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Creston Police early this (Wednesday) morning, arrested 37-year old Briankeith A. Whitfield, of Creston, on numerous charges. Whitfield was taken into custody at around 1:30-a.m, at 603 W. Adams St., for Going Armed with Intent, Harassment in the 1st Degree, being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd or Subsequent offense, and for Possession of Paraphernalia. He was being held in the Union County Jail on $17,300 bond.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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Members of the Exira-EHK School Board will meet 6-p.m. today in the Conference Room in the Elk Horn building. On their agenda is discussion and/or action on: The Exira School playground equipment; Driver’s Ed Contracts; a P-Card Resolution authorizing issuance of individual procurement cards; prepayment of late June bills; Milk, bread and fuel bids; a transfer from the General Fund to Activity Fund, for the Yearbook account of negative balance at the end of June; approval of a New acceptable use policy for Technology during the 2018-19 school year; action on bus bids, and personnel matters.
The Board will also receive an update on construction projects.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines plans to resume ticketing Monday of speeding violators caught by an automated speed radar camera on a heavily traveled portion of Interstate 235. Citations haven’t been issued since April 26 last year, upon an order from the Polk County District Court. Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Muscatine appealed the court ruling. Those cities had sought the judicial review after the Iowa Transportation Department ordered some speed cameras turned off, saying the cameras didn’t make interstates safer.
This past April 27, however, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the department didn’t have authority over speed cameras, clearing the way for cities to employ them. The Des Moines Police Department said in a news release Tuesday that “a significant increase in speeding violations was noticed” after the ticketing halted.
ZACKARY ANDREW WILLIAMS, 6, of Audubon, died June 14th, at Children’s Hospital, in Omaha. Funeral services for ZACK WILLIAMS will be held 11-a.m. Saturday, June 23rd, at the Audubon Church of Christ. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is from 5-until 7-p.m. Friday, June 22nd.
Burial will be in the Garner Township Cemetery near Council Bluffs.
ZACKARY ANDREW WILLIAMS is survived by:
His parents – Andi Rose Williams and Richard Myers, of Audubon.
His brothers and sisters – Zoe Myers and Zadyn Myers, both of Carroll; Zach Myers, Ryker Williams and Jace Myers, all of Audubon.
His grandmother Julie Williams of Pueblo, Colorado; his great grandfather Harold Synder of Elk Horn, Iowa; his “Special family,” other relatives and friends.
Republican Congressman Steve King was an active tweeter, Tuesday, urging people to call congress and voice their opposition to bills that would provide what King calls “amnesty” to anyone who entered the U.S. illegally. King tweeted out a link to an interview he did with T-M-Z about the separation of children from parents crossing illegally at the southern border. King told the T-M-Z cameraman there is “nothing cruel” about the way the children are being treated and they are not being held in cages. King has toured detention centers near the southern border before. The use of chain link fencing is needed, King has said, to separate the boys from the girls.
King said on Twitter that the only way to stop what he describes as a “flood of illegals” is for the U.S. to deport “substantially more…than the number of those who arrive seeking amnesty.”
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Midwestern farmers are seeing soybean prices fall as the U-S and China remain at odds over trade and tariff issues. Kirk Leeds, chief executive officer for the Iowa Soybean Association, says soybeans are one of Iowa’s top crops and this continued spiral in prices is disheartening.”China is very, very important for Iowa farmers,” Leeds says. “From soybean farmers in particular, they buy about 60% of all the soybeans traded in the world. Anything that causes a potential disruption in our ability to sell high-quality soybeans to a customer like China is very, very concerning.”
The initial cause came when the Trump Administration threatened to put high tariffs on steel and aluminum coming from China and China responded with threats of raising tariffs on a list of American goods, including soybeans. “None of these tariffs are yet in place but just simply the threat of tariffs and counter-tariffs has been enough to drive soybean prices down,” Leeds says. “As you all know, at a time when farmers are already struggling to make ends meet, to have this kind of potential disruption in trade is very, very concerning.”
Leeds says he and other members of the Iowa Soybean Association are in contact with the Iowa delegation in the U-S House and Senate. “The administration has promised that they will take a look at some way to compensate farmers for the loss of income,” Leeds says. “I’m kind of skeptical that we’re going to find anything that they’ll actually follow through on and anything that’s WTO-compliant. So, it’s really troubled times and uncertain times.”
Leeds says they’ve gotten tremendous support from both Iowa U-S Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst as well as from the U-S Ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, a former Iowa governor. Leeds says he’s taken around 25 trips to China over past 35 years, working to develop the trade relationship.
(Radio Iowa)
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports three people were arrested on separate charges, Tuesday night. At around 11:20-p.m., 59-year old Deann Rachelle Russell, of Ft. Myers, FL., was arrested at the intersection of Highway 34 and 200th Street. She was charged with Interference with Officials Acts and held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond. At around 9-p.m., 42-year old Misty Schalome Currin, of Red Oak, was arrested near N. 3rd and E. Hammond Streets in Red Oak, for Driving While Suspended. Her bond was set at $566.25. At about the same time, 37-year old Quinton Scott Swanberg, of Red Oak, was arrested in the 600 block of N. 3rd Street, in Red Oak. The report did not indicate what the charges were. Swanberg was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.
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