Officials with the Sac City Police Department today (Monday) took a report of a subject trying to call two East Sac Middle School Students over to his pickup truck. Neither of the students went over to the truck. The truck was described as a mid-2000 model Chevy or Ford, that was black or blue in color. The subject driving was described as an older male with grey hair, wearing a baseball hat, and smoking a cigarette. The Sac City Police Department would just like to remind parents to remind their children, don’t ever talk to strangers and never approach a strange vehicle. If they are confronted by a stranger, to run away and tell the closet adult or call 911 immediately

Officials with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office report a man from Avoca was arrested at around 1:40-a.m. Sunday, for Burglary in the 2nd degree, Violation of a court order, and Criminal Trespass, after Deputies were called to the 500 block of South Cedar Street, in Avoca, for a reported trespasser. 33-year old Jeremy Theron Harriman was taken into custody.

An Underwood man was arrested late Sunday night, following a disturbance in Walnut. 48-year old Mark Emmett Heenan was arrested for Violating a Protective Order, and Driving While Barred.

Oakland man was arrested early Saturday morning for OWI/1st offense. 32-year old Corey Andrew Stephens was arrested at around 2:10-a.m. in Oakland, after he was initially stopped for having an invalid driver’s license. A records check revealed Stephens was also wanted on a warrant for Contempt of Court/Failure to pay child support. He was cited for Driving Under Suspension, and arrested on the other charges.

A Nebraska man was arrested Saturday afternoon in Council Bluffs, for Eluding and Reckless Driving. 46-year old Robert L. Crane, of Omaha, was taken into custody at around 4:05-p.m., after deputies stopped his motorcycle near S. Chautauqua Avenue and Brown Street.

A traffic stop a little after 1-a.m. Sunday near 290th and Highway 92 in Pott. County, resulted in the citations for two men from Council Bluffs. 19-year old’s Charles Raymond Gray and Evan Mitchell Coenen were cited for Possession and/or purchase of alcohol by persons under the legal age.

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) – Many northwest Iowa students have hoped to save several thousand dollars by enrolling at the University of South Dakota over the past two years. The Sioux City Journal reports that the South Dakota Board of Regents began extending in-state tuition to new Iowa freshman and transfer students attending one of the state’s four public universities in the 2016-17 school year.

The University of South Dakota’s in-state tuition and fees is about $8,700 for the 2017-18 year, which is about $3,200 less than out-of-state tuition. The university says the incentive has led to a nearly 70 percent increase in Iowa residents attending the university, with more than 300 students attending this academic year.

The university also offers the in-state tuition rate to the children of alumni.

A central Iowa man was among those attending the country music festival in Las Vegas last (Sunday) night where at least 50 people were killed and more than 400 were hospitalized in the worst mass shooting in United States history. Justin Zimmerman, of Dexter, says he was standing in the back of the crowd when he started hearing noises — but he wasn’t sure what it was.  “I just heard a bunch of popping and I looked over to the soundstage where the lights were at and I just thought something was going crazy, then you realize it’s not, it’s gunshots,” Zimmerman says. “The next thing you know, you look up and there’s a wave of people running toward you. I kind of just froze, just like ‘no way’. Then everything stops, and you think you just heard something wrong. Then another round of popping came and it was just pandemonium.”

Zimmerman says everybody tried to take cover as best as they could as the gunfire was going off. He says everybody hit the ground or started running. “For a second there, I just got on the ground and you could just hear 10 to 20 seconds of non-stop ‘pop pop pop pop pop pop pop’. Every time it would stop, people would get up and start running. The first time I just laid down and then when it started again, people would just pile on top of you where you were at, and it was just crazy.”

Zimmerman says he got separated from the group he was with at the concert, but knows his friends are okay.  He says he had walked away from his friends to go to the beer stand. “I was all by myself for the rest of the night. It was weird because I just happened to walk away, and the next thing you know, there were 20-thousand people there, everybody was just scattering, it was unreal.”

Police say the shooter was found dead in a 32nd-floor room of a nearby hotel with as many as ten firearms.

(Radio Iowa)

The Union County Sheriff’s Office says a woman from Lenox reported Sunday afternoon, that someone had entered her property and stolen several items valued at $4,000. The theft happened sometime between 11:30-p.m. Sept. 13th and 3:30-a.m. Sept. 14th. The stolen possessions include a 32” Element flat screen television, HP laptop computer, SEC Camera, Ruger .22 pistol, Delta miter saw, Craftsman 220v air compressor, and other tools and miscellaneous items.

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Police in Creston report the arrest at around 1:50-a.m. Sunday, of 48-year old Diane Woodhull.  The Creston woman was arrested in the 400 block of S. Division in Creston, on a charge of Public Intoxication/2nd offense. She was being held in the Ringgold County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A monthly survey of business leaders suggests economic conditions are still improving for nine Midwest and Plains states. A report released Monday (Today) says the Mid-America Business Conditions Index rose to 58.2 in September from 57.5 in August and 56.1 in July. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says international sales, strong profit growth and low interest rates boosted the economic outlook among supply managers in the nine-state region.

The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests growth in that factor. A score below that suggests decline. The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

October brings a month-long series of assemblies across Iowa for REAP, or Resource Enhancement and Protection. Tammie Krausman, the REAP coordinator for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says they focus on issues like habitat, water quality and preservation of cultural heritage. “REAP is one of the most popular conservation, natural resources and historic development programs in the state,” Krausman says. “One of the reasons it stays so relevant is because every few years, we get out and hold 18 meetings across the state to talk to Iowans about what they really want from those types of programs.”

The assemblies cover a wide range of topics centered on outdoor recreation, soil and water enhancement, historical resources, land management and more. “We get together in a room, we give a brief history of REAP so everyone is on the same page, and then we open it up for questions,” Krausman says. “We talk about all of the local things that have happened with REAP in that area. We ask people what they really want to see with these programs in the future.”

Also at the meetings, delegates are elected to attend the REAP Congress. It will be held on January 6th in the House chambers of the Iowa State Capitol. “All of the delegates who were elected at the individual REAP assemblies come together and we really hard-core debate REAP policy, natural resources policy, conservation, outdoor recreation,” Krausman says. “Then, we make those recommendations to the governor, to the general assembly and to the Natural Resources Commission.”

The assembly meetings run about 90 minutes. The first of the 18 assemblies is planned for Wednesday in Spencer, with another on Thursday in Lehigh. Other meetings will be held this month in: Ventura, Chariton, Maquoketa, Shenandoah, Iowa City, Burlington, Oskaloosa, Marshalltown, Calmar, Carroll, Afton, Neola, Waterloo, Correctionville, West Des Moines and Muscatine. See the complete schedule at: www.iowareap.com

(Radio Iowa)