Red Oak Police report the arrest of 41-year-old Chrystal Rush Stewart early Saturday morning at 1:32am. Stewart was arrested in the 500 block of 4th Avenue and charged with Interference with Official Acts. She was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond.

Red Oak Police report the arrest of multiple people after investigating a reported minor beer party in Red Oak Friday night. Officers took a report of a minor beer party in the 1800 block of East Summitt Street and responded around 10:00pm Friday. After investigation officers cited into court and released three individuals and released a male juvenile to his parents. 21-year-old Jennifer Nichole Gibson of Red Oak was cited and released on the charge of permitting individuals under the age of 18 to consume or have possession of alcohol on her property. 20-year-old Dustin Lee Jones of Elliott was charged with Possession of Alcohol by a person 18-20 years of age. 18-year-old Jordan Erin Thomas of Atlantic was also charged with Possession of Alcohol by a person 18-20 years of age.

Two Red Oak residents were arrested on Friday evening after a domestic disturbance. At 8:28pm Officers arrested 48-year-old Teri Ann Nelson and 49-year-old Jeffrey Scott Blackburn both of Red Oak. Nelson was charged with Domestic Abuse Assault 2nd Offense. Blackburn was charged with Domestic Abuse Assault. Both subjects were arrested at their residence in the 500 block of Oakwood Avenue. Both were taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on no bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, an Iowa farmer and soldier turned politician who served 16 years in Congress, has died. He was 84.

The Democrat and former state Senate president, died at a Des Moines hospital on Friday after suffering complications from a rare form of cancer, said family spokesman and former chief of staff Grant Woodard.

Although he focused his political career on agriculture, securing services for veterans and their families and helping college students with financial aid, Boswell may have been best known for his plain-spoken, courtly demeanor. The civility he was known for in the state Senate initially carried over into his congressional campaigns, and he gained national attention when he and his first opponent stuck to their agreement not to launch personal attacks. Later campaigns, however, weren’t quite as gentlemanly.

Boswell spent two decades in the U.S. Army before beginning his political career in 1985, when he was elected to the Iowa Senate. He was also a farmer who often said one of his proudest political accomplishments was serving on the board of the Farmers Co-op Elevator in Lamoni. He helped keep that elevator going during the Midwest farm crisis of the 1980s.

Born in rural Missouri on Jan. 10, 1934, Boswell eventually settled in southern Iowa’s Decatur County and became a fixture in that community. His rural roots helped him in the Iowa Statehouse, where personal relationships often mean more than party affiliation.

He was known for working with both Republicans and Democrats. As Senate president for four years before being elected to Congress, he insisted lawmakers of both parties adhere to the rules and traditions of the chamber.

Rep. Dave Loebsack of Iowa said in a statement that Boswell gave him “counsel and advice” after he was first elected.

“Leonard Boswell set the bar high for what it meant to be a Member of Congress,” Loebsack said.

When he ran for an open U.S. House seat against Republican Michael Mahaffey in 1996, both candidates stuck to their pledge to run a civil campaign even when national party leaders tried to intervene.

That wasn’t always the case with Boswell’s campaigns, particularly in 2010 when Urbandale businessman Brad Zaun challenged him. That race featured a steady stream of negative television ads from both candidates. Boswell served eight terms in the House until he lost his re-election bid in 2012 to Republican Tom Latham.

Woodard noted Boswell was born on a farm, raised on a farm and for much of his life, carved out a living from the land.

“I don’t think you can get much more Iowan than that,” said Woodard.

A centerpiece bill for Boswell in Congress was a federal law bearing the name of Joshua Omvig, an Army Reservist from Grundy Center who committed suicide in December 2005 after returning from Iraq. The measure called for Veterans Affairs to devise a comprehensive program to prevent suicide among veterans, and it has led the government to hire more counselors and create hotlines for troubled veterans.

During his time in Washington, Boswell served as chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry, and he helped in writing the 2007 Farm Bill. He also served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and was named a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in 2001.

“His leadership was instrumental in writing a strong, bipartisan farm bill that honored our obligations to the men and women of agriculture,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. “He brought honesty, decency and civility to everything he touched.”

On education, Boswell supported expansion of the Pell Grant program, and he pushed for additional spending on student loan subsidies.

Before becoming a legislator, Boswell served 20 years in the U.S. Army, rising from the rank of private to lieutenant colonel. He served two one-year tours of duty as an assault helicopter pilot in Vietnam and two NATO tours of duty in Europe. He also was an instructor at the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Boswell was raised in Ringgold and Decatur counties and graduated from Lamoni High School. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Graceland College in Lamoni.

He met his wife, Dody, a teacher, during college and they were married for more than 50 years. They had three children and eight grandchildren.

“He left this world a better place than when he found it,” said Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says she has sent President Donald Trump a letter seeking a presidential disaster declaration for five counties struck by tornadoes in July.

Reynolds is seeking Federal Emergency Management Agency individual assistance funding for Marshall and Polk counties. The individual program offers disaster survivors assistance for housing, personal property replacement, medical expenses and legal services.

Reynolds also is seeking money from a public assistance program for Lee, Marion, Marshall and Van Buren counties which sustained an estimated $6 million in eligible damage. The program helps to rebuild roads, bridges, culverts and other public facilities or to cover costs of emergency work and debris removal.

The National Weather Service says at least 19 tornadoes cut across central Iowa on July 19 with the worst damage in Pella, Bondurant, and Marshalltown.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — More witnesses are suggesting the wrong man may be in prison for 31 years for an Iowa girl’s 1986 homicide.

The testimony is a boost for inmate Daniel Harris, who maintains his innocence in the death of 16-year-old Kristina Nelson in Council Bluffs and wants a new trial.

Earlier this year, a man who was at a party with Nelson’s boyfriend on the night she was killed came forward. He reported that Nelson’s boyfriend and friend went to pick up Nelson, returned covered in blood, said they might have killed someone, talked of disposing a body and burnt their overalls in a barrel.

Three other party attendees have now signed affidavits consistent with these claims. One reported seeing Nelson’s boyfriend struggling with a body in the trunk of a car. Another recalled seeing him upset and covered in blood.

Harris offered proof at trial that he worked at Burger King that evening, but was convicted based on an informant’s since-recanted testimony.

Prosecutors oppose any relief for Harris.

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa medical center’s announcement that it will close its birth center has shocked the man whose name is on the public hospital.

The Van Diest Medical Center in Webster City announced Wednesday that it’ll close The Family Birth Place on Oct. 12, citing a declining number of births and the proximity of other obstetrical providers in the area, The Messenger reported.

Bob Van Diest said he was shocked by the news and hopes the hospital will reconsider. The hospital was previously called Hamilton Hospital until Van Diest and his wife, Mary Van Diest, gave $10 million to the hospital in 2008.

“Our local hospital is over a $30 million community investment,” Bob Van Diest wrote, “and for our hospital to say, don’t have your baby in our hospital is an insult to the taxpayers of Hamilton County.”

The facility receives part of its funding from a separate levy on property taxes, according to the county’s treasurer.

The hospital earned $93,055 in revenue from its delivery and labor room with expenses of $75,854 in 2017, according to an audit conducted by independent auditor Seim Johnson LLP, of Omaha. In 2016, the hospital had a delivery and labor room revenue of $185,083, with expenses of $109,417, according to the audit.

“It is unfortunate that the Van Diest Medical Center has decided to discontinue the OB service in Webster City,” said Daniel Ortiz-Hernandez, the city manager. “The hospital is an anchor in the community not only for the city of Webster City, but for all of Hamilton County.”

The OB service is a significant service that families consider when deciding whether or not to relocate to the community, Ortiz-Hernandez said.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a second man has found and arrested in Iowa on suspicion of first-degree murder in the shooting death of another man at an Omaha gas station.

Police said Friday that federal marshals and local police arrested 19-year-old Covarrubias Saturnino in Sioux City, Iowa.

Earlier this week, Omaha police arrested 37-year-old Antwan Lovejoy on charges of first-degree murder and two weapons counts.

Officers responded around 6 a.m. Sunday to investigate a report of shots fired at the store. They found 27-year-old Andrew Peek lying between gas pumps suffering from a gunshot wound. Peek later died at Nebraska Medical Center.

Police say store surveillance video shows Lovejoy shooting Peek and then Lovejoy and Saturnino fleeing in Peek’s car.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Association of School Boards will pay $20,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a lawyer and GOP activist who was fired after publicly praising Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Association director Lisa Bartusek said Friday the deal includes $5,000 in wages for Anna Bergman and $15,000 from its insurer for her attorneys’ fees and damages. In exchange, Bergman dropped a lawsuit in which she claimed the termination violated her free speech rights.

Bergman was the association’s director of policy and legal services from October 2017 until her February firing. The Waukee resident has also been active in the Republican Party, and is currently running for a seat in the Iowa House.

In January, Bergman wrote an opinion piece for the Des Moines Register that widely praised Reynolds’ record as governor, including on education funding. The column noted her association position.

Bartusek fired Bergman, saying the column wasn’t authorized by the association and conflicted with its nonpartisan objectives.

Bergman claimed she wrote the column as a private citizen.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City woman has been charged with insurance fraud, accused of lying to her insurer about the date of an accident.

Woodbury County District Court records say 42-year-old Jennifer Fuentes is charged with felony insurance fraud for a false submission. She didn’t immediately return a call Friday from The Associated Press. The court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for her.

A criminal complaint says Fuentes’ vehicle struck another vehicle on Feb. 16 when she backed out of a parking stall at work. The complaint says she applied that evening for insurance to cover her vehicle. Then, the complaint says, she filed a claim Feb. 19 with her new insurer. She reported that the accident had occurred that day, instead of Feb. 16, before she applied for coverage.