Sheriff’s officials in Pottawattamie County say a Central Iowa woman arrested last week on drug and theft charges, is now facing a charges of Giving False Information and Identification. A woman who identified herself as 23-year old Leslie Rodriguez, was identified by another inmate at the Pott. County Jail, as 23-year old Consuelo Sanchez.

Sanchez was originally taken into custody after the vehicle she was driving was discovered in the ditch off Interstate 80, at the 24 mile-marker. Sanchez was initially charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana, and Theft in the 2^nd degree (for possessing a vehicle that was reported stolen). Deputies recovered a black 2006 Acura TL at the scene, along with a half-gram of marijuana.

The Sheriff’s Office said also, 35-year old Brandi Lynette Pendgraft, of Council Bluffs, was arrested Saturday evening following a traffic stop on Highway 183. Pendgraft was charged with OWI/1st offense, and cited for Improper Use of lanes.

Also arrested Saturday, was 18-year old Peter Douglas Hobart, of Council Bluffs. Hobart was taken into custody on warrants for Felony Theft in the 2nd degree, and a Serious Misdemeanor Disorderly Conduct, charge. His arrest Saturday occurred after a deputy pulled over a vehicle that was known to have been involved in a pursuit, last Friday. Hobart told the deputy he believed his brother was driving at the time of the pursuit.

The Creston Police Department reports the arrest on Friday, of 40-year old Carla Millard. The Creston woman was arrested on an OWI/1st offense charge and later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Figures from a survey of supply managers in nine Midwest and Plains states have dropped again and suggest slow or no economic growth ahead. A report issued Monday says the Mid-American Business Conditions index fell to 47.6 last month from 50.1 in June.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says global economic uncertainty, including Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, was a significant concern for many of the supply managers in the survey.

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

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Authorities say a 24-year-old Iowa man has died in a north-central Omaha crash. The crash occurred around 2:20 a.m. Sunday. Witnesses say a speeding eastbound vehicle went out of control, crossed the westbound lanes and struck a parked pickup, a fence and a utility pole. The driver was ejected through the windshield. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Police identified him as Bernard Brame, who lived in Council Bluffs.

Officials with the Atlantic Community School District report registration for the 2016-17 school year will open today, Monday, August 1st. Parents will be receiving instructions for registering their student(s) via email and text message. ACSD will again utilize the “rollover” online registration process with JMC, the district’s student information system. If your student(s) attended ACSD last school year (2015-16) and were still in attendance on the last day of school, you need to follow the 6 steps below to verify registration information and pay student fees. Student Fees will need to be paid by Friday, October 7, 2016.

The 6 Quick Steps for “Rollover” Online Registration
1. Log onto Parent Portal
2. Click on Student Registration and complete/update information
3. View Tuition/Fees In Parent Portal
4. Set Up Alert Configurations in Parent Portal
5. Pay Fees and Lunch on RevTrak
6. View and complete forms as necessary. (Free and Reduced Forms, Physical Forms, Transportation Request (rural only), Yearbook Order, Handbooks, Parent Portal Information, ACSD 2016-17 School Calendar and much more).

Students who are new to the school district and are planning to enroll for the 2016-17 school year will need to register for school at the district’s school buildings which are open during the summer or access the school registration forms located online at the district’s webpage, www.atlanticiaschools.org.

If you don’t have access to internet/online, feel free to stop at your child’s school. Should you have any questions regarding school registration or the payment of school fees, please contact the appropriate school for your child, at the numbers below.

Washington Elementary School
Pre-K – 3rd grade
Phone: 712-243-5234
Stacey Hornung, Principal
Hours: 7:30 am – 4:00 pm

Schuler Elementary School
Grades 4-5
Phone: 712-243-1370
James Northwick, Principal
Hours: 7:30 am – 4:00 pm

Atlantic Middle School
Grades 6-8
Phone: 712-243-1330
Josh Rasmussen, Principal
Hours: 7:30 am – 4:00 pm

Atlantic High School
Grades 9-12
Phone: 712-243-5358
Heather McKay, Principal
Matt Alexander, Asst Principal/Activities Director
Hours: 7:30 am – 4:00 pm

Transportation
All Grades
Phone: 712-243-3374
Dave Eckles, Supervisor

Food Service
All Grades
Phone: 712- 243-5369
DeeAnn Schreiner, Supervisor

The presidential race is overshadowing a pitched battle for partisan control inside the state legislature. House Speaker Linda Upmeyer of Clear Lake is the top Republican in the legislature and she was a delegate at the Republican National Convention last month. She says the event revealed the “messaging” Trump intends to use for the fall, but that’s not necessarily going to impact legislative candidates. “There’s a lot of discussion about the presidential, but it doesn’t immediately move then to down-ballot,” she says.

Republicans hold a firm majority in the Iowa House and Republicans have focused on trying to win control of a majority of seats in the Iowa Senate. Democrats currently have a 26-to-24 seat advantage. Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal of Council Bluffs is the top Democrat in the legislature and he was a delegate at last month’s Democratic National Convention.

Gronstal offers this advice to legislative candidates: “Your future doesn’t depend on the top of the ticket, the national mood. It depends on what you do in your own race.” Gronstal is up for reelection this November. Gronstal told reporters last week he has so far personally knocked on eight-thousand doors in his district. Each state senator represents about 60-thousand Iowans.

Gronstal’s Republican opponent is Dan Dawson, a state employee who is special agent in the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

(Radio Iowa)

n annual Iowa pheasant population survey starts today (Monday) and it’ll be done by people in all 99 counties, driving up and down rural roads, looking for the birds and counting them. Todd Bogenschutz, a wildlife research biologist at the Iowa D-N-R, says indications show the popular game bird’s population is at least stable and is likely growing. “We’ve got a real good correlation between what we count on the roadside routes and what pheasant hunters ultimately harvest,” Bogenschutz says. “The weather conditions this past winter and spring were favorable for pheasants. There’s optimism about what we’re going to see next week when we start running the routes.”

The roadside survey is done every year during the first two weeks of August, or sometimes a little longer, depending on the weather. “We’ve got about two routes in every county and they’re three miles long,” he says. “We’ve been doing these same routes since the 1960s, usually the same staff run them every year and it gives as a real good index of the population. We have no way of counting all the pheasants out there but if we do it the same way every year, it gives us a real good trend indicator.”

Bogenschutz said the survey records the numbers of other animals the spotters see, including: quail, Hungarian partridges, cottontails and jackrabbits. The results of the survey will be released in early September. Iowa’s pheasant hunting season begins October 29th.

(Radio Iowa)

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

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It isn’t clear how the most basic of baking ingredients, flour, became contaminated with bacteria normally found in animal feces. The E. coli-tainted flour from General Mills has sickened 46 people in 21 states and prompted about 45 million pounds of it to be recalled. Plus, the Food and Drug Administration is cautioning raw cookie dough and cake batter aficionados not to indulge.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Expert says human remains found at a Council Bluffs construction site may belong to Mormon pioneers who crossed the area in the 1800s. The Daily Nonpareil reports that the bones were found Thursday and Friday at a construction site and will be examined at the University of Iowa.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A long-awaited national cemetery for U.S. military veterans and their families south of Omaha will be dedicated this week before accepting its first burials this fall. The Omaha National Cemetery will be dedicated Friday at an off-site ceremony in Sarpy County. Cemetery director Cindy Van Bibber says the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is expected to complete an initial segment of the property to be used for in-ground casket and cremation burials as early as September.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An agency overseeing a grant program that addresses abandoned and neglected buildings in rural Iowa communities has no immediate plans to change how it administers the program following a state audit that questioned its accountability reporting. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says it plans to run its Derelict Building Grant Program in the same manner when the agency considers a new round of applicants beginning Monday.