Members of the CAM School District’s Board of Education will gather at 6:30-p.m. in the CAM High School Media Center this (Monday) evening. On their agenda is an update on the Elementary Building addition, along with discussion and action on: Use of facilities by outside organizations; Resignations and contracts; Facility projects (Including a camera and sound system); Milk and bread bids; The setting of lunch prices and student fees; and, approval with Griswold for the sharing of an Art Teacher.

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Officials with the Creston Police Department today (Monday), said two people were arrested Saturday. A little after 12 noon, 31-year old Joshua Coulter was arrested at 404 N. Cherry Street, on a Union County warrant for Failure to comply with his Pre-Trial Release, on an original charge of Forgery. Coulter was being held in the Union County Jail on a $5,000 bond. And, 33-year old Jason Merboth, of Creston, was arrested at around 3:30-p.m. Saturday, for OWI/1st offense. He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

Creston Police said also, two residents reported recent incidents of Theft. A resident of the 200 block of E. Mills Street reported Friday morning, that sometime between July 3rd and 14th, someone took three batteries from mowers on his property. The loss was estimated at $150. And, Saturday morning, a resident of the 1300 block of N. Elm Street, in Creston, reported to Police that sometime between 9-p.m. Friday and 7:30-a.m. Saturday, someone took four bicycles and four tricycles from the driveway of 609 W. Adams Street. The loss was estimated at $150.

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The Audubon County Sheriff’s Department today (Monday), released information about a collision that took place last Thursday afternoon. Officials say vehicles driven by 41-year old Andrea L. Schramm, of Guthrie Center, and 62-year old Sherry Jane Fenske, of Audubon, collided at around 2-p.m. Thursday, when Fenske failed to stop at the intersection of 190th Street and Pheasant Avenue.

The 2003 Kia Fenske was driving was struck on the passenger side, by Schramm’s 2015 Chevy Tahoe, causing a total of $34,700 damage. Both drivers were transported to the Audubon County Hospital by Audubon Fire and Rescue. Fenske was cited for Failure to obey a traffic control device.

Audubon County Sheriff Todd Johnson reports two people were arrested on separate charges, Sunday. At around 3:30-p.m., 27-year old Adon Lee Shriver, of Carroll, was arrested following a traffic stop on Highway 71 near 110th Street. Shriver was charged with Driving While Barred, Open Container and No SR-22 Insurance. He has since posted bond and will appear before the magistrate July 20th.

And, 27-year old Joseph Dean White, of Exira, was arrested at around 8-a.m. Sunday, for Domestic Abuse Assault. The charges stems from an investigation into an incident that occurred in Exira earlier in the morning, Sunday. White was being held in the Audubon County Jail.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – An environmental organization is encouraged by the sightings of two endangered snakes in Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports the two rattlesnakes were spotted earlier this year.

The Nature Conservancy says that for the first time in 15 years, the group confirmed a massasauga rattlesnake in the Lower Cedar Valley Preserve in Muscatine. They’re also known as “swamp rattlers.” Conservancy spokeswoman Shelly Hiemer says there have been concerns about the survival of the snakes, because of heavy flooding in the area the past two years.

The other endangered snake sighted this year was a prairie rattlesnake in the Broken Kettle Grassland Preserve near Sioux City. More good news: The conservancy says she was pregnant. To the conservancy, the sightings of the endangered snakes means their habitats are survivable.

A traffic stop at around 8:30-p.m. Sunday in Red Oak, resulted in the arrest of a Cass County woman. Red Oak Police say 25-year old Morgan Barbara Dvorak, of Atlantic, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. She was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $1,000 cash bond.

Police say a Bondurant man was drunk when the vehicle he was driving struck and killed a motorcyclist. The crash happened around 10:30 p.m. Friday south of Ankeny. Polk County Sheriff’s deputies say a vehicle driven by 26-year-old Taylor Linse was northbound on Northeast 14th Street when it crossed into the southbound lane and hit an oncoming motorcycle.

On Sunday, authorities identified the motorcyclist who was killed the crash as 56-year-old Rueben Ignacio Enriquez, of Ankeny. They also revealed Linse was arrested and charged with second-offense operating while intoxicated, vehicular homicide, driving while license revoked and a probation violation.

(Radio Iowa)

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CDT

MESERVEY, Iowa (AP) — A northern Iowa man has been convicted of kidnapping and torturing his girlfriend. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that 41-year-old Charles Raymond Albright, of Meservey was convicted Friday of two felonies related to the kidnapping.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — An independent study finds no racial bias in traffic stops by police in a city in eastern Iowa but notes that minority drivers are more likely to be arrested and cited once they’re stopped. St. Ambrose University researchers tell The Telegraph Herald that further analysis is needed to determine if these disparities found in Dubuque signify racial bias. The study found that minority drivers were nearly 20 percent more likely to receive citations than white drivers.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A deadly jail escape has prompted officials in a southwestern Iowa county to consider spending up to $200,000 to install body scanners that would be used on inmates when they enter the jail. Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker tells The Daily Nonpareil that the scanners would be used to find contraband inmates try to smuggle into the county jail. It would be used as they enter the jail and for trips to and from the courthouse.

OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) — A former southern Iowa teacher has pleaded guilty to a felony count of sexual exploitation by a school employee. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that 61-year-old Alan Stewart, of Oskaloosa, pleaded guilty this week. He was charged in March after a report was filed of an inappropriate relationship he had with a student in 2015.