The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports a man was arrested on a Theft charge, Monday night. Officials say a Deputy responded to a residence in the 200 block of Walnut Street, where three portable electronic devices where stolen. 39-year old Jason Wayne Anderson, of Walnut, was arrested for 2nd Degree Theft.  And, 31-year old Phillip Houston, of Walnut, was arrested Monday night, for Domestic Assault, after a domestic disturbance occurred at a residence in the 700 block of Atlantic Street, in Walnut. His 34-year old girlfriend was not injured during the incident, according to the report.

A traffic stop on a vehicle traveling on the wrong side of a two-lane highway, Saturday morning, resulted in the arrest of a man on an OWI/1st Offense charge. 27-year old Joshua Michael Reicks, of Council Bluffs, was taken into custody at around 2:40-a.m. 46-year old Jim Wayne Metzger, of Crescent, was arrested a little after 4-p.m. Saturday, on a charge of Driving While Barred. And, at around 8:50-p.m. Saturday, 50-year old David Lester Dunsdon, of Council Bluffs, was arrested during a traffic stop, on a warrant charging him with two-counts of Fraudulent practices by counterfeiting or forgery.

Early Sunday morning, a Pott. County Deputy was dispatched to a residence in Avoca, after authorities received a report of a missing person. 30-year old Jennifer Dawn Mericle, of Avoca, was arrested a couple of hours later, for OWI/1st offense. A man showing signs of impairment following a traffic stop early Sunday morning in Pott. County, was arrested for OWI/1st Offense. 24-year old Connor Andrew Peck, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at around 3-a.m.

One person was arrested at around 8:20-p.m. Sunday, and warrants were applied for with regard to three other individuals, following an incident that occurred outside a residence on Cypress Avenue, in Council Bluffs. Authorities say 21-year old Mikala Michelle Desantiago, of Council Bluffs, was arrested for Criminal Mischief in the 2nd Degree/Destruction or Vandalism of Property. Criminal Mischief in the 2nd Degree warrants were requested for 26-year old Tyler Ryan Doty, 38-year old Joseph Therlou Abrams, and 19-year old Dillon Brandon James Miedl, all of Council Bluffs. Sheriff’s Officials allege the group was responsible for damage to a 2005 Chrysler Town and Country van, and 1998 Toyota Avalon. The vehicles sustained smashed windows. A garage door also sustained damage to a decorative glass panel. The damage was estimated at $1,050.

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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa man was seriously injured when he accidentally shot himself in the parking lot of a Davenport gun show. Davenport police on Monday told the Quad-City Times the man “had a negligent discharge of his personal firearm while seated in his vehicle” on Sunday at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds. The fairgrounds was hosting the Big Bore Gun Show at the time.

Police would only identify the victim as a 42-year-old man. His injuries were described as “potentially life-threatening” but he had improved by Monday. Loaded weapons aren’t permitted at the fairgrounds, including in the gun show. Police are deciding whether to charge the man for violating the loaded weapon ban.

The City of Harlan Public Works Department will be snow plowing throughout the day today, Tuesday, March 6th. The City is asking for voluntary off-street parking today AND tomorrow to assist the Public Works Department with snow removal. City Administrator Gene Gettys said “The City of Harlan appreciates your cooperation.”

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Senate wants to require Iowa grocers in a supplemental food program to offer conventional eggs if they sell eggs from chickens housed in cage-free, free-range or enriched colony cage environments. The Des Moines Register reports that senators passed the measure Monday and sent it to the governor.

The legislation would apply to grocers that participate as vendors in the federal program for Women, Infants, and Children, known as WIC. The measure would allow state officials to seek a federal waiver if necessary. Sen. Herman Quirmbach, D-Ames, says the bill amounts to “direct interference in the marketplace,” but Sen. Dan Zumbach, R-Ryan, praises the legislation for ensuring that a lower-cost choice for protein is available to people in the program. Cage-free chicken eggs typically are more expensive than conventional eggs from large operations.

The Iowa Dept. of Transportation reported at 7:17-a.m. today (Tuesday), that Highway 25, about three-miles north of Greenfield, is blocked in both directions, due to a crash.  Additional details are currently not available. Plan an alternate route of transportation. Near Redfield, a rollover accident was reported to have occurred on Highway 44. And, I-80 eastbound through Omaha to I-680 was temporarily closed due to an accident, along with snow and blowing snow restricting visibility.

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OSCEOLA, Iowa (AP) — An Osceola businesswoman has announced her Republican candidacy for the U.S. House seat representing Iowa’s 2nd District. Ginny Caligiuri said in her news release Monday that she’ll hold a campaign starting event Thursday in Osceola. She says she’s a “a pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-Israel, and pro-Constitution conservative.” She says that in Congress she’d also focus on religious liberty, veterans services and increasing opportunities for small- and medium-size businesses.

Caligiuri is a former bank vice president who has a history of activism with political prayer and evangelical advocacy groups. Coralville surgeon Christopher Peters announced his GOP candidacy last summer. The incumbent is Democrat Dave Loebsack. The 2nd District covers most of southeastern Iowa.

Governor Kim Reynolds seems to be leaving the door open to a bill that would cut the state income tax on corporations as well as reduce income taxes for individuals. “I feel confident that we’re going to get something done with tax reform this legislative session,” Reynolds says. “This is part of the process. I started with a bill. The Senate has a bill and now the good work starts to take place where we can find consensus and things that we don’t agree on.”

In January, Reynolds used part of her “Condition of the State” message to ask legislators to delay any decision on corporate tax cuts until next year. In mid-February, Reynolds unveiled a bill to gradually cut individual income tax rates by 23 percent. Last week, a House subcommittee endorsed the governor’s plan, while Senate Republicans voted to reduce corporate taxes as well as income taxes for individuals. On Monday, Reynolds was asked by reporters if she was open to the Senate G-O-P’s more expansive list of tax cuts. “I just want to make sure that it’s sustainable and that we can honor our commitments for education and some of our priorities and we’re doing it in a fiscally responsible manner and, within that parameter, we can have a discussion about a lot of things,” Reynolds said.

A three-member state panel meets this Friday to re-evaluate the official projection of state tax revenue for the current year. If the panel INCREASES it prediction of tax collections between now and June 30th, that would reduce or eliminate the legislature’s plan to cut the current year’s state budget to deal with LOWER than expect tax revenue.

(Radio Iowa)

Iowa’s Republican governor and the state ag secretary who just resigned to join the Trump Administration both say there’s concern in “farm country” about changes in U.S. trade policies. On Monday, President Trump tweeted that the only way Canada and Mexico get exempted from new tariffs on steel and aluminum will be if the North American Free Trade Agreement is renegotiated. Governor Kim Reynolds says she’s made it clear to members of Trump’s cabinet that “instability” in trade relationships will have a negative impact on Iowa’s farmers. “I’ve made it pretty clear where we stand on that,” Reynolds says. “….Especially, the fragile economy that we’ve had with the farm economy. With commodity prices under input costs, this is something that we monitor very, very closely.”

Reynolds, a Republican who became governor last May, says she is “o.k with” renegotiating trade deals, but since Canada and Mexico are Iowa’s two leading trade partners, she opposes abandoning NAFTA.”The impact that would have on our state and Midwestern states and, really, states all across the country — but I’m focused on Iowa, would be devastating,” Reynolds says. She says when she and the governors of Michigan, Tennessee and Arkansas met with Trump Administration officials in October, they suggested ways the president could “win” at trade. Reynolds also is warning any economic growth from the federal tax cuts would be erased if NAFTA is dissolved. President Trump often mentioned the federal trade deficit as he campaigned for the White House and he’s recently tweeted that a “trade war” would be easy for the U.S. to win. According to the governor, comments like that create “uncertainty” in the economy and Reynolds says she has “tremendous concern” about a trade war. “Our farmers are the first target…and we know that’s where the unintended consequences will fall…on our farmers and our manufacturers,” Reynolds says.

Bill Northey resigned as state ag secretary yesterday (Monday) and will be sworn in this (Tuesday) evening as an undersecretary in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Northey told reporters yesterday President Trump’s tweets won’t be in his “field of vision.” Instead, Northey indicated he’ll be taking direction from U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue.  “Certainly you’ve heard the secretary continue to say, and the president as well, that trade is important,” Northey says. “We need to improve trade. We need to increase trade. We need to do it in a fair way. There (are) concerns…when you have uncertainties, about where everything’s going in the future.”

And Northey says everyone “in farm country” understands the importance of trade — and the threat posed if other countries retaliate with tariffs on raw commodities like soybeans and on made-in-Iowa products like grain bins and tractors.

(Radio Iowa)