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A chase Thursday afternoon in Montgomery County lasted for over an hour, and the eventual arrest of a man who was wanted on several outstanding warrants. According to the Red Oak Police Department, 22-year old Jonathan Tyler McAlpin, of Red Oak, was arrested just before 2-p.m. Thursday, following a traffic stop, a foot pursuit and a lengthy search.
Officials say the incident began after officers initiated a traffic stop in Red Oak, on a vehicle driven by David Wayne Robinette, of Clarinda. Robinette was charged with Driving While Suspended. McAlpin, who was a passenger in the vehicle, allegedly resisted arrest when officers attempted to take him into custody on several warrants. The officer attempted to use his Taser on McAlpin, but the effort failed.
The man fled on foot, climbed over a fence and zig-zagged between several house in the 200 block of east Ohio Street. The officer lost sight of McAlpin, but a Red Oak K-9 unit and tips from neighbors in the area lead to McAlpin being found hiding in a single car garage in the 700 block of South 4th Street.
McAlpin continued to resist arrest, but was taken into custody and is facing nine felony and two aggravated misdemeanor charges. The latest felony charges include: 3rd Degree Burglary, and Disarming a Peace Officer of a Dangerous Weapon. He The aggravated misdemeanor charges include: Interference with Official Acts and Assault on a Peace Officer.
Based on previous warrants he also faces felony charges that include: two counts of 2nd Degree Theft; two counts of 2nd Degree Criminal Mischief; Assault with a weapon on Peace Officers/Others; and, two counts of Eluding.
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 48. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Patchy fog after 9pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 31. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday: Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 56. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night: Patchy fog. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 29. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 29. Windy, with a north wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 22.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 34. Breezy.
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The Red Oak Police Department responded to a fight which resulted in the arrest of several individuals Thanksgiving evening. It was reported that one of the persons involved was armed with a kitchen knife. Upon arrival officers located several subjects in the area. After a brief investigation it was determined that three of the males involved; Matthew Magers of Shenandoah; Hans Anderson of Red Oak; and Richard Rapp also of Red Oak had been involved in the fight. During the investigation April Watson of Red Oak continually yelled profanities and disrupted the officers investigation.
After concluding their investigation all were transported to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility and charged with disorderly conduct and are being held on 3-hundred cash bond. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the investigation.
LEE SHEEDER, 58, of Guthrie Center died Tuesday, November 25th in Des Moines. Memorial services for LEE SHEEDER will be held 10-am Monday, December 1st, at the First United Methodist Church, in Guthrie Center. Twigg Funeral Home of Guthrie Center has the arrangements.
Visitation for Lee Sheeder will be Sunday November 30th from 4 until 7-pm at the Twigg Funeral Home in Guthrie Center.
Burial will be in the Seeley Township Cemetery, at rural Guthrie Center.
Memorials may be directed to Lee’s family.
FRED SHORT, 86, of Audubon died Wednesday at the Audubon County Memorial Hospital in Audubon. Celebration of Life Service for FRED SHORT will be held 10:30-a.m. Saturday, November 29th, at the First Presbyterian Church in Audubon. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Family visitation for Fred Short will be from 9-30 until service time on Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church in Audubon.
Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery in Spencer, Iowa.
Fred Short is survived by:
His wife – Joni of Audubon
His children: Jill Olson of South Bend IN; Debra Schmidt of Woden, IA; Robert Short of Roseville, CA; Rebecca Fahey of Cedar Rapids, IA; Thomas Short of Keystone, IA; and Christopher Short of Carnegie, PA.
His sister – Margaret
14 Grandchildren and one great-grandchild
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – By the time the Kansas City Chiefs pushed the pause button and looked at the scoreboard on Thursday night, they were already trailing the previously winless Oakland Raiders. Not just trailing, either. They were in a 17-3 hole midway through the third quarter. They rallied down the stretch, even taking a brief lead in the fourth quarter. But a defensive collapse and their offense’s inability to go the length of the field in the closing minutes led to a humiliating 24-20 defeat, one that knocked Kansas City from first place in the AFC West.
“We wanted to start off fast and we didn’t play like that in the first half,” Chiefs linebacker Josh Mauga recalled, “and it kind of hurt us.” That may be an understatement. “We didn’t really start the way we wanted to,” Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith admitted. “You know, on the road, we gave them too much momentum, it felt like.”
When asked to explain the Chiefs’ slow start, running back Jamaal Charles was stumped. “I don’t know, you know? Some games are just like that,” he said. “You learn from those games. Hopefully we’ll learn from it and move on and come back next week against Denver.” Yes, the Chiefs get their bitter division rival at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday night, and with them a prime opportunity to move back into a tie atop the AFC West. But unless they are able to solve a troubling trend of slow starts, Peyton Manning and the Broncos could bury them early.
The Chiefs are 5-0 when leading at halftime. They’re 2-4 in all other games. “We come back home and then we’ve got another big division game, and we are about to handle this the right way,” Smith said. “We can regroup and get it together.” Just how do you get it together, though? How do you fix slow starts? After all, it’s not a tangible problem, something that can be fixed with playcalling alone. It doesn’t come down to personnel groups, necessarily, or the scheme for the week. Often, it involves all of those things and more.
In their opener against Tennessee, the Chiefs trailed 10-3 at halftime. They were behind 23-3 by the fourth quarter, when they finally found traction. The result was still a 26-10 loss, one that is even more frustrating now that Kansas City has clawed back into playoff contention. A few weeks ago in Buffalo, the problem popped up again. Kansas City trailed 10-3 at halftime and 13-3 after three quarters, finally coming alive when the game was coming down the stretch. The Chiefs scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns, their defense shut the Bills out and the result was a confidence-building 17-13 victory. The result was better. The way the Chiefs got there was a bit disappointing.
Andy Reid has experience just about everything over the course of his coaching career, and even the Chiefs’ boss has yet to put his finger on the solution to the slow starts. “Well, I’ve got to make sure that I dial up plays that will help us with that. If you have an opportunity then we’ve got to execute when given the opportunity,” he said. “It hits all of us and defensively the same thing. There are things you can do as a coach with play calls and then the guys have to execute; we’re all in it together that way.”
Reid shouldered much of the blame for the flop in Oakland, and admitted that “we weren’t as well coordinated as we needed to be.” But he also said the Chiefs failed to grasp the opportunities that were presented, and that responsibility falls on the players. “You’ve got to stay on and execute. That’s one area on both sides of the ball we can do better at it. We didn’t do a great job there,” Reid said. “I didn’t feel it was a letdown; the guys didn’t work hard and all that. It was one of those deals.”
One of those deals the Chiefs are trying hard to resolve by Sunday night.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports a woman from Cass County was arrested this (Thursday) afternoon, in connection with the theft on Nov. 24th, of a 2003 Ford Escape belonging to Richard McAlpin, that was later located by the Nebraska State Patrol. 23-year old Alexandria Marie Sindt, of Griswold, was taken into custody at around 1:20-p.m. Sindt was being held Thursday in the Montgomery County Jail on $2,000 bond.
A new public-private partnership is offering all Iowa schools new “citizenship” courses for students in Iowa middle schools and high schools. Brent Siegrist is executive director of Iowa’s nine Area Education Agencies. “This type of partnership and this type of curriculum being offered to teachers is extremely, extremely important,” Siegrist says. “This curriculum is research based. It’s been tested and it will be a real benefit to provide to teachers and students — every teacher and every student in the state of Iowa, free of cost.” The course work is all posted online.
“And there is great interest in this curriculum in other states as well as other countries,” Siegrist says. Plus, Iowa’s A-E-As have the authority to charge educational institutions outside the state of Iowa that want to use the online coursework. Character Counts Iowa, a private organization based at Drake University, helped finance the project to collect and organize the coursework for middle schools and high schools. Scott Raecker is the executive director of Character Counts Iowa.
“What’s exceptionally exciting about this particular curriculum is that these are resources that we’ve seen utilized not only in individual classroom settings, that we’ve seen in leadership development at the high school level, they’ve been embeded in community college level in degree programs at Des Moines Area Community College and we’ve seen ongoing professional development of these same resources at some of Iowa’s largest organizations: Principal Financial Group, Unity Point Health, HyVee,” Raecker says, “all using these same materials.” Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds says this citizenship course not only promotes leadership skills, it stresses the importance of working as a team.
“And shapes an intentional culture of safety, respect and engagement,” she says. Governor Terry Branstad says this coursework will help Iowa students be “truly ready” for college and the work world. “This is about educating the whole child,” Branstad says. Go to http://learning.aeak12online.org/ to find a link to the “personalized” learning system set up by Iowa Area Education Agencies. This citizenship curriculum is available there.
(Radio Iowa)