CASTANA, Iowa — The Iowa Department of Public Safety reports the Monona County Sheriff’s Office, Tuesday, received a request for a welfare check on 66-year old Cheryl Stowe, of rural Castana.  Deputies conducted a welfare check and ultimately made contact with a Stowe’s grandson, Eliot Stowe; however Cheryl Stowe was not located at her residence.  Eliot Stowe was arrested on an outstanding arrest warrant for an unrelated matter.

On Wednesday, Deputies from the Monona County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa DNR located a deceased body a short distance from Stowe’s residence.  The body will be transported to the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy.  The investigation is ongoing by the Monona County Sheriff’s Office and are being assisted by the Monona County Attorney’s Office, the Iowa State Patrol, Iowa DNR, Mapleton PD and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.  No other details will be released at this time.

ROLFE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man and a 12-year-old girl were killed when a tractor rolled over in western Iowa. The accident occurred Saturday evening about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of Rolfe. Investigators say the man lost control of the tractor, which rolled atop him and the girl when it ran into a roadside ditch. Pocahontas County Sheriff Brian Larsen says the girl just wanted “a simple tractor ride, and it just went horribly wrong.”

The man’s been identified as 46-year-old Glenn Winthers, who lived in Rolfe. His passenger’s been identified as VedaMae Klocke, who also lived in Rolfe.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge in Missouri has found that the head of the Missouri State Highway Patrol went too far in firing a trooper after he was convicted of a misdemeanor in the drowning death of a handcuffed Iowa man. The Kansas City Star reports that Cole County Judge Patricia Joyce ruled Wednesday that the patrol’s superintendent can’t go beyond the recommendation of a disciplinary review board that found Anthony Piercy should be reinstated as a trooper and relocated. Joyce sent the case back to the patrol for consideration of a new, lesser punishment.

Piercy was taking 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson for a breath test when the Arizona State University student tumbled into the Lake of the Ozarks wearing an improperly secured life vest and drowned. Ellingson was from the Des Moines suburb of Clive.

Deputies with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Department K-9 Unit arrested a Pottawattamie County man early this (Thursday) morning, following a narcotics investigation. Sheriff Kevin Aistrope says the K-9 Unit had been conducting an investigation on 40-year old Richard Lee Lang, of Council Bluffs, for the delivery of methamphetamine at Sapp Brothers truck stop in Percival, and the Caseys General Store, in Tabor.

Deputies were able to apprehend Lang while he was delivering more methamphetamine at the truck stop this morning. Lang was transported to the Fremont County Law Enforcement Center where he was being charged with two counts of Delivery of methamphetamine. His bond was set at $200,000.

Richard Lee Lang (Photo courtesy Fremont Co. S/O)

Police in Creston report 25-year old Conner Doege, of Creston, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, for simple Domestic Assault. Doege was subsequently released on a promise to appear in court. And, a woman residing in the 400 block of N. Oak Street, in Creston, reported to police Wednesday morning, that someone had stolen her pitbull-mix dog from the woman’s yard. The incident happened sometime between 11-and 11:20-a.m., Wednesday. The animal was described as being a female, white with black spots, and wearing a pink collar. The loss was estimated at $1,000.

Iowa’s senior senator will play a major role in the selection of a new U.S. Supreme Court Justice and two Iowans are on the list of potential picks for the court that the White House released last year.  Iowa Supreme Court Justice Edward Mansfield and Iowa City native Steven Colloton, who’s a federal judge, are on list of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees for Trump’s second choice for the Supreme court. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley chairs the Senate committee that conducts hearings on the president’s judicial nominees. Grassley says he expects Trump to act “soon” and a hearing will be held “in the weeks ahead.”

Grassley was involved in denying a senate hearing to President Obama’s third nominee to the court, back in 2016 after a Supreme Court justice died. The Republican leader in the U.S. Senate says there will be a vote “this fall” on Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee. The Senate’s Democratic leader says voters should have a say and the decision should be delayed until after the November election.