FOREST CITY, Iowa (AP) _ Winnebago Industries Inc. (WGO) on Monday reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $21.6 million. The Forest City, Iowa-based company said it had profit of 68 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for pretax gains, were 60 cents per share. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 56 cents per share.

The recreational vehicle maker posted revenue of $432.7 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $425.6 million. Winnebago shares have increased 20 percent since the beginning of the year. The stock has declined 21 percent in the last 12 months.

DOUGLAS, Neb. (AP) — Authorities are seeking an Iowa man suspected of shooting to death two people at their home in southeast Nebraska — the parents of his former live-in girlfriend.
Otoe County Court records say 36-year-old Brindar Jangir is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.

An affidavit in support of an arrest warrant says Jangir used a stolen shotgun to kill Randal and Annette Grimes on Saturday morning in the village of Douglas. Their bodies were discovered by a sheriff’s deputy who was checking on an aborted call to 911.

The affidavit says Randal and Annette Grimes were the parents of a woman Jangir was living with in Sioux City, Iowa, until she moved out March 12. The affidavit says she told officers Jangir threatened to kill her and her parents if she ever left him.

(Radio Iowa) — With more than half the state under a disaster declaration due to flooding, many Iowans don’t need a reminder about how wicked Mother Nature can be. Still, residents who could use a refresher course on the dangers of springtime in Iowa should take note this is Severe Weather Awareness Week. Meteorologist Brooke Hagenhoff at the National Weather Service, says a different topic is covered daily. “Anything from severe thunderstorms to understanding where to get warning information, family preparedness, flooding, tornado safety,” Hagenhoff says. “It’s just to get people thinking about springtime weather, since it is coming our way, making sure people have plans in place.”

Last year, 69 tornadoes touched down in Iowa, with one day standing apart. “Definitely that July 19th event is the one that sticks out,” she says. “That’s the day we had the most tornadoes in one day. Twenty-one of our tornadoes from last season were all in that July 19th event. Certainly, the memorable tornadoes were through the Pella, Marshalltown and Bondurant areas.”  As part of this week’s educational events, Hagenhoff says a statewide tornado drill is set for Wednesday morning.

“We’ll have a test tornado watch that will go out at 10 AM and then at 10:15, we will issue a test tornado warning,” Hagenhoff says. “We recommend people take it seriously and act as they would for a normal tornado warning, taking the appropriate actions so that we can practice our severe weather protocols.” Learn more about severe weather at www.weather.gov.

A traffic stop at around 11:15-p.m. Sunday, resulted in an arrest for alcohol and drug charges. Red Oak Police report 40-year old Laura Marie Tepoel, of Red Oak, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana, Possession of meth and possession of drug paraphernalia. Tepoel was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:50 a.m. CDT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Rain storms expected later this week could lead to another crest along the Missouri River and its tributaries just as residents are cleaning up from this spring’s flooding. National Weather Service hydrologist Kevin Low said that more than an inch of rain is expected to fall in Nebraska and Iowa later this week.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery officials say the Powerball jackpot has ballooned to $750 million after no ticket matched all six numbers in the most recent drawing. The numbers drawn Saturday night are 24, 25, 52, 60 and 66, with a Powerball of 5. The next drawing for what would be the fourth-largest jackpot in U.S. history is Wednesday. The odds of winning are roughly 1 in 292.2 million.

FAIRMONT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his adult son. The Des Moines Register reports that 59-year-old Daniel Niebuhr of Fairbank was charged Friday in the death of 36-year-old Brock Niebuhr of Dike. The sheriff’s office says Daniel Neibuhr told investigators that he walked up behind his son and shot him in the head as he was on a couch watching television. Authorities have not disclosed a motive.

Rain storms expected later this week could lead to another crest along the Missouri River and its tributaries just as residents are cleaning up from this spring’s flooding. National Weather Service hydrologist Kevin Low said that more than an inch of rain is expected to fall in Nebraska and Iowa later this week.

Low says the storms between Wednesday and Friday could create a 1-foot rise in the level of the Missouri River around Omaha and cities downstream starting next weekend.

But it’s not yet clear how much additional flooding that rise could create.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery officials say the Powerball jackpot has ballooned to $750 million after no ticket matched all six numbers in the most recent drawing. The numbers drawn Saturday night are 24, 25, 52, 60 and 66, with a Powerball of 5.

The next drawing for what would be the fourth-largest jackpot in U.S. history is Wednesday. The odds of winning are roughly 1 in 292.2 million. No one has won the Powerball jackpot since the day after Christmas. Twenty-four drawings since then have failed to produce a winner.

The buyers of three tickets shared the country’s largest jackpot. It was a nearly $1.59 billion Powerball prize drawn on Jan. 13, 2016. A South Carolina purchaser won a $1.54 billion Mega Millions jackpot. That was the nation’s second-largest lottery prize ever.

The Mills County Emergency Management Agency along with other local officials will be hosting a flood information meeting today at 2:00pm in the Glenwood High School Auditorium. Presenters will include Mills County Emergency Management, Pacific Junction and Glenwood governmental officials, Glenwood Municipal Utilities, Glenwood School Superintendent, and lots of information on resources, FEMA and more.

In order to assist those that can’t make it to the meeting, KJAN will offer a live stream of the meeting through our facebook page KJAN AM 1220

The feed will be available a few minutes prior to the start of the meeting. We will attempt to post a link directly to our news page of the video as well for easy location.

(Radio Iowa) — Key state officials say Iowans who aren’t in a flood zone today should prepare for flooding. State Climatologist Justin Glisansays 2018 was the second-wettest year on ecord and the ground is saturated — creating concerns as the snow in the Dakotas and Minnesota melts and drains south. “If we get into a regime with active precipitation patterns, we could be in a very bad position,” Glisan says.

Glisan says forecast models indicate there will be “above average precipitation” in the weeks ahead. The 147 years of weather records for Iowa show the atmosphere and surface temperatures are warming and that means it’s more likely to rain, according to Glisan. “What we’re seeing over the past 30 years is that the intensity of precipitation events is increasing and we’re also seeing them lock into specific parts of the Midwest and even over Iowa,” Glisan says. “…You’re getting rainfall rates in which infrastructure can’t keep up.”

Glisan cites last summer’s flash flooding in central Iowa caused when as much as eight inches of rain fell in three hours. Joyce Flinn, director of Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management, says community leaders should consider how to protect key infrastructure, like drinking water plants, from flooding. “We’re focused on the Missouri River right now, but there are a lot of the interior rivers that are high as well and there’s the potential for flooding on the Mississippi, so we are reaching out to those folks,” Flinn says. “Mnay of them are taking those proactive measures because when you lose a water system, that’s hard to recover from quickly.”

Flood waters have swamped three southwest Iowa communities in the past week. Flinn and Glisan made their comments Friday, during a taping of the “Iowa Press” program.