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Grand Champion honors were awarded Thursday in the FFA Market and Carcass Lamb shows at the 2013 Iowa State Fair. Jessica Marty of Luverne showed the Grand Champion FFA Market Lamb, and Chelsea Schminke of Van Horne took Reserve Grand Champion honors. In the carcass judging, Tyler Leete of Elk Horn was awarded Grand Champion honors, and David Lillie of Marengo exhibited the Reserve Grand Champion Carcass Lamb.

Officers arriving at the scene of the fatal accident Saturday evening at the intersection of Highway 30 and 16th Avenue arrived to find the three occupants of one car dead inside the vehicle and two of the occupants of the other vehicle in a nearby cornfield. Near where the suspects were apprehended officers found several full beer containers. Benton County Sheriff Randy Forsyth said that witnesses reported seeing the two suspects immediately after the accident, trying to hide beer in the field.

Vinton Police were called to the 1100 block of West 9th Street in Vinton at approximately 8:15 p.m. Saturday evening for a report of a single vehicle motorcycle crash. Witnesses reported first hearing, and then seeing a motorcycle traveling West on West 9th street from F Avenue at a high rate of speed shortly before the operator lost control of the 2006 Harley Davidson Sportster and laid it on its side in the 1000 block of West 9th Street.

The Benton County Sheriff's received a report of an automobile accident with fatal injuries near 7287 16th Avenue south of Keystone on Saturday evening. Authorities say a drunk driver from Texas ran a stop sign while he was driving north on 16th Avenue and entered Highway, 30, where his 2012 GMC pickup hit an eastbound 2004 Chevrolet Impala, killing all three people in that vehicle.

The Benton County Sheriff's received a report of an automobile accident with fatal injuries near 7287 16th Avenue south of Keystone on Saturday evening. The incident remains under investigation.  The accident took along Highway 30.

The Friends of the Shelter, Inc., are trying to help owners locate three missing dogs. Click on the photos for more information

The 4th Street Diner meal on Sunday, August 18th, will be Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes/Gravy, Broccoli/Cheese Sauce, Mixed Green Salad, Peach Crisp, WW Bread, Milk.   On Monday, June 24th, there were 3 tables of Pepper Cards played.  First place went to Geri Shaffer with 339 points.  Leroy Weiser won 2nd place with 314 points.

DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey announced today that cost share funds are available to help farmers install nutrient reduction practices.  The initial practices that are prioritized for funding this fall are cover crops, no-till or strip till, or using a nitrification inhibitor when applying fertilizer. “These funds are available to help farmers take steps this fall to reduce nutrient losses,” Northey said.

The boats are trailered, the canoes are dry, the buckets are stowed and the treasures from the clean up are in the landfill. The 6th Annual Cedar River Clean Up was as successful in finding trash as the 1st Annual Clean Up was in 2008. This year, we heard many of the same things we heard in 2008, ‘‘you aren’t going to find anything out there’’ , ‘‘that river’s clean, there’s nothing there’’ , ‘‘the high water took everything out of here’’ (and we had some HIGH water in 2008!!) If you watch the water flow on just the top of the river, you can see how quickly it passes through here, only to have every inch replaced every second by more water, water that’s never been here before and never will be again.

Catfish was on the menu for the second annual Vinton-Shellsburg football camp-out at the Womochil farm. The players also added a few other impromptu menu items -- staring with a bull snake. Someone saw the snake slithering near the Cedar River as players set up camp. Soon the beheaded reptile was skinned and placed on a barbecue grate placed over an open fire.