SOME UPGRADES ARE COMING TO OUTER BELT DRIVE BETWEEN LEWIS BOULEVARD AND HIGHWAY 75.

CITY PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR CHRIS PAYER SAYS SHOULDER WORK WILL TAKE PLACE ON THAT ONE MILE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY:

    
PAYER SAYS THE WORK WILL TAKE PLACE THIS SUMMER. A 200-THOUSAND DOLLAR STATE D-O-T GRANT WILL HELP FUND THE IMPROVEMENTS.

A LE MARS MAN IS IN CUSTODY AND CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH A PAIR OF HOME BURGLARY ATTEMPTS THAT TOOK PLACE THERE FRIDAY MORNING.

LE MARS POLICE SAY THEY FIRST RESPONDED TO A CALL FROM A RESIDENT IN THE 100 BLOCK OF 3RD AVENUE SOUTHWEST JUST BEFORE 10AM THAT A MAN WAS TRYING TO KICK IN THE FRONT DOOR TO THEIR HOME.

WHILE POLICE WERE AT THAT HOUSE, A 9-1-1 CALL CAME IN FROM A BLOCK AWAY FROM A FRANTIC CALLER THAT SOMEONE WAS BREAKING INTO THAT RESIDENCE.

POLICE HEARD A FEMALE SCREAMING WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE 2ND LOCATION, ENTERED THE HOME AND ARRESTED 19 YEAR OLD MATTHEW ROLAND JANDREAU.

OFFICERS SAY JANDREAU ALLEGEDLY BROKE INTO THE HOME AND ASSAULTED AN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO WAS HOME SICK FROM SCHOOL.

THEY SAY JANDREAU FORCED THE GIRL INTO THE BASEMENT, WHICH  IS WHERE THEY WERE DISCOVERED.

THE GIRL WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM FLOYD VALLEY HOSPITAL FOR UNDISCLOSED INJURIES.

JANDREAU IS CHARGED WITH 1ST DEGREE BURGLARY AND POLICE SAY MORE CHARGES ARE PENDING.  HE'S IN CUSTODY IN THE PLYMOUTH COUNTY JAIL.

A SHELDON, IOWA MAN HAS BEEN CONVICTED ON FEDERAL FIREARMS CHARGES.

A FEDERAL JURY IN SIOUX CITY FOUND 62 YEAR OLD TONY HULSTEIN GUILTY OF ONE COUNT OF DEALING FIREARMS WITHOUT A LICENSE AND FOUR COUNTS OF TRAVELING IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE TO DEAL FIREARMS.

PROSECUTORS PRESENTED EVIDENCE SHOWING HULSTEIN OBTAINED AND DISPOSED OF OVER 800 GUNS DURING A FOUR AND A HALF YEAR PERIOD, AND WAS IN POSSESSION OF ALMOST 100 MORE AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST.

HE REMAINS FREE ON BOND PENDING SENTENCING AND FACES A MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF 10 YEARS IN PRISON PLUS A 250-THOUSAND DOLLAR FINE.
 

IF WEATHER CONDITIONS ALLOW FOR IT, CONSTRUCTION ON  INTERSTATE 29 THROUGH THE DOWNTOWN CORRIDOR WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY.

IT'S PART OF THE NEXT PHASE OF THE WESLEY PARKWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. 

THE D-O-T SAYS I-29 NORTHBOUND WILL BE REDUCED TO ONE LANE AND THE  I-29 SOUTHBOUND SHOULDER WILL BE CLOSED FROM NEAR THE DACE AVENUE EXIT TO NEAR RIVERSIDE.

IN ADDITION, WESLEY PARKWAY  WILL BE REDUCED TO A SINGLE LANE EACH WAY FROM THE VETS BRIDGE TO 5TH STREET IN SIOUX CITY.