Police in Council Bluffs arrested a juvenile male this (Tuesday) morning, following an alleged burglary attempt. Officers were called to the 4500 block of Northshore Drive at around 5:40-a.m., with regard to a prowler looking in the windows of a residence. Upon arrival, officers located a juvenile male holding a window screen, from the residence, in the driveway.

The juvenile was taken into custody and charged with Attempted 2nd Degree Theft. The juvenile was placed in the Southwest Iowa Juvenile Detention Center.

More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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Meteorologists say a storm system carrying powerful winds and heavy snow will be moving across northern Nebraska and Iowa through Wednesday. The National Weather Service has posted winter storm warnings from the northern Nebraska Panhandle all the way to the northeastern corner of Iowa. Up to a dozen inches of snow is expected in some spots, with deep drifts born of winds gusting to 40 mph.

Authorities say slick roadways and blowing snow will make travel hazardous. Lighter snow or a wintry mix is expected along the southern edge of the system’s path.

A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect until 9-a.m. Wednesday for Harrison and Shelby Counties. The Advisory goes into effect for Audubon-Guthrie-Carroll-Crawford and Greene Counties, from Noon today through 6-p.m. Wednesday. And, a Winter Storm Warning is in effect for Sac County, until 9-a.m., Wednesday.

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

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The Atlantic School District’s Board of Education is set to receive proposals this week from the Collective Bargaining Units (CBU) representing the Certified and Non-Certified Staff, for the 2017-18 School Year The Certified Unit’s CBU will make its initial proposal to the District 3:30-p.m. today (Tuesday), in the Media Center at the Atlantic Middle School.

The Non-Certified CBU team will make its proposal to the Board Thursday afternoon at the same time and place. Both sessions are open to the public. No action will be taken during the initial bargaining sessions.

The Audubon Chamber of Commerce held its annual Community Banquet & Auction, Monday. Awards presented during the evening include: 2016 Citizen of the Year – Kate Hargens; 2016 Junior Citizen of the Year – Rebecca Nelson; 2016 Community Service Award – Audubon County Fair Board.

Kate Hargens won the Citizen of the Year Award for, among other things: spearheading – through grant applications and fundraising efforts – the establishment of the Children’s Nest Childcare Center in conjunction with the Friendship Home;  Being a prominent spokesperson for the Audubon County Early Childhood Organization; being active with her church committee; serving on the Rose Theater Renovation Board; and serving on the grant-writing advisory council for the Audubon School District’s “Launch” Program. She and her husband, Dr. Travis Hargens, have three children.

Rebecca Nelson – daughter of Bob and Janet Nelson – won Junior Citizen of the Year for being an active part of her school and community, and being an “Intelligent, compassionate, unselfish and focused young lady.” Nelson is Vice President of the Audubon School District’s National Honor Society, and has served as Student Body President. She’s been heavily involved in preserving the historic Ross Elevator, and has packed lunches for needy children as well as having fed hungry youth for the New Opportunities organization’s Summer Feeding Program. She’s also certified in CPR. After she graduates this spring, Rebecca plans to attend either the University of Iowa or UNI, majoring in Speech-Language in hopes of becoming a Speech-Language Pathologist.

And, the Audubon County Fair Board won the 2016 Community Award for their efforts to organize and run the Audubon County Fair, hosting numerous activities all-year around, and for maintaining and keeping-up the fairgrounds. Current Fair Board members include: Greg Jensen; Deanna Hansen; Gary VanAernam; Steve Randeris; Mike Bauer; Randy Blohm; Dan Madsen; Austin Hansen; Trent Petersen; Joe Vais; Neal Mesek; Steve Hansen, and Taylor Lewis.

A team from Sioux City is expected to join in the continued search today (Tuesday), for a teen missing since an accident last Thursday morning. 15-year-old Yoana Acosta, of Denison, disappeared after the car she was riding in went out of control, through a field and entered the Boyer River north of Denison, at around 3-a.m., Thursday. Four other people in the vehicle were able to make it to the roof of the submerged vehicle and were rescued or made their way to safety.

Each day since the accident occurred, law enforcement personnel along with firefighters and other volunteers have assembled to resume the search along the Boyer River. A early 40 mile stretch of the waterway from Denison to Logan has been searched and will continued to be monitored or searched, until Yoana is found.

Representatives of university towns are back at the state capitol this year, trying to get relief from loud and drunken student parties that are disrupting life in residential areas. The so-called slob renters bill pits landlords against residents who want peace and quiet for their single-family neighborhoods. Some college towns have passed ordinances to limit occupancy to three unrelated adults, so students don’t crowd into houses in single family neighborhoods, contributing to traffic and noise. But Joe Kelly with the Landlords of Iowa says that costs property owners money.

” We think properties should be looked at one by one. The size of the property, can it meet the parking ordinances, or whatever,” Kelly says. “That’s the way we think it should be done. ” The landlords back a bill to throw out the limits on renters. Ames Mayor Anne Campbell says under her city’s ordinance only three unrelated adults can share a house, but in her neighborhood near campus police are still called to break up noisy parties at houses.

“Houses like that are a magnet for massive parties that are not contained inside — they’re contained outside,” Campbell says. She says Ames isn’t the only community with the problem. “This is common behavior I’m ashamed to say in university neighborhoods,” according to Campbell. Representatives of college towns say such neighborhoods are also plagued with traffic and parking issues. The Ames ordinance survived a constitutional challenge before the Iowa Supreme Court in 2007. Bills to throw out the ordinances have cleared the Republican-controlled House in the past but were not taken up in the Senate when Democrats were in control.

(Radio Iowa)

A senate committee has voted to let Iowa businesses get hair samples from employees, to test for possible drug use. Iowa law already lets companies demand blood or urine samples from workers, for random drug tests. Seven Republicans on the panel voted to advance the bill to the full senate Senator Michael Breitbach is a Republican from Strawberry Point.

“Forty-seven states currently allow the testing of hair for drugs,” Breitbach says. “It’s another tool in the employer’s tool box to make sure that they provide a safe and viable workplace.” Four Democrats on the committee voted no, arguing hair retains evidence of drug use for months, even years. Senator Tony Bisignano, a Democrat from Des Moines, says hair sometimes has a “long history.”

“I may have just started working with you this month…I’ve got long hair and you analyze my hair and it shows all kinds of fun,” Bisignano says. “You could go back two years, three years.” Bisignano says that’s not fair. Breitbach, the bill’s manager, says the industry standard is to test a hair sample that’s an inch and a half long — which would reveal potential drug use for up to three months.

(Radio Iowa)

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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds won’t promise to immediately support legislation to improve oversight of the state’s child protective services. The discussion follows the October death of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly tortured and starved. The governor’s spokesman, Ben Hammes, says Branstad and Reynolds are open to “conversations” aimed at improvements to the current oversight system, but Hammes added that the two officials will wait on lawmakers to introduce proposals.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man who spent 32 days in jail has been exonerated after prosecutors admitted his conviction was based on misconduct by Des Moines police officers. Polk County Judge Gregory Brandt on Monday vacated the conviction of Kyle Jacob Weldon and issued an order exonerating him. Iowa’s Wrongful Conviction Division says the exoneration is the first connected to two Des Moines officers who resigned last month after they were accused of planting evidence on a suspect in at least one case

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in the Iowa Legislature have introduced their own plan for dealing with the state’s budget shortfall, and it proposes fewer cuts to state agencies than a plan originally backed by Gov. Terry Branstad. A GOP-led Senate panel approved a bill Monday proposing some Iowa departments cut about $88 million in spending for the budget year that began last July. Branstad had pushed a plan asking agencies to cut about $110 million.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Dubuque’s first community-owned grocery store has closed, less than three years since it opened in a historic area near the city’s downtown. The Telegraph Herald reports the Dubuque Food Co-op announced Monday it was permanently closed, less than two weeks after officials said it was going out of business because of poor sales. The co-op opened in May 2014 in a 6,000-square-foot space in the Millwork District. It specialized in local and sustainably produced food and other products.