Sheriff’s deputies in Adams County arrested an Adair County man at around 2:35-a.m. today (Tuesday). Delson Grantham, of Fontanelle, was taken into custody after authorities received a call at around 2:15-a.m., about a suspicious vehicle in the 1300 block of Walnut Avenue. Upon further investigation, Grantham was taken into custody for OWI/1st offense, Carrying a firearm while under the influence, and Driving Under Suspension. His bond was set at $2,300.

(Radio Iowa) — A northwest Iowa man has returned home from the West Coast, where he tried to save his mother’s home from wildfires that destroyed much of the town of Paradise, California. Andrew Duran of Sioux City is a retired carpenter who had been working on his mother’s home in the days before the fires swept through the area. He stayed behind as his mother and two brothers fled the approaching flames. Duran says he used a hose to “drench” the outside of their homes.

“I just kept watering around the house, under the car port and everything, just trying to get it as wet as I could,” Duran said. “About 45 minutes later, I saw the house across the street go up (in flames). Then, the next door neighbor’s house went up.” Duran quickly found himself fighting a losing battle and realized he was also in danger of being trapped. He shot and narrated a cell phone video of the homes going up in flames around him as he made his way towards nearby firefighters.

“There’s my mom’s house, going up right now. Sorry, mom,” Duran says in the video. Looking back, Duran said he was focused on saving his mother’s home and not worried about his own safety at the time. “I didn’t have time to think about me,” Duran said. “My number one concern was not to let my mother’s home burn…she’s not going to be homeless.”

Duran’s mother and other family members made it safely to a nearby Wal-Mart that was transformed into a make-shift “refugee site.” They are currently staying with other relatives in California and trying to decide if they’ll eventually rebuild or move elsewhere.

The director of the Iowa Department of Revenue says she’s living through a thrilling, “once in a lifetime” experience. Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson reports. (Click on the left side of the audio bar below to listen)

Joe Bolkcom of Iowa City has been the top-ranking Democrat on the Iowa Senate’s tax committee. He says: “It would be really fun if the Department of Revenue would send out refunds to Iowans in a timely manner this year.”

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The 2018 midterms are barely history, but the next campaign is already in full swing in Iowa, home to the first caucus of the 2020 Democratic presidential nominating campaign. In the two weeks since the election, potential White House contenders have intensified their effort to recruit operatives who could help them navigate an Iowa campaign. The competition is shaping up to be especially fierce because the field could include as many as two dozen candidates.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced a second man to life in prison for the 2016 killing of a gender-fluid Iowa teenager. The Des Moines Register reports a judge Monday sentenced 26-year-old Jaron Purham to life in prison, which was mandatory because of his October conviction of first-degree murder. Another man, Jorge Sanders-Galvez, already is serving a life term for the March 2, 2016, fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson of Burlington. Johnson’s relatives say he identified as both male and female.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa farmers are nearing the end of this year’s harvest of corn and soybeans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Monday that 91 percent of the corn crop had been harvested by Sunday. That matches last year’s harvest but was three days behind the five-year average. About 97 percent of the soybean crop had been harvested, which is just behind last year’s 98 percent and the five-year average of 99 percent.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A woman has filed an ethics complaint against state Sen. Nate Boulton, detailing allegations she initially made in May that led the lawmaker to drop his campaign for governor. The Des Moines Register reported Monday the woman filed the complaint with the Iowa Senate. The complaint alleges that in November 2015, Boulton repeatedly grabbed her buttocks. The Register had previously reported the allegations as well as allegations from two other women regarding incidents more than a decade ago.

Three out of the five members of the Atlantic Parks and Recreation Department’s Board of Directors were present Monday evening for their monthly meeting. During the session, Parks & Rec Director Seth Staashelm said the pieces of the west playground for the Schildberg Recreation Area have arrived, and are being kept in storage until they can be installed next Spring.

The west restroom at Schildberg has been ordered and will arrive in mid-December. Staashelm said a four-foot hole for a vault restroom vault (tank) will be dug within the next couple of weeks, and the 17-by 8-foot blue metal roof building will be lowered over the pit on the level surface. There is no concrete pad.

In other business, Staashelm proposed, and the Board approved, a staggered four-year term for Parks Board members, who currently serve a six-year term. A recommendation for the proposed change will be submitted to the full City Council for their approval. Staashelm said in his opinion, the six-year term is too long, because members tend to lose interest and become out of touch with what’s needed or desired. He said also, by rotating the terms, more citizens might be encouraged to serve, and it would hopefully keep board members more engaged. Board Chair Stuart Dusenberry agreed. He said many boards are on a two-or three-year term, and a six-year term is a lot of commit to.

Staashelm also reported to the Board the Sunnyside Park Ice Rink liner will be installed the first week of December, but it won’t be open until sometime around Christmas, because of the fluctuating weather patterns. A second cold snap is needed for the surface to freeze. Once it’s open, the hours will be posted at the site and on the Parks’ Facebook page.

He said also, the Schildberg Campground is slated to close Nov. 26th, and the City’s parks restrooms are closed for the season, but the parks remain open for winter activities. The streets to Sunnyside Park are still open he said, but there will be a time soon, when they will have to be closed. That doesn’t mean you can’t use the park, it’s just that vehicle traffic won’t be allowed for safety reasons.

(Radio Iowa) — An apple a day may not keep the doctor away, but University of Iowa researchers are testing how massive doses of vitamin C could help fight three of the deadliest forms of cancer. Doctor Joe Cullen, a U-I professor of surgery, is helping head up the study. He says they’re launching a new round of clinical trials in cancer patients using I-Vs of vitamin C along with chemotherapy and radiation.

“Vitamin C acts as an antioxidant but we give very large doses and we give it intravenously and at those large doses, you get very, very high levels,” Dr. Cullen says. “So, we’ve increased the levels a hundred-fold and when you do that, it actually kills cancer cells.” If you take vitamin C tablets that you buy at the drug store by mouth, Cullen says they have a limited usefulness.

“If you take too much vitamin C orally, you don’t absorb as much and your kidneys just excrete it,” Cullen says. “We bypass all of those mechanisms when we give it intravenously. We give it at such a high dose that the kidneys can’t remove it that quickly and you get very high doses.” The U-I has already been conducting trials using vitamin C to treat pancreatic cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, and an aggressive type of brain cancer known as G-B-M. So far, Cullen says the results are very encouraging, especially with a trial that just finished for locally-advanced pancreatic cancer.

“We increased the overall survival from 11 months to 21 months,” Cullen says. “We have two long-term survivals that are almost out four years, which is kind of unheard of for pancreatic cancer. In one of our earlier trials, looking at patients with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer where the survival is about six months, we increased the survival to about 16 months.”

Researchers at U-I’s Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center have just received a five-year, $9.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue the trials of high-dose vitamin C. Cullen says it promises to be a safe, simple, cost-effective approach to improving treatment for many kinds of cancer.

(Radio Iowa) — The Board of Regents gave approval Friday for Iowa State University to proceed with a 90-million dollar project that will dramatically change the north end of Jack Trick Stadium. Associate Athletic Director for Operations, Chris Jorgensen, says the Sports Performance Center will mean some big changes to the buildings that sit there now. But, he says one key feature he gets the most questions about is not going away.

)”Hillside seating that will remain…the plan would be to add a concourse similar to what we did on the south end of the stadium. A game day plaza would go in north of the Jacobsen Building replacing what currently resides there as the Olson building,” Jorgensen says. The plan also includes updates to the Bergstrom Football Complex to replace space lost in the Olsen building.

“The soccer, softball, tennis and golf programs all train out of that building when they are not in season at their other facilities. We also have some other sports that use the weight rooms and training facilities in that building, so that building would be removed,” Jorgensen says. The Sports Performance Center will be a four-story building attached to the football complex.

“The northeast corning of this building would be a shared nutrition center,” Jorgensen says. “One big change in college athletics in the last several years has been additional opportunities to feed student athletes. And it is actually one of the highest demands on out student athletes — is on the nutritional side.”

Other components of the building include conference rooms, the Life Skills Suite, offices and mechanical space. Level three would house a classroom, computer lab, 24 Tutor Rooms, and offices. And level four would have dining, the kitchen and two athletic suites. Levels three and four would provide views south to Jack Trice Stadium, east to the new North Entry Plaza and north to the Iowa State Center. Jorgensen says they are well on their way to raising the funds for the building.

“We have a 45-million-dollar fundraising goal, and as of today I think they are at 41 of that 45 million. And we plan at a later day,” according to Construction would start in June of next year and the project would take two years to complete.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A woman has filed an ethics complaint against Iowa legislator Nate Boulton, detailing allegations she initially made in May that led the lawmaker to drop his campaign for governor. The Des Moines Register reported Monday the woman filed the complaint Saturday with the Iowa Senate. The complaint alleges that one night at a bar in November 2015, Boulton repeatedly grabbed her buttocks.

The Register had previously reported the woman’s allegations as well as allegations from two other women regarding incidents more than a decade ago. After the stories were published, Boulton dropped his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. Despite calls that he resign, Boulton opted to remain in the Senate.

Boulton couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. The chairman of the Senate ethics committee also wasn’t available.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced a second man to life in prison for the 2016 killing of a gender-fluid Iowa teenager. The Des Moines Register reports a judge Monday sentenced 26-year-old Jaron Purham to life in prison, which was mandatory because of his October conviction of first-degree murder.

Another man, Jorge Sanders-Galvez, already is serving a life term for the March 2, 2016, fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson of Burlington. Johnson’s relatives say he identified as both male and female.

Prosecutors said Sanders-Galvez and Purham saw Johnson at a store and followed him in their car before taking the teen to a Burlington home. Police say Johnson was sexually assaulted and tortured before being shot to death in an alley.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa farmers are nearing the end of this year’s harvest of corn and soybeans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Monday that 91 percent of the corn crop had been harvested by Sunday. That matches last year’s harvest but was three days behind the five-year average.

About 97 percent of the soybean crop had been harvested, which is just behind last year’s 98 percent and the five-year average of 99 percent. The harvest progress came despite wintry weather, including temperatures in eastern Iowa that were up to 12 degrees below normal. Some areas also saw rain and snow.