Officials with the Creston Police Department today (Wednesday), said a resident reported Tuesday evening that, sometime between 5-p.m. Monday and 5-p.m. Tuesday, someone entered the garage of the property he owns at 604 N Poplar, and stole miscellaneous tools. The loss was estimated at $100. No arrests have been reported.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A nonprofit corporation has signed an agreement with federal officials to raise $30 million for a new veterans outpatient clinic in Omaha. The corporation was created by Heritage Services, a nonprofit civic group that was instrumental in creating such projects as the Holland Performing Arts Center and TD Ameritrade Park. The agreement was announced Wednesday.
In December President Barack Obama signed a measure allowing a public-private partnership to build the clinic on the campus of Omaha’s Department of Veterans Medical Center. The $30 million from the local group will be added to $56 million already appropriated for the Nebraska/Western Iowa Health Care System clinic.
VA officials have said what will be called the Veterans Affairs Ambulatory Center will offer primary, specialty and ambulatory care and operate radiological and surgical facilities.
The N-C-A-A men’s basketball tournament is returning to Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines in 2019. The president of the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau, Greg Edwards, got emotional a couple of times Tuesday as he talked with reporters following the announcement by the N-C-A-A. Edwards says winning the bid to host the tourney is as big a deal for the organizing committee as it is for the teams who play their way in.
Greg Edwards
Des Moines hosted the first two rounds in 2016, but Edwards says they knew they weren’t guaranteed to get another bid. “So when we sat down and began strategizing with this round, we knew the N-C-A-A was very pleased with some of the things we did and we had several follow up meetings with them since 2016. But, we continue to really create that bond between ourselves and the N-C-A-A staff, which I think is very important. and we do have a very strong bond with a lot of the basketball teammembers from the N-C-A-A,” Edwards said.
Edwards says the tickets sold out quickly for the rounds in Des Moines, and he says the turnout for the free day to watch practice made an impression. That was a huge thing for the N-C-A-A. They said they’d never seen any practice rounds so full,” according to Edwards. “They sold more merchandise out of the Wells Fargo Arena that day than they’d ever sold in any other arena. So, that was pretty cool.”
He says the announcement now sets things into motion for 2019. We’ll start really immediately hosting our local organizing committee meetings talking about everything from logistics to airport to transportation and on and on,”Edwards says. “We’ll have everything double crossed off by the time 2019 rolls around.”
Des Moines’ first tourney included big names teams like Kansas, Kentucky and Indiana, which put even more of a spotlight on the venue. Wells Fargo Arena Manager Chris Connolly says the timing of the tournament works well in the sports schedule. He says the N-C-A-A Tournament is after the boys and girls state tournaments, and the Wild hockey team and Energy basketball team understand that it is a good thing for Des Moines and don’t mind having the time blocked out.
The Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau estimates the 2016 tournament had a five million dollar impact on the area.
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Today: FLASH FLOOD WATCH until 1-a.m. Thursday; Scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 70. SE @ 15-25.
Tonight: Scattered shwrs & tstrms. Low 48. S-NW @ 10-15.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 62. NW @ 10-20.
Friday: P/Cldy High 62.
Saturday: P/Cldy to Cldy. High around 62.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 67. Our Low this morning (as of 5:15-a.m.) was 52. We have also received .35” of an inch of rain from yesterday (.19”) and early this morning (.16”) at the KJAN studios. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 62 and the low was 44. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 87 in 1908, 1946 & 1987. The Record Low was 15 in 1988.
RICHARD L. KENT, 71, of Guthrie Center, died Monday, April 17th, at the Thomas Rest Haven in Coon Rapids. Funeral services for RICHARD KENT will be held 10:30-a.m. Friday, April 21st, at the 1st Christian Church in Guthrie Center. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, with the family present 5-p.m. Thursday in the Fellowship Hall.
Burial will be in the Union Cemetery in Guthrie Center.
RICHARD KENT is survived by:
His wife – Annette [Railsback] Kent, of Guthrie Center.
His son – Chad (Dana) Kent Kent, of Altoona
His daughter – Heather (Brad) Mueggenberg, of Glidden.
5 grandchildren, other relatives, his sister-in-law, and many friends.
Police in Red Oak, Tuesday evening acting on a tip, located a man wanted on a warrant. 18-year old Michael Wade Hamilton, of Red Oak, was pulled over in the 700 block of N. Broadway, and taken into custody at around 6:30-p.m. on a Montgomery County warrant for Harassment in the 3rd Degree. Hamilton was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha will host first- and second-round games in the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament and the Division I women’s volleyball final four in 2020. The NCAA on Tuesday announced sites for Division I, II and III championship events for 2017-18 through 2021-22.
Omaha’s CenturyLink Center hosted early games in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in 2008, 2012 and 2015. The Midwest Regional will be played at the arena in 2018. The volleyball final four comes to Omaha a fourth time. The city previously hosted the volleyball championships in 2006, 2008 and 2015.
Omaha will not get the men’s ice hockey Frozen Four in this cycle of championships. Though the University of Nebraska-Lincoln does not sponsor ice hockey, it submitted a bid to host the event at CenturyLink Center.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dexter Fowler tripled and scored, Mike Leake pitched into the seventh inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Pittsburgh 2-1 on Tuesday night after Pirates outfielder Starling Marte was suspended 80 games for a banned substance earlier in the day.
Seung Hwan Oh allowed three hits in the ninth but escaped a one-out, bases-loaded jam for his second save. Leake (2-1) allowed seven hits and only struck out one, but he held the Pirates to a run over 6 1/3 innings. He has won nine of his last 11 decisions against the Pirates dating to Sept. 11, 2012.
The Cardinals have won back-to-back games for the first time this season to improve to 5-9. Chad Kuhl (1-1) gave up two runs over six innings. He allowed three hits and struck out three.
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