The Creston Police Department reports 43-year old Jamie Foote, of Creston, was arrested Wednesday evening in the 500 block of N. Cherry Street, on a charge of Disorderly Conduct. Foote was being held in the Union County Jail on a $300
bond.

The Atlantic Community School District’s Board of Education will hold a Special Meeting Friday (Sept. 2nd) in the Atlantic High School ICN Classroom. According to the agenda for the 8:30-a.m. meeting, the Board will move into a Closed Session per Iowa Code, to “Discuss the purchase or sale of particular real estate only where premature disclosure could be reasonably be expected to increase the price the governmental body would have to pay for that property, or reduce the price the governmental body would receive for that property.”

Afterward, the Board will resume their open session, and discuss the School District’s Facility Needs, and related funding sources.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office says a call early this (Thursday) morning about a suspicious vehicle in the vicinity of Highway 92 and Canoe Lane, resulted in the arrest of a Cass County woman. 43-year old Kimberly Denise Ward, of Griswold, was taken into custody at around 4:55-a.m. for Driving While Revoked. Her SUV was impounded.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Figures from a survey of supply managers in nine Midwest and Plains states have risen slightly but still suggest slow or no economic growth ahead. A report issued Thursday says the Mid-American Business Conditions index inched up to 47.8 in August from 47.6 in July. The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests economic growth. A score below that suggests decline.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says he expects the regional economy to underperform the national economy because of the region’s heavy dependence on manufacturers linked to the weak sectors of agriculture and energy.

The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

Thirty protesters in Boone who tried to block access to construction equipment for the Bakken oil pipeline were arrested Wednesday afternoon. More than one-hundred other activists gathered to witness the arrests and show their support. Adam Mason of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement was a protest organizer. “The fact that there’s folks here from Canada, from New York, from Nebraska shows that pipelines like this impact not just us here in Iowa, not just the folks in North Dakota. This has global implications,” Mason says. “Folks realize that and across the country are standing up to say: ‘No more pipelines.'”

Carolyn Raffensperger, of Ames, provided free legal advice to the protesters who were arrested. “My commitment as a lawyer is to defend the right of future generations to inherit clean drinking water, a healthy climate, clean soils,” Raffensperger says. Raffensperger just returned from North Dakota, where protesters have joined members of the Standing Rock Sioux to try to block construction of the pipeline on tribal lands.

Frank Cordaro, a peace activist from Des Moines, conducted a training session for the IOWA protesters Wednesday morning in nearby Pilot Mound. “We’ll say a lot of words, but what’s really going on here is it’s a gut thing for these folks here to say: ‘We know how to step up our game,'” Cordaro says. Cordaro has been arrested many times for civil disobedience at federal facilities and he’s been sentenced to serve several months in prison on at least eight different occasions.

The protesters arrested Wednesday in Boone are being charged with misdemeanor trespassing.

(Radio Iowa)

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

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has suspended the prison sentence of a Sioux City woman serving 10 years for selling synthetic marijuana that caused the death of another teen. The Sioux City Journal reports that 19-year-old Rose Mouw, who was sentenced in May, had her remaining prison term suspended Wednesday. She was placed her on four years’ probation. For the death last year of 18-year-old Austin McCloud.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Linn County supervisors have taken a first step toward increasing the county’s minimum wage. KCRG-TV reports the supervisors voted Wednesday for a Linn County increase of the state’s current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $8.25 on Jan. 1, 2017. The wage would increase by a dollar in January 2018 and another dollar in January 2019, when it would remain at $10.25 an hour. Officials must vote twice more at meetings Sept. 6 and 12 before the wage increase would become law.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Arrests have been made during protests against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota and Iowa. Authorities cut free a man who bound himself to construction equipment and arrested two protesters Wednesday near St. Anthony, North Dakota. The site is about 20 miles west of the main protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where construction has been halted for days. In Iowa, arrests were made after protesters blocked access to a construction staging site.

EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say no one was injured in an Evansdale metal recycling business in eastern Iowa where a fire broke out. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the fire started sometime after 6 p.m. Tuesday, after the business had closed for the day. No one was in the building at the time of the fire.

A man from Nebraska was injured Wednesday afternoon during a collision on Interstate 29, in Fremont County. The Iowa State Patrol says 26-year old Wilmer Hernandez Gonzalez, of Lincoln, NE., was a passenger in a 2007 Mazda that was rear-ended on I-29 northbound near Hamburg, just before 2-p.m., Wednesday.

A pickup, driven by 80-year old Charles Cook, of Sherwood, AR, was coming up from behind the car, when Cook misjudged the speed of the Mazda. His 2011 Chevy Silverado struck the car, causing the collision. The car came to rest on the traveled portion of the road, while the pickup ended-up in the north ditch.

Hernandez-Gonzalez, who was wearing a seat belt, was transported by Hamburg Rescue to Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg, for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. No other injuries were reported.

The Iowa State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, along with Hamburg Fire and Rescue.

A motorcyclist from Marion County was injured during an accident late Wednesday morning involving a car, in Union County. The Iowa State Patrol says 64-year old Thomas K. Hostetter, of Pella, suffered a head injury and was in critical condition when he was flown by LifeFlight helicopter to Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. The accident happened at the intersection of Highways 34 and 169 in Afton, at around 11:30-a.m., Wednesday.

Officials say Hostetter was eastbound on Highway 34 riding a 2008 Suzuki motorcycle and approaching the intersection of Highway 169, when a northbound 2005 Ford Taurus driven by 32-year old Amanda R. Ibbotson, of Afton, pulled away from the stop sign to make a left turn onto Highway 34. Ibbotson didn’t see the approaching motorcycle.

When she pulled into Hostetter’s path, he attempted to stop, but lost control of his cycle, causing him to lay it down on its right side.