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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A legislative oversight committee will investigate a program administered by the Iowa attorney general’s office. Rep. Kevin Koester, a Republican from Ankeny who chairs the House Government Oversight Committee, says Wednesday the panel will review some of the practices of the office’s Crime Victim Assistance Division.
According to a news release, the committee will look at the funding that goes to programs around the state that assist crime victims.
The committee will meet Sept. 8 to question staff from the attorney general’s office. Geoff Greenwood, a spokesman for Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller, says the program was managed responsibly and the office looks forward to discussing operations with the committee.
The Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors have approved the sale of $1.94 million in bonds to be repaid at an interest rate of 1.35 percent. According to the Daily NonPareil, the action Tuesday means the sale of the bonds will provide money for a new Veterans Affairs building, along with needs in the Sheriff’s Department and elsewhere. The investment bank of Robert Baird and Co. of Milwaukee, Wis., in association with the UMB Bank of Kansas City, Mo., purchased the bonds while offering the 1.35 percent interest rate, the lowest of four bids received.
The County will be getting $51,000 back in the purchase deal so that the Milwaukee bank can sell its purchased bonds at a higher interest rate that won’t impact taxpayers. The majority of the bond money, $1.5 million to be specific, will be utilized to build a new Veterans Affairs building at Sixth Avenue and Sixth Street. The 6,300-square-foot building will replace a 1,600-square-foot facility in the county’s annex building.
The remaining funds will be used to pay for seven, maybe eight, new patrol cars, new bullet-proof vests for the deputies and the installation of automatic external defibrillators in sheriff’s deputies’ vehicles to help those who suffer acute, life-threatening heart problems. Other funds will go toward new vehicles for the Planning and Maintenance departments.
The bonds are to be paid off in seven years.
The former principal of Red Oak Community High School has taken a new position at Saint Albert Catholic Schools. The Council Bluffs Daily NonPareil reports Jedd Sherman is teaching biology, anatomy and physiology and environmental science at the private high school in Council Bluffs. He spent 11 years teaching at the high-school and middle-school level.
Sherman resigned from Red Oak on June 30th after accepting a $100,000 settlement, which would have included unemployment benefits had he not found a new job. He has also been involved with a complaint he filed with the Iowa Public Information Board over the school board’s decision to hold closed-session discussions about his employment.
Red Oak school officials never accused Sherman of any wrongdoing. Many of his students, as well as others in the community, called for him to be retained as principal. The district never made public the reason they began the process of firing him, but a May 6 notice cited a failure to meet expectations. Sherman said at the time he was being retaliated against for making complaints.
Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports three juveniles who escaped from the Clarinda Academy early Wednesday morning, have been apprehended. Brothers said at approximately 1:20 a.m., officials from the Clarinda Academy reported the escape of three male juveniles from the facility. A 14-year old white male from Sioux City, Iowa, a 15-year old black male from Waterloo, Iowa and a 16-year old black male from Moreno Valley, CA., left one of the campus dormitories.
At around 2:50-a.m. the 15-year old back male from Waterloo was located and apprehended without incident by Clarinda Academy staff near the power substation located east of Clarinda. At about 7:25- a.m., the 14 year old white male from Sioux City and the 16 year old black male from Moreno Valley, CA., were also located and apprehended without incident by a Clarinda Police Officer. Those teens were taken into custody about one-mile west of Clarinda.
All three escapees have been returned to the custody of the Clarinda Academy.
An Atlantic man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly violating the terms of his probation. Atlantic Police report 57-year old Terry Calhoun was booked into the Cass County Jail.
(Updated 6-p.m. Wed,)
Today (Wednesday) was the deadline to file nomination papers for county office. Nomination papers had to have been filed with the County Auditor by 5-p.m., in order for candidates to be included on the ballot for the Nov. 4th General Election.
In Cass County only two non-partisan offices are short nominees. Both are on the CASS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION COUNCIL. Those who filed their nomination papers by the deadline include:
Edna Township Clerk: Daniel Schrier, of Cumberland; Union Township Clerk: Cheryl R. Christensen, of Cumberland; Edna Township Trustee: Travis Erickson, & Rodney Penton, both of Cumberland; Union Township Trustee: Brent Paulsen, & Daryl Schrier, both of Cumberland.
Hospital Trustee (northwest) – Ned Brown, & Leanne Pellett, both of Atlantic; Hospital Trustee (southwest) – Jerry Putnam, of Griswold; Soil & Water – Frederick W. Kay, & Greg Zellmer, both of Atlantic; County Ag Extension Council – Kristi Plagman, of Cumberland, Todd Weppler, of Lewis, & Brad Pellett, of Atlantic; Gage Zellmer, of Atlantic, & Chad Becker, of Wiota.
FREMONT, Neb. (AP) – A 53-year-old Iowa man has been imprisoned for stealing dozens of brass vases from an eastern Nebraska cemetery. The Fremont Tribune says Gary Hostetter, of Carter Lake, Iowa, on Monday was given 20 to 60 months. He had pleaded no contest to a theft charge. Dodge County Attorney Oliver Glass has said Hostetter admitted taking 45 vases from Memorial Cemetery in Fremont earlier this year.
Dodge County Jail records say Hostetter remained in custody on Tuesday.
A Pottawattamie County man was arrested Tuesday morning on a charge of Driving While Barred. 27-year old Corey Michael Ware, of Council Bluffs, was arrested following a traffic stop at around 9:50-a.m., in Red Oak. Ware was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $2,000 bond.
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