The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says no injuries were reported following an accident that happened at around 2:10-p.m. Saturday, in Marne. Authorities say a 2019 Freightliner driven by 70-year old Jerry Lee Dargin, of Minden, got caught on the pavement, buckling the trailer in the process. The accident occurred near 4th and Washington Streets in Marne. Damage to the trailer was estimated at $10,000. No citations were issued.

In an update to our earlier reports, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office said today an Atlantic man was transported by Anita Rescue to CCMH following an accident east of Wiota Saturday afternoon, on Highway 83. Authorities report 78-year old Terry McCoy, of Atlantic, was driving a 2010 Ford F-250 pickup and attempting to get around a tractor that was turning north off of Highway 83, when his vehicle struck the left front wheel of a 2017 John Deere tractor, driven by 43-year old Michael Plagman of Cumberland, who was not hurt. Following the collision, the pickup slid across the highway into the south ditch and came to rest on its top in the east ditch. McCoy was able to extricate himself from the pickup. He was subsequently cited for Unsafe Passing. Damage to the pickup was estimated at $10,000, while the tractor sustained $500 damage. The incident remains under investigation.

Audubon Police Chief Matt Starmer reports that on Saturday, 27-year old Benjamin Lee Petersen, of Audubon, was arrested for Driving With Suspended License.  Petersen was cited at the scene and then released on promise to appear in court. On Friday, 60 year old Randall Gene Nelsen, of Audubon, was arrested for Reckless Use of Fire.  The charge was the result of an investigation into a structure fire that took place on May 21st.  Nelsen was cited, processed, and released on promise to appear.

On June 5th, 40-year old Joshua Robert Saunders, of Audubon, was arrested for Violation of No Contact Order, and on an active Audubon County warrant.  Saunders was transported to the Audubon County Jail and held pending an appearance before a magistrate. May 31st, 43-year old Jacob Aaron Schramm, of Audubon, was cited for Allowing a Dog to Run at Large.  Schramm was released on promise to appear in court. On May 29th, 43-year old Charles Ray Brock, of Atlantic, was cited for having a Vicious Dog.  Brock was released on promise to appear in court.

And, on May 27th, 38-year old Kendra Ellisen Bladt, of Audubon, was cited for Allowing Dog to Run at Large.  Bladt was also released on a promise to appear in court.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports 44-year old Jeffrey R. Brandt, of Walnut, was arrested Sunday afternoon, for Domestic Abuse Assault causing bodily injury/1st offense. Brandt was taken into custody at a residence in rural Walnut and transported to the Pott. County Jail. A traffic stop at around 1:30-a.m. Sunday in Oakland, resulted in the arrest of 69-year old Steven Arthur Woolman. He was pulled over after a deputy saw a pickup traveling west on Highway 59. The truck didn’t have a registration plate lamp. The deputy also observed the vehicle swerving from side-to-side, and at one point was partially traveling in the eastbound lane heading west on the undivided highway. Woolman was arrested for OWI/1st offense.

Saturday night, 42-year old David Douglas Lester was taken into custody after he was pulled over for speeding and his vehicle was heard squealing its tires from a stop light at the I-80 on-ramp at Highway 6. Lester was charged with OWI/1st offense. Earlier in the evening, Saturday, 36-year old Jack Michael Graser, of Whiting, was arrested after the vehicle he was a passenger in, was pulled over. Graser was charged with Violation of a No Contact Order.

And, Friday morning, an inmate at the Pottawattamie County Jail, 25-year old Colton Frank Sederburg, of Council Bluffs, was charged with Harassment in the 2nd Degree, after alledgedly threatening a Detention Officer by making several comments to physically harm him. Sederburg was being held in the jail on Possession and Theft charges.

TIPTON, Iowa (AP) — A 61-year-old Illinois man has been given 25 years in an Iowa prison for shooting at vehicles along Interstate 80 in eastern Iowa. Cedar County District Court records say Charles Johnston, of Belvidere, Illinois, was sentenced Friday in Tipton. He’d pleaded guilty to assault on an officer and four counts of intimidation with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors dropped charges of operating while intoxicated and attempted murder in return for his pleas.

Authorities say Johnston fired several shots on Jan. 11, 2018, at a rest area and at a semitrailer at a gas station and then at an Iowa state trooper. A court document says Johnston had become obsessed over a family supposedly killed in a collision with a semi and that he wanted to retaliate against a truck driver or truck drivers.

Johnston had been a teaching psychology at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois.

A man from Red Oak was transported to the Clarinda Regional Health Center following a crash early Sunday morning, that resulted from one vehicle chasing another. Police Chief Keith Brothers reports Officers were called to 13th and Nishna Streets at around 2:20-a.m. for a report of an accident. Upon investigation, it was determined a 1999 Ford F-250 pickup driven by 30-year old Charles Andrew Welch, of Clarinda, was chasing at a high rate of speed, a 2003 Saturn Ion, driven by 34-year old Craig Allen Williams, of Red Oak.

When Williams attempted to make a turn onto 13th Street, Welch allegedly rammed the back of the Ion. The car went out of control and went airborne after driving up an embankment. The vehicle proceeded to land on the front porch and partially through the living room of a residence at 723 North 13th Street. Williams suffered suspected serious/incapacitating injuries and was transported by Clarinda EMS to the hospital. A passenger in Williams’ car 23-year old Dylan Elwood Taylor, of Clarinda, suffered suspected minor injuries when an airbag deployed, and was also transported to the Clarinda Hospital by EMS

Williams and Welch were cited for Reckless Driving. Welch was also cited for Failure to Maintain Control. Damage to the truck and car amounted to $12,000. The home, owned by Lee Ann Blair, sustained an estimated $25,000 damage.

The City of Atlantic’s Planning and Zoning Commission will meet 5:30-p.m. Tuesday in the City Council’s Chambers, at City Hall. On their agenda, is a review of the Washington Elementary School Parking Lot site plan, which is actually an amendment to the original site plan. And, the Commission will review and discuss their preferred street entrance for a possible, future housing subdivision near Teresa Drive.

The abutting property owners have been invited to attend the meeting, as they would be most affected by a proposal from Jim Comes to have a residential housing subdivision on 28.56 acres of land he owns immediately west of Teresa Drive. The favored option, according to Zoning Administrator John Lund, would be to take the lot at 1511 Teresa Drive, which Comes owns, and dedicate it to the street right-of-way. That would connect Teresa Drive with the new street that would serve the Comes’ in the new subdivision.

It would also increase daily traffic flow, and effectively turn the properties to the north and south into street corner lots, instead of interior lots. Interior side yard setbacks would become street yard setbacks, with more restrictive development standards.

(Radio Iowa) — An Iowa State University professor says research shows there are ways doctors can work with patients to better ensure they are taking all their medications. I-S-U’s Alison Phillips says doctors can prescribe the medication, but don’t often know if the patient is really taking it. “At most, maybe the intake nurse will say ‘Are you still on these medications?’ but a doctor rarely asks ‘Have you been taking your pills?’ If they do ask they tend to ask directly, which is, ‘In the past week how many pills have you missed?’,” Phillips says.

She is an associate professor of psychology and says the direct approach isn’t the best way to get a good answer. “By research we know that that doesn’t work very well for a couple of reasons,” Phillips says. “It’s an uncomfortable question for doctors to ask, but it’s also an uncomfortable one for patients to answer. They might overestimate their adherence due to something we call social desirability bias. They want to look better.” Phillips suggests doctors use routine questions to learn more about whether someone is taking their pills. “Instead doctors could ask, tell me about your medication routine, your habits around taking medication, and from a very brief description could be able to estimate how adherent they are,” according to Phillips.

Her research indicates this type of question gives a better idea of what a patient is doing and she says the results are a concern. “The really rough estimate is about 50 percent of patients are non-adherent to their pretty simple medication regimens. There’s some controversy about exactly what percentage — but it’s enough to be concerned about for sure,” Phillips says.

Phillips says doctors are better at finding out if the patient is taking medication by considering their routines. And she says getting the patients to establish a routine for taking medication is a way to improve their usage. “People are much more adherent, not only to the day, but to the specific time. And for most medications we want the blood level of that drug to be pretty consistent across the day,” Phillips says. “And so if you take it at the same hour every day it is optimal, for some things it’s actually necessary. Having a habit tied to an existing every day routine is really beneficial.”

Phillips says she plans to build upon the research by designing and testing interventions for doctors to share with patients they identify as less likely to adhere.