QUIMBY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a city’s untreated wastewater no longer is flowing into the Little Sioux River in northwest Iowa’s Cherokee County. The Iowa Natural Resources Department had said a sewer main break was reported Monday morning by the town of Quimby. River flooding has kept repair crews from finding the break and fixing it, allowing more than 15,000 gallons (56,780 liters) of untreated wastewater to flow into the river each day.

The department said Thursday that Quimby hired a manure hauler who’s begun moving wastewater from a pump station to the city’s wastewater lagoon. The city is working with an engineering firm to determine how best to fix or replace the sewer main.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports two arrests, two warrants served, and several prisoner transfers-in to the Pott. County Jail from other jail facilities. At around 11:45-p.m. Thursday, 32-year old Phillip Michael Houston, of Walnut, was arrested in Avoca, following a traffic stop for speeding. Houston was charged with Driving While Barred/Habitual Offender. His bond was set at $2,000. 23-year old Shyanne Allison Dalton-Birdsong, was taken into custody in a Pott. County Courtroom, Thursday morning. Dalton-Birdsong was wanted on a valid Pottawattamie County warrant for Violation of Probation.

A prisoner at the Pott. County Jail was presented with a Nebraska warrant Thursday morning, for being a Fugitive from Justice. 45-year old Corey Anthony Tarascio, of Council Bluffs, is being held in the jail on a charge of Criminal Trespass/3rd offense. His bond was set at $2,085. 19-year old Mason Sande Beaverson, of Council Bluffs, was also presented with a warrant out of Nebraska, Thursday, for being a Fugitive from Justice. Beaverson was being held on numerous drug-related charges. His bond set at $2,300 altogether.

Prisoners transported to the Pott. County Jail from other agencies include:

• 35-year old Douglas Dean Peck, who was wanted for Theft in the 2nd Degree and on a hold for another agency.
• 32-year old Edward Joseph Bartunek, of Council Bluffs, who was wanted for: Attempt to Commit Murder; 1st degree Robbery; Theft in the 1st degree; 2 counts of Theft in the 2nd degree, and Willful Injury resulting in serious injury. He was being held on a total of $40,000 bond.
• and, 46-year old Phillip Ryan Rasmussen, of Omaha, was transported to the Pott. County Jail, where he was wanted for Violation of Probation.

The Creston Police Department reports two people were arrested on drug charges, Thursday. 26-year old William Gene Cromar, of Creston, and 42-year old Dixie Lou Hernandez, of Omaha, were arrested in the 200 block of N. Maple Street at around 4:10-p.m. Both faces charges that include Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Paraphernalia, Possession of Meth, and two-counts each of Child Endangerment. Cromar was being held in the Union County Jail on $6,300 bond as well as on a warrant out of Nebraska. Hernandez was being held in the Adams County Jail on a $5,300 bond.

The Creston P-D reports also: 29-year old Kenny Joe Cunningham, of Creston, was arrested Thursday afternoon at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Union County warrant for Simple Assault. He was later released on a $300 bond; 55-year old Troy Eugene McKinney, of Creston, was arrested Thursday morning for Driving While Barred. He was released on a Promise to Appear (in court); and, Tara Joleen Oshel (address unknown), was arrested Thursday on a Union  County warrant for Theft in the 5th Degree. She was later released on a $300 bond.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Board of Regents has extended contracts and raised some payments in order to keep all three university system presidents on the job. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the regents took the action Thursday for the presidents at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa State University in Ames and the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.

The board approved contract extensions through June 2023 for University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld and Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen. Northern Iowa President Mark Nook’s contract was extended through June 2025, with the option to renew for an additional two years.

They won’t receive salary increases, but regents opted to extend and, in some cases, increase payments to their deferred contribution plans.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who authorities say was drunk when he drove into oncoming interstate traffic and collided with another vehicle has been imprisoned.
Polk County District Court records say 39-year-old Zlatan Vukasinovic, of Des Moines, was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison. He’d pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide while intoxicated. Prosecutors had dropped another charge in return.

The collision occurred a little after 3 a.m. on Nov. 10. The Iowa Department of Public Safety says Vukasinovic’s pickup truck was headed east in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 near Des Moines when it struck a vehicle driven by 31-year-old Frank Sylalom, who died. He lived in Grimes.

Court records say Sylalom was 16 in 2003 when he lost control of a car he was driving and it crashed into a utility pole in Des Moines, killing three teenagers with him. He was convicted in juvenile court of vehicular homicide.