Jim Field shares a hot air balloon experience.
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Creston Police today (Monday) issued a report on recent arrests and incidents. Officials say early Sunday morning, 31-year old John Foster, of Creston, was arrested on two counts each of Public Intoxication 3rd or Subsequent offense, Harassment 1st degree, and Assault on Police Officer Causing Bodily Injury. Foster was also charged with Criminal Mischief/2nd degree, Interference with Official Acts and Interference with Official Acts with Injury. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $5000 bond.
Saturday night, Creston Police arrested 55-year old Robert Fleharty, of Creston, on a charge of Public Intoxication/2nd offense. He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1000 bond. Two people were arrested early Saturday morning, in Creston: 38-year old Brian Krauth, of Blockton, was arrested on charges of Driving While Revoked and OWI 1st. He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1000 bond. And, 42-year old Dwain Ripperger, of Afton, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $1000 bond.
Friday night, Creston Police arrested 45-year old David Webb, of Creston, on a charge of Driving While Suspended. He was later released from the Union County Jail on a $300 bond.
The Creston P-D also received three reports of Theft or vandalism. A resident in the 900 block of W. Jefferson Street reported Saturday morning that sometime between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, someone stole a Blackflag Bug Zapper from her residence. The loss was estimated at $60. Later that same morning, a resident of the 1000 block of N. Chestnut Street in Creston, reported that sometime between 11:30-a.m. Friday and 8:50-a.m. Saturday, someone had broken the back door of
her residence. The damage was estimated at $300. And, a resident in the 900 block of W. Montgomery Street in Creston reported to the Creston Police Department, that sometime between Friday and early Saturday morning, someone stole change from his vehicle while it was parked at his residence and several cans of used spray paint from his garage. The loss was estimated at $5.
The area’s top news at 7:05-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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Today: areas of fog this morning; P/Cldy. High 82. E/SE @ 5-10.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 65. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 87. S @ 10-20.
Wednesday: P/Cldy, hot & humid. High 91. Afternoon Heat Index 100-105.
Thursday: P/Cldy w/a chance of afternoon shwrs & tstrms. High 92.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 79. Our Low this morning was 57. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 86 and the low was 69. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 111 in 1934. The Record Low was 39 in 1904.
The search for a three-year-old boy in Webster County came to a happy ending on Sunday. Volunteers spent three hours searching for the child in the area surrounding the Brushy Creek State Recreation Area south of Duncombe. TJ and Jennifer Vit reported that their son wandered away from their home. Fire department members from Dayton,Duncombe and Lehigh were joined by the Webster County sheriff’s deputies and Iowa Department of Natural Resources staff in the search. The boy was found safely as he emerged from a bean field near his home at about 6 p.m.
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337 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2016
EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLEAR. PATCHY FOG. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.
TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE LOWER 90S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. HIGHEST HEAT INDEX READINGS 100 TO 105 IN THE AFTERNOON.
THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 90S.
Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard enters his senior season with a lot of pre-season attention after leading the Hawkeyes to a 12-2 mark in his first season as the starter. He says for the offense to improve, he will have to improve his play in every area. “More touchdown passes, less turnovers, smarter play getting the ball down, making decisions quicker. I have been working on all that this offseason and in the camp here and back to spring ball just trying to improve my game any way I can,” Beathard says. He played much of last season hurt and says he is in the best health he has been in since first getting hurt. That should add to his efforts to improve the offense.
“I am able to do some stuff with me feet, run the ball more, and get out of the pocket better. It helps me move in the pocket, so I think it will improve our offense as a whole in every way really,” according to Beathard. Beathard’s improved mobility won’t mean anything if he doesn’t have receivers to throw to, and he says that’s another part of the equation. He says they lost to key senior receivers in Jacob Hillyer and Tevaun Smith and they will need young receivers without a lot playing time to step up and pick up some of the load.
Beathard says he needs to work a lot with those receiver to bring them along. He is on all of the major watch lists heading into the season and says he doesn’t mind being in the spotlight. “You know my dad always told me to be thankful for it right now because some day they won’t care to know who you are,” Beathard says. “So, you’ve got to embrace it when you have it.” The Hawkeyes were both praised and criticized as they went through the perfect regular season and into the conference championship game. Beathard says that will help them deal with whatever attention they get as this season moves ahead.
“I think it does, I mean we did a good job at ignoring the noise — whether it be negative noise or positive noise — there was a lot of that going on early in the season and then later on in the season. I think we did a good job of tuning out when there were a lot of outlets we could have listened to, and people talking about how good you are,” Beathard says. “When you start listening to that stuff that’s when you start going downhill you start thinking that you’ve made it, that you’ve arrived, and once you think that, that’s bad.”
The Franklin, Tennessee native will lead the Hawkeyes when they open the season on September 3rd at home against Miami of Ohio.
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The Iowa Hawkeye football team has opened fall camp with the hope of repeating the record-setting success of last season, while putting a blowout loss in the Rose Bowl behind them. Coach Kirk Ferentz talked with the media Saturday about the work ahead. “Last year was a really historic year in a lot of ways, more importantly a memorable year and a very rewarding year, and I think probably the important thing for us as a football team is to try to learn some lessons from it and hopefully we’ve done that as we approach moving forward,” Ferentz said.
The Hawks are ranked 15th in the preseason poll, after garnering little attention at the start of last year. Ferentz said his research shows how little the early polls mean. “Of the 25 teams that were in the preseason last year, eight of them didn’t make the cut at the end, and so obviously eight teams did make it, entered in,” Ferentz said. “Probably most noteworthy I think would be Houston won 13 games, we won 12, neither us were mentioned a year ago at this point. So the thing I think our players need to understand is that door swings both ways. It opens and it closes.”
Senior quarterback C.J. Beathard is one of the reasons Iowa is expected to make another run at the Big 10 West title. Ferentz says Beathard is a lot like former Hawkeye great Brad Banks when it comes to leadership. ” I don’t know if I can articulate what it was about him, but I know this, it was really powerful, and as he went, our team really went with him. C.J. has kind of got that same characteristic. There’s just something about him,” according to Ferentz. “And the commonality there is they’re both genuine people. They’re just really genuine guys. They’ve got all the right motives and agendas. They’re just out there to help the team win, and they care about their teammates, all those things you hope a quarterback can do. And then different skill sets but yet very effective players in their own right.”
Ferentz said the practices heading up to the first game will be key in determining if this season ends up as successful as last year. “You know as mundane as this sounds, the most important thing we can do is just try to capitalize on every day in front of us. If you just look back last year…I think our team really grew in August really on lot of levels, not just as football players, our leadership base group. It was just a result of doing things right, little things right, paying attention. That’s really the challenge that’s ahead of us right now,” Ferentz explained.
Escaping all the hype and positive things said about the team in the media and online is not easy. Ferentz said his players will read and hear things, but the coaches remind them it doesn’t mean anything at this point. “Just like last year, nobody picked us to do anything, we ended up having a really good year. And so it’s about our actions, it’s not about what people are saying negatively or positively. That’s what we try to educate our players to and then show them the illustrations that back that up,” Ferentz said.
Iowa opens the season September 3rd at home against Miami of Ohio.
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Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT
GRANDVIEW, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities are still searching for a man who went swimming in the Mississippi River, but he’s now presumed dead. The Hawk Eye in Burlington reports that the man went missing north of Port Louisa on Friday night. Authorities say the unidentified man was swimming with a small group of people around 6 p.m. when he ventured too far from shore and disappeared underwater.
DENISON, Iowa (AP) — Officials in a western Iowa county are trying to decide what to do with a damaged bridge that’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Beaver Creek Bridge was damaged when a vehicle or towed equipment snagged the bridge’s west truss. The Daily Nonpareil reports that it can’t be repaired and was permanently closed in April.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is seeing a surge of delicate white flowers that some people view as a nuisance and others want to photograph. The Queen Anne’s Lace, or wild carrot, is abundant this year because of optimal weather conditions and roadside management practices such as less mowing and herbicide spraying. The Des Moines Register reports the flowers are spreading through roadside ditches, along bicycle trails and on the fringes of public parks.
INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have identified one of the two people killed in an Iowa plane crash north of Indianola. Twenty-two-year-old Alex Michael Winter of Indianola died when the Piper PA-11 crashed around 11:40 a.m. Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. The name of the second victim has not been released.