An accident that took place Monday evening in Creston resulted in minor injuries, but the victims didn’t have far to go. That’s because it occurred on Highway 25, near the entrance to the Greater Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Room Entrance driveway.

Creston Police say a 1997 Geo Prizm driven by 17-year old Garrett Breann Abel, of Creston, was traveling eastbound on Highway 25 at around 6:30-p.m., and approaching the entrance to the hospital, when she began to slow down while yielding to two rescue vehicles that were pulling out of the hospital drive, enroute to an accident.

62-year old Jimmy Lynn Rohner, of Greenfield, was behind Abel’s car but failed to stop in time. His 2004 Ford F-150 pickup struck the rear of the Prizm, causing the car to veer off the road and come to rest in the grass on the south side of the highway. Abel, and a passenger in her vehicle complained of neck, shoulder and back pain. They were escorted on foot by the EMT’s, to the entrance of the hospital.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 31-year old Jason Paul Crouse, of Red Oak, was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a Fremont County bench warrant charging him with Violation of Probation. Crouse was turned over to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and held on a $5,000 bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa —  It has come to the attention of the Iowa Department of Public Safety that an online extortion scam has been taking place where individuals pose as law enforcement officers who supervise Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces.

Reports have been filed in the metro area, as well as other states and appears to follow the same pattern:

• Male victim is contacted via an online dating app/website by an alleged female.  Within a few days, at the recommendation of the female, they shift from the app site to texting.
• The texting transitions from banter to more intimate messages and results in the exchange of nude photos and discussions of meeting in the near future.
• After the male receives the nude photo from the female, the male is then called form a person claiming to be the supervisor of the Iowa ICAC task force.  The imposter advises the female is underage and there is now child pornography on the male’s phone and the female’s father’s phone because she was using it to communicate with the male (victim).
• The fake ICAC supervisor then advises the male he will need to replace the father’s phone or face legal action.  Later that day, the male receives a phone call from the imposter father who advises them to send money (usually several hundred dollars) via wire transfer to replace the phone.

An investigation has revealed that the perpetrators have used phones with out of state area codes.  The fake law enforcement officer has even had a professional voicemail that has identified the person as the ICAC supervisor with the Iowa DCI.

Anyone that believes they have been victim to this or becomes victim of this is urged to call their local law enforcement agency and make a report.

FONTANELLE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials say there could be reason to cry over the spilling of a lot of milk — at least some of which made its way into a southeastern Iowa river.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday in a news release that the crash of a tanker hauling milk east of Fontanelle Sunday evening caused the spill. Officials say the tanker could have been carrying 7,500 gallons of milk, and that the tanker was almost empty when it was hauled away.

DNR officials say heavy milk concentrations can cause fish kills in streams. Investigators who arrived Monday found milk in a road ditch flowing into an unnamed tributary. From there, the milk ran into the Middle Nodaway River, creating a visible plume.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa independents who helped Donald Trump win the presidency see last year’s tough-talking candidate as a thin-skinned chief executive. They wish he’d show more grace.

Unaffiliated voters make up the largest percentage of the electorate in the Midwest state. Iowa backed Trump in 2016 after lifting Democrat Barack Obama to the White House in two straight elections. Ahead of Trump’s visit to Iowa on Wednesday several independents who voted for Trump expressed frustration with the president.

It’s not just his famous tweetstorms. The barrages represent a president distracted by investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and a court battle over his executive order barring refugees from majority-Muslim countries, at the expense of tangible health care legislation and new tax policy.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former President George W. Bush is scheduled to visit Iowa this fall to serve as the featured speaker at a fundraiser for a Des Moines charity.

Bush will speak Oct. 14 at a dinner for Trailhead International Builders, a Christian nonprofit group based in Ankeny that raises money to build church and community centers in developing nations. The event will be held at the Iowa Events Center. Tickets go on sale June 30.

Bush, a Republican, was president from 2001 to 2009.