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Creston Police report two men were arrested on separate charges, Wednesday. 37-year old Dustin Dale Moore, of Creston, was arrested at around 7:10-p.m., for Domestic Assault. He was being held in the Union County Jail without bond, pending an appearance before the Magistrate. And, 51-year old Michael Robert Spare, of Afton, was arrested at around 1:30-p.m. Wednesday, in Creston, for Driving While Suspended at Saint Malachy. Spare has since bonded-out of the Union County Jail.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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FOREST CITY, Iowa (AP) — One of two men accused of stealing around 150 pigs in northern Iowa has been sentenced. Winnebago County District Court records say 21-year-old Robert Morales, of Thompson, Iowa, on Tuesday was given 10 years in prison, suspended, and five years of probation and fined $1,000. He also was ordered to make restitution of nearly $22,000.
The pigs were reported stolen Nov. 4, 2017, from a Christensen Farms operation near Lake Mills. The other man charged, 35-year-old David Cortez Jr., has pleaded not guilty to theft and burglary. His trial is scheduled to begin April 10.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa City woman who told police she drank several cans of beer before providing day care to an infant who died later that day has been given two years of probation. Johnson County District Court records say 49-year-old Wendy Young also was sentenced Monday to two years in prison and fined $625, but both were suspended. She’d entered an Alford plea to a reduced charge of child endangerment, no injury. In an Alford plea, a person doesn’t admit guilt but acknowledges there is enough evidence for a likely conviction.
Officers called to Young’s home on Oct. 18, 2017, found the child unresponsive . The infant was pronounced dead later at a hospital. The records say Young acknowledged drinking 10 to 12 cans of beer before the child arrived. Authorities haven’t provided more information about the child.
(Radio Iowa) — The Iowa Attorney General’s Office is appealing the district court ruling that threw out Iowa’s Ag Protection Fraud Law, the so-called “ag gag” law. Drew Mogler, public policy director for the Iowa Pork Producers Association, says his organization thinks the state has an excellent argument to protect farmers from imposters and intruders from animal rights groups.
“When we look at some of the pressures our industry is facing with foreign animal diseases in other countries,” Mogler says, “I think we’re all aware of the issue of African swine fever moving around lots of countries in Asia, biosecurity and protecting biosecurity in this state is definitely in the state’s interest.”
Mogler says the state’s livestock producers need to be shielded from activists’ attacks, including the use of undercover videos on farms and ranches. “This law is designed to protect farmers from folks who are really driving an agenda to end meat production and meat consumption in this state and in this country,” Mogler says. “Farmers deserve that protection because they’re caring for their animals each and every day.”
Mogler says if the court of appeals rules in favor of the state, then the ag-gag law will be reinstated. “If this appeal gets overturned in the Eighth Circuit, then the Ag Protection Fraud Law is back on the books here in the state of Iowa,” he says, “and producers will have protection under that statute.”
Mogler says those who challenged the Iowa law originally claimed it was a violation of free speech rights, but he says that wasn’t the intention of the law, as it aimed to protect ag operations.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The nation’s farmers are struggling to pay back their loans after years of low crop prices, with nearly one out of five loans in a government farm program now delinquent for the worst January default rate in at least nine years. The bulk of the nation’s agricultural loans typically come due around Jan. 1 for seasonal and tax planning purposes. Figures recently compiled show an overall jump nationwide in delinquencies for producers with direct loans from the Agriculture Department’s Farm Service Agency. David Schemm, executive director of the Kansas Farm Service Agency, says 19.4 percent of FSA direct loans nationwide were delinquent in January, compared to 16.5 percent the same month a year ago.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports Deputies, Wednesday, arrested two Red Oak women on drug charges, in Red Oak. Rebecca Lynn Ceranek and Vicki Jo Straight, were arrested in the 500 block of E. Coolbaugh Street. Ceranek faces three felony charges, including Delivery of Marijuana and two counts Possession of a Controlled Substance, along with a serious misdemeanor Unlawful Possession of Prescription Medication, charge.
Straight was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance. Both women were being held in the Montgomery County Jail, with Ceranek’s bond set at $5,000, and Straight’s bond at $1,000.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/a few flurries. High 20. S @ 10-15.
Tonight: Partly cloudy-to-cloudy. Low 8. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: Mo. cldy w/light snow or flurries. High 28. SE @ 10.
Saturday: Mo. cldy w/light snow/flurries. High 16.
Sunday: Mo. cldy w/light snow in the morning. High 8.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 20. Our Low was 2. Last year on this date our High was 46 and the Low was 27. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 71 in 1972. The Record Low was -23 in 1962.
(Radio Iowa) — Five members of the Iowa House have signed off on the IDEA of charging a new fee to the owners of electric vehicles AND a new, per-kilowatt-hour tax at public charging stations. Michael Triplett, a lobbyist for the Automobile Manufacturers Association, urged legislators not to set the fee higher than what electric car owners are paying in neighboring states.
“This is the future,” Triplett said. “These are drivers currently who are little bit wiser in their use of their car and its sound to some of our members like they’re being punished for choosing the most economical, environmentally-friendly option.”
The Iowa D-O-T has recommended a 130-dollar annual fee for electric vehicles. That’s
higher than what’s being charged in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri and Nebraska. Drivers of gas-powered vehicles pay the state fuel tax which finances the upkeep and construction of roads and bridges. Scott Newhard, a lobbyist for the Associated General Contractors of Iowa, says electric vehicles should pay into the Road Use Tax, too.
“One thing about electric vehicles — they do use the roadway,” Newhard said. “…Their presence on the roadway requires them to pay a user fee.” Representative Ashley Hinson, a Republican from Marion, says automobile makers are promising to produce more electric vehicles — displacing the gas-powered vehicles that are generating the tax revenue for roads now. “We need to be making these decisions so the infrastructure is in place, so we’re ready for that,” Hinson says.
By late last year there were 800 battery-powered vehicles registered in Iowa. There were about 19-hundred plug-in hybrids that can switch to gas power when the charge runs out.
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