Griswold Fire, Griswold Rescue and Grant 1st Responders, along with Medivac Ambulance, were called to the scene of a two-vehicle accident southwest of Lyman, Wednesday night. According to dispatch reports, the accident occurred at around 7:38-p.m. near 70797 620th Street, or about a mile west of Highway 71 and just north of Victoria Road.

Two people were injured. One was out of the vehicle, the other was trapped because the vehicles’ door wouldn’t open. One of the victims was also complaining of back pain.

No other details are currently available.

The Union County Sheriff’s Office says a Thayer woman has reported to authorities  the theft of her husband’s .22-caliber Sig Sauer handgun. The weapon was stolen from 1735 Four Mile Creek Drive, sometime between September 30th and October 2nd. The gun is black with a purple frame, and valued at $350.

And, a Creston resident reported to the Sheriff’s Office Wednesday, that sometime overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning, someone got in to his building at 2068 Pole Road, and took tools valued at $300. They also knocked over a tank of bull semen, destroying it when it fell to the floor. The estimated value of the semen is $10,000.

The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest of a Red Oak woman on Wednesday for Theft.  At 1:12pm officers arrested 33-year-old Michell Lee Szymarek of Red Oak for Theft 5th Degree.  She was arrested on North 3rd Street in Red Oak and taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held.

IDA GROVE, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa substitute teacher and coach has pleaded not guilty to having sexual relationships with students at two northwest Iowa high schools. The Sioux City Journal reports 33-year-old John Tietsort, of Battle Creek, Iowa, entered the plea Monday in Ida County District Court to two counts of sexual exploitation by a school employee and three counts of lascivious conduct with a minor.

Prosecutors say Tietsort had a sexual relationship last October through June with an 18-year-old female student at Odebolt-Arthur and Battle Creek-Ida Grove High School, where Tietsort was a substitute teacher and assistant football coach. Tietsort is also accused of having a sexual relationship earlier this year with a 17-year-old female student from Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School, where Tietsort also was a substitute teacher.

The female driver of a car was injured early this (Wednesday) afternoon during a rollover accident southeast of Marne. Cass County Sheriff Darby McLaren told KJAN News the unidentified woman was traveling westbound on Fayette Road at around 12:45-p.m., when she lost control of the vehicle on the gravel. The car rolled into the south ditch.

The woman was transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic by ambulance.

Photo courtesy Cass County Emergency Mgmt. Coordinator Mike Kennon

A medical helicopter was placed on stand-by, and a helicopter landed at CCMH, but McLaren could not confirm if the woman was flown from the facility to another hospital. The extent of her injuries were not immediately known.

Marne 1st Responders and Medivac Ambulance personnel, along with Deputies from the Cass County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene of the crash near 57162 Fayette Road (near 570th & Fayette).

Additional details are not available.

Marne 1st Responders and Medivac Ambulance personnel were called to the scene of a single-vehicle accident this (Wednesday) afternoon, southeast of Marne. The accident happened near 57162 Fayette Road (570th & Fayette), and involved a vehicle with a single occupant with injuries, in the ditch at that location.  It was reported at around 12:48-p.m.

Photo courtesy Cass County Emergency Mgmt. Coordinator Mike Kennon

No other details are currently available.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa’s state insurance division says residents in 13 rural counties who want to buy subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act will have just one option for a provider in 2017. Medica, a Minnesota-based carrier, is the only health insurer that has agreed to sell individual policies in the state via the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplace.

The Des Moines Register reports that about 55,000 Iowa residents bought individual health insurance policies for 2016 on the marketplace, and most had incomes low enough to qualify for subsidies, which come as tax credits. Counties that will only have Medica as an option include Adams, Buena Vista, Iowa, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Mahaska, Page, Pocahontas, Taylor, Van Buren and Wapello.

Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart says he’s worried that more counties could be served by just one provider next year.

A survivor of the Nazi Concentration camps will be the guest speaker at a church in western Iowa, Thursday evening. Steen Metz was a young boy living in Denmark when the Nazis conquered the country in 1940.

Steen Metz (Photo courtesy Museum of Danish America)

Tova Brandt, Curator at the Museum of  Danish America in Elk Horn (IA), says Metz and his family, along with other Danes, were arrested and deported to the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia in 1943.

Some 15,000 children passed through Theresienstadt.  Brandt said Metz is one of fewer than 1,500 who survived. His father died of starvation and hard labor, at the camp. Like many Holocaust survivors, Metz kept his war experiences private for many years. Following his incarceration, he returned to Denmark and emigrated to America, where he’s lived for several decades. In 2011 he started sharing his story after he self-published a memoir.  He has spoken to over 250 groups, mostly students, over nearly the past five-years.

Thursday morning (Oct. 6th), Metz will make a presentation before students at the Elk Horn High School, and at 7-p.m., he’ll speak to an open audience at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church for about 45-minutes. A question-and-answer session will follow. There is no charge to attend. If you can’t attend, there is a social media option.

Brandt says they plan to record it and live stream the event on the Museum’s Facebook page. The presentation is organized by the Museum of Danish America. Contact the museum with questions at (712) 764-7001.

Officials with the Red Oak Police Department today (Wednesday), said a man who had worked as a Police Officer in Red Oak for about eight-months, was fired after being charged with Domestic Abuse/Assault. The charge against former Officer Ethen Schoonover followed a nearly month-long investigation into an incident that allegedly occurred September 6th.

Officials said upon receiving documentation from the Shenandoah Police Department about the incident, Red Oak Police contacted the Iowa Dept. of Public Safety’s Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. While a DCI agent was assigned to investigate the allegation, Schoonover, a patrolman/police officer, was placed on Administrative Leave.

Upon conclusion of the investigation by the Iowa DCI, the results of the investigation were turned over to Page County Attorney Carl Sonksen, at the request of Montgomery County Attorney Bruce Swanson. On October 4th, after a review of the investigating agent’s report and evidence that had been collected, a criminal charge of Domestic Abuse/Assault was filed against Schoonover.