The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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In an update to our earlier reports, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office today released additional details about a pursuit, crash and stand-off that took place Sunday morning. At around 4:39-a.m., a Cass County Deputy stopped a vehicle on Interstate 80 at the Cass-Adair line. The vehicle was originally called in by a citizen as being an impaired or tired driver. The odor of marijuana was detected coming from the vehicle. When the deputy asked the driver, 26-year old Eric B. Fallah, of Brooklyn Park, MN., to exit the vehicle, Fallah took off from the stop in his vehicle eastbound on interstate 80.
He then pulled over after a short pursuit and would not exit the vehicle. The vehicle took off again and led law enforcement on another pursuit. The vehicle exited at the Adair 75 exit. Fallah wrecked the vehicle off the curve in the exit due to excessive speed. Authorities say Fallah again would not follow orders from law enforcement and a stand off with him followed. He began tossing numerous packages and containers of narcotics from the vehicle as law enforcement from surrounding agencies responded.
A Shelby County Sheriff K9 unit was deployed at the scene and the subject was taken into custody. Eric Fallah was transported to CCMH by Adair Fire/Rescue and later transferred to Omaha. Multiple charges are pending at this time, some of the charges include: delivery of controlled substance, drug tax stamp, prohibited acts, and eluding.
The Griswold School Board is set to meet 5:30 this evening in the Elementary School Library. On their agenda is discussion on: Estimated Facility Savings; The first reading of Board Policies, series 400 and 401, IASB Policy updates and an Annual Review of Board Policies in series 505 and 711.
Discussion and Action items on their agenda include (but not limited to) the following:
(Radio Iowa) — Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz says he agrees with the Big Ten’s decision to play a conference only football schedule even though it cost the Hawkeyes two games against in-state foes. Iowa was scheduled to open the season at home against Northern Iowa and was also set to host the annual Cy-Hawk game against Iowa State.
It will be the first time since 1976 the Hawkeyes and Cyclones have not met.
Ferentz says he is more focused on just having a season.
Sophomore center and Solon native Tyler Linderbaum says it is disappointing to lose the in-state games.
The latest Iowa COVID-19 dashboard update shows Guthrie County currently has 103 positive cases of the virus (as of 10-a.m., 7/20), and Cass County has one more confirmed case. On Sunday, Guthrie County had 98 positive cases with 62 recovered, but Iowa health officials said a “significant number” of coronavirus tests had not been reported over the weekend due to a backlog in the department’s electronic reporting system. The Iowa Department of Public Health said its COVID-19 website will continue to update, and noted daily case counts from last week will be adjusted as it processes the backlog. In Cass County, the number of positive cases, which was at 30 last week, but then dropped to 29 over the weekend, was back up to 30, as of today (Monday), with one more recovered, for a total of 26.
Audubon County reported one new case, for a total of 21. The number of cases in Pottawattamie County continue to slowly climb, from 916 Sunday to 919 today. In Pott. County, the number of those recovered was unchanged this morning, at 696. Montgomery County reported one new COVID-19 recovery, for a total of 14. There was no recovery data available for Adams and Audubon Counties, and no change in the number of positive cases in Adair and Adams Counties.
Statewide, Iowa health officials report 343 new positive coronavirus cases, for a total of 38,907, and one additional death, for a total of 793. A total of 419,267 individuals have been tested for COVID-19, to date. Of those, 379, 105 have tested negative for the virus, and 27,950 have recovered.
Iowa’s coronavirus hospitalization numbers have been on the rise since the beginning of July. IDPH report 221 patients hospitalized as of today (Monday), compared to 214 Sunday. There are 76 patients listed in intensive care, 21 patients were admitted to a hospital and 30 are on a ventilator. Region 4 data shows eight people are hospitalized for COVID-19 in western/southwestern Iowa, four are in an ICU, one was admitted to a hospital since Saturday, and one person remains on a ventilator.
There are currently coronavirus outbreaks in 16 of Iowa’s long-term care facilities. IDPH reported 421 positive cases and 92 recoveries within those facilities. There have been 421 deaths in Iowa’s care facilities.
(Radio Iowa) – The extreme heat of July is starting to stress some of Iowa’s corn and soybean crops, as conditions vary across the state. Iowa State University Extension field agronomist Angie Rieck-Hinz says much of the corn crop in western Iowa is having a difficult time. “Even the rain we get now is probably not going to help that a whole lot, just because it’s been so dry there for so long,” Rieck-Hinz says. “The rest of Iowa, like northeast Iowa, is fairly wet. I don’t anticipate seeing any yield loss potential on that, simply from the standpoint that they’ve had adequate rain.”
The condition of Iowa’s soybean fields is wide ranging as well. “South-central Iowa, west-central Iowa, southwestern Iowa, those beans look stressed,” she says. “You get anywhere else in north-central Iowa and going into northeast Iowa, the beans look really good. Almost to R-3 in almost all of the bean fields, which means we’re at beginning pods.” This past weekend brought Iowa some of the most oppressive heat of the year, with heat indices statewide in triple digits, so soybeans are becoming more and more stressed.
“We’re really pushing that crop this year with this heat,” Rieck-Hinz says. “I think the big challenge we’re going to look at going forward in time with beans is, we’ll see whether we get a pest outbreak or not.” Rieck-Hinz is based at the Wright County Extension Office in Clarion.
(Radio Iowa) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is the latest Republican to speak at an annual gathering of Iowa religious conservatives that presidential candidates like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have addressed in the past. Pompeo’s remarks to the summit sponsored by The Family Leader emphasized religious liberty concerns. “Right now, four out of five people around the world don’t enjoy full religious freedom,” he said, “and we’re fighting tooth and nail to change that.”
Sec. of State Mike Pompeo
Pompeo specifically criticized the Chinese Communist Party’s actions in Hong Kong and threats against Taiwan. “We’ve called out China’s war on faith, its mass detention of Uighurs,” Pompeo said. “Its godless decisions to replace church displays of the Ten Commandments with word from General Secretary Xi have not gone without being called out.”
Pompeo, a former Kansas congressman, told the crowd the Trump Administration also been focused on a critical mission to bring fairness into U.S. trade relationship with China.According to The Family Leader, Pompeo addressed a crowd of about 650 late Friday afternoon in West Des Moines. Pompeo also met privately Friday afternoon with members of the Iowa Farm Bureau and the Iowa Soybean Association.
Police in Red Oak report the arrest at around 3:10-a.m. today (Monday), of 20-year old Tyler Blaine Baucom. The Red Oak man was arrested at the intersection of Highway 34 and 48th Street, for Harassment in the 1st Degree. Baucom was previously arrested Sunday morning on charges of assault and interference with official acts. Following his latest arrest, he was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office assisted Red Oak Police in the investigation and arrest of Baucom.
At around 10:20-p.m., Sunday, Red Oak Police arrested 47-year old Rondy Ruby Porter, of Red Oak, following a traffic stop. Porter was taken into custody for driving with a Revoked License. Her bond was set at $1,000.
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