Today: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms possible. High 83. S@ 10-15.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. Low 65. N @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny. High 81 N @ 10.
Friday: P/Cldy. High 85.
Saturday: P/Cldy w/isolated thundershowers. High 87.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 84. Our Low this morning 64. Last year on this date our High was 85 and the Low was 56. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 103 in 1937. The Record Low was 45in 1989.
(Radio Iowa) — Sprint Car Racing’s biggest event begins tonight (Wednesday night), with the first of two nights of qualifying at the 59th Knoxville Nationals. Saturday night’s championship lineup will be determined by a points system which includes qualifying, heat races and qualifying feature races. Race director John McCoy says it is a system that has been in place since the 1970s.
Ten time winner Donny Schatz makes a qualifying run tonight while defending champion Brad Sweet will be part of Thursday night’s qualifying program.
McCoy says there are activities around the track for fans of all ages.
McCoy says sprint car drivers remain accessible to the fans.
The more than one million dollar pursue will play 150 thousand dollars to the winner. Saturday night’s championship race will be 50 laps.
(Radio Iowa) — Voters in five Des Moines suburbs have approved a one-percent local option sales tax that will go into effect January 1st. In March, voters in six Polk County cities, including Des Moines, approved raising the local option sales tax on July 1st — but the measure failed in five other Polk County communities.
Yesterday, nearly eight-thousand voters cast ballots in Bondurant, Clive, Grimes, Johnston and Urbandale and the one-cent sales tax passed on the second try.
According to unofficial results, the margins for passage were significant, ranging from 65 percent approval in Urbandale to 82 percent in Grimes. An Iowa Department of Revenue report shows 97 percent of Iowa cities and towns have a local option sales tax.
Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports the Fremont County K9 Unit, Tuesday evening, arrested two out-of-state people following a traffic stop on Interstate 29, at mile marker 10.
Mikayla Croskell
Matthew Gingell
28-year old Matthew Gingell of Mission KS, and 23-year old Mikayla Croskell of Lee Summit MO., were arrested after deputies located drug paraphernalia, marijuana, and THC Butane Hash Oil in their vehicle. Croskell and Gingell were transported to the Fremont County Law Enforcement Center, where each was being held on a $1,000 bond.
Gingell was also being held on an outstanding warrant from Olathe, KS.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw struck out nine in seven strong innings, Justin Turner had two hits and drove in the game-winning run and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 for their seventh win in eight games. Kershaw allowed only one run on four hits.
BOSTON (AP) — Jorge Soler hit a pair of long two-run homers, Jakob Junis pitched six effective innings and the Kansas City Royals snapped their seven-game losing streak by beating the Boston Red Sox 6-2. Ryan O’Hearn also homered for Kansas City, which had lost eight in a row to the Red Sox. A night after halting their eight-game skid, the Red Sox were held without a home run, stopping a club-record stretch of at least one homer in 18 straight games in Fenway Park.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Blues defenseman Joel Edmundson has been awarded a $3.1 million, one-year contract in arbitration. Edmundson was one of four St. Louis restricted free agents to file for player-elected salary arbitration this summer after helping the team win its first Stanley Cup in franchise history. The 26-year-old Canadian had 11 points in 64 regular-season games and seven points in 22 playoff games during the Blues’ Cup run.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Jordy Nelson’s NFL career ended in the same place where it began: Lambeau Field. Nelson signed a one-day contract with the Packers and announced his retirement after 11 seasons, 10 of which he spent in Green Bay. Nelson will be remembered for his speed, size and chemistry with quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The pair won a Super Bowl after the 2010 season, with Nelson catching a touchdown in the victory over the Steelers. Nelson is third in Packers history in receptions.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Jovan Dewitt’s happy place is on the practice field. He’s never appreciated being there as much as he does now. Dewitt is back at his job as Nebraska’s outside linebackers coach following intense treatments for throat cancer that caused him to lost 102 pounds and zapped most of his energy. He had 38 rounds of radiation and three rounds of chemotherapy and was hospitalized most of April. He weighed about 310 pounds before his diagnosis and was just over 200 after the treatment regimen.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As predicted, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it plans to keep water releases into the lower Missouri River elevated, as runoff continues to keep upstream reservoirs full. The Corps said in a news release Tuesday that water releases from Gavins Point Dam on the Nebraska-South Dakota border will remain at current levels, which _ at 70,000 cubic feet per second _ are more than double the average amount for this time of year.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state has settled a complaint with a Cedar Rapids woman and her son who threatened to file an excessive force lawsuit over a May 2018 incident in which officers in pursuit of a suspect entered a home and restrained several people. The State Appeal Board on Tuesday approved a $100,000 settlement with Shashona Wright, the mother of Lamonte O’Neal, after they threatened to file a federal lawsuit claiming O’Neal was injured. The state denies injuries occurred.
ORANGE CITY, Iowa (AP) — A religious activist accused of burning four LGBTQ children’s books that he checked out of a library in Iowa has been convicted of criminal mischief and fined. Sioux County Attorney Thomas Kunstle says 63-year-old Paul Robert Dorr, of Ocheyedan, was found guilty of the misdemeanor Tuesday and ordered to pay $125 in fines and court costs. Dorr posted a video to Facebook in October in which he denounced the Orange City library and threw the books into a burning barrel.
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least six Democratic presidential candidates are set to attend a forum in Iowa this Saturday organized by gun control advocates in the wake of two mass shootings that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio. The forum is sponsored by the groups Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action. It will be held in Des Moines while many Democratic White House hopefuls are in Iowa to campaign.
Officials with the Iowa Dept. of Public Safety report the body of an adult female was recovered Tuesday afternoon in a Mahaska County river. Members of the Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office discovered the body in the South Skunk River near the Glendale Access, a little after 3-p.m.
The circumstances that lead to the female entering the river and the cause of her death are under investigation by the Oskaloosa Police Department, the Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office and the Division of Criminal Investigation. The identity of the female is not known at this time.
An autopsy, which is schedule to be performed by the Office of the State Medical Examiner, will help to identify the female found in the river. Law enforcement is aware that on the morning of August 5th, 24-year old Ashley Shafer was reported missing to the Oskaloosa Police Department. The investigation into her disappearance and current location are part of an active missing person investigation.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Ashley Shafer, or with information on the body found in the South Skunk River is asked to call the Mahaska County Communications Center at (641) 672-2557.
ROLAND PETERSON, 59, of Kimballton (& formerly of Elk Horn, NE.), died Saturday, August 3rd. A Celebration of Life for ROLAND PETERSON will be held 11-a.m. Tuesday, August 13th, at the Westside Church in Fremont, Nebraska. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon is in charge of the arrangements.
Burial will be at a later date.
ROLAND PETERSON is survived by:
His wife – Lori Peterson, of Kimballton.
His brother and sister
His in-laws, other relatives and friends.
Sheriff’s Deputies in Montgomery County, Tuesday, arrested two 16-year old juveniles from Red Oak. The teens were charged with Forgery – a Class D Felony as the result of an investigation into an incident that occurred August 1st.
Their names were not released. Both were taken into custody, processed and then released to the custody of a parent.
An accident in Adair County Tuesday afternoon claimed the life of a young adult female. The Iowa State Patrol reports a northbound 2012 Chevy Malibu driven by 18-year old Kayci Emerson, of Fontanelle, for reasons unknown crossed the center line of Highway 25 near mile marker 67, or about two-miles south of I-80, and collided with a southbound 2007 Chevy Silverado, driven by 36-year old Nathan Rigsby, of Thayer. The accident happened at around 12:30-p.m.
Emerson, who was wearing a seat belt, was flown by LifeNet helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, where she died from her injuries. The accident remains under investigation.
The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Adair County Sheriff’s Office, Fire and Rescue and Iowa DOT Motor Vehicle Enforcement Officers.
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