CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — A northern Iowa woman who pleaded guilty to stealing from a bank has been given probation and a suspended prison sentence of 10 years. Floyd County District Court records say 34-year-old Cassandra Lane was sentenced Monday to five years of probation and ordered to pay more than $17,000 in restitution. She’d made a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to two counts of theft.
Court documents say the Charles City resident stole $13,300 from a customer and nearly $4,000 from the bank while working from October 2016 to August 2017 at the First Security Bank and Trust branch in Charles City.

Red Oak Police said today (Wednesday), that two Cass County residents were arrested on felony charges, Tuesday afternoon. 26-year old Michelle Lynn Eden and 57-year old Darrell Leroy Eden, both of Griswold, were arrested in the 800 block of N. Broadway in Red Oak at around 1-p.m. Both face Class-D Felony Forgery charges. Their bonds were set at $5,000 each.  35-year old Jeremy Hobe Pieken, of Hamburg, was arrested at around 1:15-p.m. Tuesday in the 1800 block of Highway 48, also on a Class-D Felony Forgery charge. His bond was also set at $5,000.

Darrell Eden (Photos courtesy Red Oak P-D)

Michelle Eden

Jeremy Pieken

Creston Police arrested a man on a 2nd offense OWI charge, Tuesday evening. 48-year old Johnny Agans, of Creston, was arrested at around 7:10-p.m. at Spruce/Townline Roads.  Agans was being held in the Union County Jail on a $2,000 bond.

INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — A 29-year-old man has been imprisoned for setting a fire that killed his father in south-central Iowa. Warren County District Court records say 29-year-old Stephen Major was sentenced Monday to 50 years. He’d pleaded guilty in May to arson and second-degree murder after prosecutors lowered the murder charge. Authorities say 50-year-old Robert Major died in the Jan. 20, 2017, fire at his home in Hartford.

The Atlantic Community School District’s Board of Education will meet this evening in the High School Media Center, beginning at 5:30. Action items on their agenda include accepting the resignations of Chelsea Germer, 5th Grade Teacher, and Cynthia Will, Schuler Elementary Para-educator. The Board will also act on: Contract recommendations, 2018-19 Worker’s Compensation Renewal and Fiscal Year 2018 bills.

The Board will also discuss a self-assessment.