City of Avoca – City Council (elect 3)

William Dea    164*

Derek Knop     121*

Steven Kern     92

David McCain  100*

City of Neola

Mayor:

Dawn Marie Goodsell     153*

Lon Ring                          65

City of Oakland – City Council (elect 3)

Pat Newberg         73*

Doug Reed            62

Debbie Rollins      104*

Joseph Wede        92*

City of Treynor – City Council (elect 3)

Joe Fisher            75

David Waymire   67

Write-In               3

City of Underwood – City Council (elect 2)

Zeferina S. Aguilar     24

Jim Pingel                  28*

Julius W. Tiarks          57*

Gary J. Wahle            24

City of Walnut – City Council (elect 3)

Linda Booth             55*

Kim Canada             48

Jason Erickson        30

Michael Gettler       78*

Dennis Hullinger     76*

Dan Shirley              33

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Three men have pleaded guilty to using stolen identities and debit card numbers in a buying spree across Iowa.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 26-year-old Dunieski Santana Moreno and 21-year-old Liliany de Armas Mena pleaded guilty last week in Cedar Rapids’ federal court to aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Thirty-six-year-old Pedro Alvarez Rodriguez pleaded guilty to the same charges on Sept. 21. All three are Cuban citizens, but had lived in the U.S.

Prosecutors say the men admitted stealing account information earlier this year from at least 35 accounts using “skimming” devices. The stolen information was then encoded onto counterfeit magnetic strip cards, which were used at stores across Iowa.

Each faces up to nearly 10 years in prison when they’re sentenced at a later date.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa agency is delaying plans to add a third company back into the state’s privatized Medicaid program. Iowa Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven says the agency will hire another company to offer Medicaid coverage in 2019. The agency originally said such a company would start next July.

Foxhoven says the agency will begin its search for a company soon, but the 2019 delay ensures adequate time. Foxhoven provided the information Tuesday to a health care council. It comes one week after AmeriHealth Caritas announced it will drop Medicaid coverage in Iowa at the end of the month after failed contract negotiations with the state. Two other private insurance companies, Amerigroup and UnitedHealthcare, will continue Medicaid coverage.

Foxhoven says UnitedHealthcare will take over coverage beginning Dec. 1 from AmeriHealth for about 215,000 patients. They also can transfer to Amerigroup.

MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a western Iowa county supervisor has died in a grain bin accident. Harrison County Sheriff Pat Sears says 63-year-old Russ Kurth, of Logan, died in the bizarre Tuesday morning accident outside a grain bin just north of Missouri Valley.

Sears say Kurth and another person were checking out a door from which corn was leaking on the new bin that had been recently filled. Officials say the door burst open as Kurth and the other man approached, burying Kurth in corn. The other man was able to escape.

Officials say Kurth was pulled from the corn more than an hour after the accident was reported. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Kurth was elected to the Harrison County Board of Supervisors in 2014.

The Red Oak Police Department reports no injuries after a two-vehicle collision in Red Oak on Tuesday morning. At 7:27am Officers responded to the accident at the intersection of North 5th Street and East Corning Street in Red Oak. After investigation it was determined that a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by 54-year-old Allen McCray Wilson of Red Oak was traveling westbound on East Corning Street when his vehicle was struck broadside by a 2013 Hyundai Elantra driven by 22-year-old Lee Orey Morrison of Emerson. Morrison failed to stop at the stop sign and was issued a citation for that along with a citation for No Insurance Accident Related. The Jeep sustained an estimated $2,000 damage and the Hyundai had an estimated $3,000 damage. Both drivers were wearing their seat belts and no injuries were reported.

The City of Massena’s Council Meeting is postponed to November 20th, 2017 at 7:00 P.M.