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8AM Sportscast 03-20-2014

Podcasts, Sports

March 20th, 2014 by admin

w/ Jim Field

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8AM Newscast 03-20-2014

News, Podcasts

March 20th, 2014 by admin

w/ Ric Hanson

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USDA Report 03-20-2014

Ag/Outdoor, Podcasts

March 20th, 2014 by admin

w/ Denny Heflin

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(Podcast) 7:07-a.m. News & funeral report, 3/20/2014

News, Podcasts

March 20th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

With KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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(Podcast) Skyscan Forecast: Thu., March 20 2014

Podcasts, Weather

March 20th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

The Freese-Notis weather forecast and weather information for Atlantic.

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Man gets probation for Iowa bus records tampering

News

March 20th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

HOLSTEIN, Iowa (AP) – A former transportation director of a northwest Iowa school district has been given two years of probation for tampering with bus records.  The Sioux City Journal says 52-year-old Douglas Wessling was sentenced on Tuesday. The judge also ordered Wessling to pay a $1,000 civil penalty. Wessling had pleaded guilty.

Wessling was put on leave last fall and then lost his job as transportation director for the Galva-Holstein Community School District after an investigation by the Iowa State Patrol. District Superintendent Dave Kwikkel has said three district buses were taken out of service because of damage. Kwikkel said Wessling put one of them back into use before it had been repaired. Authorities say he also falsified repair records on at least three buses.

Report estimates 73,000 Iowans will have Alzheimer’s Disease by 2025

News

March 20th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

A new report shows 62-thousand (62,000) Iowans have Alzheimer’s Disease and that number is expected to grow to 73,000 in just over a decade. Carol Sipfle, executive director of the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Iowa, says the annual report has more disturbing facts about the disease’s impact in the state. “We have the third highest death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease in the country. I think that’s pretty startling,” Sipfle says. “In Iowa, it’s the fifth leading cause of death, while nationally it’s the sixth leading cause of death.”

Iowa has one of highest percentages of residents 65 and older in the country, but Sipfle is quick to point out that Alzheimer’s isn’t just a disease that strikes the elderly. Sipfle says the disease remains widely misunderstood, as many people mistakenly believe it’s simply about memory loss. “It’s so much more than just memory loss, it’s something that kills people,” Sipfle says. “As the brain deteriorates from Alzheimer’s Disease, yes, people do lose their memory, but it impacts their personality, their ability to think, it has a physical impact, and ultimately people will die either from Alzheimer’s Disease or with Alzheimer’s Disease.”

The report from the Alzheimer’s Association (2014 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures) features information about how the disease impacts primarily women. Sipfle is calling on the federal government to invest in Alzheimer’s research as heavily as it does breast cancer. “You know, women are afraid of breast cancer, and rightly so, but what this report tells us is that by the time women are in their 60s, they’re almost twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s as they are to get breast cancer,” Sipfle said.

The report states a woman’s estimated lifetime risk of developing Alzheimer’s at age 65 is 1 in 6, compared with nearly 1 in 11 for a man. For more information:  www.alz.org/greateriowa.

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NWS Forecast for Cass & area Counties: 3/20/2014

Weather

March 20th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

3:59 AM CDT THU MAR 20 2014

EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLEAR. SOUTHWEST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…SUNNY…WARMER. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH INCREASING TO SOUTH 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

FRIDAY…SUNNY…BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 50S. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH INCREASING TO 15 TO 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH.

FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY…COLDER. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTH 10 TO 15 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.

SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. COLDER. HIGH IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW AROUND 20.

SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 30S.

Investigation refutes Bluffs’ ranking as one of 100 most dangerous cities in the U-S

News

March 20th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

An investigation by The Daily NonPareil indicates a website’s ranking of Council Bluffs as one of the 100 most dangerous cities in the country, is misleading. The paper cites a number of errors in the NeighborhoodScout.com report, that ranked Council Bluffs 56th in the nation in the “100 most dangerous places to live in the U.S.” list. The report used information from the 2012 FBI Uniform Crime Report released in November of 2013 to make its assessment.

Retired Council Bluffs Police Chief Ralph O’Donnell and Capt. Terry LeMaster pointed out the report’s errors to the paper while discussing the ranking. LeMaster said in 2012 the department switched software for tracking crimes and also switched how the information was recorded. In the past, members of the department’s records division took field reports and entered them into the system, but with the new software, created by the Iowa Department of Transportation, officers in the field began entering the information. There was a glitch that caused the program to list incidents such as a Simple Assault, as an Aggravated Assault (a more serious crime) in the field called “Uniform Crime Report.”

Another example cited by O’Donnell, was a single incident being reported as more than one crime. For instance, if during a vehicle burglary a window was broken, the shattered window went down as criminal mischief on top of the burglary.

The year in which the error was occurring, 2012, showed 590 aggravated assaults, compared to 416 in 2013 – after the fix – and 486 in 2011, before the process change occurred. The department fixed the problem and returned to its old method, having records personnel input reports. The report may also be misleading based on how other cities disclose their crime.

The FBI, for its part, warns against using the report for rankings or comparison, for caveats that include the fact that not everybody reports, and some agencies may leave out information or report extra information to garner more of those federal funds. The Bureau warns that using the crime report to create rankings is a simplistic route to examining the data that provides “no insight into the many variables that mold the crime in a particular region,” including demographics and geography, according to the report’s website. Furthermore, it says the rankings “Lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions.”

Woodbury County to detour drivers on Highway 20

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March 20th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Woodbury County in western Iowa has approved repair plans for part of a two-lane highway that will eventually be widened. The county board agreed Tuesday to grade part of U.S. Highway 20 in 2016. The paving process will close the road west of Correctionville, and is part of a bigger plan to widen a 12-mile section of the two-lane roadway.

The Sioux City Journal reports the plans will require a detour onto eight miles of County Road D22, also known as Old Highway 20. That county road will be widened and repaired in 2015 in preparation for the extra traffic. The state Department of Transportation says the current widening project, between two miles east of Moville through Correctionville, is scheduled to be completed in 2017.