The Page County Sheriff’s Office released information on a two-vehicle accident on Monday, February 11th. The accident happened at approximately 4:20am in the 1200 block of Highway 2.

After investigation it was determined that a 2009 Chevy Cobalt driven by 60-year-old Alan Leslie Bellairs of Shenandoah was driving westbound on Highway 2 when he fell asleep at the wheel and crossed the center line of the roadway. Bellairs struck a 1997 Ford F250 pickup that was heading eastbound and driven by 58-year-old Danny Charles Tindle of Clarinda. The Chevy came to rest in the traveled portion of the highway and the Ford came to rest in the north ditch.

Bellairs was taken to the Shenandoah Medical Center by Shenandoah Ambulance service with undisclosed injuries. Tindle was uninjured. Bellairs was cited for Failure to Maintain Control. Both vehicles sustained disabling damage.

The Page County Sheriff’s Office was assisted at the scene by the Shenandoah Police Department, the Shenandoah Fire Department, and the Shenandoah Ambulance service.

The driver of a bucket trucked that tipped over on Thursday south of Clarinda was uninjured. Page County Sheriff’s Officials report that Deputies responded to the accident on Thursday at 11:30am in the 2100 block of T Avenue in Page County.

The Investigation determined that a 2007 International 7400 bucket truck driven by 31-year-old Patrick Michael Buemer of Brooklyn, IA was traveling southbound and attempted to get over for a passing northbound vehicle. The right wheels of the boom truck went off the road and the truck hit two residential drives while attempting to get back on the traveled portion of the road. The second driveway caused the truck to tip onto it’s right side in the ditch, disabling the vehicle. Buemer was not injured during the accident and no citations were issued. The truck was owned by Hydaker-Wheatlake Co. from Reed City, MI.

The Sheriff’s Office was assisted at the scene by Clarinda Ambulance, Clarinda Fire Department, and the Clarinda Police Department.

The Glenwood Police Department reports the arrest of a Glenwood man on an assault charge on Thursday. Officers arrested 65-year-old James Raybourn of Glenwood for Assault while Displaying a Weapon. Raybourn was taken to the Mills County Jail and held on $2,000 cash or surety bond.

A young Council Bluffs woman died in a crash on East Manawa Drive on Thursday. Council Bluffs Police were called to an injury accident on Thursday at 6:00pm in the 4800 block of East Manawa Drive. Arriving officers provided first aid to one of the drivers, 21-year-old Aryka Davis of Council Bluffs, who had major injuries. She was taken to a local hospital where efforts to revive her were unsuccessful and she was pronounced dead.

Preliminary reports show that Davis was southbound on East Manawa Drive and lost control going around a curve and slid sideways into on-coming traffic and was hit by a northbound SUV. The driver of the SUV, Sam Sequenzia of Omaha, suffered minor injuries.

Both vehicles were a total loss and the investigation into the accident is on-going.

CENTERVILLE, Iowa (AP) — A jury has convicted a man in the killing of a hunter in south-central Iowa.

The Daily Iowegian reports the Appanoose County jury found Ethan Davis guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 31-year-old Curtis Ross.

Jurors reached the verdict Friday afternoon, hours after telling a judge they were deadlocked in their deliberations. The judge instructed them to continue trying to reach a unanimous verdict.

Authorities say Ross was shot 10 times with a high-powered rifle on Nov. 24, 2017, stabbed more than 26 times and his neck, abdomen and legs gashed open. A sheriff’s deputy found Ross’ naked body in a creek on public hunting grounds in Appanoose County.

Davis’ attorney Ken Duker said during his closing arguments Thursday that there were too many unanswered questions in the case. He acknowledged that Davis’ rifle killed Ross but said, “The question is: Who pulled the trigger?”

Davis, of Promise City, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An autopsy shows a University of Iowa student found unresponsive last month in sub-zero temperatures died of hypothermia.

The Press-Citizen cites a news release sent out Friday by the university and the Johnson County Medical Examiner Department in the Jan. 30 death of 18-year-old Gerald Belz. Belz was found unresponsive around 3 a.m. behind an academic hall near his dorm on campus during record cold temperatures.

The temperature at the time was more than negative 20 degrees (-28.89 Celsius), and the wind chill had dropped below negative 50 degrees (-45.56 Celsius).

Belz had graduated from Kennedy High School in 2018, where he played football. He would have turned 19 last week.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Federal prosecutors for Iowa say a contractor who put workers at risk of exposure to asbestos has been sentenced to two years’ probation.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa says 61-year-old Steven Weaver, of Algona, was sentenced Wednesday in Sioux City’s federal courthouse after pleading guilty in October to one count of violating clean air work practice standards.

Prosecutors say Weaver admitted he was an experienced contractor and building inspector who failed to thoroughly inspect for asbestos before beginning a renovation of a former Kossuth County Home he had bought in 2013.

When the Environmental Protection Agency discovered piping in the basement contained asbestos, it instructed Weaver to report to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. But Weaver didn’t and continued the renovation in late 2014.

Weaver was also fined $10,000 and ordered to pay nearly $1,600 in legal costs.