Jim Field speaks with Atlantic Seniors Sam Markham and Lauren Krogman about their selection to the Shrine Bowl.
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Jim Field speaks with Atlantic Seniors Sam Markham and Lauren Krogman about their selection to the Shrine Bowl.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Jack Pardee, an All-Pro linebacker and an NFL coach, has died, University of Houston spokesman David Bassity said. Pardee was 76.
Bassity said Monday that Pardee’s son Ted confirmed the death to him.
Pardee’s family announced that he had gall bladder cancer that had spread to other organs and that he had six to nine months to live in November.
Pardee was one of Bear Bryant’s “Junction Boys” at Texas A&M. He was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986.
(updated 12:27-p.m.)
The Iowa State Patrol says a Central Iowa man died during a rollover accident this (Tuesday) morning, in Cass County. 53-year old Larry Richard Mott, of Dallas Center died after being ejected from his passenger car when it flipped end-over-end and came to rest on its top in the north ditch. The accident happened on Interstate 80 at around 5:45-a.m., at the 56.5 mile marker westbound (About one-half mile east of the Elk Horn exit).
Mott died at the scene. Officials say he was not wearing a seat belt.
Here’s the Freese-Notis (podcast) weather forecast for Atlantic and the KJAN listening area, and weather data for Atlantic from KJAN News Director, Ric Hanson…
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A new report shows the amount of biodiesel blended into diesel fuel in Iowa has more than tripled over the last two years and the renewable fuel made from vegetable oil or animal fat is now blended in more than 42 percent of all diesel fuel sold in the state. A report released Monday by the Iowa Department of Revenue shows 23.3 million gallons of biodiesel was mixed with diesel fuel last year, up from 7.4 million gallons in 2010.
Ethanol, which is made mostly from corn and mixed with gasoline, was in about 81.7 percent of all gasoline sold down slightly from 82.5 percent in 2010. Iowa has 12 biodiesel plants and 41 ethanol refineries, more than any other state.
Authorities in Montgomery County say a traffic stop late Monday night on Highway 34 near 200th Street, resulted in the arrest of a Clarinda man. 44-year old Steven G. Kingsolver was charged with Driving While Revoked after he was pulled over at around 11:25-p.m. He was also cited for Failure to have Insurance, and Operating without a Registration.
Kingsolver was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and later released on $1,000 bond.
Today: Mostly sunny. High in the upper 40s. North wind near 5 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low in the mid 20s. Northeast wind around 5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. High in the mid 50s. South wind 5 to 15 mph.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Not as cool. Low in the mid 30s. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday And Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. High in the upper 50s. Low in the mid 30s.
Friday: Partly sunny. High in the lower 60s.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Not as cool. Low in the upper 40s.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. High in the mid 60s.
March 2013 did a big turnaround for March of last year. State climatologist Harry Hillaker, says March of 2012 was much warmer than normal — but that wasn’t the case this year. “Preliminarily, temperatures averaging about seven degrees colder than usual,” Hillaker says.In Atlantic, the high temperature for the month averaged 42-degrees, which was about three-degrees cooler than normal. Hillaker says we have to go back all the way to 1984 to find a colder March, and possibly further back once all the data comes in. The cold in March brought along a bunch of snow too.
“Actually, the snowiest March since 1998 — the state average was about nine-point-eight inches — which is a little more than double what’s normal for the month, and so cold and snowy. And as far as precipitation in general for a state average, just barely above normal for the month — roughly about two-point-two inches of precipitation this month,” Hillaker says. The precipitation for the month kept a positive wet trend going.
“It would be the fourth consecutive month that our state average precipitation has actually been above normal,” Hillaker says. “We haven’t put a streak together like that for quite some time. None of those months really were exceptionally wet, but at least its kind of in the direction we want to be going with the ongoing long-term drought conditions that we’re still trying to overcome.”In Atlantic, we received a total of 6.3-inches of snow, which melted down into slightly less than an inch of liquid precipitation (.85″ inch), which was well below the normal amount we should have received for the month (2.29”).
Hillaker says the weather for Iowa in April could be warm and wet according to early predictions.
(Radio Iowa/data from KJAN)