A Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputy responding Tuesday afternoon to disturbance in rural Crescent, arrested 55-year old Dale Margaret Mitchell, of Crescent. Mitchell was taken into custody for Assault without intent to cause Bodily Injury or Mental Illness. Her bond was set at $1,000. And, Deputies responded at around 2:40-p.m. Tuesday to a report of an armed subject at a residence in Underwood. Taken into custody for Assault w/use or display of a weapon, was 38-year old Elijah Luke Emery, of Underwood. He was being held in the Pott. County Jail on a $2,000 bond.

(Courtesy KNOD) – Members of the Harlan Community School District’s Board of Education Monday, asked Interim Superintendent Lynn Johnson to stay on another year.

(She said the Board announced their intention to open the position up to a permanent search, next November.)

Johnson said she accepted their invitation to stay on for another year.

Johnson was hired as Harlan’s Interim Schools Superintendent on July 15th. She served as the Arlington, Nebraska District Superintendent before retiring from the district on June 30, 2019.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Another former employee has been given probation for using guests’ credit cards for a scam at a Sioux City hotel. Woodbury County court records say 36-year-old Sandra Lalumendre was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison, suspended, and five years of probation. She’d pleaded guilty to one felony count of theft. Prosecutors dropped a credit card fraud charge in return.

Court documents say that from May 14 through Sept. 8 last year, Lalumendre and Ethan Ehlers fraudulently overcharged guests’ credit cards at the Howard Johnson hotel in downtown Sioux City. They’d then force refunds and split the money. The documents say the total was more than $32,700.

Ehlers has been sentenced to three years of probation. The two have been ordered to jointly pay $10,000 in restitution to the hotel.

INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — A proposal to spend an additional $3.5 million to build a Warren County courthouse and justice center has fallen short of approval. Officials say nearly 56% of voters supported the measure Tuesday, but it needed 60% of the votes to pass. Warren County Supervisor Aaron DeKock says the result disappointed him, but the project still will go back out to bid in January. Voters approved $29.9 million for the courthouse and justice center in August 2018. The project has been stalled since construction bids came back $7 million over budget. The old courthouse and jail have been torn down.