Police in Creston report one person was arrested on separate charges this (Friday) morning and two people were arrested Thursday afternoon. 21-year old Chandy Rose Waldhauser, of Lake City, was arrested a little after 2:30- this (Friday) morning, for OWI/1st offense. She was later released on a $1,000 bond.

On Thursday, Creston Police arrested 34-year old Jacob Jeffrey Fry, for Parole Violation, and 37-year old Dustin Ray Kilgore, on two warrants for Probation Violation. Both men are from Creston. Kilgore was being held in the Union County Jail on a total of $10,000 bond. Fry was being held in the jail without bond, until he’s seen by a magistrate.

And, a Creston man reported to Police Thursday evening, that the license plate was missing from his motorcycle. It’s not clear when the theft occurred.

The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson

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The new U.S. Secretary of Agriculture will spend much of today (Friday) in Iowa. According to the U.S.D.A., Sonny Perdue will deliver his first “major farm policy speech” as the nation’s ag secretary during a mid-morning event at a cattle farm near Nevada. IOWA Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey will be there.

“Certainly in his second week in the job, it’s a great thing to be to have him here,” Northey says. “I think Iowans are going to like him a lot. He’s going to feel very much like a regular down-to-earth, Iowa farmer almost — with a little bit of a twang.”

Perdue is the former governor of Georgia, but — as Governor Terry Branstad notes — Perdue has extensive roots in agriculture. “He’s been involved in the elevator business and, of course, he’s a veterinarian,” Branstad says. Branstad and Perdue had dinner in April when Branstad was in Washington, D.C. “That’s when he told me…’I might be from Georgia, but I don’t raise peanuts or cotton on my farm. I raise corn and soybeans,'” Branstad says.

Northey says there’s an ethanol plant near Perdue’s farming operation and Perdue has sold corn to the plant. Northey is rumored as under consideration for a job in the U.S.D.A. Northey says he hasn’t had an interview and hasn’t been told he’ll have one today (Friday) while Perdue’s in Iowa.

(Radio Iowa)

Police in Red Oak late Thursday night, arrested a man who allegedly broke into an unoccupied vehicle. 26-year old Cody Keen Blystone, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 11:07-p.m. in the Red Oak Hy-Vee parking lot, on a charge of 3rd Degree Burglary.

Officials noted Blystone has prior convictions for motor vehicle burglary, making this most recent charge a Class-D felony. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $5,000 cash bond.

Officials with the Iowa Department of Public Safety, early this (Friday) morning, issued an update with regard to an officer involved fatal shooting in northwest Iowa this past weekend. Authorities say Milford Police Officer Jesse Hoss has been identified as the Officer who fired his weapon after he and another Police Officer from the Arnold’s Park Police Department responded to a call about a domestic situation at 26 Westview Dr. in Milford.

The shooting occurred around 9:00PM Sunday April 30, 2017.  Officers Hoss and the Arnolds Park Police Officer approached the residence of 26 Westview Dr., when a male subject inside the residence who has since been identified as 52-year old Robert Brunner, pointed a handgun at the two officers.  Shots were exchanged between Brunner and Officer Hoss. Both officers retreated to safety and requested more backup.

Law Enforcement attempted to make contact with Mr. Brunner for several hours in effort to resolve the situation in a peaceful manner.  No contact was ever made with Mr. Brunner.  Law Enforcement made entry to the residence around midnight Sunday and located Mr. Brunner deceased.

Mr. Brunner was transported to the Iowa Office of State Medical Examiner in Ankeny Iowa.  On Thursday May 4, 2017, Dr. Jon Thompson, a pathologist at the Iowa Office of State Medical Examiner conducted a forensic autopsy.  Initial autopsy results show that Mr. Brunner sustained a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head and another gunshot wound to his torso.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety’s Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is actively conducting their investigation and no other details are being released at this time.  Once the DCI investigation has been completed it will be turned over to Dickinson County Attorney Jon Martin for his review.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A jury has ruled that former University of Iowa athletic administrator Jane Meyer was the victim of discrimination, retaliation and unequal pay and awarded her $1.4 million in total damages. Judge Michael D. Huppert says the eight-person jury found in favor of Meyer on all five counts. Meyer alleged she suffered discrimination as a gay woman in a relationship with field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A powerful Iowa regulator has mixed her state job with a personal law practice she runs, inadvertently using her government email for some private business and claiming sick leave on a day when she participated in a court hearing. Documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal that Iowa Utilities Board chairwoman Geri Huser used her state account to send messages to her law colleagues. A board spokesman says the messages were mistakenly sent through the wrong account.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A county judge will allow a mandatory 72-hour waiting period to go into effect for abortions in Iowa. The ruling by Polk County Judge Jeffrey Farrell was prompted by Gov. Terry Branstad’s announcement that he will sign a bill into law Friday that includes the waiting period.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A former businessman already convicted for failing to pay employment taxes now faces new federal charges of mail and wire fraud, money laundering and theft. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Cedar Rapids said in a written release Thursday that 61-year-old Darrell Smith was indicted last month on the charges. That followed Smith’s 13-month prison sentence in December for payroll tax fraud.

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says she’ll do a full review of the health care bill that passed the U-S House today (Thursday). “We will take a thorough look at whatever comes to us and whatever that package may look like. Again, stressing the fact that we need to take a look at it and make sure it is the right way to move,” Ernst says. The Republican from Red Oak says it’s an issue that impacts many Iowans.

“What I am seeing occurring in Iowa right now with many of our insurance companies deciding that they won’t provide individual policies, that is concerning to me,” Ernst says, “and knowing that we could very shortly have many families that have absolutely no options.” Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Aetna are planning to stop providing individual policies through the state’s insurance exchange in 2018. The remaining provider, Medica, is considering withdrawing, as well. Ernst says Iowa is an example of why there needs to be a change.

“We know we need to have to address it. And that means addressing it sooner rather than later,” according to Ernst. “But again, we can’t just rush something through. We do have to move in a thoughtful many and make sure that it is the right way forward.” President Donald Trump signed an executive order on “religious liberty” today (Thursday). Ernst says she hasn’t had time to fully review it.

“That text was not released to use ahead of time, so I do need to go through it,” Ernst says. “But I do know he is very intent on protecting those religious liberties. So, I’ll have to review the text, but I know where he stands on that issue. He has been very clear about that throughout his campaign, and I applaud him for taking a look at that issue.”

(Radio Iowa)

Iowa’s three Republican congressman today (Thursday) voted for the health care bill that cleared the U.S. House. Congressman Steve King invited FORMER Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachman onto the House floor. King says that means the two of them were able to press the “yes” button together.

King and Bachmann were the first Republicans in congress to introduce bills seven years ago that called for repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Republican Congressmen Rod Blum of Dubuque and David Young of Van Meter also voted for the G-O-P’s health care law, designed to replace “ObamaCare.”

Democrats were quick to criticize, saying the G-O-P’s replacement is a “scam” that will hurt millions. Republican groups praised the action, saying it shows the G-O-P is following through on its campaign promises.

The lone Democrat in Iowa’s congressional delegation voted against the bill today (Thursday). Congressman Dave Loebsack of Iowa City says the legislation put more than 171-thousand Iowans “in jeopardy” of losing their health insurance coverage. Loebsack also says the bill “opens the door to eliminating the guarantee” that Americans cannot be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition.

(Radio Iowa)