(Hinton) — The Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a couple of weekend accidents. The most recent accident happened Saturday morning at approximately 10:11 a.m. The Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office was called for a two vehicle car accident at the intersection of County road C-70 and K-49. A white passenger car heading southbound on K-49 stopped at the stop sign, but failed to yield to oncoming traffic. While attempting to cross the intersection, the passenger car was struck by an eastbound pick-up truck. All four passengers of the white passenger car were transported to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. Two of the occupants are listed as being in serious condition. The driver of the pick-up truck, along with a juvenile passenger were uninjured. Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by Kingsley Police Department, Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office, Siouxland Paramedics, Kingsley Fire Department, Hinton Fire Department, Hinton Ambulance and Mercy Air Care. The four passengers in the car were: 20 year old Sydney Mousel, 20 year old Emily Meyer, 20 year old Hanna Sitzmann, and 18 year old Amy Isebrand, all from Le Mars. The driver of the pick-up truck was 31 year old James Nash of Kingsley.
(Le Mars) — Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an accident that happened early Saturday morning at about 1:15 a.m. The accident involved two vehicles that collided near Madison Avenue, or old Highway 60. The collision happened between a van and a passenger car. Early reports indicate multiple injuries had occured. No other details have been released at this time. The Le Mars Fire and Rescue Department along with the Le Mars Ambulance and the Remsen Ambulance responded to the scene.
(Le Mars) — Now that school has been dismissed for the summer, the Iowa Highway Patrol, and other local law enforcement agencies want motorists to remember that several bicycles will be sharing the road. Trooper Vince Kurtz of the Iowa Highway Patrol says bicycle safety goes both for the motorist, as well as for the bicyclist.
Kurtz suggests parents visit with thier children to remind them to ride their bikes safely.
Kurtz says unfortunately, bicycle and vehicle accidents become an all too familiar occurance during the summer months. Kurtz says it is not just young children riding their bikes in town, but motorists should also be aware of possible accidents with bicycles on the county and state roads.
(Le Mars) — “Puppy Mills” will be the topic this Friday evening, June 10, at a pre-Woof-stock meeting that begins at 7 p.m. in the Music Room of the Plymouth County Historical Museum.
Anyone attending the free gathering will receive a coupon for a special treat at “Woof-stock” on Saturday, June 11.
Kathie Pffaffle of Sioux City, representing the Iowa Friends of Companion Animals, will show slides of the Iowa puppy mills that are in violation of the law.
The Iowa Friends group explains in their literature: “Most puppies sold commercially, direct to the public or through pet stores, are born in breeding kennels with cramped, crude, filthy conditions referred to as puppy mills. With little regard for their basic health needs, adult dogs spend their lives in these conditions resulting in serious physical and psychological disorders that affect both the adult dogs and their pups.”
Pfaffle will speak to those attending about the current legislation and its progress regarding puppy mills.
Those attending the meeting should use the east door of the Museum located at 335 First Ave. SW, Le Mars.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The state archaeologist says the planned Bakken oil pipeline should avoid a sacred Native American burial site in northwest Iowa’s Lyon County.
John Doershuk toured the site Friday with state and federal officials and Sioux tribal leaders whose ancestors ceded the area to the federal government in 1851.
Doershuk says in a follow-up report that the site has significant cultural and historical importance for the Upper Sioux Community, Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other Sioux people.
The Iowa Utilities Board has scheduled a meeting Monday to discuss allowing Dakota Access LLC to begin building the pipeline in Iowa. It’s unclear whether a change of the route will be required to avoid the burial site.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Gov. Terry Branstad says the newly approved state oversight of Iowa’s privatized Medicaid program will make it among the nation’s most transparent, but some health advocates remain skeptical.
State officials are also beginning to determine plans for organizing and delivering some information required under the oversight.
The Iowa Department of Human Services is expected to submit quarterly and annual reports. The reports will detail how three private insurance companies are running the state’s roughly $4.2 billion health care program for poor and disabled residents. Various groups will also monitor the program, which switched to private management on April 1.
The companies will submit raw data to DHS. The department will provide analysis of the data for clarity to the public. Health advocates argue raw data should also be posted online.
ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa (AP) – The trial of a Pomeroy man accused of killing a North Dakota man is set to begin next week.
48-year-old Freddy Crisp is charged with first-degree murder for the Nov. 10 shooting death of 41-year-old Dale Currie Potter, of Devils Lake, North Dakota.
Crisp has pleaded not guilty. His trial is set to begin with jury selection Monday at the Calhoun County Courthouse in Rockwell City.
Authorities say deputies were called to a Pomeroy address early the morning of Nov. 10 on a report of someone having been shot.
Deputies found Potter dead at the scene. Agents with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation arrested Crisp eight days later.
Crisp is being held in the Sac County Jail on $1 million bond.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – Ten western Iowa firefighters spent their day off helping renovate a Habitat for Humanity home for a mother and her child.
The off-duty firefighters showed up Friday to spent the day working with Council Bluffs Habitat for Humanity officials on the refurbished home on Fourth Avenue. The firefighters hung siding and attached shingles on the main home and a backyard shed.
Council Bluffs Habitat for Humanity Construction Manager Teresa Johnson says the volunteers were a big help.
Johnson says the house was originally built in the 1930s and a mother and child will move in later this summer. Now that the firefighters have finished the roof and siding, other volunteers, Habitat officials and the mother will do some painting and cabinet work.
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