County Supervisors To Convene Today, But City Council Delays Meeting For Next Week
(Le Mars) — Plymouth County Board of Supervisors are scheduled to meet this morning at the County Courthouse Board Room, while the Le Mars City Council has suspended its meeting until next Tuesday. The County Supervisors will hear from Surveyor Dave Wilberding and also attorney Dennis Brady as both discuss with the county governing board permission to seek approval of sub- divisions in Marion Township, and Remsen Township. County Engineer Tom Rohe will update the county supervisors on the status of road construction projects within Plymouth County.
Work On Central Avenue To Begin Again On July 5th
(Le Mars) — Le Mars city officials have announced the scheduled date to start on phase 2 of Central Avenue overlay will begin on July 5th and with weather permitting, it should be open to the public on July 19th.
Phase 2 will start South of the intersection of Plymouth St. and Central Ave. and go south on Central Ave. to the North side of the intersection of 2nd St. and Central Ave. Harris Construction is the contractor to perform the overlay project.
Authorities Release Additional Information Regarding Sunday’s Accident Involving Boy Jumping From Moving Vehicle
(Le Mars) — Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office has release additional information regarding the injury accident that happened Sunday afternoon at about 4:00 p.m. The incident occurred on Highway 60 near county road C-16.
According to the traffic report, 13 year old Brandon Vodehnal of Austin, Minnesota, was riding in the second row left seat as a passenger in a Dodge Durango. Vodehnal began to exit the vehicle while traveling at 65 mph. The driver slowed to approximately 30 mph at which point the 13 year old opened
the rear left passenger door and jumped from the vehicle landing in the middle of the northbound lanes. The teenage boy suffered head trauma and other injuries. He was initially transported to Floyd Valley Healthcare in Le Mars by the Le Mars Ambulance, then later was airlifted and transported to Avera Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota via the Sanford Medical Air
Ambulance. Traffic on Highway 60 was backed up during the time rescue crews were working the scene. Responding to the scene included the Le Mars Fire and Rescue Department, the Le Mars Ambulance and the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office.
Woman Found Guilty Of Shooting Husband Is Now Given Parole
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa Board of Parole has granted work release to a woman convicted in 2004 of fatally shooting her husband and leaving his body in a bedroom for more than a year.
The Des Moines Register reports 50-year-old Dixie Shanahan Duty, of Defiance in western Iowa, was granted work release earlier in June.
Duty acknowledged killing her husband, Scott Shanahan, but said it was in self-defense. She argued her husband had battered and verbally abused her.
A jury convicted Duty of second-degree murder, a conviction that carried a sentence of 50 years. Shortly before leaving office Gov. Tom Vilsack commuted her sentence so she only had to serve a minimum of 10 years before being eligible for parole.
When she begins work release, Duty will be able to leave a work release center for a job. Corrections Department spokeswoman Cord Overton says the center could later recommend that she be paroled.
The parole board would make the final decision.
As of Monday, she remained in the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville, east of Des Moines.
Prosecutors say Duty used a shotgun to kill her husband while he slept in August 2002. She told people he’d left the community.
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Two Men That Shot At Each Other Claim “Stand Your Ground” As Defense
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Two men who shot at each other in downtown Cedar Rapids are claiming a legal shield from prosecution under Iowa’s “stand your ground” law.
The Des Moines Register reports that Michael Hodges Jr., of Cedar Rapids, and Zevon Johnson, of Urbandale, have pleaded not guilty and say the law passed last year makes them immune from prosecution. Security video shows them exchanging gunfire Jan. 28 outside a downtown Cedar Rapids bar and restaurant. Johnson was wounded; Hodges was not.
Both men have pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder.
The law says a person doesn’t have to retreat before using deadly force if he or she thinks his or her life is being threatened.
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Woman Charged With Child Endangerment When Found Intoxicated At Her Home
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a woman was found intoxicated in her Des Moines home after her 8-year-old son wandered to a neighborhood gathering.
Polk County Court records say 35-year-old Morgan Brown-Edmundson is charged with three counts of child endangerment and is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 2. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for her.
Neighbors called police Sunday after the boy showed up at a
neighborhood gathering. He told adults there he was worried about his mom because he couldn’t awaken her.
Officers found her asleep and intoxicated and a 6-year-old child and a 2-year-old passed out or sleeping.
A criminal complaint says the 8-year-old told officers his mom
regularly makes him and his siblings ingest sleeping pills and other medicines to make them sleep during the day.
King and Scholten Address Delegates At Respective Political Party State Conventions
(Des Moines) — Congressman Steve King is urging his fellow Republicans who are “apprehensive” about President Trump’s trade talk to give Trump “time and room” to make some deals.
King made his comments this weekend at the Iowa Republican Party’s state convention. King predicted there will be a “red tsunami” this November. King also spoke up for the nation’s embattled attorney general who’s drawn Trump’s ire at times and who has defended the policy of separating children from parents entering the country illegally at the southern border.
King’s Democratic opponent, J.D. Scholten (SHOAL-tun) of Sioux City rallied with delegates at the Iowa Democratic Party’s state convention this weekend.
Harkin and Bedell — both Democrats — are former congressmen who represented many of counties included in Iowa’s current fourth congressional district.
Scholten suggested there’s a reason King has re-tweeted neo-nazis.
Go to www.radioiowa.com to listen to the speeches both of these candidates delivered at their party conventions.
