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The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:05-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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The Marne Community Club is holding its Annual Chili Contest this Sunday (Feb. 9th), at the Marne Community Center. At the same time, the Annual Men’s Pie Baking Contest will be held. Judging for both contests will be “people’s choice.” Anyone interested in entering the Chili Contest should bring a gallon crock pot of chili to the Marne Community Center by 6:00-p.m., Sunday. The same goes for entering the Men’s Pie Contest.
There are no fees for entering. Trophies for both chili and pie winners are on display at the Marne Community Center, and the 1st place winners’ names will be added to their respective trophy.Everyone is welcome to join the fun, either as a participant or a judge! Come to Marne and share a meal. The main course will be, of course, chili. Please bring a potluck salad to share. Pie for dessert! Beverages will be provided.
CORALVILLE, Iowa — Officials with the Iowa Department of Corrections report prison inmate, 39-year old Justin Lee Dewitt, of North Liberty, died Friday afternoon, at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center. The cause of his death is yet to be determined. An autopsy will be performed by the Johnson County Medical Examiner.
DeWitt was arrested on June 27, 2016, for allegedly attempting to hire a hit man to kill his former business associate, the associate’s wife and two children, then ages 2 and 4. He began serving a 35-year sentence for multiple counts of Attempted Murder and Solicitation to Commit Murder. His sentence began July 27, 2018.
(Radio Iowa) — Iowa egg and poultry producers are on high alert as China reports an H-5-N-1 bird flu outbreak has occurred near the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Iowa Poultry Association C-E-O and executive director Kevin Stiles says avian influenza is always top of mind for Iowa producers. “I don’t think though that necessarily transmitting into the United States via human contact is the first concern,” Stiles says. “We’re mostly concerned just with migratory patterns that we see and what implications that might hold for us looking ahead.” Stiles says Iowa’s poultry producers are better prepared now than they were five years ago as biosecurity is much improved.
“We continue to work with our producers, with the larger egg and poultry community,” Stiles says, “to practice diligence in their biosecurity practices, to make sure they are always on high alert when it comes to any sort of disease threat, but in particular avian influenza.” Since the latest Chinese bird flu outbreak was the H-5-N-1 strain, Stiles says it’s more concerning than if it were another type. “That certainly raises it a little bit higher in our attention, certainly,” he says, “but we also know there are strains and outbreaks of avian influenza in various countries in Europe at the present time, so that also puts us on high alert.”
An outbreak of the similar H-5-N-2 strain of avian flu in 2015 caused more than one-billion dollars damage to Iowa poultry producers as millions of chickens and turkeys had to be destroyed.
(Radio Iowa) — The man accused of killing an Algona woman outside a bank in the Kossuth County town of LuVerne late last year changed his plea from not guilty to guilty during a hearing, Friday. Thirty-five-year-old Valentino Williams of Coralville, Iowa changed his plea during a hearing in Kossuth County District Court. Williams admitted in court to killing 43-year-old Jessica Weishaar outside the bank in LuVerne on the morning of December 4th, 2019. Williams was arrested following a traffic stop along Interstate 35 in rural Franklin County little more than an hour after the shooting. Law enforcement was able to track down Williams vehicle after he was recorded driving more than 80 miles-an-hour by a D-O-T Enforcement officer south of Belmond. As a part of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped the first-degree Robbery charges against Williams. Judge Nancy L. Whittenburg accepted the plea and handed out the mandatory sentence of life without parole.
Today: Partly cloudy. High 33. SE @ 10-15mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy to cldy w/light snow or flurries. Low 28. SE @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: Mo. Cldy w/a mix of light snow-flurries. High 36. S @ 10-20 becoming NW.
Monday: P/Cldy. High 34.
Tuesday: P/Cldy. High 30.
Friday’s High in Atlantic was 26. Our Low this morning, 12. We received .a Trace of snow Friday (after 7-a.m.). Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 13 and the Low was -5. The record High for February 8th in Atlantic, was 62 in 1954. The Record Low was -34 in 1971.
Police in Red Oak report the arrest at around 6:25-p.m. Friday, of 42-year old Richard Allen Straw, from Red Oak. Straw was taken into custody for Driving While Suspended. His bond at the Montgomery County Jail was set at $566.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) – Brice Calip and Alexa Willard scored 13 points each, and No. 24 Missouri State handed Northern Iowa its first home loss of the season 66-55. Jasmine Franklin added 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Bears, who won their fifth straight.
Missouri State took the lead for good with nine straight points capped at 44-35 by Willard’s jumper with 5:55 left in the third quarter. The Panthers cut the deficit to three with a pair of 3-pointers but that was as close as they would get. Karli Rucker had 13 points and Cynthia Wolf added 10 for Northern Iowa.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Denison-Schleswig 67, Atlantic 55
Creston 82, Red Oak 40
Glenwood 60, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 59 (OT)
Kuemper Catholic 77, Shenandoah 43
Lewis Central 72, Harlan 62 (LC now in 1st place in Hawkeye Ten)
Western Iowa Conference
IKM-Manning 47, Logan-Magnolia 42
Treynor 75, AHSTW 46
Tri-Center 68, Riverside 34
Underwood 71, Missouri Valley 54
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM, Anita 73, Exira/EH-K 53
Glidden-Ralston 62, Coon Rapids-Bayard 49
Corner Conference
East Mills 76, Essex 17
Fremont-Mills 57, Griswold 25
Sidney 74, Clarinda Academy 37
Pride of Iowa
East Union 68, SE Warren 55
Martensdale-St. Marys 80, Central Decatur 74 (OT)
Mount Ayr 67, Bedford 55
Nodaway Valley 74, Lenox 33
West Central Activities Conference
AC/GC 71, Woodward Academy 47
Ogden 51, Pleasantville 45
Van Meter 88, Madrid 67
Woodward-Granger 57, Des Moines Christian 55
Other Scores
Carroll 71, Boone 60
CB Abraham Lincoln 63, SC East 45
Winterset 59, Carlisle 43
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Denison-Schleswig 46, Atlantic 40
Glenwood 79, St. Albert 57
Kuemper Catholic 59, Shenandoah 42
Lewis Central 54, Harlan 47
Red Oak 55, Creston 35
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 39, Treynor 33 (AHSTW clinches share of WIC title)
IKM-Manning 37, Logan-Magnolia 28
Tri-Center 66, Riverside 45
Underwood 78, Missouri Valley 19
Rolling Valley Conference
Boyer Valley 66, West Harrison 50
Coon Rapids-Bayard 25, Glidden-Ralston 20 (OT)
Exira-EHK vs CAM (Cancelled due to Exira-EHK illnesses)
West Central Activities Conference
Des Moines Christian 40, Woodward-Granger 33
Pleasantville 44, Ogden 29
Corner Conference
East Mills 57, Essex 15
Fremont-Mills 62, Griswold 14
Pride of Iowa
Mount Ayr 49, Bedford 39
Nodaway Valley 66, Lenox 31 (NV clinches share of POI title)
Southeast Warren 53, East Union 50
Other Scores
Carroll 49, Boone 24
Sioux City East 48, CB Abraham Lincoln 42
Winterset 53, Carlisle 36
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