(Radio Iowa) — More than four-dozen Iowa communities will be taking part in next week’s National Night Out. The events are always held on the first Tuesday of August. Hamilton County Sheriff Doug Timmons says it’s an effort to foster relationships between law enforcement and the towns they service.

“This is community-based policing to get people to come out and see who we are, see that we’re everyday citizens,” Sheriff Timmons says. “Come and look at our stuff, come and have a quick meal. We have games for the kids, handouts for the kids. We have blue light bulbs so people can help support us. We’ll have a lot of fun activities and a lot of donated stuff.” The National Association of Town Watch launched the event in 1984 and now thousands of communities nationwide take part every year. Matt Peskin is the event’s national project coordinator.

Peskin says, “On this night, people go outside with their neighbors and local police and they host block parties, cookouts, parades, festivals, all different types of things to get people out, meeting their neighbors, meeting local law enforcement, and hopefully strengthening crime prevention and safety in their areas.”

To see if your community is participating in National Night Out, visit: www.natw.org. Here’s a list of some of area towns registered as having events: Bridgewater, Carroll, Carter Lake, Council Bluffs, and Red Oak.

Today: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 10am and 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 84. S @ 11-21 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 69. S@ 8 -17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. SSW @ 9-13 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.

Monday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. S @ 6 -10 mph becoming north northwest in the afternoon.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 83.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 87.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 87.

On August 3, 2018, at approximately 11:27 p.m, officers of the Red Oak Police Department arrested 35 year old Jamie Leigh Flynn in the 900 block of E. Hammond Street for driving while suspended and failure to have SR-22 Insurance.  Flynn was transported to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center where she is being held on $1000 cash bond.

On August 3, 2018, at approximately 9:58 p.m. the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office arrested TIMOTHY JAMES KIRSCH, 34, OF OMAHA, NE, on a valid Polk County Warrant for Criminal Mischief 4th Degree and Assault causing bodily injury following a traffic stop at Highway 34 at the 47 mile marker. Kirsch was also charged with interference with official acts following multiple incidents during transport. Kirsch was being held on $300 bond and no bond on the warrant in the Montgomery County Jail.

Officials with the U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa said Friday, a District Judge sentenced 45-year old Dale Volney Freeman, of Council Bluffs, to prison for 10-years (120 months), for possession of methamphetamine. Freeman was also ordered to serve seven years of supervised release following his imprisonment and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.

Freeman pled guilty to the charge on March 23rd, 2018. The case arose from officers being called to a local motel for a disturbance involving a man with a gun trying to break into a room. When officers arrived they determined that an unknown male had been trying to get into a room which had been rented by Freeman. Officers then found methamphetamine in Freeman’s motel room. Freeman was located in another room where he had over 250 grams of pure methamphetamine. Freeman was also carrying approximately $1,600 cash.

The matter was investigated by Council Bluffs Police Department, Southwest Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force and the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation Lab. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.

SEATTLE (AP) — More states — including Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota — are suing the Trump administration to dissolve a settlement it reached with a company that wants to post instructions online for making 3D-printed firearms that are hard to trace and detect. Mostly Democratic attorneys general from 19 states, plus the District of Columbia, filed an amended complaint Friday asking a judge make it illegal to share plans on creating printable plastic weapons. One Republican — Colorado’s attorney general — joined the lawsuit.

It comes days after U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik blocked the plans from being released until Aug. 28. He has scheduled an Aug. 21 hearing on the states’ request to reverse the U.S. State Department’s agreement with Austin, Texas-based Defense Distributed.

The settlement jeopardizes states’ ability to enforce gun laws, including background checks, and puts public safety at risk, the complaint said. The availability of plastic guns threatens safety in prisons and jails and makes air travel more susceptible to terrorist attacks, the states said.

Defense Distributed owner Cody Wilson, a self-described “crypto-anarchist,” has said “governments should live in fear of their citizenry.” His company seeks to make guns accessible to everyone, making “meaningful gun regulation impossible,” according to the complaint.

A group of gun-rights advocates called the Firearms Policy Coalition responded to the judge’s order by creating a website with plans for various firearms, including “the Liberator,” a 3D-printable single-shot handgun. Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson urged the federal government to enforce the court order prohibiting distribution of downloadable gun files.

The states suing are: Washington, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. The expanded lawsuit comes as a group of congressional Democrats introduced legislation that would block online instructions for 3D-printed guns, which are largely undetectable at security checkpoints, according a statement released Friday by U.S. Reps. Ted Deutch and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, Brad Schneider of Illinois and Carolyn Maloney of New York.

Another measure introduced this week requires plastic guns to have serial numbers and enough metal to make them visible on screening machines. President Donald Trump has questioned whether his administration should have agreed to allow the plans to be posted online, tweeting Tuesday that the idea “doesn’t seem to make much sense!” Since then, he has been largely silent on the issue.

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Police in southeastern Iowa say one person is dead and another injured following a shootout with officers that sent a nearby elementary school into lockdown.

The Ottumwa Courier reports that the shootout happened after police received a report around 1:40 p.m. of people with guns outside near Liberty Elementary. Ottumwa Police Chief Tom McAndrew says that when officers arrived, the suspects and officers exchanged gunfire. The shooting left one suspect dead. McAndrew says another suspect was taken to a local hospital with “very serious injuries.”

He says another person was arrested and a fourth suspect is still on the run and being sought. Police believe that person is armed and dangerous and urged residents in the area to stay inside their homes.

Police say no one else was injured. Students and staff at Liberty Elementary were taken to a shelter inside the school guarded by police and remained there until late Friday afternoon.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police say they’ve found a sport utility vehicle believed to have been involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed 56-year-old bicyclist.

Police say the red SUV was found Wednesday abandoned and hidden in a rural area east of Mitchellville. It has been impounded by Des Moines police. An arrest warrant has been issued charging Anthony McGilvrey with leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death.

Police believe McGilvrey was driving the SUV rental the morning of July 28 in Des Moines when it hit the bicyclist, identified as Darrel Ford. Investigators say Ford crossed into an intersection against a red light when he was hit.