One person was said to have been injured and transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Saturday, following a rollover accident one-quarter of a mile east of Wiota on Highway 83. The accident was reported at around 4:21-p.m.

According to dispatch reports, a pickup was apparently passing another vehicle..possibly a tractor…when the vehicle went out of control and rolled into the ditch and landed on its wheels.

The male driver was transported to CCMH after he extricated himself from the pickup. Anita Rescue and Wiota 1st Responders responded to the scene. No other details were immediately available.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Pete Buttigieg, who hopes to become the first openly gay presidential nominee from a major political party, said at an LGBTQ event in Des Moines, Saturdays that activists must band together to deny President Donald Trump a second term. “We’ve got a lot to worry about, a lot to fight for, but we have the means to do it,” he said. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, stressed the need for people to vote and to become involved in politics.

Speaking before an audience gathered for LGBTQ pride festivities in front of the Iowa statehouse, Buttigieg accused the Trump administration of lacking a clear answer about whether people can be fired from their job for being gay.

In a 2017 Supreme Court case brought by a man who said he was fired from his job when he revealed he was gay, the Justice Department argued that federal protections did not cover sexual orientation. But the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a brief supporting the plaintiff in the case.

Buttigieg also railed against policies by the department of State and Health and Human Services that he said prevent same-sex couples from adopting children internationally, and prevent transgender Americans from getting health care.

Seven other candidates planned to speak at the event in the capital. On Friday night, Buttigieg attended a dinner honoring Matthew Shepard, the young gay man whose brutal 1998 beating and murder heightened national awareness on the issue of gay rights, and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was behind the bar at a gay bar.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — Officials at a chicken processing plant in northeastern Iowa announced the plant will close in August, taking 500 jobs with it. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that the Simply Essentials chicken processing plant in Charles City closes on Aug. 5.

Employees were told Thursday in a letter that 479 plant workers, 22 administrators and 12 field operations workers would be laid off. The letter says the layoffs are expected to be permanent.

Simply Essentials has been in business since 2013, with a primary focus on health and wellness foods. It bought the Charles City plant in 2016. The Iowa Economic Development Authority Board awarded the company $1 million in investment tax credits and $66,000 through a refund of sales and other taxes paid during construction.

Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 31-year old Casey Lee Tunnell, of Red Oak, Saturday. Following a traffic stop, Tunnell was arrested at around 7:45-a.m. for OWI/2nd offense. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says no injuries were reported following a rollover accident Saturday afternoon, near Red Oak. Deputies responded at around 12:56-p.m. to the scene west of Hawkeye Ford on Highway 34. Upon arrival, they found a 2000 Ford Expedition in the north ditch on its driver’s side.

An investigation revealed the SUV was traveling east on Highway 34 and had approached an eastbound vehicle from behind. A motorcycle ahead of the SUV completed a pass of the vehicle and while overtaking the eastbound vehicle, another vehicle traveling westbound came into view from the curve in the road.

The driver of the Expedition, 29-year old Leroy D. Gladden, of Omaha, avoided colliding with the westbound vehicle by steering onto the north shoulder of the road. The SUV went out of control and overturned before landing on the driver’s side, facing northwest.

Neither Gladden nor his juvenile passenger were injured as a result of the crash. Gladden was cited however, for Unsafe passing, and Driving Under Suspension. The SUV, owned by Amber N. Gladden, of Omaha, sustained $3,500 damage and is considered a total loss.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The cities of Dubuque, Fort Dodge and Oskaloosa have been awarded federal grants to clean up and redevelop contaminated sites.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that the cities had been selected to receive $1.6 million in brownfield grants. They’re among 149 communities nationwide selected to receive 151 grant awards totaling nearly $65 million.

Dubuque will receive $800,000 to revitalize areas across the community, including sites in the South Port, Washington Neighborhood and North End neighborhoods. Fort Dodge is getting $500,000 to clean up the Wahkonsa Annex contaminated with inorganic contaminants, and Oskaloosa will get $300,000 to promote investment in existing neighborhoods, encourage cleanup and reuse contaminated property.

Police in Red Oak, Friday evening, arrested 52-year old Barbara Darlene Wilson, of Red Oak. The woman was taken into custody in the 600 block of Sunset Avenue on a charge of Simple Assault. Her bond was set at $300.

w/ Chris Parks

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NEVADA, Iowa (AP) — Central Iowa law enforcement officials say a second arrest has been made in a home invasion robbery last year in which an 82-year-old woman who was sexually assaulted.

The Des Moines Register reports that 20-year-old Manuel Eduardo Balderas was arrested Thursday in Des Moines on a warrant charging him with sexual abuse, robbery, theft and willful injury. He was booked into the Story County Jail.

Police continue to search for another suspect, 18-year-old Jacob Jimenez. Police say Jimenez is the grandson of the elderly victim and that he led Balderas and a 17-year-old to the woman’s home last August. The three broke in, tied the woman up, beat her and sexually assaulted her. Police say the trio took about $1,000 worth of items from the home before going to burglarize the home of another one of Jimenez’s relatives.

The 17-year-old was arrested last month in Texas.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has denied a request by the attorney for former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad to stop a civil trial in which Branstad is accused of discrimination against a gay former state worker’s compensation commissioner.

Branstad and two former staffers were sued by Christopher Godfrey, who was pressured to quit after Branstad took over as governor in 2010 and received a pay cut. Godfrey claims it was because he’s gay. Branstad denies he knew that Godfrey is gay.

An eight-person jury is hearing the case in Polk County District Court. Branstad attorney Frank Harty claims the trial judge is allowing Godfrey to put Branstad’s and the Iowa Republican Party’s “anti-gay” views on trial, violating their free-speech rights.

Supreme Court Justice Thomas Waterman on Friday denied the request to stop the trial.