(Plymouth County) A two vehicle accident in Plymouth County Sunday afternoon sent one person to the hospital. The Plymouth County Sheriff says a semi collided with an S-U-V towing a grain head at the intersection of C-16 and K-22 just before 1:30 p.m. The sheriff says the semi was southbound on K-22 when the westbound S-U-V cross in front of him at the intersection. The driver of the S-U-V was airlifted to Mercy One and is in critical condition. The semi driver was not injured. The accident remains under investigation.
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(Le Mars) The excitement of Gehlen Catholic’s Homecoming continued Saturday when Samantha Zubrod, was selected for the NWIBA JH Honor Band. The 7th Grade tuba player was selected to participate in the 52nd Annual Northwest Iowa Band Director’s Association (NWIBA) Junior High/Middle School Honor Bands Festival. The concert will be held at Schaeller Hall at 6 p.m. on November 9, 2019, at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake.
Sami, daughter of Dennis and Nancy Zubrod of Merrill, was one of over 350 7th and 8th grade band students from 41 Northwest Iowa schools who auditioned for a position in two honor bands. Approximately 190 students were chosen.
Sami began preparing for NWIBA Junior High Honor Band this past summer. She said, “I wanted to try honor band out and see if it was something I wanted to do again.”
Gehlen Catholic 5-12 Instrumental Music Director, Mr. Nathan Klaumann, is excited for Sami. He stated, “She worked extremely hard this fall to prepare for her audition. She went out and earned her spot in the NWIBA Junior High Honor Band.”
Guest conductors for the honor band festival will be Ms. Tiffany Wurth, Director of Bands, Buena Vista University, and Mr. Luiz Víquez, Assistant Professor of Clarinet and Director of Orchestras, the University of South Dakota.
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Le Mars Fire and Rescue were kept busy over the weekend. At 6:10pm Friday, the department responded to a possible combine fire in the 22000 block of Hwy 75 (Nipco Corner Area). Firefighters determined that there was no fire and just dust. This was called in by a passerby on the Hwy.
Saturday at 12:21am there was a call for a pick-up vs. train accident on 200th Street and the railroad tracks. (West of Wells Corporate Office 1 mile) A pick-up was located on it’s side in the south ditch. No driver was found. The driver was located later by the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office. Firefighters assisted the Sheriff’s Office at the scene with lighting and searching. At 1:24pm Le Mars Fire-Rescue were called to a semi vs. SUV accident at county road C-16 and K-22. Firefighters assisted with patient care and cleaning up debris. the patient was airlifted from the scene. Firefighters set up a landing zone for the helicopter as well. Firefighters were on scene for over an hour.
Last Thursday at 7:35pm Le Mars Fire-Rescue Called to a two vehicle accident at the Railroad Tracks in Hinton. They assisted with patient care and cleaning up debris. Firefighters on scene for 45 minutes.
Friday, October 18 at 11:00am Le Mars Fire-Rescue called to 320 4th Ave. NW for smoke in the area. A fire pit was burning yard waste. Wind gust were at 30mph. Resident extinguished the fire and was explained the City Burning Ordinance. The department also found time to participated in the Gehlen Homecoming Parade.
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(Sioux City) Three governors from the tri-state area are in Dakota Dunes today to take part in the 16th annual Tr-States Governor’s Conference. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Kristi Noem of South Dakota and Pete Ricketts of Nebraska will discuss a variety of issues that are important to Siouxland. Topics on the agenda for the luncheon and conference include career education porgrams, housing, ethanol and the 185th Air National Guard. The event is sponsored each year by the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce.
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Iowa and Nebraska authorities helped rescue two hunters around 11am Sunday morning whose boat was sinking.
Monona County dispatch says a father and his teenage son were duck hunting on an oxbow lake within the Tieville Bend Wildlife Management Area and were motoring back to the boat ramp when their 14 foot johnboat began taking on water.
An Iowa DNR Conservation Officer and an Iowa State Patrol Trooper accompanied Decatur Fire and Rescue and pulled the hunters from their stranded vessel and transported them to shore.
Both individuals refused medical treatment. Their names were not released by authorities.
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Authorities in Iowa say the body of a missing Nebraska kayaker who was hunting has been recovered.
33-year-old Cody Bengford of Bellevue, Nebraska had been reported missing Friday evening.
Divers with the Midwest Regional Dive Team recovered Bengford’s body Saturday morning.
Investigators believe Bengford left the boat ramp at the Nobles Lake Wildlife Management Area on Friday afternoon to head out for a bow hunt in the Desoto National Wildlife Refuge.
Bengford was reported missing that evening after he didn’t return.
His overturned kayak was recovered along the north shoreline of the lake.
Bengford’s body has been transported to the Iowa Medical Examiner in Ankeny for an autopsy.
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Part of the case against the suspect charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts appears to be in jeopardy because of a botched Miranda warning.
Prosecutors have agreed to exclude some statements that 25-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera reportedly made to police.
Court documents filed Friday by prosecutors acknowledge that the initial Miranda warning given to Rivera around 11:30 p.m. on August 20th, 2018, failed to inform him that anything he said could be used against him in court.
His Miranda rights were accurately read to him a second time at 5:50 a.m. August 21st, as police were in a cornfield where Tibbetts’ body was found.
Rivera is accused of killing Tibbetts, who disappeared while out for a run near Brooklyn, Iowa. Investigators found her body a month later.
Officials say she was stabbed to death.
Rivera is scheduled to stand trial in Sioux City in Woodbury County District Court from a change of venue granted for the case on February 4th.
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Another delay has been granted in the trial of a Dakota City, Nebraska woman accused of stabbing another woman to death in Sioux City.
The trial of 21-year-old Melissa Camargo-Flores was scheduled to begin Tuesday in Woodbury County District Court, but court documents show the trial will now begin on March 3rd of 2020 at 9:30am.
Camargo-Flores has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the Sioux City slaying of 24-year-old Kenia Alvarez-Flores on April 8th of 2018.
Court documents say Camargo-Flores admitted stabbing Alvarez-Flores.
Camargo-Flores told investigators she’d been involved in a relationship with the victim’s boyfriend.
Authorities say the two women were not related.
