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Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 90. South southeast wind 7 to 11 mph.
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 71. South southeast wind around 10 mph.
Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Breezy, with a northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming north northwest 12 to 17 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 61. North wind 7 to 13 mph.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 83. North northeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable.
Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 64.
Friday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 80.
Friday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 83.
More than a quarter of the Iowa business owners who took part in a new survey plan to boost employment between the months of July and September. The third quarter Manpower Employment Outlook Survey found 27-percent of Iowa companies expect to add workers, while just six-percent anticipate a decrease in staffing levels. Manpower spokesperson Karen Miller says the result is a “Net Employment Outlook” of 21-percent. “That’s a really solid number. It’s the same as it was in Q2, so everything looks pretty optimistic for Iowa,” Miller said. The Net Employment Outlook is down slightly from a 24-percent outlook one year ago. Many of the recent Manpower surveys have listed Iowa as one of the best states in the nation for job opportunities. For that reason, Miller is encouraging Iowa employers to bolster their employee retention plans.
“As the unemployment numbers drop and hiring expectations increase, that means competition for top talent will be heating up,” Miller said. “So, if you’re looking for a job, now is a great time to find a job. If you’re an employer, you’re going to want to make sure you have plans in place to retain your top talent or risk losing them to your competition.” The Q3 2013 Manpower survey found job prospects are especially good in Iowa’s capital city. “Des Moines is expected to be the best metro in the U.S. for job opportunities,” Miller said. In Des Moines, 28-percent of the employers surveyed plan to add workers in the third quarter, while just two-percent anticipate layoffs.
Of the more than 18,000 employers Manpower surveyed in the United States, 22-percent expect to add to their workforces, while six-percent expect a decline in their payrolls between July and September.
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Atlantic 7, Denison-Schleswig 5
Carlisle 10, Carroll 1
Creston 10, Clarinda 0
Exira-EHK 12, Adair-Casey 0
Grandview Park Baptist 11, Orient-Macksburg 0
Grandview Park Baptist 18, Orient-Macksburg 1
Griswold 6, Riverside, Oakland 2
IKM-Manning 18, West Harrison 7
OA-BCIG 13, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto 1
Panorama 10, Coon Rapids-Bayard 6
Shenandoah 3, Glenwood 0
Treynor 4, Audubon 1
Tri-Center, Neola 5, Missouri Valley 4
Underwood 5, A-H-S-T, Avoca 1
Van Meter 18, Guthrie Center 1
Denison-Schleswig 10 Atlantic 6
Harlan 10 Lewis Central 5
Treynor 10 Audubon 0 (5 inn)
EHK-Exira 7, Adair-Casey 5
Griswold vs. Riverside (score currently not avail.)
Creston 13 Clarinda 3
Glenwood 3 Shenandoah 2
Red Oak Clarinda vs. Academy (n/a)
IKM-Manning 10 West Harrison 1
Nishnabotna Essex (na/)
Lenox 16 Stanton 3
Thomas Jefferson Fremont-Mills (cancelled)
Underwood 12 AHST 3
Missouri Valley 14 Tri-Center 5
MV/AO 6, OA-BCIG 2 (Game 1 ) MV/AO 7, BCIG 5 (Game 2)
Carlisle 1 Carroll 0
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa farmers endured another wet week largely keeping them out of the fields. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in Monday’s crop update that 92 percent of Iowa’s corn is now planted. Usually planting is all but completed by now. Eighty-six percent is rated in fair, good, or excellent shape while 14 percent is poor or very poor.
Just 60 percent of the soybean crop is planted much lower than the normal 95 percent and 39 percent has emerged while average is 83 percent. Planting and emergence for soybeans are the latest since 1993.
State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says temperatures were below normal every day last week at all locations in the state. The statewide average rainfall was 1.1 inches slightly under average of 1.2 inches.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
DAYTON, Iowa (AP) — A memorial service has been scheduled for a 15-year-old Iowa girl who was missing for weeks before her body was discovered in a river. Palmer and Swank Funeral Homes says a service for Kathlynn Shepard will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. inside the Southeast Webster-Grand Middle School gymnasium in Boxholm. The service is open to the public.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City talk show host is running for U.S. Senate. Republican Samuel Clovis announced his candidacy yesterday at a Holiday Inn conference center in Sioux City. He’s running for a Senate seat being vacated by retiring five-term Democratic U.S. Senator Tom Harkin. Clovis, who describes himself as conservative, is a former fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force and hosts a radio show on KSCJ-AM.
WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) — A northeast Iowa man has been accused of stealing checks from an elderly woman who hired him. The Bremer County Sheriff’s Office said yesterday that 55-year-old Michael Opperud of Tripoli, Iowa stole up to $18,000 from an elderly Waverly woman between April and June of this year.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State has named golfer Scott Fernandez as the school’s male athlete of the year. Fernandez was a first-team All-Big 12 selection this spring, and he earned second-team All-American honors from Golfweek magazine. Fernandez finished the year ranked 18th nationally after breaking the school’s single-season stroke mark.
No injuries were reported following an unusual accident Friday evening in Page County. According to the Sheriff’s Department, a 2008 Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by 47-year old Curtis Carlson, of Clarinda, was traveling south on O Avenue, when a turkey buzzard pecking at some roadkill near the center of the road, flew up off the road in front of the cycle. Carlson lost control of the machine near the intersection with 190th Street, causing it to crash into the east ditch. The machine sustained $8,000 damage during the incident that occurred at around 5:50-p.m., Friday.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State has named golfer Scott Fernandez as the school’s male athlete of the year. Fernandez was a first-team All-Big 12 selection this spring, and he earned second-team All-American honors from Golfweek magazine. Fernandez finished the year ranked 18th nationally after breaking the school’s single-season stroke mark at 71.27.
Previous male athletes of the year for the Cyclones include Fred Hoiberg, Marcus Fizer and Olympic gold-medal winning wrestlers Cael Sanderson and Jake Varner.
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