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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A Des Moines mother whose baby daughter died on a changing table has been given five years of probation. On Thursday a judge also suspended a 10-year prison sentence for Laci Taylor. She’d pleaded guilty to felony neglect of a dependent person after prosecutors lowered the charge.
Court records say Taylor left the 3-month-old unattended on the table on Sept. 18 last year. The girl’s airway was cut off when she rolled over, and her neck was compressed against a table ledge.
CARSON DONALD LILLY, the stillborn son of Gregory and Kristine Lilly, of Greenfield, passed away Tuesday, August 1st, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. A Mass of Christian Burial for CARSON LILLY will be held 11-a.m. Saturday, August 5th, at St. John’s Catholic Church, in Greenfield. Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield has the arrangements.
Online condolences may be left to the family at www.steenfunerals.com.
Burial will be in the Greenfield Cemetery.
CARSON LILLY is survived by:
His parents – Gregory and Kristine Lilly, of Greenfield.
His sister & brother – McKenzie and Brice Lilly, both of Greenfield.
His maternal grandparents: Patrick (Cindy) Schneider, of Riverside; Paternal grandparents: Steven (Deborah) Lilly, of Greenfield; Maternal grandmothers: Vernita Schneider, & Barbara Thomann, both of Riverside.
Other relatives and family friends.
A man from Cromwell reported to the Creston Police Department, Thursday, that someone had stolen several power tools from his vehicle. The theft occurred sometime between July 31st and Aug. 3rd, while the vehicle was parked at 902 N. Sumner Avenue, in Creston. The loss was estimated at $1,305.
The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) – A 22-year-old Kansas man has been charged with vehicular homicide for the crash deaths of four Iowa residents in western Nebraska. Authorities say a car driven by 22-year-old Jeser Cisneros-Hernandez, of Liberal, Kansas, crossed the center line on U.S. Highway 26 south of Lake McConaughy on July 1st, striking two motorcycles carrying two people each.
Authorities say 54-year-old Sheila Matheny and 61-year-old James Matheny, from Bedford, Iowa, were on one motorcycle. The other riders were 58-year-old Michal Weese and 59-year-old Jerolyn Weese, who lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Cisneros-Hernandez remains in the Keith County, Kansas Jail today (Friday). He’d told investigators that he’d had little rest the day of the crash while driving from his workplace in Sidney, Montana, home to Kansas.
Nearly 300 members of Sioux City’s Iowa Air National Guard 185th Air Refueling Wing will be deployed overseas beginning in October. Colonel Larry Christensen, the base commander, says it’s one of the largest deployments in recent history of the unit and involves two separate entities. He says they usually deploy the airplanes, crews and maintenance, but this time they are also deploying a lot of the support staff that deal with food service, communication, supply and security that don’t deal directly with the airplanes.
Senior Master Sergeant Ron Bennett says they will start leaving in September and be stationed in countries like Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. “By the time January of 2018 comes, all 200 will be in their deployed location to do their job for about six months deployed. And then they’ll start cycling them back,” Bennett says.
Members from of the 133rd Test Squadron in Fort Dodge are also part of the deployment. Sergeant Bennett says another 100 airmen from the 185th Operations and Maintenance groups will deploy for 30 to 120 day deployments to similar locations in the Persian Gulf and to support the continuous bomber presence in the Pacific at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. He says they will be doing the same job that they do in their weekend training as the Air Force requires them to drop in among active duty members and to their standard job.
Colonel Christensen says he greatly appreciates the Siouxland community who employ and support the guard members. “This actually affects the whole entire community and their families,” Christensen says. “We are just extremely lucky to have the support that the Siouxland community and the family gives us, and they’ve done that for many, many years.”
The 185th will continue to fly domestic missions as well involving refueling, medical missions and troop transports while their contingent is serving overseas.
(Radio Iowa)
The Northern Iowa football team is looking to turn things around after a 5-6 season last year, and Panther coach Mark Farley says work they’ve already done and the work they are doing prior to the season opener will determine if that happens. He says they don’t know yet what this team will be. “Every team takes its own course. This team will find that course when it happens. It’s already been started of course, it started in January. Some things happened this summer, they became stronger in some units. So, it will play out as it plays out,” Farley says.
Farley says they’ve been successful by adapting to the strengths of the players.”We have changed every year, based on the players that we’ve had,” Farley explains. “So, we will go along, we will identify what becomes our strength and that’s what we’ll play to.” The Panthers return a lot of experience on defense. On offense, Farley says the key is building the line. “Your offensive line is always your culture — it’s not the quarterback — it’s the offensive line. And then if you’ve got two tight ends who are just as tough, then you’ve got a chance,” according to Farley.
He says even if they offensive line becomes a strength, they will have a tough task ahead with the teams they face. “There’s five teams from this league in the top ten — and we ain’t one of them,” Farley says, “so it’s a strong league, strong coaches, strong players, and we go on the road for some difficult games.
The Panthers have six games on the road, including their season opener September 2nd at Iowa State.
(Learfield Sports)
Kurt Warner will become the first native Iowan to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Canton, Ohio Saturday. Warner played at Cedar Rapids Regis High School and after graduating in 1989 went to Northern Iowa. Terry Allen was Warner’s coach at U-N-I and says he’s probably mentioned in more books for the fact that he started Warner only one year in college. Allen says the way Warner handled the situation at U-N-I showed early on the qualities that would lead to his eventual success. “Kurt never complained…he kept working at it, kept working at it, and when he got his opportunity with us he had a great senior year,” Allen says.
Warner’s rags-to-riches story after college includes a stint stocking shelves at Hy-Vee, playing for the Iowa Barnstormers in the Arena League, then N-F-L Europe and finally getting a chance through injury to become the starter for the Saint Louis Rams. He led the Rams and a high-powered offense to a Super Bowl win. Allen, now lives in Nixa, Missouri, and works for the city’s Chamber of Commerce. He talked about what it means to see Warner go into the Hall of Fame. “I don’t know if you can say it’s gratifying — you just appreciate the success he’s had,” Allen says.
Allen will be attending the ceremony along with former U-N-I assistant coaches Bill and Ken Salmon. Current Panther coach Mark Farley says he tells current players Warner’s story to illustrate what they need to do to be successful. He says he texted Warner at the start of this week. “The one thing that he represents, and I told him this, his whole family does, his whole family represents perseverance. And to me that’s the key to his success,” Farley says.
Warner won two regular-season N-F-L M-V-P awards along with a Super Bowl M-V-P. He took the Rams to one other Super Bowl and later took the Arizona Cardinals to their only appearance in the Super Bowl. Warner is still the only quarterback to throw for 300 yards in three different Super Bowls. He was voted into the Hall of Fame in his third year of eligibility.
(Learfield Sports)
Today: Partly cloudy. High 78. NW @ 10-20.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 50. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: Mostly Cloudy w/light rain. High 74. E/SE @ 5-10.
Sunday: P/Cldy w/rain in the morning. High 74.
Monday: P/Cldy. High 76.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 75. Our Low this morning was 48. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 92 and the low was 64. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 110 in 1918. The Record Low for this date was 38 in 1978.