Red Oak Police, early this (Saturday) morning, arrested a man for Public Intoxication. Authorities say 24-year old Richard Charles Golden, of Red Oak, was arrested in the 400 block of E. Grimes Street, at around 12:50-a.m. He was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $300 bond.
Police in Red Oak say a man arrested Thursday night for Public Intoxication, was arrested Friday night, on a charge of Simple Assault. 45-year old James Reed Mitroff, II was arrested at around 8:50-p.m in the 100 block of W. Reed Street, on the simple misdemeanor charge. Mitroff was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 cash bond.
Today: Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 23. Wind chill values as low as -5. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southwest in the afternoon.
Tonight: Clear, with a low around 18. Wind chill values as low as 5. South southwest wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 41. Wind chill values as low as 10. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 26. South southwest wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Monday: A slight chance of freezing drizzle between noon and 5pm, then a slight chance of snow after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 32. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 5. Windy.
New Year’s Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 15. Blustery.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 20. Our Low this morning was 4. We received a glaze of freezing mist yesterday, and .3” of snow. The ice and snow melted into just .01” liquid precipitation. Last year on this date our High was 16 and the Low was 1. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 60 in 1984. The Record Low was -22 in 1917.
Police in Council Bluffs say three teens were taken into custody late Friday night following the armed robbery of a convenience store. Authorities say officers were called to the White Oak Station located at 154 Bennett Avenue, just after 10-p.m., where three male subjects wearing masks entered the business and one brandished a handgun. They soon left the store with an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes.
Officers quickly arrived on location and set up a perimeter. A police service dog was able to track the path of the suspects. Officers soon located all three suspects, the loaded handgun, and the stolen property. No shots were fired and no one was injured. The three suspects were juvenile males. Two were 16-years old, the third was 15. Their names were withheld by Police.
The Council Bluffs Police Department was assisted during the incident by the Pottawattamie and Mills County Sheriff’s Offices, and the Iowa State Patrol.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police have charged a Des Moines man with murder in the deaths of his mother and uncle. Detectives on Friday night charged 30-year-old Joshua Adams with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his mother, 49-year-old Tracy Linn Adams, and his uncle, 54-year-old Gaylord George Jolly Jr. Police say both of the victims died of “sharp-force injuries.”
MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — A state audit of the Mason City school district has uncovered more than $2.1 million in improper disbursements consisting largely of salary overpayments. The audit report released Friday says more than $1.3 million was salary to 66 mainly administrative employees that exceeded the authorized pay and increases approved by the school board. The school board president didn’t immediately return a message Friday from The Associated Press.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A settlement between Wells Fargo and attorneys general from all 50 states will mean more than $6 million for Iowa. Wells Fargo and the attorneys generals announced the $575 million settlement Friday following an investigation into fake accounts opened without the knowledge of customers and other questionable practices. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller says the state’s share of the settlement will be $6.18 million. The money will go to Iowa’s Consumer Education and Litigation Fund.
Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports that late Friday night, the Fremont County K9 Unit conducted a traffic stop in Randolph. 46-year old Bret Samuelson, of Randolph, was said to have been operating a motor vehicle while driving with a Barred license. During the course of the stop Samuelson was found to be in possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.
He was taken into custody without incident and transported to the Fremont County Law Enforcement Center, where Samuelson was charged with Possession of a controlled substance, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Driving while license is Barred. His bond was set at $4,300, while he awaits his initial court appearance.
Bret Samuelson
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Gardner Minshew II threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score and No. 12 Washington State stopped No. 25 Iowa State on a late two-point conversion in a 28-26 victory in the Alamo Bowl. Minshew passed for 299 yards to help Washington State (11-2) set a school record for wins in a season.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs safety Eric Berry missed practice Friday after the heel injury that kept him out most of the season acted up, leaving his status for Sunday’s game against Oakland in question. The Chiefs can clinch the AFC West and No. 1 seed in the playoffs by beating the Raiders at Arrowhead Stadium.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — JT Gibson hit five 3-pointers and finished with a career-high 22 points and Matt Pile scored 17 on 8-of-12 shooting to help Omaha hold on for a 91-84 win over Denver in the Summit League opener for both teams. Mitch Hahn added 16 points, Zach Jackson scored 11 and Ayo Akinwole 10 for Omaha (7-7), which has won four in a row.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Gardner Minshew II and that glorious mustache conjured up a final bit of magic in a grand finale for Washington State, Friday night. The graduate transfer quarterback whose whiskered upper lip was loved and mimicked by Cougars fans all season, threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score in sending No. 12 Washington State to a 28-26 win over No. 25 Iowa State in the Alamo Bowl.
Minshew’s passing and scrambling earned the Cougars (11-2) a school record for wins in a season.
He threw for 299 yards, none of them bigger than a play made out of desperation when Iowa State had all the momentum. After watching a 21-10 lead dwindle to 21-20 by early in the fourth quarter, the Cougars stripped the ball from Iowa State running back David Montgomery at the Cyclones’ 30. Minshew, who had been held in check in the third quarter, escaped a third-down pass rush to flip a last-second shovel pass to Tay Martin that went for 20 yards.
The play stunned the Cyclones, and Max Borghi scored on a 10-yard run the next play. It was just another big fourth-quarter moment for the transfer from East Carolina who coach Mike Leach had lured out West with the promise he could lead the nation in passing. Minshew was the nation’s leading passer in yards per game this season and won the Johnny Unitas Award as the nation’s top senior quarterback in a season the Cougars fell one game short of playing for the Pac-12 championship. Nearly all of his completions this season were more orthodox than the flip to Martin.
The Cyclones did a good job in bottling him up for much of the game. Iowa State’s defense held Washington State 10 points and 135 yards below their season averages and two of the Cougars’ touchdowns came on short drives after turnovers. But after Minshew found a way to get Washington State in the end zone, the Cougars’ defense made the one play it had to at the end.
Iowa State’s last chance came after quarterback Brock Purdy scored from a yard out with 4:02 left. The Cyclones went for two, but a pass to Montgomery was stopped well short of the goal line after a false-start penalty pushed the line of scrimmage back to the 8. Iowa State had seven false start penalties and had two players ejected for targeting hits on Minshew.
Purdy passed for 315 yards and Cyclones receiver Hakeem Butler caught nine passes for 192 yards, six yards shy of the Alamo Bowl record. Montgomery rushed for 124 yards. The Cyclones (8-5) had rallied from a 1-3 start to finish third in the Big 12, the program’s best conference finish in 40 years. Turnovers and targeting calls were critical in the fame. Purdy threw two first-quarter interceptions and Montgomery’s fumble was a game-changer. Iowa State had two key defenders ejected in the second quarter for targeting hits to Minshew. Senior linebacker Willie Harvey was ejected after smashing Minshew in the facemask on a scramble. Defensive end Enyi Uzwazike was booted after a sack knocked Minshew’s helmet off.
UP NEXT: The Cyclones were in the mix for a Big 12 title-game berth late in the season and will expect to be again in 2019 with Purdy leading an experienced lineup that loses only five senior starters. The key will be the NFL draft options for 1,000-yard rusher Montgomery and 1,000-yard receiver Butler.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs safety Eric Berry missed practice Friday after the heel injury that kept him out most of the season acted up, leaving his status for Sunday’s pivotal game against Oakland in question. The Chiefs (11-4) can clinch the AFC West and No. 1 seed in the playoffs by beating the Raiders.
Chiefs coach Andy Reid said the soreness was similar to what Berry experienced early in training camp. The three-time All-Pro, who missed most of last season with an Achilles’ tendon injury, returned to practice over the summer but was sidelined early in camp. He did not play until Week 15 against the Chargers, and had been increasing his playing time slowly the past couple of games.
“He’s going to try to see if he feels better. That’s what he is going to do right now,” said Reid, who listed Berry as questionable on the final injury report. “We’ll just see how he is as time goes on.”
Wide receiver Sammy Watkins remained out of practice with his foot injury, while running backs Spencer Ware and Darrel Williams were listed as questionable with hamstring injuries.
Meanwhile, top cornerback Kendall Fuller is hopeful of playing after missing a game with a hand injury. Fuller had surgery about two weeks ago and thought he could play last week in Seattle, but the pain from the recovery was too much when game time rolled around. “I feel like he did a good job,” Reid said. “He worked through it and didn’t miss a beat.”
Reid also felt good about the first week back at practice for Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who has been on injured reserve with a broken bone in his leg. The starting right guard was injured in Week 5 against Jacksonville, but the team hoped he would return in time for the playoffs. He has a three-week practice window in which the Chiefs must decide whether to activate him.
In other news, the agent for Damien Williams announced that the Chiefs had signed their backup running back to a two-year contract extension that could be worth up to $8.1 million Williams was signed to compete for a third-string job in training camp. But when the Chiefs cut Kareem Hunt following his off-the-field issues, and Ware went down with hamstring and shoulder injuries, it pushed the former Dolphins running back into a feature role.
The 27-year-old Williams ran 13 times for 103 yards last week against the Seahawks, and he has three touchdowns on the ground and another through the air over the past three games. Williams, who signed this season for $1.2 million with just $60,000 guaranteed, also helps to solidify the next season. Ware and Charcandrick West are due to become a free agent, leaving Darrel Williams as the only other running back signed next season.
“Damien’s really done a nice job,” Reid said. “He was rewarded for that with a nice contract. It allows him to be on the football team here for a little bit here. I’m happy for him because he’s earned it. He’s gone out and played special teams and excelled on special teams. And was given an opportunity to play the running back position.”
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials and at least one state said Friday that they have started investigations into a nationwide CenturyLink internet outage that has disrupted 911 service.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai called the outage that began Thursday “completely unacceptable” because people who need help couldn’t use the emergency number.
“Its breadth and duration are particularly troubling,” he said.
The commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau will investigate the cause and effect of the outage, he said. The Monroe, Louisiana-based telecommunications giant is one of the largest in the United States. It offers communications and information technology services in dozens of states. Customers from New York to California reported outages.
CenturyLink spokeswoman Debra Peterson said the outage “is not related to hacking,” but she declined further comment. The company said on Twitter that it’s working to restore service and appears to be making progress. It hasn’t provided a cause for the problems. “Where CenturyLink is the 911 service provider 911 calls are completing,” the company said in a tweet.
Regulators in Washington state also said they were opening an investigation into an outage of its statewide 911 service. In Idaho, Emergency Office Management Director Brad Richy said he didn’t receive any reports of 911 service failures, but some state agencies, including the state Department of Correction, lost service on internet-based phones. Some businesses in Idaho also lost the ability to make credit card sales, and some ATM machines weren’t working in Idaho and Montana.
Due to sporadic 911 outages in Massachusetts, public safety officials recommended individuals looking for emergency help use the 10-digit telephone number of the fire or police departments they wanted to contact. In Greeley, Colorado, the Weld County Regional Communication Center on Friday said 911 calls were being dropped, but callers should keep trying and emergency dispatchers would try to call back.
The 911 dispatch center and emergency management in western Missouri’s Johnson County were hit by the outage, county Emergency Management Director Troy Armstrong said Friday. He said the 911 lines were not affected, but the internet was down at the dispatch center and phone services also were spotty.
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