The Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency reports C Ave/Boxelder between 150th and 170th, will be closed due to water over the roadway. Please avoid the area and find an alternate route of travel. A reminder, when you see water over the road, “Turn around. Don’t Drown.”

The National Weather Service says 6-inches of water will reach the bottom of most passenger cars causing loss of control and possible stalling. 12-inches of water will float many vehicles. Two-feet of rushing water can carry away most vehicles including sport utility vehicles (SUV’s) and pick-ups.

ADAIR, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa State Patrol trooper is being hailed for good police work in warning California law officers about a possible threat to Google headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mountain View, California, police say 33-year-old Kyle Long, of Waterville, Maine, was upset because his YouTube channel had been shut down. He allegedly told his hometown police that he’d get violent if his Google confrontation didn’t go well. Google owns YouTube. Mountain View police arrested Long on Sunday on suspicion of making criminal threats.

Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Nathan Ludwig told Des Moines television station KCCI that Trooper Ryan Zenor talked to Long on Friday while Long’s car was being towed from a ditch he’d slid into along Interstate 80 about 53 miles west of Des Moines. Ludwig says Zenor grew suspicious as Long talked about his plan to pitch an idea to Google executives. Ludwig says Zenor called the Mountain View police after his encounter with Long, shared his concerns and told them Long was headed their way.

Police in Creston, Tuesday afternoon, arrested a man for Tampering with a vehicle. 32-year old Brodie Lee Pingree, of Creston, was also charged with Criminal Mischief. He was arrested at around 1:45-p.m. and later released on a $600 bond.

OSCEOLA, Iowa (AP) — A former southern Iowa county attorney has pleaded guilty to drunken driving. Clarke County court records say 43-year-old Michelle Rivera, of Osceola, entered the plea last week after making a deal with prosecutors. She’d been arrested Dec. 14. Her plea agreement calls for 365 days in jail with all but two days suspended, a $1,250 fine and two years of probation. Prosecutors would drop another charge in return. The agreement isn’t binding on the judge. Her sentencing is scheduled for March 22.

Rivera lost her re-election bid in November after she was arrested in October on suspicion of being drunk on the job in a Clarke County courtroom. A sheriff’s deputy said in a criminal complaint that he noticed Rivera “slurring her words and stumbling on her feet” in the Osceola courtroom. She was charged with public intoxication. Rivera eventually pleaded guilty and was fined $65.

Officials with the Iowa Dept. of Public Health/Bureau of Emergency and Trauma Services, say a Consent Agreement has been reached between the agency and Wiota First Responders, with regard to a Citation and Warning/Civil Penalty issued Nov. 16, 2018, and which became final agency action on Dec. 6, 2018. The agreement requires Wiota First Responders to voluntarily surrender its Iowa service program authorization, and “Not to hold itself out as or perform any functions of an Emergency Medical Services authorized service program.”

The civil penalty remains in effect. If the Wiota First Responders chooses to seek future authorization as a service program, they will be required to follow the application process set forth in the Iowa Code and Administrative Code as a new service program.

(Additional information using authorization/license number 9156000, can be found here: https://dphregprograms.iowa.gov/PublicPortal/Iowa/IDPH/publicSearch/publicSearch.jsp?EaaUserId=&lid=ReadOnlyidph&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery