The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Sheriff’s officials in Mills County, Monday, said a Pottawattamie County man was arrested at around 1:40-a.m. Monday, on drug charges. 18-year old Joel Dixon-Clark III, of Council Bluffs, was arrested in the area of Highway 34 and 284th Street, for Possession of Controlled Substance/Delivery Marijuana. His bond was set at $5,000.
No injuries were reported following a house fire late Monday morning, in Oakland. Authorities say a firefighter saw smoke and discovered the fire at 410 Center Street. No one was home at the time the blaze broke out. The cause of the fire was under investigation.
Oakland Firefighters were assisted by crews with the Carson Fire Department in handling the blaze.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a woman suspected of driving drunk narrowly missed students getting off a bus as she pulled into a Des Moines school drop-off spot. Station KCCI reports that the woman was dropping off her 5-year-old daughter Monday morning at Garton Elementary School when she hit a curb that kept her from plowing into the students. Police say the bus driver, the school principal and the dean of students wouldn’t let the woman leave the scene.
Polk County court records say 43-year-old Heather Mapes is charged with failure to use child restraint device and reckless driving. Jail records say she remained in custody this (Tuesday) morning.
(Radio Iowa/KJAN) — The dry fall weather farmers were looking for finally came in November — much later than they’d hoped. State Climatologist Justin Glisan tracked the numbers for November. “Our statewide precipitation averaged around one-point-six-two inches — which is about four-point-three inches below normal,” Glisan says. “We typically see about two inches of precipitation during November.”
In Atlantic, precipitation for the month (including rain and melted snow), amounted to 1.28 inches, which was 57-hundredths (or nearly six-tenths) of an inch below average. We received a total of Seven-tenths (.7”) an inch of snow in November.
The below-normal November came on the heels of the seventh wettest October on record that was about two-inches above normal for precipitation — and the third wettest September — which saw statewide average rainfall about four-and-a-half inches above normal. Glisan says a late winter storm on the 25th and 26th of November boosted the total a little. “And that brought heavy snowfall, blizzard conditions. We had wind gusts up to 45 miles-an-hour. Osceola reported the month’s highest snowfall total, almost a foot of snow,” according to Glisan.
Statewide, it was the coolest November since 2014 with the temperature six degrees below normal. In Atlantic, the Average High last month was 40.1 degrees, and the Average Low was 19.9. That’s 6.2 degrees cooler than the norm for the High, and 6.6 degrees colder than normal.
With Christmas now about three weeks away Glisan says it has an early indication of the day will be white or not. “What we’re seeing right now in the outlooks is above average temperatures for Christmas — and then below average chances for precipitation. So, as of right now it looks like a white Christmas might not occur,” Glisan says.
Today: Partly-to-Mostly cloudy w/a few flurries. High 28. W @ 10-15.
Tonight: Decreasing cloudiness. Low 14. W @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 35. W @ 10-15.
Thursday: Mo. Cldy w/flurries. High 27.
Friday: P/Cldy. High 28.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 28. Our Low this morning 23. We receivd a Trace of snow yesterday and early this morning. Last year on this date our High was 65 and the Low was 22. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 66 in 1995. The Record Low was -8 in 1905.
(Radio Iowa) — Republican David Young of Van Meter plans to review all the data he can from the 2018 election results before deciding whether to run again for congress. Last month Democrat Cindy Axne of West Des Moines defeated Young’s bid for a third term, finishing about 77-hundred votes ahead of Young in the third congressional district balloting. “Anybody anywhere in the country who was just defeated should do a forensic audit, look at the numbers, look at what happened and not make any kind of emotional decision right away, but take some time and also just see what other kind of opportunities are out there,” Young told Radio Iowa. “No doors are closed.”
Young is still a voting member of congress until the end of the year. “The work is not over and so I need to get back to DC and finish out the session strong,” Young told Radio Iowa. Young says votes on the Farm Bill and federal spending are at the top of the docket when congress returns. This week’s congressional votes were postponed, due to observances in the capitol to honor former President George H.W. Bush. Young’s first job in politics was as one of two paid staffers working on Bush’s 1992 reelection campaign in Iowa.
“That’s where I kind of cut my teeth on politics and ever since then have been motivated to stay involved in the service aspect of it, really,” Young told Radio Iowa. “Campaigns are necessary, very necessary because you want to make sure people have a choice in who serves them, but I like the public policy angle. I’m kind of a wonk in that sense.”
Young has never missed a vote in a House committee or on the House floor. Three bills sponsored by Young have become law, including one which dealt with deficiencies in the suicide prevention hotline for veterans.
Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater, late Monday night, released a report on one recent arrest. The Sheriff says Greenfield Police arrested 48-year old Daniel Paul Ringer, of Greenfield, on Nov. 29th, for OWI/1st offense. Ringer was taken into custody after his pickup truck was pulled over in the area of SE 4th and Noble Streets, in Greenfield, at around 7:15-p.m. last Thursday. He was released the following day on his Own Recognizance.
Boys Basketball
Bondurant Farrar 66, Creston 62
Boyer Valley, Dunlap 62, West Monona, Onawa 38
Girls Basketball
AC/GC 64, Grand View Christian 30
West Monona, Onawa 61, Boyer Valley, Dunlap 39
Whiting 56, Boys Town, Neb. 45