OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – An Omaha hospital has been included in a settlement with more than 450 hospitals over inappropriate use of a heart device. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Creighton University Medical Center was named in the settlement, which totals more than $250 million.
The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that from 2003 to 2010 each of 457 hospitals in 43 states implanted the devices during periods in the patients’ care that are prohibited by federal regulations.
ELMER DONALD SHEEDER, 96, of Greenfield, died Fri., Oct. 30th, at the Adair County Memorial Hospital, in Greenfield. Memorial services for ELMER SHEEDER will be held 2-p.m. Fri., Nov. 6th, at the Stuart-Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church, in Stuart. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home has the arrangements.
Visitation with the family will be from 5-until 7-p.m. Thu., Nov. 5th, at the Stuart-Mt.Vernon UMC.
Burial will be in the Sunnyhill Cemetery at Adair.
Memorials may be directed to the family.
ELMER SHEEDER is survived by:
His sons – Alvin (Kathy) Sheeder; Robert (Kathy) Sheeder; Kenneth (Wendy) Sheeder and Mike (Suzanne) Sheeder.
His daughters – Patsy (Larry) Silvey; Ardis (Francis) McGinnis; Cindy (Mike) Nelson; Beverly (Darrell) Moore, and Louise Lawson.
Many grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.
DOROTHY MAE (Jacobsen) MOSER, 83, of Stuart (& formerly of Casey), died Sun., Nov. 1st, at Mercy Medical Center, in Des Moines. Funeral services for DOROTHY MOSER will be held 10:30-a.m. Wed., Nov. 4th, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, in Casey. Johnson Family Funeral Home in Stuart has the arrangements.
Visitation will be held from 5-until 7-pm Tue., Nov. 3rd, at the Johnson Family Funeral Home – Stuart Chapel. Online condolences may be left at www.johnsonfamilyfuneralhome.com.
Memorials may be directed to the Dorothy Moser Memorial Fund.
Burial will be in the Oakwood Cemetery.
COUNTIES: ADAMS-UNION-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD-449 AM CST TUE NOV 3 2015
AREAS OF FOG…DENSE AT TIMES…HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHERN IOWA
EARLY THIS TUESDAY MORNING. VISIBILITY HAS DROPPED TO ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES. THE FOG WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE MORNING COMMUTE. PERSONS TRAVELING EARLY TODAY SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN ENCOUNTERING AREAS OF FOG…SLOW DOWN…USE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS…AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS NEAR SCHOOL BUS STOPS…INTERSECTIONS…AND RAILROAD CROSSINGS. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE AFTER 8 AM THIS MORNING WHEN THE FOG BEGINS TO LIFT.
COUNTIES: CASS-ADAIR-MADISON–
PATCHY FOG…POSSIBLY EXPANDING AND THICKENING THIS MORNING…CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE MORNING COMMUTE TO AROUND 8 AM. PERSONS TRAVELING EARLY TODAY SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN ENCOUNTERING AREAS OF FOG…SLOW DOWN…USE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS…AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS NEAR SCHOOL BUS STOPS…INTERSECTIONS…AND RAILROAD CROSSINGS. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE AFTER 8 AM THIS MORNING WHEN THE FOG BEGINS TO LIFT.
A former Treynor teacher and coach accused of sexual abuse will never teach again in Iowa. According to the Daily NonPareil, the Board of Educational Examiners issued a permanent revocation of 46-year old Michael Travis’ teaching license last month after Travis pleaded guilty Aug. 18th to simple assault, a misdemeanor, and agreed to surrender his license to the state.
Travis did not have to register as a sex offender and did not serve any jail time. He received a deferred judgement, and he continued to maintain his innocence in a statement. He had been a teacher at Treynor Elementary School and an assistant softball coach at Treynor High School at the time of his arrest in May 2014.
A prosecutor with the Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office said the alleged victims – three former softball players and a fifth-grader, with alleged incidents from 2002 through 2006 – were involved in the plea deal and wanted to make sure Travis wouldn’t remain a teacher. The Board of Educational Examiners voted Oct. 9th to revoke his license as well as endorsements as a K-12 athletic coach, K-6 elementary classroom teacher and K-8 physical education teacher. He also held an expired substitute license.
The revocation carries no possibility of reinstatement.
The just ended month of October was warmer and drier than normal across Iowa. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says the statewide average rainfall total for the month was one-and-three-quarters inches (1.75 inches), about one inch less than usual for October. “The most unusual aspect there was the extremely dry start to the month, with very little rain anywhere in the state over the first 20 days of October,” Hillaker said. It was the 52nd driest October in Iowa in 143 years of record keeping.
Here in Atlantic, at the KJAN studios, we received 1.28″ of rain, and that was 1.48″ less than normal. Across the state, most of the month was ideal for farmers who were working to complete the harvest. “Temperatures averaged about 2.6 degrees warmer than usual…it ranks as the 46th warmest October,” Hillaker said. Many areas of central and southern Iowa have yet to record a hard freeze this fall. There was a range of 72 degrees between temperature “extremes” across Iowa last month. “The warmest reading we had, by far, came on the 11th of October at 91-degrees in Sioux City. That was a daily record for that day of the month. On the other extreme, a little less than a week later, it got down to 19-degrees on the morning of the 17th at Stanley up in Buchanan County in northeast Iowa,” Hillaker said.
In Atlantic, the Average High for the month was 66.1, which was 2 degrees warmer than normal. The Average Low was 39.5, which was just one-half degree warmer than normal. The month of November is starting off dry and warm — as highs are forecast to reach the 70s again Tuesday and Wednesday. Showers and much cooler conditions are expected to push into the state Thursday and Friday.
(Radio Iowa/KJAN)
The harvest of Iowa’s crops was slowed significantly by rainfall toward the end of October, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Through Sunday, 85-percent of the state’s corn crop was harvested. Despite all of the wet weather, that’s 10 days ahead of last year and two days ahead of the five-year average. Ninety-six percent of the soybean crop has been harvested. That’s equal to the five-year average, but eight days ahead of last year.
Last week was Iowa’s wettest week in over a month-and-a-half. The USDA reports Iowa farmers, on average, had a little over 4 “suitable” days for fieldwork last week. Marion County received the most rain at 2.86 inches. There are areas of southwest and south-central Iowa where over 30 percent of the corn and 10 percent of the soybean crop remains to be harvested.
(Radio Iowa)
EARLY THIS MORNING: PARTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG. SOUTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
TODAY: MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 20 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE MID 50S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTH WIND 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH.
THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN SHOWERS LIKELY AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHWEST WIND 15 TO 20 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
FRIDAY: MOSTLY SUNNY. COOLER. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have rallied at the University of Iowa campus to argue that the school’s new president shouldn’t have accepted the position. The Des Moines Register reports that about 100 protesters at the university challenged the qualifications of newly-hired president Bruce Harreld Monday afternoon. Harreld began as the university’s 21st president Monday.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Mike Hammond, who co-founded computer maker Gateway Inc. in a northwest Iowa farmhouse in 1985, has died at age 53. Hammond started Gateway with brothers Ted and Norm Waitt, selling what became among one of the most popular computers on the market. He managed the company’s operations in Iowa and South Dakota.
EARLY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has agreed with the murder conviction of an Iowa mother who shot and killed her 20-year-old neighbor in 2001. Tracey Richter is serving life in prison in the slaying of Dustin Wehde. Prosecutors say she fatally shot Wehde as part of a plot to frame her ex-husband during a custody battle, but Richter says her trial was tainted by errors from her defense attorney.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — About 2,000 farmers, grain handlers and corn exporters are suing Swiss biotechnology company Syngenta now that a federal judge has ruled their cases have merit and will move forward. The lawsuits allege Syngenta’s introduction of a new genetically modified corn seed interrupted trade with China in 2011 and may have cost the U.S. corn industry as much as $3 billion.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is paying $235,000 to settle a lawsuit from a woman who says she was kept in isolation at the Iowa Juvenile Home for 280 days. Jessica Turner’s lawsuit alleged she was held in small concrete cells for weeks at a time between 2011 and 2012. The governor closed the juvenile home in Toledo last year amid questions about the treatment of residents.
Cedar Rapids, Kennedy vs Cedar Rapids, Washington at Kingston Stadium
Dowling Catholic, WDM vs Lewis Central at Williams Stadium
Iowa City, City High @ Bettendorf
Valley, West Des Moines @ Johnston
Decorah @ West Delaware, Manchester
Norwalk @ Dallas Center-Grimes
Pella @ Assumption, Davenport
Webster City @ Sergeant Bluff-Luton
Central Lyon/ George-Little Rock @ Spirit Lake
Mount Vernon @ Anamosa
South Tama County, Tama @ Albia
Waukon @ North Fayette Valley
Dike-New Hartford @ Saint Ansgar
Hinton @ Western Christian, Hull
Van Meter @ South Central Calhoun
West Branch @ Regina, Iowa City
Akron-Westfield @ West Sioux, Hawarden
Denver @ Bishop Garrigan, Algona
Gladbrook-Reinbeck @ B-G-M, Brooklyn
Lynnville-Sully @ Mount Ayr
Colo-Nesco @ Newell-Fonda
Don Bosco, Gilbertville @ Central, Elkader
East Mills @ Glidden-Ralston
West Bend-Mallard @ Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn
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