A man who allegedly stole a bottle of Old Spice body wash valued at about $4, was arrested Thursday night after he tried to run from a Sheriff’s Deputy. The Deputy responded at around 7:25-p.m. to the HyVee Drug Store on W. Broadway in Council Bluffs, after store employees reported an adult male was leaving the store with merchandise in his pockets that he did not pay for. The Deputy ordered the suspect, later identified as 25-year old Deion Jarell Fleming, to stop, when the man tried to run from the store. Fleming tripped and began to fall to the ground, as the Deputy grabbed him by the arm. The Deputy fell to the ground on top of Fleming, and placed him under arrest. After Fleming was escorted back to the store, the Deputy noticed the suspect suffered from a scraped left thumb. The Deputy applied a bandage for the injury.

Authorities say he was issued a ban and bar letter, prohibiting him from entering the store again. He was then transported to Pott. County Corrections and booked into the jail for Theft in the 5th Degree and Interference with Official Acts. And, a woman who was transported to the Pott. County Jail from the Douglas County, NE. jail, Thursday, was presented with a warrant Thursday, for being a Fugitive from Justice out of Sarpy County, NE. 30-year old Rebecca Sue Cardona had originally been brought to Pott. County, for Probation Violation.

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(Update) — Audubon Superintendent Brett Gibbs reports the Audubon School Board has approved a contract for Quentin Stanerson as the new 5 – 12 Principal. Their decision was made during a Special Board meeting held this (Friday) morning.  Mr. Stanerson comes to Audubon from Center Point, IA and has been a teacher and coach at North Linn MS/HS since 2004.  At North Linn Community School Mr. Stanerson taught high school social studies and over the years has coached football, wrestling and track.  He has an extensive background in working with the implementation of the Iowa Core and served on North Linn’s Teacher Leadership planning committee and Technology committee.

Mr. Stanerson was a Non-Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and spent four years in the Iowa State Legislature where he served on the Education and Veterans affairs committees. Mr. Stanerson and his wife have three kids and will be moving to Audubon this summer to begin his new position. He succeeds Eric Trager as 5-12 Principal, when Trager succeeds Brett Gibbs as Superintendent at the end of this school year. Gibbs is retiring at the end of June.

Three people were arrested Thursday on Theft charges, in Creston. Authorities say at around 10:35-p.m., 32-year old Trisha Breanne Moffitt, and 36-year old Wesley Allan Gregg, both of Creston, were arrested at the Wal-Mart in Creston. Both were charged with Theft in the 5th Degree. And, at around 11:18-a.m. Thursday, 50-year old Karie Jean Walters, of Creston, was arrested at the Fareway store in Creston, for Theft in the 5th Degree. Walters was later released on a $300 bond. Moffitt and Gregg were released at the scene with a citation, and promise appear in court.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The National Weather Service says several Iowa rivers have an increased risk of flooding this spring. The service said Thursday in the first of two planned Spring Flood and Water Resource Outlooks that the concerns include snowpack melting rates and high soil moisture. The report says the probability for flooding “is very high for at least minor flooding along the Mississippi River and most tributary rivers across eastern Iowa.”

It also says several waterways on the state’s western and eastern borders have a better than 50 percent chance at flooding and some have a better than 50 percent chance of major flooding. The service says a fast melt combined with heavy spring rains “could cause high-impact flooding, while a slow melt with little additional precipitation would cause flooding to be much less severe.” Missouri River flooding is expected along the state’s southwest border.

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The National Weather Service says “Phase #1 of a very potent storm system will bring a round of freezing drizzle to central and northern Iowa this evening through Saturday morning.” Ice accumulation of up to one tenth of an inch is expected. A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for the central section of Iowa. This will likely make for difficult travel this evening through Saturday Morning. Please be careful in traveling.

Here’s a reminder of the current Winter Weather Watches & Advisories…

(Radio Iowa) — Waterloo’s Lowell Elementary School likely won’t be able to reopen until August after this week’s roof collapse. Beginning Tuesday, Lowell’s 400 students and staff will be relocated to the former Area Education Agency 267 Conference Center in Cedar Falls. Waterloo Schools Superintendent Jane Lindaman says the move is necessary after a segment of Lowell’s roof caved in under heavy snow Wednesday morning.

According to Lindaman, structural engineers and contractors who surveyed the damage at Lowell on Thursday determined that repairs will take months to complete. Repair and relocation costs have not been determined. A winter storm forced the cancellation of classes district-wide in Waterloo on Wednesday, so no one was in the classroom when the roof collapsed.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Public Information Board has sided with law enforcement in a struggle over police records regarding a Burlington police officer’s accidental shooting of a woman. The Hawk Eye reports that the board voted 6-2 Thursday to reject complaints that the Iowa Criminal Investigation Division and the Burlington Police Department broke state law when they didn’t turn over all records amassed in the Jan. 6, 2015, shooting of Autumn Steele.

Steele was fatally shot by an officer responding to a fight between Steele and her husband. The Hawk Eye newspaper and her family filed complaints with the information board when the two agencies didn’t turn over all the records. Lawyers for the police agencies had appealed an administrative law judge’s conclusion that they had violated state law. The judge’s opinion recommendation was rejected by the board’s vote Thursday.

(Radio Iowa) — A hack-a-thon is now underway, but it doesn’t involve breaking into the Pentagon mainframe. The event gathers computer experts from across Iowa and leaders of ten Iowa non-profit groups. Alex Karei, vice president of D-S-M Hack, says the non-profits all need help, from basic websites to ways to process information online instead of using old-fashioned paper and pen. Karei says, “We invite them to apply with these challenges they have and then we review the applications and we actually get, this year, it’s about 100 technology volunteers to come give up their weekend or 48 hours to produce those for them.”

The non-profits range from those dedicated to helping people who are less fortunate to others that work toward preserving Iowa’s landscape. “We always get such a fun variety of different types of non-profits and that’s what we like,” Karei says. “When those technology volunteers come to the event, we really want them to be able to identify with one that speaks to them so they can get really passionate about the project they’re working on.”

This is the sixth annual Des Moines Charity Hack and Karei says the number of participants has grown every year, now finally topping 100 volunteers. Most, she says, work in the corporate world. “Maybe their projects from day-to-day are a little less exciting but this is something where they can come in and get more creative,” Karei says. “They say, ‘This gets me out of my box, it gets me out of what I’m working on every day and it gives me a chance to really revive myself,’ and they’ll go back to work with a renewed vigor.”  The work of these 100 volunteers over 48 hours has a broad reach, Karei says, that will continue expanding. “They’re helping to create a product or they’re helping create a platform or something that really makes a large impact throughout Iowa,” Karei says. “Instead of being an impact that ends at that 48 hours, it just exponentially grows, which is a really special part about the hack.”

The event began Thursday and continues through Saturday, at the Des Moines Social Club. Since the first event in 2014, the hackathons have provided more than 829-thousand dollars in services for more than 50 non-profits.

on the web at dsmhack.org