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Skyscan Forecast for Atlantic & the area: 1/13/2020

Weather

January 13th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

Today: Mostly cloudy w/areas of fog this morning. High 33. SE @ 10-15.

Tonight: Mo. Cldy w/light mixed precip. through midnight. Low 24. SE-NE @10-20.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy. High 36. NW @ 10.

Wednesday: Cldy w/light mixed precip. High of 34 early, w/temps falling during the day.

Thursday: P/Cldy. High 18.

Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 27. Our Low 16. Snowfall in Atlantic Sunday into Sunday night amounted to .7″ (Seven-tenths) (which melted into .07″ liquid precipitation). Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 37 and the Low was 8. The record High for Jan. 13th in Atlantic, was 62 in 1987. The Record Low was -24 in 1916.

Midwest Sports Headlines: 1/13/20

Sports

January 13th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Kathleen Doyle had 31 points, nine rebounds and 10 assists, Makenzie Meyer scored seven of her 17 points in the final three minutes, and Iowa beat No. 12 Indiana 91-85 in double overtime. The Hawkeyes extended their home win streak to 30 games. Jaelynn Penn had 24 points for he Hoosiers, who have lost 20 consecutive road games against Iowa, dating to Feb. 20, 1994. Meyer hit a 3-pointer and then made a layup to give the Hawkeyes a five-point lead – their biggest of the game to that point – with 1:56 left in the second OT.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Abby Hipp scored 15 points on 7-of-10 shooting and Alexa Willard scored 12 and the No. 20-ranked Missouri State women’s basketball team beat Northern Iowa 80-66. The Bears have now won five straight following a 64-52 defeat to the then 17th-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs. Northern Iowa’s lone lead came out the outset when Karli Rucker made a 3-pointer 29 seconds in. Missouri State then ran off 13 straight and finished the first quarter up 20-11. Rucker led Northern Iowa with 14 points and Abby Gerrits scored 13 off the bench.

UNDATED (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are in their second successive AFC title game. They got there with a stunning comeback from a 24-0 hole. Patrick Mahomes threw for four touchdowns in the second quarter in the 51-31 victory. Kansas City will host Tennessee for the AFC championship and a trip to the Super Bowl. The Chiefs have not been there since winning the 1971 game. The Titans lost their only Super Bowl appearance in 2000. The NFC title game will have San Francisco hosting Green Bay in what has been a classic playoff rivalry.

UNDATED (AP) — So goes a wild weekend of historic offensive performances by Derrick Henry and nearly every Kansas City Chief. It was spiced by some timely defense from all the winners. They gave us the answers to the makeup of the NFL’s Final Four. Which brings along a whole lot of questions. The NFC, following a wild-card weekend in which both wild cards won, settled down to top-seeded San Francisco and No. 2 Green Bay reaching the championship game. It’s a classic rivalry that will resume next Sunday when the Niners host the Packers.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — No. 23 Wichita State blew a nine-point lead in the final minute of regulation, but came back to beat UConn 89-86 in two overtimes. Jaime Echenique led four Wichita State players in double figures with 19 points before fouling out. Dexter Dennis and Erik Stevenson each scored 16 for the Shockers, who have won nine straight games.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Chelsea Dungee scored a season-high 38 points, Taylah Thomas added a double-double and No. 21 Arkansas overcame a slow start to defeat Missouri 90-73. The Tigers scored the first six points of the game and had a 10-point lead in the first quarter, which ended with the visitors on top 22-14. Dungee had 10 points in the second quarter, including the last eight, and had 17 at the break, when the Razorbacks led 34-30. Thomas scored 10 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. Hayley Frank led the Tigers with 19 points. There were 54 fouls in the game and the teams combined to shoot 56 free throws.

Iowa early News Headlines: Monday, Jan. 13, 2020

News

January 13th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:48 a.m. CST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Presidential candidates have swarmed Iowa’s rolling landscape for more than a year, making their pitch to potential supporters on college campuses, county fairgrounds and in high school gymnasiums. But three weeks before the caucuses usher in the Democratic contest, the battle for the state is wide open. A cluster of candidates, including Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, along with former Vice President Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, enter the final stretch with a plausible chance of winning Iowa’s caucuses. A poll released Friday by The Des Moines Register and CNN found them all with similar levels of support.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature convenes Monday with majority Republicans in the position to set the agenda for another year. Leaders say top topics likely will include tax policy, finding more workers to fill jobs and funding education and health care programs. The state’s financial condition is good with a surplus of nearly $300 million. Discussion may include providing grants or tax credits to help working families pay for child care, funding the children’s mental health program created last year and considering a sales tax increase to pay for water quality and environmental programs.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Waterloo firefighters rescued two young girls from a burning home. Waterloo Fire Battalion Chief Ben Petersen said the 2-year-old and 3-year-old girls were taken to the hospital after the fire along with an adult man who escaped the home and a firefighter who was injured during the fire. The condition of the home’s occupants wasn’t immediately available Sunday. The firefighter was treated and released. The fire was reported around 12:45 a.m. Sunday. The two girls were rescued from a bedroom inside the home. Petersen said the fire was extinguished quickly, but the home sustained fire and smoke damage.

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic voters across the country are grappling with a core question as they size up their party’s leading candidates just three weeks before primary voting begins: How much change is too much in 2020? It is a question that has plagued candidates and voters alike over the last year in the Democratic Party’s dire quest to identify the person best positioned to defeat President Donald Trump in November. And on the eve of the party’s first primary contests, voters remain torn over a slate of high-profile candidates — ranging from a self-avowed socialist to a billionaire Wall Street baron — who represent the broad spectrum of change, ideologically and symbolically, that is today’s deeply divided Democratic Party.

DNR investigating hunting incident involving man shot in the leg

Ag/Outdoor, News

January 12th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

BENTON COUNTY, Iowa — Officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Sunday, said that around 12:21-p.m. Saturday, a man was shot in the leg in eastern Iowa, while pursuing a coyote across a field. The incident in Benton County happened in a field just north of Highway 30 at 13th Avenue, southwest of Keystone.

Authorities say 41-year old Brian McManemy of Blairstown, was a passenger in a pickup truck while coyote hunting when one of the firearms in the vehicle discharged and struck him in the left leg. He was transported to a Cedar Rapids hospital with non-life threatening injuries. .

Thes incident remains under investigation by the DNR. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office also responded to the incident.

Chiefs win 51-31 at home against Houston

Sports

January 12th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs advance after beating the Texans in a high scoring game at 51 to 31. The Texans and Chiefs set a postseason record for combined points in the first half on Sunday when the Chiefs rallied from a 24-0 first-quarter deficit to take a 28-24 lead into the locker room at halftime.

Patrick Mahomes tied the playoff record with four touchdowns in the second quarter in a ten minute span. Kansas City will host the Titans next week.

Hipp, No. 20 Missouri St. women bump N. Iowa 80-66

Sports

January 12th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) –  Abby Hipp scored 15 points on 7-of-10 shooting and Alexa Willard scored 12 and the No. 20-ranked Missouri State women’s basketball team beat Northern Iowa 80-66. The Bears have now won five straight following a 64-52 defeat to the then 17th-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs.

Northern Iowa’s lone lead came out the outset when Karli Rucker made a 3-pointer 29 seconds in. Missouri State then ran off 13 straight and finished the first quarter up 20-11. Rucker led Northern Iowa with 14 points and Abby Gerrits scored 13 off the bench.

Rising in the polls, Sanders takes jabs from Trump, Warren

News

January 12th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) – Bernie Sanders found himself on the receiving end of attacks from both President Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren on Sunday. It’s a reflection of his rising status in the Democratic presidential race and perceived momentum just three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses.

Trump issued a tweet in which he called Sanders “Crazy Bernie Sanders.” But it was Warren who offered the sharpest criticism of the Vermont senator, saying she was “disappointed” by a report that the Sanders’ campaign is instructing its volunteers to speak negatively about her to win over undecided voters and suggesting he is too divisive to beat Trump.

CORY ACHENBAUGH, 46, of Macedonia (Celebration of Life 1/15/20)

Obituaries

January 12th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

CORY ACHENBAUGH, 46, of Macedonia, died Saturday, January 11th, at the CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center-Bergan Mercy in Omaha. A Celebration of Life for CORY ACHENBAUGH will be held 10-a.m. Wednesday, January 15th, at the Carson Community Center in Carson. Loess Hills Funeral Home in Carson has the arrangements.

Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at the Loess Hills Funeral Home in Carson. In honor of Cory, the family would like everyone to wear their Oklahoma Sooners gear to the service.

Memorials may be directed to the family.

Burial will be at the Farm Creek Cemetery in rural Henderson.

Houston visits Kansas City, Green Bay hosts Seattle

Sports

January 12th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

UNDATED (AP) — Two more NFL divisional-round playoff games are on tap today (Sunday). First, the Houston Texans visit the Kansas City Chiefs in a rematch of a Week 6 game won by the Texans. (Pre-game 1-p.m. on KJAN. Kick-off at 2:05-p.m.)

Houston is trying to reach the AFC championship game for the first time. The Chiefs are trying to make it back a year after falling to the Patriots in overtime. The Chiefs selected quarterback Patrick Mahomes over Deshaun Watson in the NFL draft a couple of years ago. Two picks later, the Texans made Watson their quarterback.

In the second game, the Seattle Seahawks look to cure their road woes at Lambeau Field when they travel to Green Bay. It will be the sixth consecutive season these two teams have played each other either in the regular season and or the postseason. Each team has won three contests at home. Seattle quarterback Russell Williams is 0-3 as a starter at Lambeau Field.

This will be the first playoff game in three years for Green Bay’s 36-year-old quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who won his first Super Bowl nearly a decade ago.

Waterloo firefighters rescue 2 young girls from burning home

News

January 12th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Waterloo firefighters rescued two young girls from a burning home. Waterloo Fire Battalion Chief Ben Petersen said the 2-year-old and 3-year-old girls were taken to the hospital after the fire along with an adult man who escaped the home and a firefighter who was injured during the fire.

The condition of the home’s occupants wasn’t immediately available Sunday. The firefighter was treated and released. The fire was reported around 12:45 a.m. Sunday. The two girls were rescued from a bedroom inside the home. Petersen said the fire was extinguished quickly, but the home sustained fire and smoke damage.