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Wednesday Afternoon News, December 12th

Pam Floy Honored As Chamber’s December “Employee Of The Month”

(Le Mars) — An employee with Northwest Bank is the latest recipient of the Chamber of Commerce “Employee of the Month” honors. Pam Floy was recognized Wednesday morning during a Chamber coffee event held at Northwest Bank. Floy started working with the bank in April 1995 and has held many positions at the bank; from Residential Loan Officer, Retail Loan Manager and Personal Banker to her current position as Mortgage Loan Originator.
Pam Floy is a very caring person and has a special affection for her clients. She takes pride in getting what her clients want and need in banking services, and she has many repeat clients because of her caring attitude. She is always timely and efficient in performing her work duties and meets all challenges head on with a positive attitude.
Floy also does an outstanding job of extending great effort in helping and assisting her co-workers in many facets of duties at the Bank. She helps out whenever and wherever she is asked to, and many times without being asked.
Floy stays active outside the Bank with All Saints Parish on the endowment committee, The City of Le Mars Planning and Zoning committee and is an Ambassador for the Le Mars Chamber of Commerce.
Pam Floy, (left) receives the Chamber’s “Employee of the Month” award from her boss, and Chamber representative Kevin Eekhoff.

 

 

Hoffman Elected To President of the Iowa State Fair Board

(Des Moines) — A Le Mars man was recently elected to serve as the next president of the Iowa State Fair. Dave Hoffman will assume the helm overseeing one of Iowa’s largest tourist attractions. Hoffman was re-elected to the Board of Directors during the Iowa Association of Fairs Conference and Annual Meeting held at Des Moines last week. Hoffman was a longtime member of the Plymouth County Fair Board.

 

 

19 Year Old Charged With Stabbing To Death His Grandmother

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) – A 19-year-old Iowa man has been arrested hours after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death on her birthday.
Darian Lensgraf was arrested early Wednesday in Muscatine after a convenience store clerk called 911 to report that he was in the store holding a bloody knife.
About 15 minutes earlier, police had received another call reporting that a woman was found stabbed to death at a home in Muscatine.
Diana Lensgraf has been identified as the victim. Wednesday marked her 66th birthday.
Darian Lensgraf allegedly told police during an interview that he took the knife to her home with the intent to kill her. He made an initial appearance Wednesday and is being held in jail on a $5 million cash-only bond.
He was charged earlier this year with stealing a handgun from a friend with whom he was staying.

 

 

Work Release Inmate Is Missing

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) – Authorities are searching for an eastern Iowa work-release inmate who has gone missing.
The Iowa Department of Corrections says 29-year-old Demon Deonte Daniels failed to report back to a Waterloo residential facility as required Tuesday night. Daniels is serving time for a domestic abuse assault conviction in Black Hawk County.
He was admitted to the work-release facility on Monday.
Corrections officials say anyone with information on Daniels’ whereabouts should contact their local police.

 

 

Fatal Auto Accident Occurs On Highway 20

DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) – An eastern Iowa man has died in a crash on U.S. Highway 20.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that 60-year-old Russell Faust was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash just west of Dyersville on Tuesday evening.
The Iowa State Patrol says Faust was driving eastbound when a semi driven by 54-year-old Davis Steger, of Colesburg, turned onto the highway from a county road. Authorities say Faust’s van struck the semi and caught fire, trapping Faust inside.
The crash happened around 6:50 p.m. Authorities are still investigating.

 

 

Fire Fatality

PRINCETON, Iowa (AP) – Eastern Iowa officials are investigating the death of a person whose body was found in the rubble of a house fire.
The Scott County Sheriff’s Office says the fire was reported early Monday morning at a rural Princeton home.
Arriving firefighter found the house fully engulfed in flames, and firefighters and emergency crews from seven different departments responded to the scene.
After the fire was extinguished, a search of the debris turned up a body. An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday.
Officials have not released the name of the victim.
The fire and death remain under investigation.

 

 

Grassley Comments On Cohen Case

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Sen. Charles Grassley says President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen may be truthfully pleading guilty to federal crimes but it’s difficult to believe him when he implicates the president in crimes.

Cohen was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations. The campaign finance plea relates to illegal hush money payments made during the campaign to two women who allege they had affairs with Trump. Cohen says he paid them at the direction of Trump, potentially implicating the president in a crime.

During a call with reporters Wednesday, Grassley was asked whether he believes the president may have broken the law. Grassley said since Cohen lied to Congress, “to what extent do you want to put confidence in what a liar says?”

When asked if he thought Cohen’s guilty pleas were believable, he said Cohen could be lying about that too but “when you have somebody saying yeah, I did something wrong there’s no reason to doubt that.”