. Rivera’s trial is now set to be held in Sioux City on Sept. 3.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As former Vice President Joe Biden prepares for a potential White House campaign, his associates increasingly see a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses as crucial to his ability to win the Democratic presidential nomination. He needs to do well in Iowa in hopes of charging into the South Carolina primary, where Biden’s national security profile and enduring popularity among African-Americans would pose a challenge for newer faces trying to break through.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — County treasurers in Iowa have canceled a college scholarship program that benefited their relatives and employees amid criticism the vendor-funded awards were illegal under state ethics law. The Iowa State County Treasurers Association’s executive board voted to end the program Wednesday ahead of a previously announced application deadline for high school seniors. A 2015 opinion by Iowa’s ethics board found the program violated a law barring public employees from accepting contractors’ money.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man found guilty last month of manslaughter — but acquitted of a more serious murder charge — in the death of a toddler is seeking a new trial. The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reports that an attorney for 22-year-old Javon Jennings filed the motion Saturday.
A jury found Jennings guilty on Feb. 15 of manslaughter and child endangerment in the April death 16-month-old Jazlynn Harshbarger. An autopsy showed had suffered numerous injuries and died of blunt force trauma. Prosecutors say Jennings was supposed to be babysitting the girl, who was the daughter of his live-in girlfriend.
Jennings’ attorney, Christopher Roth, said in the motion that Jennings’ trial was unfair and that there was insufficient evidence to convict him.
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