The Harlan Police Department reports two recent arrests and one non-injury accident. Officials say on Sunday, 27-year old Joel Guzman Cabrera, of Omaha, was arrested following a traffic stop. He was charged with OWI, and cited for having an improper lamp. And, on July 23rd, 58-year old Jeffrey Alan Schmidt, of Harlan, was arrested for Public Intoxication.

And, on July 30th, no one was injured when an SUV turned in front of a garbage truck, in Harlan. The accident happened in the 1900 block of Chatburn Avenue, as a 2016 Chevy Equinox and a 2009 International garbage truck were traveling west on Highway 44.

According to Harlan Police, the SUV, driven by Betty Grote, of Harlan, failed to yield to the truck while making an improper right turn. The SUV hit the garbage truck and became wedged under the assistance step located under the garbage trucks’ left door. The truck, driven by Chad Kroger, of Harlan, sustained damage to the step and fuel tank brackets. The SUV sustained right front corner damage, wheel and tire, and front bumper became dislodged.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds says in-person classes are to be the primary mode of educating Iowa’s K-through-12 students this school year.

On Monday night, Urbandale’s school board voted to continue online classes for a year-round school that state officials ordered to start in-person classes this Friday. And Waukee school officials issued a statement, saying state law gives them local control over these decisions. During a mid-day news conference, Reynolds strongly pushed back.

Reynolds says the vast majority of Iowa school are planning to start the school year with in-person classes, while a handful of districts are not following her guidance.

If Urbandale, Waukee, Des Moines, Ames and Iowa City districts begin this August with remote learning without state officials’ approval, the governor says students will not get credit for those days of on-line instruction. The governor also is accusing the media of stoking fears that children will contract the virus at school and teachers may die of it.

Reynolds says school administrators in districts that begin remote learning without state approval may lose their license.

Reynolds says state officials will meet with administrators from the five districts that are so far sticking with plans for remote learning in hopes of resolving the impasse.

The governor’s spokesman says a state-maintained website will list the 14-day rolling average of positive Covid-19 cases in every school district. Once the so-called positivity rate reaches 15 percent AND at least 10 percent of students are absent, district officials may seek state permission to send all students home and shift to online instruction only for 14 days.

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — An 82-year-old Iowa man has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife’s son during a domestic disturbance at his northwestern Iowa home in May. The Sioux City Journal reports that Thomas Knapp entered the plea Monday in Plymouth County District Court. Knapp is charged with first-degree murder and willful injury in the May 11 death of 51-year-old Kevin Juzek in Knapp’s Merrill home.

Police say Knapp shot Juzek with a 20-gauge shotgun through a bedroom door, then deliberately shot him again in the chest.

One person was injured during a single-vehicle accident that took place at around 2:40 this (Tuesday) morning, in Page County. The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports 22-year old Jacob James Bond, of Essex, was driving a 2009 Chevy Impala southbound on Highway 48, when the car drifted to the right of the fog line, outside the rumble strips.

When Bond over-corrected, the car crossed the center line and left the road. It entered the east ditch that was holding standing water of two-to three-feet deep. The vehicle rolled at least once and came to rest on its roof in the water. Bond had exited the vehicle prior to the accident being reported by a passerby as a vehicle in the ditch.

He was found by Emergency personnel and transported to Shenandoah Memorial Hospital by Shenandoah Ambulance Service. Bond was issued a citation for Failure to maintain control. The accident is still under investigation and more charges are possible at this time.

The Shenandoah Police Department, Shenandoah Fire Department, Shenandoah Ambulance service assisted the Page County Sheriff’s Office with this incident.

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports a woman from Coin was arrested Monday. 29-year old Destiny Estalin Louise Graham was taken into custody on a Page County warrant for Failure to appear. Graham was arrested in Coin and transported to the Page County Jail, where she was being held on $300 bond.

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Police in suburban Des Moines say a pregnant teenager has died in an overnight shooting at an Ankeny hotel. Police say the shooting happened around 11 p.m. Monday at WoodSpring Suites, near Interstate 35. Arriving officers found 17-year-old Mia Holmes, of Ankeny, suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. Homes was rushed to a local hospital, where she and her unborn child died. Investigators say they are searching for an 18-year-old Des Moines man. Police indicated the shooting was not believed to be random.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a northeastern Iowa woman has died of her injuries after her bicycle was hit by a truck in rural Floyd County. The Globe Gazette reports that the crash happened Sunday evening, when a truck driven by a 43-year-old Clarksville man, hit a bicycle ridden by 28-year-old Ellen Bengston, of Charles City. The Iowa State Patrol says Bengston was flown to a Mason City hospital. Hospital officials said Monday that Bengston had died of her injuries. The crash remains under investigation.