The Iowa Department of Public Health reports the following COVID-19 statistics from across the State, to date:

• 146, 288 Iowans had been tested for the virus
• 18,791 tested positive for COVID-19
• 127,070 have tested negative
• 10,640 have recovered
• 520 have died.
• 376 people were being treated for the virus in a hospital
• 117 patients were in an ICU
• 38 had been admitted over the past 24-hours
• 78 patients were on ventilators.
• The number of LTC facility outbreaks is up one at 38; 1,529 LTC patients/staff have tested positive; 670 have recovered, and 243 have died.

In western/southwest Iowa, the latest RMCC data show 9 hospitalized, 9 in an ICU, 2 were admitted to a hospital, and 5 people were on ventilators.  Here are the latest County COVID-19 numbers from the IDPH COVID-19 dashboard (# of cases/# of persons recovered):

• Cass County – 11/9 (377 tested, 354 negative, 12 tests pending)
• Adair – 9/5 (203 have been tested as of 5/29)
• Adams – 7/3
• Audubon – 12/8
• Guthrie – 48/29
• Montgomery – 6/5
• Pottawattamie – 235/152
• Shelby – 34/30.

Senior Alumni Scholarship Foundation (SASF) scholarship recipients were announced during the KJAN AHS Senior Class Night streaming event held May 21st. Atlantic High School seniors McKenzie Waters, Ethan Pross, and Emma Templeton were each awarded $2,500.

SASF honors the school and community that provided SASF alumni an excellent educational start through an endowment that has been funded by generous donations from Atlantic High School graduates. For more information about SASF see: https://atlanticsasf.org/

(Radio Iowa) — Authorities spent yesterday (Thursday) digging in a Waterloo suburb, apparently looking for evidence in the month-long search for a missing Arizona man and his step-daughter, who are believed to have been murdered. The property being searched is at the end of Timber Oak Road, a cul-de-sac, in a quiet Evansdale neighborhood. Officials dressed in white hazmat suits carrying shovels and digging equipment could be seen near a chicken coop on the undeveloped property. The FBI and officers from several local agencies were involved in the search. Late Thursday afternoon, police in Chino Valley, Arizona, confirmed the digging was connected to the disappearance of 45-year-old David Batten and 28-year-old Elissa Landry, who have been missing since April 19th.

Landry’s boyfriend, 24-year-old Mitchell Mincks, formerly of Waterloo, is a person of interest in the Arizona homicide case. On April 28th, he was arrested on unrelated charges at rural Waterloo home. Authorities say two pets belonging to Landry were found in Waterloo last month and her missing vehicle is also believed to be in the Waterloo area.

The Creston Police Department reports 31-year old Lance Keaton Wood, of Lexington, MO., was arrested Thursday morning in Creston, on a warrant for Failure to Appear April 30th, on a prior charge of Public Intoxication. Wood was seen by the Union County Magistrate, plead guilty and was released. Police said also, a man residing in the 800 block of N. Spruce Street, reported Wednesday, that someone had keyed the passenger side of his 2014 Toyota Tundra pickup. The damage was estimated at $200.