Officials with the Adams County Sheriff’s Department have released a list of numerous persons arrested this past week (Aug. 6th-thru 11th). Most recently, at around 11:30-p.m. Friday, Adams County Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for traveling 84 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone. Upon further investigation, K9 Baxo was deployed on the vehicle and gave a positive indication to the odor of narcotics. A used hypodermic needle was located in the vehicle. While speaking with the driver, Jacqueline Svoboda of Lincoln, NE, she admitted to recently having heroin in the vehicle. Svoboda was charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and cited for excessive speed.

On Thursday, Adams County Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle operated by Bailey Tupper of Omaha, NE. While speaking with Tupper, a baggie of a substance believed to be marijuana was observed in the back seat in plain view. Upon further investigation, Tupper was placed under arrest for Possession of a Controlled Substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Three people were arrested Tuesday, in Adams County: Nathaniel Teeters was arrested on Adams County warrants for Gathering Where Controlled Substances Unlawfully Used, Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd or subsequent offense (marijuana), Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd or subsequent offense (methamphetamine), and Unlawful Possession of Prescription Drugs. The charges stem from a search warrant conducted at 500 4th Street in Nodaway on July 20th; Rosaline Stalker of Corning, was arrested on a charge of Interference with Official Acts; and, Shawn Kammerer, of Villisca, was arrested Tuesday, on an Adams County warrant for Probation Violation.

And on Monday, Adams County Deputies arrested Michael Longcor, of Henderson,  for Gathering Where Controlled Substances Unlawfully Used. The arrest stems from a search warrant conducted at 2575 Elm Avenue on June 29th.

(Radio Iowa) — Today (Saturday), is August 11th — or eight-one-one — which coincides with the three-digit telephone number Iowans need to call before they do any late summer digging in their yards. Seth Hale is spokesman for Iowa One Call. He says on this date, they’ll be doing a promotion to remind people across the state of Iowa, to call at least 48 hours before they dig. That includes any project, planting a tree, putting in a new mailbox, installing a fence, and also the big projects that professional excavators are doing.”

The goal of Iowa One Call, he says, it damage prevention. “There’s tens of thousands of miles of pipelines for gas and electric and communications and internet and water,” Hale says. “By not calling, you put yourself at risk of not knowing exactly where those utilities may be.”  By calling that single phone number of eight-one-one at least 48 hours before digging, that gives all of the utilities time to mark your yard, either with spray paint or colored flags, exactly where their lines are buried.

“Striking those utilities can put you at a safety risk,” Hale says. “Beyond that, your community and neighborhood may be at risk to lose service, to lose power, to not have natural gas, to not have water going to their homes and businesses. Making that call is vitally important not only for the people doing the work but for everybody else around.”

About 500-thousand calls were made to Iowa One Call last year, resulting in about two-and-a-half million “locate requests” from utilities. On the web at www.iowaonecall.com

Authorities say speed and alcohol are likely factors in the fatal motorcycle accident late Friday night, in central Iowa’s Jasper County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2001 Harley Davidson motorcycle was traveling east on Highway 6 just before 11-p.m., when it failed to properly execute a curve in the road. The cycle struck a mailbox and vaulted off a driveway before crashing.

One person died at the scene, another was flown by Mercy One helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. No names have been released.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:00 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The reward fund offered for the safe return of a missing University of Iowa student has grown to more than $332,000. Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa in a news release Thursday that 210 individual donors have contributed to the fund and that Crime Stoppers has passed on more than 935 tips to authorities investigating the disappearance of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — BNSF Railway has acknowledged flooding played a role in a derailment that loosed thousands of gallons of oil into northwest Iowa floodwaters. BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said Friday that the derailment was “flood related” but declined to say whether the train engineer knew or should have known about washed-out tracks mentioned in a preliminary federal report released Thursday.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa election officials were told Friday by the state Supreme Court they cannot implement several absentee voting requirements in a new voter ID law until a challenge to the law can be heard at a trial. A court order signed by Chief Justice Mark Cady upheld a judge’s temporary injunction halting enforcement of several sections of the 2017 law pertaining to absentee ballots.

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) — Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, is telling Iowa Democrats that the party needs a bare-knuckle fighter to take back the White House _ and he’s considering formally casting himself in the role. Avenatti was the closing speaker at the Democratic Wing Ding in Clear Lake, Iowa, a traditional stop for presidential hopefuls. He says “the Democratic Party must be a party that fights fire with fire.”

A blown tire on a motorcycle resulted in a fatal motorcycle accident Friday morning, near Desoto, in Dallas County. The Iowa State Patrol says a 2007 Harley Davidson cycle operated by 42-year old Matthew Allan Babcock, of Olivet, MI., was traveling east on Interstate 80 at around 9:50-a.m. near mile marker 109, when the back tire blew out.

The cycle went out of control, causing Babcock, and his passenger, 43-year old Jamie Lynn Babcock, also of Olivet, MI., to be ejected. Neither of the riders were wearing a helmet. Matthew Babcock suffered fatal injuries and died at Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. Jamie Babcock was also injured and transported to Methodist.

The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, Dallas and Waukee Rescue Squads assisted at the scene.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Republican House Speaker John Boehner says his party has an uphill climb in its goal to hold the majority. Boehner spoke during an impromptu press conference at the Iowa State Fair Friday. Boehner, who left office in 2015, says he would “do this a little differently,” when asked about the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese goods, as well as on steel and aluminum from allies.

Boehner says “I always thought you caught more bees with honey than vinegar.”
Boehner batted down questions of a presidential campaign while touring the fair, known for attracting White House prospects in the early presidential caucus state.
The former Ohio representative says he was in Des Moines visiting former Rep. Tom Latham, an Iowa Republican and close friend, and “had a few extra hours.”

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The reward fund offered for the safe return of a missing University of Iowa student has grown to more than $332,000. Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa in a news release Thursday that 210 individual donors have contributed to the fund and that Crime Stoppers has passed on more than 935 tips to authorities investigating the disappearance of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts.

Tibbetts was last seen jogging in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, on July 18. Her family reported her missing the next day when she didn’t show up for work.

Television station KCCI reports that the Tibbetts’ family and her boyfriend were at the state fairgrounds Friday handing out flyers bearing the picture of and information on Tibbetts.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa election officials were told Friday by the state Supreme Court they cannot implement several absentee voting requirements in a new voter ID law until a challenge to the law can be heard at a trial. A court order signed by Chief Justice Mark Cady upheld a judge’s temporary injunction halting enforcement of several sections of the 2017 law pertaining to absentee ballots. The order said the state cannot throw out an absentee ballot based on a judgment by local election officials that the voter’s signature doesn’t match one on file.

It also said Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate cannot require absentee ballots to include a voter verification number and he must make it clear in materials sent to voters that an ID isn’t required to vote until next year.

In elections this year, voters without IDs have been allowed to sign an “Oath of Identification” attesting that they are who they say they are. The oath option will remain available for the November election, which features competitive races for governor and at least two Republican-held U.S. House seats.

Next year, however, when there will be local races, the option of signing an oath will go away and voters must have acceptable identification or they will have to cast a provisional ballot, then return to show ID within a few days for their ballot to count.
Friday’s court order does allow the state to narrow the timeframe for casting absentee ballots to 29 days from 40 days, a change that will be effective for the general election in November.

The League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa and Iowa State University student Taylor Blair sued the state in May, arguing that changes in the voter ID law would disenfranchise voters, especially Latinos who vote absentee in large numbers.
They asked the court to issue an injunction halting enforcement of the absentee ballot provisions and a judge did so in July. The state appealed.

Guy Cecil, chairman of the Priorities USA Foundation, a voting rights advocacy organization that is helping to fund the lawsuit. Cecil said the court’s decision means voters in the fall elections “will no longer be forced to produce an obscure voter ID number in order to cast an absentee ballot, nor will they be in danger of having their ballot thrown out due to inaccurate signature matching.”

Pate said in a statement that he is disappointed the court set aside only part of the injunction but he looks forward to a full hearing in court. “Voters benefit from having clarity in how the election laws will be applied for the November general election,” he said.

The issue is a key topic for Pate’s re-election race this year. His opponent, Democrat Deidre DeJear, has been a critic of the law passed by a Republican-led legislature with Pate’s support.

(Radio Iowa) — Recent ag nuisance rulings against hog operations in North Carolina have resulted in large financial awards to the plaintiffs. But the legal counsel for the Iowa Pork Producers Association, Eldon McAfee, doesn’t believe those rulings will have much impact on livestock producers in the Midwest. McAfee says the North Carolina cases are focused on the manure handling practices of the farms, which differ from those used by most Midwestern farmers. “The use of lagoons and spray irrigation – which is what we call it here in Iowa – that’s regulated, as to how you can use spray irrigation. You can’t use it with undiluted manure,” McAfee says.

According to McAfee, although each case is different, several recent Midwestern nuisance rulings have been in favor of the farmers. “Nuisance cases are very fact-specific, both from the neighbors’ standpoint and from the producers’ standpoint, at least at the trial level,” McAfee says. “You can’t take a lot of precedential effect from one case to another. It depends on the facts of each case.”

McAfee works for the Brick Gentry law firm in West Des Moines.

(Radio Iowa)  — You think it’s hot on the Midway at the Iowa State Fair? A NASA space probe, designed in part at the University of Iowa, will be launched tomorrow (Saturday) morning on a mission to the sun. U-I physicist Jasper Halekas, a co-investigator on the Parker Solar Probe, says his main experiment is focused on what’s known as the solar wind. “It’s ionized hydrogen and helium and electrons,” Halekas says. “Those compose what we call the solar wind which is this stream of hot plasma that flows out from the sun constantly at around a million miles an hour.” Halekas’ helped to design SWEAP, which stands for Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons. It’s housed in three clusters of instruments onboard the spacecraft. With a reflective heat shield comprised mostly of carbon foam, the compact car-sized probe is built to withstand the incredibly scorching heat of the sun.

“We’ll get to about 25 times closer to the sun than the Earth is, which is about seven times closer than any human-made object has ever been before,” Halekas says. “In actual terms, that’s about four million miles.” By comparison, the closest planet to the sun, Mercury is about 36 million miles from the sun, so he says this probe will get “right in there.” The spacecraft will do a fly-by of our solar system’s second planet, Venus, in order to use its gravitational pull to “slingshot” the probe closer to the sun.

“About two months into the mission, we do our first fly-by of Venus and about a month after that, only three months after launch, we do our first close pass of the sun,” Halekas says. “Then, over the course of seven more years, we do six more fly-bys of Venus and nudge ourselves closer and closer and closer into the sun.” The front of the heat shield will have to withstand temperatures of around 25-hundred degrees Fahrenheit. The cooling system is so amazingly efficient that the back of the spacecraft, in the shadow of the heat shield, will be below room temperature. Launch of the solar probe is scheduled for about 2:30 AM/Central on Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop a Delta IV (four) Heavy rocket.