Congressman Steve King To Hold Town Hall Meeting In Sioux County On Saturday
Washington DC– Congressman Steve King announces that he will be hosting a town hall meeting in Sioux County on Saturday, June 15th. The town hall is open to the public and to the media. The town hall will be held at the Community Center in Alton from 9:00-10:00 AM Central. The Community Center is in Alton on 1100 3rd Avenue. King has pledged to hold a town hall in each
county in the 4th Congressional District this year, and the Sioux County town hall will be the 17th town hall King has hosted in the district since January.
Rivers Starting To Recede Flood Waters
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The Mississippi River is dropping below flood stage along many of Iowa’s riverfront cities after nearly three months of record highs caused by melting snow and torrential rain.
The National Weather Service says the river dropped below flood stage at Guttenberg, Iowa, early Tuesday, and was more than a half-foot (0.15 meter) under flood stage Thursday morning at one Dubuque gauge. The weather service says the river’s been above flood stage in Dubuque for a record 85 days, breaking the old mark of 34 days set in 2011.
The river remains around 2.5 feet (three-quarters of a meter) above flood stage at Davenport, where floodwaters surged into downtown after a barrier failed April 30.
Missouri River levels also have dropped but are expected to remain high for much of the summer.
Cedar County Sheriff Refuses Any Arrests From Durant Police Department
DURANT, Iowa (AP) – The sheriff of an eastern Iowa county has declared that his jail will not book suspects arrested in one town because he doesn’t trust the officers there.
Cedar County Sheriff Warren Wethington issued the directive last month, which applies to anyone arrested by the Durant Police Department. They now are booked in a neighboring county.
Wethington says one of Durant’s three officers has a history of being untruthful and using questionable force and the chief hired him anyway. He says he simply cannot vouch for the integrity of their arrests.
The sheriff’s move has won praise from some county residents. But it has escalated his long-running feud with Cedar County Board of Supervisors chairwoman Dawn Smith, whose husband Robert Smith is an officer at the center of the misconduct allegations.
Davenport Woman Pleads Guilty To Locking Up Her Daughter
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – A Davenport woman accused of locking her intellectually disabled daughter in a bedroom has pleaded guilty.
Scott County District Court records say 48-year-old Kimberly Williams entered a written plea Wednesday to recklessly committing dependent adult abuse resulting in physical injury. She denied in the plea document allegations that her daughter had been locked in her bedroom for 11 months.
Williams’ sentencing is scheduled for July 31.
Williams’ husband, Eugene Harris, was convicted of neglect of a
dependent person and sentenced in November to 10 years in prison.
Authorities say officers sent to the home May 22 last year to check a report about a domestic disturbance were led by Harris to a bedroom locked from the outside. That’s where they found Williams’ daughter. Nearby were soiled adult diapers, a mattress on the floor and a few other items.
Sentencing Scheduled For Man Who Ran Over Two Children
DRAKESVILLE, Iowa (AP) – An August sentencing has been scheduled for a man accused of running over two children and fleeing the scene in southeast Iowa.
Davis County District Court records say 42-year-old Terry Petary, of Drakesville, pleaded guilty last week to four felony charges: vehicular homicide, causing serious injury by vehicle, failure to stop at the accident scene and possession of methamphetamine. His sentencing is set for Aug. 2.
The Iowa State Patrol says Petary’s pickup truck struck a boy and his brother a little before 10 p.m. June 24 last year as they walked on a rural road west of Drakesville. The patrol identified the dead boy as 9-year-old Merlin Beechy and his brother as 12-year-old Nathan Beechy, of rural Drakesville.
