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HOLSTEIN, Iowa (AP) – A former transportation director of a northwest Iowa school district has pleaded guilty to tampering with bus records. Fifty-two-year-old Douglas Wessling filed his plea earlier this week. Sioux City television station KCAU says Wessling will receive two years of probation and an order to pay a $1,000 fine.
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.
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) – The death of a 35-year-old Iowa man after a Nebraska traffic stop in November has been blamed on methamphetamine. Dakota County Attorney Kim Watson says a grand jury has found that no crime was involved in the death of Matthew Ahlsten, of Sioux City. Watson said in a news release Wednesday that autopsy tests showed Ahlsten died as a result of methamphetamine toxicity. His death was ruled an accident.
Ahlsten was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over by the trooper on Nov. 3. Ahlsten soon suffered a seizure and became unresponsive. Officials say he died before he could be taken to a hospital. Dakota County Sheriff Chris Kleinberg has said the vehicle driver didn’t know Ahlsten and was merely giving him a ride.
(Update 6:56-a.m. w/no injuries)
No injuries were reported after a semi-tractor trailer hauling about 150 pigs rolled into the median off of Interstate 80 this (Friday) morning, in Cass County. The accident happened just after 6:45-a.m. between mile markers 74 and 75. Additional information is currently not available.
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DENISON, Iowa (AP) – Tyson Foods has changed its plans and has decided to keep open its beef plant in Denison. Officials say the decision will save nearly 400 jobs in the western Iowa city of about 8,400 people. Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said Thursday that employees were given the good news last week.
Two years ago Tyson said the aging slaughterhouse could close after completion of a $90 million expansion and modernization project at Tyson’s beef plant in Dakota City. The Dakota City project originally was expected to be completed in mid-2013, but it’s taken longer than anticipated. Completion now is expected this summer.
Tyson says reasons to keep open the Denison plant include the closing of some competitors’ beef plants and the lower feed prices for cattle.
The Freese-Notis (podcast) forecast for the KJAN listening area and weather information for Atlantic.
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1-A State Semifinal
Dunkerton 53, Belmond-Klemme 49
West Lyon 61, Keota 40
2-A State Semifinal
West Fork 51, Treynor 46
Western Christian 52, Cascade 46
3-A State Semifinal
Central Clinton 56, Waverly-Shell Rock 54
Wahlert Catholic 67, Harlan 36
Authorities in Montgomery County arrested a 52-year old Pottawattamie County man early this (Friday) morning. The Sheriff’s Department says Jim Lee Findley, of Carson, was taken into custody at around 12:50-a.m. on a valid Pott. County warrant for Domestic Abuse causing bodily injury, Interference with Official Acts, and failure to hold a fishing license. Findley was booked into the Montgomery County Jail and held for Pott. County.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 56. Windy, with a northwest wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 18 to 23 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 31 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 30. Blustery, with a west northwest wind 11 to 16 mph becoming light and variable. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Southeast wind 6 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Sat. Night: Rain likely between 7pm and 1am, then snow. Low around 24. Blustery, with a north northeast wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible.
Sunday: Snow, mainly before 7am. High near 36. Breezy, with a north northeast wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 52.
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