GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa (AP) – Authorities in west-central Iowa are investigating the death of a Des Moines area developer found inside a burnt vehicle.

The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office says 64-year-old Bobby Joe Knapp was found inside the vehicle after someone reported it Sunday. The state medical examiner’s office says the cause and manner of Knapp’s death have not been released pending further investigation and lab testing.

On Thursday, the U.S. Marshals Service put out information on Knapp, who had a warrant out for violation of parole status. The Des Moines Register reports Knapp was serving prison time for violating federal clean air laws. He was recently released to a home confinement program.

Authorities say the burnt vehicle was stolen. The state Division of Criminal Investigation is assisting in the case.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – A Council Bluffs school district has apologized to teachers for a delay in their monthly paychecks.  The Council Bluffs Community School District sent an email Monday to teachers and substitute teachers alerting them that a payroll file for automatic deposits was not electronically submitted to the bank last week.  District spokeswoman Diane Ostrowski says the mistake was due to an error.

The Daily Nonpareil reports the district will reimburse employees who received overdraft charges because of the delay. Employees who are customers with American National Bank received a credit for the funds to their accounts. The error did not affect employees who receive bimonthly paychecks. That includes paraprofessionals, custodians and technicians.

A Nebraska woman was injured Monday morning when she swerved and crashed while trying to miss an object that flew out of a boat being towed on a trailer. The Iowa State Patrol says 30-year old Sarah Rozniecki, of Omaha, was transported by Glenwood Rescue to Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs following the crash. The Patrol says she was wearing her seat belt. The accident happened at around 7-a.m. in Pottawattamie County on Interstate 29 southbound, near the 42-mile marker.

Officials say a 2011 Chevy Silverado pickup pulling a boat and trailer, was traveling south on I-29, when an unsecured styrofoam cooler flew out of the boat and came to rest on the traveled portion of the road. When Rozniecki swerved to miss the cooler, her 2007 Toyota Corolla went out of control, left the road and entered a ditch before hitting a tree and crashing through a barbed wire fence before coming to rest in a field.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports three arrests over the past few days. On Friday, 39-year old Brent Harley Crawley, of Pacific Junction. Crawley was taken into custody during a traffic stop on Highway 34 at 1980^th Street, and charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance. His bond was set at $1,000.

And there were two arrests on Monday. 36-year old Rebecca Marie Phillips, of Glenwood, was arrested at around 4:50-a.m. on an OWI/1^st offense charge. Phillips was taken into custody following a traffic stop at 221^st and Ashton in Mills County. Her bond was set at $1,000. Also arrested Monday was 44-year old Laura Jeanie Smith, (No town given). Smith was taken into custody at the Pottawattamie County Jail at around 12:19-a.m., on a Mills County warrant for Failure to Appear in court on an original charge of  OWI/1^st offense.  Her bond was set at $5,000.

Firefighters from Adair, Anita and Wiota were on the scene Monday afternoon of a large grass fire north of Interstate 80 in Adair County. According to dispatch reports, the blaze was happening between the 78 and 79-mile markers. The incident was dispatched to Anita Fire and Rescue at around 3:15-p.m. No other details are available.

GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa (AP) – Authorities in west-central Iowa are investigating the death of a man found inside a burnt vehicle.  The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office says it responded to a call Sunday about a burnt vehicle. Officers discovered the body inside.  The state medical examiner’s office has identified the body to be that of Bobby Joe Knapp. The cause and manner of his death have not been released pending further investigation and lab testing.

On Thursday, the U.S. Marshals Service put out information about Knapp, who had a warrant out for violation of parole status. Authorities say the burnt vehicle was a stolen car that Knapp had been suspected of driving.  The state Division of Criminal Investigation is assisting in the case.

Atlantic Police report a local man was arrested Friday on a shoplifting charge. 22-year old Donald Smith, of Atlantic, was taken into custody on a charge of Theft in the 5th Degree. Smith was booked into the Cass County Jail.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports three arrests over the weekend. On Saturday, deputies arrested 22-year old Danielle Rae Curtis, of Waukee, on a charge of OWI/1st Offense, and 34-year old Amy Jo Hockabout, of Council Bluffs, was arrested on an Atlantic Police Dept. warrant for two counts of felony forgery and one-count of Theft in the 3rd degree. Hockabout was being held in the Cass County Jail on $10,000 bond, while Curtis was released later in the day, Saturday, on her own recognizance.

And on Sunday, deputies in Cass County arrested 18-year old Sarah Jo Porter, of Cumberland, on OWI/1st offense and Minor in Possession of Alcohol, charges. Porter was released later that day on her own recognizance.

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Two young men who had escaped from the Clarinda Academy late this morning have been located. Additional details on where the youth were found is currently not available. A law enforcement broadcast went out a little after 11-a.m. about the Clarinda Academy Juvenile Center escapees.

At the time, the escapees, one of whom was black, the other white, were last seen near 140th Street and P Avenue, heading north on foot out of Clarinda.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The number of acres devoted to corn is expected to shrink about 4 percent this year as farmers devote more of their land to soybeans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its annual forecast Monday of what farmers plan to plant.  The USDA says it expects 91.7 million acres of corn to be planted this year, down from 95.37 million acres last year.

The number of acres devoted to soybeans is expected to grow about 6 percent to 81.5 million acres from last year’s 76.5 million acres. Iowa farmer Ray Gaesser says farmers are responding to predictions for tight soybean supplies and relatively high crop prices. Gaesser, who serves as president of the American Soybean Association, says demand for soybeans is clearly high going into this year.