DOLORES ANN [Wheatley] RUPPERT, 84, of Stuart (& formerly of Menlo), died Thu., Jan. 7th. Funeral services for DOLORES RUPPERT will be held 10-a.m. Mon., Jan. 11th, at the Johnson Family Funeral Home in Stuart.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 1-until 8-pm Sunday, with the family present from 7-unil 8-pm, Sunday.
A private burial will take place in the South Oak Grove Cemetery in Stuart.
JOAN E. JACKSON, 67, of Lewis, died Thu., Jan. 7th, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha. Memorial services for JOAN JACKSON will be held 2-p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24th, in the Lewis Community Center. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home, in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Visitation with her family is from Noon until 2-p.m. Jan. 24th, at the Lewis Community Center. Online condolences may be left at www.hockenberryfamilycare.com.
Memorials may be directed to Joan’s daughter, Mary Nordby.
ANNA MARIE PARKER, 93, of Griswold, died Wed., Jan. 6th, at the Griswold Care Center. Funeral services for ANNA PARKER will be held 2-p.m. Mon., Jan. 11th, at the Nelson-Boylan-LeRette Funeral Chapel, in Red Oak.
Visitation with the family will take place 1 hour prior to the funeral service Monday, at the funeral home.
Memorials may be directed to the Elliott United Methodist Church, of the Griswold Rehab and Care Center Auxiliary.
Burial will be in the Grant Cemetery.
ANNA MARIE PARKER is survived by:
Her daughter – Patricia Stonehocker, of Griswold.
Her sister – Alice Stafford, of Greenwood, AR.
Her daughter-in-law, Linda Parker, of Grant; Her life-long friend Helen Taylor, of Grant, 4 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, other relatives and friends.
A man from Montgomery County was arrested early this (Saturday) morning on a drug charge. Police says 28-year old Benjamin William Hrabik, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 1:50-a.m., for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Hrabik was booked into the Montgomery County Jail and held on full bond.
Two people were hurt during a rollover accident Friday afternoon, near Red Oak. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the crash happened about 4 miles west of Red Oak on Highway 34, a little after 2:45-p.m. Authorities say German Alvarado-Ramirez, and a passenger in a 2004 Chevy Malibu, Cynthia Wheeler, were transported to Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Wheeler was identified as the owner of the vehicle.
Officials say the car was traveling eastbound on Highway 34 when it left the road onto the north shoulder, traveled back to the south shoulder and ended up in the north ditch backwards. The car rolled before it came to rest. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $5,000.
Authorities cited Alvarado-Ramirez for not having driver’s license, and for no proof of insurance. Additional charges were pending completion of the accident investigation.
Governor Terry Branstad is no longer asking state legislators to pass an anti-bullying law. “We have taken action through executive order last September. We’ve started the governor’s anti-bullying center at the University of Northern Iowa,” Branstad says. “We’re going to build on that.”
In each of the past three years, Branstad has forwarded a proposal to legislators that would have given school officials broader authority to crack down on bullying that happens off of school grounds and online. Branstad says he’d “love to have” legislators revive that proposal and pass the bill, but he’s not counting on it and that’s why he took executive action in September.
“We, through the two anti-bullying summits, and the involvement of more students in standing up to bullies,” Branstad says, “plus the better reporting and requiring every school to notify parents when bullying occurs I think is going to help reduce the amount of bullying that goes on in our state.”
The Governor’s Office for Bullying Prevention at U-N-I has worked with the Iowa Department of Education to develop the procedures Iowa schools should follow when bullying occurs and it includes notifying parents. Last September, Branstad went to a Cedar Rapids school to say he was done waiting for the legislature to act and he issued an executive order that addressed most of the issues he had hoped legislators would tackle by passing a bill.
The 2016 legislative session begins Monday, January 11th and Branstad’s “Condition of the State” message is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
(Radio Iowa)
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says “ObamaCare” is not working and President Obama made the wrong call by vetoing a Republican plan to repeal broad sections of the Affordable Care Act. “The president had promised us that through ObamaCare we would see about $2500 savings per family,” Ernst says. “Unfortunately, the exact opposite has happened with rising health care and health insurance costs.”
Obama issued a statement, saying repealing the law would harm the 22 million Americans who are getting health insurance coverage through Affordable Care Act provisions.
(Radio Iowa)
COUNTIES: MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL ADVISORY…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM CST SUNDAY.
A WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR SAC-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-GREENE-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE AND DALLAS COUNTIES, FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 10 AM CST SUNDAY.
* WIND CHILL VALUES…MAINLY FROM 18 BELOW TO 25 BELOW ZERO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND BRISK WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS…MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.
346 AM CST SAT JAN 9 2016
EARLY THIS MORNING: CLOUDY & COLDER. SCATTERED FLURRIES. NORTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
TODAY: MOSTLY CLOUDY, BREEZY & COLDER. HIGH AROUND 15. NORTH WIND 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH.
TONIGHT: MOSTLY CLEAR. BITTERLY COLD & BREEZY. LOW ZERO TO 5 BELOW. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 20 MPH. WIND CHILL READINGS 15 TO 20 BELOW.
SUNDAY: SUNNY BUT VERY COLD. HIGH 10 TO 15. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILL READINGS 15 TO 20 BELOW IN THE MORNING.
SUNDAY NIGHT: PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY. NOT AS COLD. LOW 5 TO 10 ABOVE. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
MONDAY: MOSTLY CLOUDY. WARMER. HIGH IN THE MID 20S. WEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.
TUESDAY: MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY…COLDER. HIGH 10 TO 15.
HOUSTON (AP) — The former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals has pleaded guilty in federal court to hacking the Houston Astros’ player personnel database. Christopher Correa pleaded guilty Friday to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer, access authorities said dated back several years. The 35-year-old Correa was the Cardinals’ director of baseball development until he was fired last summer.
Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. had blamed the alleged hack on “roguish behavior” by a handful of individuals. No one else was charged. The data breach was first reported in June 2014 when Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow told reporters the team had been the victim of hackers who accessed servers and published online months of internal trade talks. Luhnow is a former employee with the Cardinals.
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