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Fatal accident in Fremont County Friday night

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July 6th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

A single-vehicle rollover accident Friday night on the Iowa/Missouri state line in Fremont County, has claimed the life of a Hamburg man. The Iowa State Patrol says 48-year old James Dean Odell died at the scene after being ejected from the 2000 Ford Explorer he was driving as it rolled numerous times after entering a ditch and struck a utility pole. The man was not wearing a seat belt. A passenger in the SUV, 8-year old Wyatt Bartles, of Hamburg, was injured and transported by Hamburg Rescue to the local hospital. Bartles was properly restrained in his seat at the time of the crash, which occurred at around 8:45-p.m. on 330th Avenue, about one-quarter of a mile north of 322nd Street

Iowa early News Headlines: Sat., July 6th 2013

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July 6th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

WELLMAN, Iowa (AP) — State officials have lifted a bottled water advisory for residents in the southeast Iowa town of Wellman. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources said yesterday that the town’s drinking water is safe to drink. State officials issued the advisory while repairs were made to a broken water line.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A woman who hanged her boyfriend’s dog during an argument received a two-year suspended sentence yesterday. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that 28-year-old Sheena Cornwell had pleaded guilty to one count of animal torture after killing the 10-year-old pit bull mix on April 6th. Cornwell was given two years of probation on Friday, and will also be required to undergo psychological evaluation and treatment during that time.

BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — An Iowa man suspected of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl has been arrested in eastern Nebraska after a brief standoff with police. Bellevue police say they received a call around 9:30 a.m. yesterday reporting that 25-year-old Diego Campos of West Des Moines had sexually assaulted the girl at a Bellevue house. Police say Campos fled the home with a knife, and he was later arrested around 2 p.m. Friday.

BUFFALO, Iowa (AP) — Police in eastern Iowa have identified a young man found dead Wednesday night as 22-year-old Christopher Goodrick of Buffalo. Officers were dispatched Wednesday night to a home in Buffalo and found Goodrick unresponsive.

Carroll County woman injured in Audubon Co. accident

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July 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

A woman from Carroll County was injured when her van left the road and struck a culvert this (Friday) afternoon, in Audubon County. The Iowa State Patrol says 72-year old Ruth Ohde, of Manning, was transported to Myrtue Memorial Hospital in Harlan by Elk Horn Rescue, following the crash, which happened at around 2:15-p.m. The woman was wearing her seat belt.

Officials say Ohde was driving a 2012 Chrysler Town and County van north on Highway 173, about 1.5-miles south of Kimballton, when the van entered the east ditch before hitting a culvert and coming to rest facing north, against the culvert.

Details released on fatal Council Bluffs crash

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July 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

The Council Bluffs Police Department has released additional details about a fatal accident that occurred early this (Friday) morning. Police responded to the scene of the crash in the 200 block of Vets Memorial Highway about one-quarter of a mile west of the Metro Drive intersection at around 1:20-a.m. Officials say a Chevy Astro Van driven by 31-year-old Hilberto Velasquez Ramirez of Nashville, TN,was traveling east in the westbound lanes of traffic, when it collided with the driver’s side of a westbound Chevy Cavalier driven by 18-year-old Brenden Kniesly, of Council Bluffs. Officials say Kniesly tried to avoid a head-on collision by swerving to the right.

A passenger in Kniesly’s vehicle, 17-year-old Chrisshaun Moten, of Council Bluffs, was taken from the scene to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Moten was a student at the Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs. Kniesly and two other people in the van, 17-year-old Phillip Moffatt and 16-year-old Jessilyn Eisman, both of Council Bluffs, were injured in the crash and transported to the hospital, with Kniesly and Moffatt suffering from what were described as serious injuries. Eisman was treated for her injuries, and released.

Tests administered to Ramirez indicated his blood alcohol level was .178-percent, or more than twice the legal limit.  Ramirez faces a charge of Homicide by Motor Vehicle, two counts of Serious Injury by Motor Vehicle, and OWI. He was also cited for failure to hold a driver’s license and having no proof of insurance. He was being held in the Pottawattamie County Jail on $65,000 bond.

Adair County Mem. Hospital to undergo renovations

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July 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

The Adair County Memorial Hospital’s executive officers and board of trustees have announced several renovations to Adair County Memorial Hospital, located in Greenfield. With a goal of maintaining high quality services to the Adair County region several renovations are planned, including outpatient areas, operating rooms, the specialty clinic department and registration.
Several architectural firms have been meeting with the hospital’s board and executive officers exploring the best options for the renovations, Adair County Health System is planning regular updates to the community as  they progress through the renovation. The hospital’s board and executive officers selected ACI Boland and Graham Construction as the architect and construction manager, and are working with them to develop the final plans for renovations.
The project planning and design stage will go through the fall and construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2014. Adair County Health System will provide regular updates to the community as they progress through the project. 

Supreme Ct. affirms Pott. County man’s attempted murder conviction

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July 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a western Iowa man convicted of attempted murder in the shooting of a former girlfriend. Craig Finney, of Macedonia, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and told the judge in his trial that he shot Patty Harker in June 2011, and said he took the plea because he’s guilty. Finney was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
 
He appealed saying the judge didn’t ask enough questions at his plea hearing to establish a factual basis that he committed the crime. The high court finds judges must inquire enough to provide a factual basis but in Finney’s case there is adequate evidence in the record to support the plea.
 
The decision reverses the Iowa Court of Appeals which had thrown out the conviction.

Roadside vegetation program uses native flowers, grasses

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July 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

A program funded through the federal government and managed through the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls provides Iowa counties, including seven in the KJAN listening area, with native grass and flower seeds to plant along the roadways. Rebecca Kauten oversees the Roadside Vegetative Management Program, which she describes as putting native flowers and grasses back to work. “Having them not only control some of the erosion that is happening, but also having those deep root systems to be able to not only hold the soil in place, but not require as intensive herbicide application as would normally happen with a warm season grass planting that takes a different type of maintenance — a little more intensely mowed, and in some cases fertilizers too,” Kauten says. 

The seed comes in two mixes, one is called a “ditch clean out” mix that’s used when the counties go in and scrape out all the sediment from a ditch. “This mix is meant for some of your tighter soils, it sees a lot of action to put it simply,” Kauten says. “And then there is a diversity mix as well, which has a higher concentration of wild flowers and a way to really enhance you habitat. There are some plantings that counties want to do that’re really showy and have a lot of color in the fall — and so they will use that diversity mix.”

Kauten says the plants that grew wild on the prairie before it was settled can have roots that go down seven to 12 feet.  “You’re not only retaining the soil and water where these natives are planted, you are also enhancing the quality of the soil,” Kauten explains. “As these root systems move through these tighter soils, a lot of times you are able to increase the porosity of the soil, so it is not only stable because you’ve got a root to hold that soil in place, you also have the ability for the water to infiltrate through that soil.” 

Retaining soil and water runoff is only one of the benefits of planting natives along roadsides. “We’ve got the benefit also of being able to provide a food source and habitat for ground-nesting birds and for other species — pollinators especially — that are looking for nectar in plant species they don’t normally find elsewhere across Iowa,” Kauten says. The program was awarded 255-thousand dollars this year for the latest round of planting that includes 34 counties. The program has been helping reintroduce the native plants since 1988.

“We’ve provided seed to 82 different counties and we’ve planted native vegetation in over 15-thousand acres of Iowa county roadsides. And we’ve got a total of 75-thousand acres of Iowa county roadsides total. So we’ve got a ways to go. We’ve got a lot to do,” Kauten says. Those acres were planted with 12-thousand-460 pounds of native grass and wildflower seed. The program is open to any of Iowa’s 99 counties that have an integrated roadside vegetation management program. Kauten says all the counties have to do is express interest and they can get seed. Among the counties to receive seed this year are: Adair, Dallas, Guthrie, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Sac, and Shelby.

(Radio Iowa)

5 people arrested in Atlantic this week

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July 5th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

The Atlantic Police Department says five people were arrested this week. In their report released today (Friday), the A-PD said 18-year old Kray Lukehart and 19-year old Tyler Hovey, both of Atlantic, were arrested today (Friday) for being Minors in Possession of Alcohol. On Thursday, 39-year old Donna Piper, of Atlantic, was arrested for Simple Assault. 61-year old Deborah Thomas, of Atlantic, was arrested Wednesday, on a charge of Harassment, and 26-year old Stephanie Davidson, of Atlantic was arrested Tuesday, on a Forgery charge associated with credit cards.

All of the suspects were booked into the Cass County Jail.

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