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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Officials say the Drake University bulldog mascot has died. The university says the owners of Porterhouse, Kevin and Erin Bell, announced his death through his blog on Sunday. They’d shared Porterhouse with the school since he was crowned Beautiful Bulldog during the Drake Relays-week competition in 2009.
Drake athletic director Sandy Hatfield Clubb says “no bulldog has had such a meaningful and lasting impact on the Drake community.”
JOYCE M. (BUA) BOETTGER, 79, of Shelby, died Sat., Dec. 28th, in Harlan. A private family graveside service for JOYCE BOETTGER will be held at a later date, in the Graceland Cemetery at Avoca. Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.
There will be no viewing or visitation.
JOYCE BOETTGER is survived by:
Her husband – Bill Boettger, of Shelby.
Her children – Angelina Bua & husband Ron Spear, of Rockford, IL; Joseph (Jean) Bua, of Franklin, MA; and Gina (Jason) LeMay, of Nashua, NH.
4 grandchildren, other relatives & friends.
Two Red Oak men were arrested Sunday on separate charges. Red Oak Police say 28-year old Robert Earl Otis was arrested a little after 6-a.m. at a residence in the 700 block of North Broadway Street, on a Possession of Drug Paraphernalia charge. And 33-year old Luke Daniel Rinehart was arrested at around 12:30-p.m. in the 300 block of 2nd Avenue, on a charge of Simple Domestic Assault. Both men were brought to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center and held on $300 cash bond, each.
Police in Red Oak arrested a woman early this (Monday) morning. Officials say 43-year old Shelby JoAnn Olivares, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 2:50-a.m. on a charge of Domestic Abuse Assault. She was taken into custody at a residence in the 100 block of East Maple Street and booked into the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center where she was held without bond.
Today: Mostly cloudy. Very cold. High in the lower 20s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy then becoming partly cloudy after midnight then becoming mostly cloudy. Low 5 to 10 above. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. High in the mid 20s. Southeast wind near 10 mph.
Tuesday Night: Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light snow. Low 5 to 10 above. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
New Years Day: Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Colder. High around 15.
Wednesday Night: Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. Low zero to 5 above.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy. High 5 to 10 above.
A Guthrie County woman tasked with babysitting a one-year old boy was charged with felony Child Endangerment, Sunday, after the boy was found sitting on Highway 141 west of Perry, Sunday afternoon. The Des Moines Register reports 31-year old Catalina Ortiz-Ortega, of Guthrie Center, was also charged with failure to have a valid driver’s license.
The woman arrived at the hospital and told authorities she was driving in the area earlier in the day, heard the rear door of the vehicle open and close but did not know the child had fallen out of the vehicle. Dallas County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the county hospital shortly before 4 p.m. when the boy was taken to the emergency room. The National Weather Service says at the time the boy was found, the temperature in Perry was 10 degrees with a wind chill of 8-degrees below zero.
The boy was later released into the custody of his mother.
The record high in Iowa in 2013 was 106 degrees — back in May — and the record low a minus 27 just last week. State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says temperatures in Iowa for 2013 have averaged out to slightly below normal. “Rainfall wise, almost right at normal, but as usual, that doesn’t tell the whole story,” Hillaker says. This past spring was very wet and the late summer and early fall were dry, which means precipitation levels for 2013 in Iowa average out to be average, according to Hillaker.
“Overall, though, this year was quite a bit wetter than 2012, thanks to that wet spring,” Hillaker says. “…Going into winter this year with more soil moisture in the ground than we had at this point last year and actually even at this point two years ago as well, so we’re in a little bit better shape in soil moisture now than the last couple of years, but still quite a bit drier than what would be usual going into the winter season.” The months of May and April were the wettest ever recorded in Iowa, while August and September were very dry, but don’t rank as some of the driest ever.
Hillaker says there were pockets of southeast Iowa that were exceptionally dry this summer. “The Burlington area, for example, had just a trace of rainfall for the full month of August which was easily a record low for that area of the state,” Hillaker says, “and there were, you know, scattered areas of the state that set some records as far as low totals in July and August and maybe in a few cases in September, but nothing where the state average was quite that low.” Hillaker uses the phrase “consistently cool” to describe the temperatures recorded in Iowa this past year.
“Got off to a January-February period that was a little bit milder than unusual for mid-winter, but still nothing really out of the ordinary, but then a really cold spring season — especially March and April — and a relatively mild summer as well ’til we got rather late into August where the summer heat finally returned and had a rather warm end to the summer into the early fall,” Hillaker says. “More recently, November and December, of course quite a bit colder than usual once again.” The temperature dropped to 27 degrees below zero on Christmas Eve in Osceola.
“That was easily our lowest temperature of the calendar year and actually, our lowest temperature anywhere in Iowa in almost three years,” Hillaker says. The year’s record high — of 106 degrees — was recorded in Sioux City on May 14th. “Which is about two weeks earlier than we’ve ever seen a temperature that high in the state, but that ended up being the highest reading of the whole year, actually by quite a ways,” Hillaker says. “Most of the state didn’t see triple-digit temperatures.” Hillaker says that 133-degree variation between highs and lows is unique on the planet.
The only other place besides the upper Midwest that sees such wide temperature swings is in Russia. Hillacer says the climates in these two areas are “so contrasting” because they in the middle of a large land mass, without the “moderating” influence of oceans or large lakes. Russia actually straddles two continents and Hillaker says South America isn’t as large as North America, so that’s why temperatures in the southern hemisphere don’t vary that much.
(Radio Iowa)
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Brynn Williamson and Jadda Buckley scored 19 points each to help No. 14 Iowa State remain perfect with an 85-65 victory over William & Mary in the championship game of the Cyclone Challenge on Sunday. Nikki Moody added 14 points and Hallie Christofferson had 11 for the Cyclones (11-0). Kyla Kerstetter scored 12 points, and Marlena Tremba and Latrice Hunter each had 11 to lead the Pride (3-8).
Iowa State used an 8-0 run to take a 10-2 lead less than 3 1/2 minutes into the game, then closed the first half with a 15-0 spurt to extend the lead to 55-23 at the break. Moody’s jumper in the opening minute of the second half put the Cyclones up 34 — their largest advantage of the game. The final margin was the smallest of the second half.