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11/04/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE-PM
(Quimby)--The town of Quimby had the unusual distinction of holding a city election with no candidate names on the ballot.
Tim Preuss has been Quimby's mayor for the past four years, but he didn't collect petition signatures to place his name on Tuesday's ballot for reelection. The townsfolk reelected him to another term anyway. Of the 69 people who voted in Quimby, 57 of them wrote his name in for mayor. That's over 82 percent of the vote. The town of Quimby had 368 residents when the last Census was taken in 2000.
No one from the town stepped forward to run for three seats on the city council, either. Voters wrote in lots of names -- 10 people got more than four votes each.
The top three vote-getters were elected to Quimby's city council, one of whom had been appointed to the city council to serve out the term of someone who had resigned (News report by Radio Iowa)
(LE MARS)--A LE MARS TEEN IS ACCUSED OF ABUSING A CHILD.
A LE MARS POLICE INVESTIGATION INTO SEXUAL ABUSE ON AUGUST FIRST LED TO THE ARREST OF 17-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH POPPEMA.
POPPEMA WAS CHARGED AS AN ADULT WITH SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE SECOND DEGREE WHICH IS A FORCIBLE FELONY.
AFTER HIS ARREST, HE WAS TAKEN TO THE YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES CENTER IN CHEROKEE FOR JUVENILE DETENTION.
(ROCK RAPIDS)--A DOON MAN IS BEING HELD IN THE LYON COUNTY JAIL ON SIX CHARGES RELATED TO BURGLARIES.
THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JEREMY PAUL RUTLEDGE OF DOON WAS ARRESTED MONDAY ALONG THE ROCK RIVER, NORTHWEST OF DOON, ON A CHARGE OF POSSESSION OF BURGLARY TOOLS.
AUTHORITIES IMPOUNDED HIS VEHICLE AND SEARCHED THE VEHICLE AND HIS HOUSE USING A WARRANT.
THE SEARCH WAS MADE BY THE LYON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE WITH HELP FROM THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, IOWA STATE PATROL, SIOUX CENTER POLICE, SHELDON POLICE AND THE SIOUX COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
RUTLEDGE FACES TWO CHARGES OF BURGLARY IN THE THIRD DEGREE; ONE CHARGE EACH OF CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND ATTEMPTED BURGLARY AND TWO CHARGES OF POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON.
THE CHARGES ARE CONNECTED TO BURGLARIES AT ICON AG IN DOON; OTTER VALLEY GOLF COURSE IN GEORGE; AND A SHOTGUN AND MORE THAN 550 SHOTGUN SHELLS FOUND AT RUTLEDGE'S HOME.
AUTHORITIES SAY MORE CHARGES AND ARRESTS ARE EXPECTED BY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND OTHER AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.
LAKE VIEW, Iowa (AP) An investigation is under way into a fire that destroyed a concrete plant in Lake View.
No one was injured in the fire that broke out Monday night at Hancock Concrete Products. Lake View Fire Chief Jim Garrels says the fire was already through the roof when fire crews arrived around 7:30 p.m.
It took firefighters about four hours to bring it under control.
No one was inside the plant. The state fire marshal's office is helping with the investigation.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
(STORM LAKE)--AN ALBERT CITY MAN DIED IN A ONE-VEHICLE ACCIDENT FOUR MILES NORTH OF STORM LAKE MONDAY AFTERNOON.
THE BUENA VISTA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS IDENTIFIED THE MAN AS 52-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN MICHAEL SPRINCZ.
BASED ON A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION BY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, SPRINCZ WAS DRIVING WEST ON BUSINESS HIGHWAY 71, LOST CONTROL ON THE CURVE, OVERCORRECTED AND THE VEHICLE ROLLED.
SPRINCZ WAS EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE.
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