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CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — A northern Iowa woman has been accused of injecting her mother with insulin in an attempt to kill her. Floyd County District Court records say 44-year-old Jennifer Bean is charged with attempted murder. Bean’s next court hearing is scheduled for Friday.

A court document says Bean injected her mother on Nov. 6 in Charles City. The document says the insulin caused the woman to have low blood sugar that, if not treated, could have resulted in the woman’s death.
The documents also say Bean struck and pushed her mother and took away a phone when her mother tried to call 911 for help.

(Radio Iowa) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says U.S. drivers WILL have access to E15 gasoline next summer. Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is trying to alleviate concerns about the timeline his agency has proposed for moving to year-round sales of E15. “We will be able to go to year-round E15 by next summer. This is a commitment by President Trump,” Wheeler said.

The published agenda by the EPA shows E15 rule making will begin in February. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and other ethanol supporters say that timeline would make it difficult to deliver E15 for the 2019 summer driving season. Wheeler insists the normal rulemaking process will be completed in time. “So, that does take a little bit of time but our people are already working on it and we’ll be putting out the proposal and getting those comments and then finalizing it before the driving season,” Wheeler said.

The Renewable Fuels Association has said the EPA should expedite the rulemaking process so drivers and the industry have the assurance of next summer’s E15 availability. According to Wheeler, all deadlines will be met for it to be available.

(Radio Iowa) — The administrators of state agencies soon will begin presenting their budget outlines for NEXT year to Governor Kim Reynolds in a series of hearings. The leaders of nine state agencies will make their cases to the governor this (Tuesday) afternoon at the statehouse. Reynolds, a Republican, spent much of the summer and fall out on the campaign trail and won a four-year term in office a week ago today (Tuesday). “It’s nice to be back in the office and start to catch up on some of that stuff,” Reynolds says.

The next state budgeting year starts July 1st. Reynolds will present a proposed outline for state spending to legislators in January. The governor says tax receipts appear steady and reserve accounts are full. “It’s a much better place than we’ve been in for the last two legislative sessions and I’m looking forward to that,” Reynolds says. Lawmakers made mid-year budget cuts in each of the past two years after state tax collections slipped below expectations.

Police in Creston say a distracted driver caused a property damage accident in Creston, Monday night. 18-year old Clayton Calvin Koenen, of Creston, was turning from the stop sign at the intersection of Wyoming Avenue and S. Division Street, when he turned to look at his friends’ house. Koenen didn’t see a legally parked 1999 Pontiac Grand Am. His 1997 Dodge pickup struck the car, causing $3,000 damage to the Pontiac, and $200 damage to the pickup truck. No injuries were reported, and no citations were issued. The accident happened at around 9-p.m., Monday.

JANESVILLE, Iowa (AP) — A parent used a chair to guide a deer back outside a northeast Iowa school after it jumped through a window to get in. The deer broke through a window in the superintendent’s office Monday afternoon at the Janesville Consolidated School District school building in Janesville.

Superintendent BJ Meaney says the parent was picking up his child when the deer broke in. Meaney credited the parent, Josh Smith, with quick thinking in grabbing the chair to guide the deer out of the building.
Meaney says classes went on as scheduled, and workers cleaned up the broken glass and boarded up the window.

A call from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office late Monday night about a suspicious vehicle, resulted in the arrest of a woman on drug charges. Authorities say occupants of the vehicle had been seen rummaging through trash cans in Villisca and were told by the homeowner to leave. Montgomery County officials informed Adams County the vehicle was heading toward the Montgomery/Adams County line.

Adams County deputies located the vehicle at around 12:30-a.m. today (Tuesday), near the intersection of Highway 148 and Juniper Avenue. Upon further investigation, Joleen Most, of Corning, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana, Possession of a Controlled Substance (Benzodiazepines) and Possession of drug paraphernalia. Most was also issued a written citation for having no insurance (Vehicle-related). Her bond was set at $2,300.

Police in Council Bluffs, Monday, arrested a man on attempted murder, and other charges. Authorities say at around 6:19 p.m., officers were dispatched 17 Walter Neuman Circle for an armed subject. While in route to the call, information was relayed that a male subject was attacking a female subject with a knife, or knives. Officers located the suspect, 41-year old Joey Stalbosky, of Council Bluffs, on the street.

Stalbosky was taken into custody after a brief struggle, during which he was tased. Further investigation revealed Stabolsky had also threatened to kill the victim, which was his girlfriend – 43-year old Michelle Fastnacht, of Council Bluffs.

Stabolsky was last reported to be at local area hospital for treatment of unrelated medical needs. When he is released, he will be booked for Attempted Murder, two counts of Harassment 1st, Disobedience to a Peace Officer, and Public Intoxication.

Stalbosky (Not a current booking photo)

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

NORTHWOOD, Iowa (AP) — Nearly 170 dogs showing signs of neglect in filthy kennels have been seized from an overcrowded puppy mill in northern Iowa. A Worth County Sheriff’s Office news release says the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took the animals away for medical and other care after deputies served a warrant Monday. The dogs are all Samoyeds. Sheriff Dan Fank says investigators are still scouring the scene and that animal neglect charges are pending against the owner.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Nearly half of Iowa’s counties have approved use of all-terrain or utility vehicles for public roadways, and at least one large county is considering joining the trend. The Telegraph Herald reports that Dubuque County supervisors have been considering the issue since two riding groups approached the board in February seeking access to roads. The vehicles are currently only permitted on county roads for agricultural reasons.

RED OAK, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a 69-year-old woman and her two sons were flown to a Nebraska hospital for treatment after a fight broke out at their Red Oak home in western Iowa. Police say Viola Rinehart grabbed a hammer Sunday to fend off her older son, Kain, who attacked her and his brother, Luke, with a knife. Luke also armed himself with a knife. Police say Kain Rinehart is being charged with attempted murder. Court records don’t list an attorney for him.

(Radio Iowa) — Iowa Congressman Steve King says he will push back harder against media outlets which he says “don’t tell the truth.” King, a Republican from Kiron, won a narrow victory to retain the Fourth District seat last week over Democrat J-D Scholten, who King claims was funded by out-of-state interests.
“They said there was going to be a blue wave and then a blue tsunami but that didn’t really materialize,” King says. “What did materialize was a green tsunami, money coming out of cyberbully corporate people. Only 14% of his donors were Iowans and the rest of them were East Coast and West Coast. Millions of dollars and we think we were outspent something like 14-to-1.”

King barred some media outlets from his events in Sioux City on election night. He says he will not tolerate the untrue coverage of what he says and does. King says, “When we have print media, and I’m going to say the Des Moines Register in particular and to a lesser degree the Sioux City Journal, and multiple other newspapers including the Washington Post and the New York Times, when they know the truth and refuse to print the truth and we call them out on what is true and it’s not their narrative so they won’t print it, those things all have to change.”

King says he will push back against false charges. “I’m calling them all out every time for every instance and if I have to hire a whole staff of people to do it, that’s what we’re going to do,” King says. “This district and this area of the country and hopefully the nation is going to get the truth and we’re going to find out the truth about them. I’d a lot rather it be me standing here then them because we’re right, they’re wrong. We’re honest, they’re not.”

King says he’s thrilled to have prevailed after being so maligned and outspent during the election. He concludes: “The principles of the Upper Midwest, the heart of the heartland, are what will carry America through to the future.”