The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports five recent arrests. Today (Monday), 29-year old Gregory Allen Linkenhoker II, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Jail, on a warrant for Contempt. He was being held in the Mills County Jail without bond.

At around 5:30-a.m. Sunday, 22-year old Kassandra Ada Morales, of Melrose Park, IL, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, with bond set at $1,000. Saturday afternoon, 25-year old D’Angelo Thomas Monson, of Glenwood, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault, and Obstruction of Emergency Communication. He was being held without bond in the Mills County Jail. And, 40-year old Nicholas Ryan Crowell, of Omaha, was arrested for being a Fugitive from Justice. He was being held without bond.

Friday night, 37-year old Kevin Ray Wells, of Omaha, was arrested at the Mills County Sheriff’s Office, on a warrant for Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree. His bond was set at $300.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — County election boards have started counting a record number of absentee ballots in Iowa, racing toward a Tuesday night deadline to have those votes tabulated. Nearly 956,000 people had sent in their ballots by mail, dropped them off at auditor’s offices or voted early in person as of Monday morning. That is more than half of the total turnout in the election, which is expected to exceed 1.6 million.In all 99 counties, bipartisan election boards could begin counting the absentee votes on Monday as allowed by state law. Some were planning to work all day and late into the night before reconvening Tuesday.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police in Sioux City are investigating after a man was fatally shot at an apartment complex there. The Sioux City Journal reports that the shooting was reported just before 7 p.m. Sunday at Park Place Apartments near Grandview Park. Arriving officers found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Police say the officers rendered medical aid until an ambulance took the man to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The victim’s name had not been released by midday Monday. Police offered no other details about what may have led to the shooting.

The Glenwood Police Department reports the arrest Saturday, of 50-year-old Jonathan Finnegan, of Glenwood. Finnegan was for OWI/2nd offense. He has since posted a $2,000 cash or surety bond and was released.

A public hearing will be held during a Special Meeting of the Audubon School District’s Board of Education, Wednesday night. The meeting takes place in the High School Board Room, beginning at 7-p.m.  During their session, a public hearing with regard to the plans, specifications and form of contract, along with the anticipated constructions costs, will be held for the Middle School/High School Renovation Project.

As part of the hearing, the Board will: Review a Resolution call for the Public Hearing; Hold an overview of the project (involving the Design Team); Acknowledge the plans, specs and form of contract has been available for public inspection at the District Office; and they’ll review the anticipated construction costs.

Following the Public Hearing, the Board will discuss further the plans, specs, FOC and Budget estimates of the construction costs. They will then act to approve those items, and approve the advertisement and Notice of Bids for the project. The Board will hold a regular, monthly session, 7-p.m. Nov. 16th.