Today: Partly Cloudy. High 42. W @ 10-20.
Tonight: P/Cloudy. Low 25, W @ 5.
Tomorrow: P/Cloudy. High 47. SW-NW @ 10-20. .
Thursday: P/Cldy. High 40.
Friday: Mostly Cloudy w/scattered light rain. High 38
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 25. Our 24-Hour Low (ending at 7-a.m. today) was 3. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 48 and the low was 30. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 61 in 1941. The Record Low was -25 in 1901.
TYNDALL, S.D. (AP) – An Iowa man accused of intentionally injuring a South Dakota police officer in a hit-and-run incident has been arrested after more than four months on the run.
The Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan reports 35-year-old Travis McPeek, of Sioux City, Iowa, was arrested Thursday in Mesa, Arizona, by federal marshals.
McPeek had been wanted on a warrant for felony aggravated assault against law enforcement since the Aug. 6 traffic stop.
Authorities allege he struck Tyndall Police Officer Kelly Young with his truck in a convenience store parking lot and fled. Young was treated at a hospital for broken ribs, a cut on a leg, an injured ankle, and other cuts and bruises.
Join Cass County Conservation Staff at Atlantic’s Schildberg Recreation Area- Lake 4 on Saturday, January 7th 2017. Staff will be giving ten-minute presentations regarding the Trumpeter Swans every half-hour beginning at 11:00 a.m. with the last one being presented at 2:00 p.m. There will also be time to view the swans through spotting scopes and witness random swan feeding sessions.
Hot chocolate, cookies, grilled hotdogs, and other snacks will be provided free of charge with donations being accepted (for swan care). The Schildberg Recreation Area is located on the northwest edge of Atlantic, Lake 4 is on the north side of Highway 83. 
IF THE WEATHER IS “BAD” OR THE SWANS ARE NOT AT THE PARK…the program will be held at the Atlantic Public Library from 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. with a light lunch available. This event is being sponsored by the Cass County Conservation Board, Atlantic Parks and Recreation, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, and the Atlantic Public Library.
(Cass Co. Conservation Dept. News Release)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Two Iowa men will serve shorter prison terms after President Barack Obama commuted their sentences. The names of Anthony Dodd, of Davenport, and Aaron Rees, of Pleasantville, were on a list of those who received the commutations Monday. Both men’s life sentences were shortened to 20 years.
The Des Moines Register reports Rees was sentenced in 2005 following his convictions on conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and using a minor to manufacture meth. Dodd was convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and received his sentence in 2006.
White House officials say Obama has shortened the sentences of 1,176 people during his presidency, including 395 serving life sentences.
Congress is expected to begin work early next year on the next farm bill. Iowa Farm Bureau president Craig Hill says maintaining a strong crop insurance program is his group’s top priority. “What we hear from our producers is, ‘don’t touch my crop insurance program. We like the crop insurance program,'” Hill says. “It gives us the ability to farm another year. It’s revenue protecting. We don’t want to go to Congress with a request for a disaster bill if we have a drought or other problem. We want to rely on a good insurance program.”
Iowa’s crop insurance participation rate exceeds 90 percent. Hill is also hoping the next farm bill will help farmers with conservation efforts. “We’re hearing that across the state. We want to do better and we’re going to need assistance in terms of technical advice and engineering, but also in cost sharing and fundamentally assisting us in doing what we can best do as stewards,” Hill says.
Congress passed the last farm bill in 2014.
(Reporting by Ken Anderson, Brownfield Ag News)
There are plenty of Iowa connections on the coaching staff at North Dakota as the Fighting Hawks get ready for tonight’s (Tuesday night’s) game in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. North Dakota coach Brian Jones spent seven years as a Hawkeye assistant under Steve Alford and former Iowa standout Jeff Horner is in his third season on the North Dakota staff. Horner was the coach at West Des Moines Valley High School when Iowa coach Fran McCaffery was recruiting Peter Jok.
Horner was Mr. Basketball in Iowa in 2002 as a senior at Mason City and became Iowa’s all-time leader in three pointers and second all-time in assists. North Dakota is 5-4 while the Hawkeyes are 6-5 after a 69-46 win over Northern Iowa in the Hy-Vee Classic. Pre-game coverage on KJAN begins at 7-p.m. Tip-time from Carver -Hawkeye Arena is at 8-p.m.
(Learfield Sports)
Early this morning: Mostly cloudy. Breezy. Not as cold. Low 15 to 20. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
Today: Mostly sunny. Warmer. High in the upper 30s. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy through midnight then becoming mostly cloudy. Low in the lower 20s. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday: Partly sunny. High in the lower 40s. West wind 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Low in the lower 20s. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
Thursday: Sunny. High in the upper 30s.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Low in the mid 20s.
Friday: Partly sunny. High around 40.
DESMOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mike Daum scored 20 points and Andre Wallace 19 as South Dakota State won a road game for the first time this season, defeating Drake 83-75 on Monday night. Daum, Wallace and A.J. Hess were a perfect 8-for-8 at the free throw line in the final 1:15 as South Dakota State (7-7) held off Drake, which had come as close as 69-66 when Nick McGlynn scored with 3:18 to play.
Billy Wampler led the Bulldogs (1-10) with 18 points, his sixth-straight game in double figures, Reed Timmer added 16, McGlynn had 11 and C.J. Rivers 10. Drake made up a 40-26 halftime deficit, made a season-high 10 3-pointers, scored 22 points off turnovers, but made only eight trips to the foul line, making seven free throws.
South Dakota State, thanks to 22 Drake fouls, shot 21-for-25 at the free throw line. Daum, who was 7-for-7, set the school record for consecutive makes with 40.
| BOYS BASKETBALL |
|---|
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Chariton 65, Creston 55
Denison-Schleswig 72, Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 48
Rolling Valley Conference
Ar-We-Va, Westside 74, Westwood, Sloan 43
CAM, Anita 60, Woodbine 40
Charter Oak-Ute 60, River Valley, Correctionville 51
Corner Conference
East Mills 70, Heartland Christian 37
Stanton 70, Griswold 48
Other Scores
East Union, Afton 51, Lamoni 47
West Central Valley, Stuart 71, Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 65
Worth County, Mo. 59, Mount Ayr 36
| GIRLS BASKETBALL |
|---|
Hawkeye Ten Conferernce
Chariton 61, Creston 53
Denison-Schleswig 55, Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 29
Rolling Valley Conference
AC/GC 44, Coon Rapids-Bayard 28
CAM, Anita 77, Woodbine 31
River Valley, Correctionville 44, Charter Oak-Ute 43
Westwood, Sloan 82, Ar-We-Va, Westside 21
Corner Conference
Stanton 53, Griswold 49
Other Scores
Mount Ayr 60, Worth County, Mo. 14
West Central Valley, Stuart 61, Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 20
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:12 a.m. CST
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two women held each other and wept as Iowa’s six electors cast their Electoral College ballots for Republican Donald Trump. Mary Barrett and her daughter Rebecca Barrett drove from Iowa City to the state Capitol to see the Monday afternoon balloting, which took only minutes. They say given the importance of a Trump presidency, they wanted to see the Electoral College vote in person. Mary Barrett expressed “surprise how sad it made me feel.”.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man charged with killing his mother and grandmother in Council Bluffs will be sent to a mental health facility after being found mentally incompetent to stand trial. The Des Moines Register reports a judge signed an order Friday that will send Michael Dieckmann to treatment at a state prison mental health facility in Oakdale. Staff at the Oakdale facility will try to restore Dieckmann’s mental health to the point where he can understand the charges against him and participate in his defense.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A lawsuit from two Sioux tribes seeking to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline is on hold while a related court battle over the project plays out. Pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners is asking a judge rule that it has federal permission to lay pipe under the Missouri River in North Dakota. The judge in the meantime has put aside the tribes’ legal challenge over permits at numerous water crossings.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The insurance industry and its regulators are asking a judge to allow documents that detail “shadow insurance” subsidiaries created by Iowa-based life insurers to remain secret. The Iowa Insurance Division and the Federation of Iowa Insurers are opposing the lawsuit filed by Indiana University professor emeritus Joseph Belth. Belth argues that the “shadow insurance” instruments threaten the solvency of insurers.
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