SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Some county supervisors have criticized the lack of security screening planned for a symphony gala at the Woodbury County Courthouse. The Sioux City Journal reports that visitors normally must walk through a scanner and their bags are screened by a metal detector. Supervisor Rocky De Witt said at the board meeting Tuesday that said not requiring the same for Sioux City Symphony Orchestra guests “sends the wrong message” that symphony guests are more trustworthy than others who enter the courthouse.

De Witt says other groups that booked the courthouse for after-hours events went through security screening. Sheriff Dave Drew says the courthouse security plan aims to protect county and courtroom employees. He says because they won’t be present at Saturday’s event, security screening won’t be necessary.

A woman from Creston reported to Police Tuesday morning, that sometime between 3- and 4-a.m. Tuesday, someone entered her residence in the 400 block of N. Oak Street. The thief took a 40-inch flat screen TV valued at $300. Creston Police are investigating the incident.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say one person died after a fire broke out at a condominium complex in southwest Cedar Rapids. Firefighters dispatched a little after 3 p.m. Tuesday encountered heavy smoke when they entered one of the units. They found a person inside a doorway who later was pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries have been reported.
The victim’s name and other information about the fire haven’t been released.

(Radio Iowa) — Missouri River floodwaters are receding slowly from the southwest Iowa town of Hamburg but a former mayor expects a few hundred residents likely won’t return. Terry Holliman owns the NAPA Auto Parts store, flooded when the Missouri River broke through the Hamburg levee March 18th and inundated about two-thirds of the city of a thousand. “It’s a big financial loss for most people that can least afford it,” Holliman says, adding, the poorest residents took the brunt of the flood. “The lower areas are the lower-income families, the ones who can least afford a loss. It’s going to be hard on everybody,” he says.

Not everyone will be willing to start over. “We have a lot of recovery, a lot of rebuild,” Holliman says. “A lot of people simply will not come back to town because of the loss of homes. We’ll probably lose, easily 200 people.”  He says residents remain resentful about how the U-S Army Corps of Engineers manages the Missouri River and he accuses the Corps of neglecting flood control measures. Holliman said the dams and the levees were built in the 1950s for flood protection.

“They’ve now switched that. They no longer are about flood protection, they’re about environmental and recreational,” Holliman says. “They sat there during the winter with their dams full, knowing they’re going to have runoff from snowmelt and no place to put it except down the river.”

Spring flood damage across Iowa is estimated near one-point-six billion dollars, with another one-point-three billion dollars damage in Nebraska.

Red Oak Police, responding to a dispatch at around 8:25-p.m., Tuesday about an unconscious man in the 600 block of Hillcrest Drive, ended-up arresting the subject. Officers arrested 28-year old Logun Matthew Hughes, of Red Oak, after he was transported to the hospital and medically cleared. He was taken into custody for Child Endangerment and transported to the Montgomery County Jail, where Hughes’ bond was set at $2,000.

Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports that early this (Wednesday) morning, deputies arrested 56-year old Jules E. Gould of Shenandoah. Gould was located in the 300 block of Iowa street in Shenandoah where he was also taken into custody.

Gould was transported to the Fremont Count Law Enforcement Center and being held on $100,000 bond for the Delivery of Methamphetamine. Sheriff Aistrope said that the investigation is on going, and he expects more people to be arrested pending the conclusion of the narcotics investigation.

Deputies were assisted by the Shenandoah Police Dept.

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