Jim Field talks about tips to avoid identity theft during the holiday shopping season.
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The first shotgun deer season opens this weekend on the heels of what has been a successful bow season. Iowa Department of Natural Resources wildlife research technician, Jim Coffey, says hunters have already reported taking more than 27-thousand deer. “We’ve had an excellent fall with weather conditions and the crops came out early, and the hunters have had some great days to be out there. So, I think that has helped increase the number of people in the field and also increase license sales,” Coffey says. Coffey says he doesn’t expect any drop in hunters taking to the field this season.
He says the license sales for the shotgun season have been right on track to be about the same amount as last year. With license sales doing well, he expects the harvest numbers to be right around last year too. “Reported harvest last year was right at about 100-thousand deer and that’s what we would expect this year — unless there’s some major phenomenon in the weather — we should track pretty similarly,” according to Coffey. The weather is expected to warm up this weekend and Coffey says the weather conditions can really dictate the success of the hunt.
“Weather impacts the hunters as much or more than it does the deer. And sometimes warmer weather is just a little more difficult because the deer can spread themselves out,” Coffey explains. “It’ll be an interesting weekend, it will be a little muddy in some places. It should be nice weather, but that can actually make it more difficult to deer hunt.” The D-N-R surveys the deer population to try and keep it under control. Coffey though doesn’t talk about deer numbers in specific areas.
“Populations are something that are very difficult to talk about across the entire state because there is so much difference in the habitat from north to south and east and west. So we talk about trends more than anything,” Coffey says. He says if you saw deer last year in the places you normally hunt, there should be plenty of deer in those areas again this year.
This first shotgun deer season begins Saturday and runs through next Wednesday. The second shotgun season is December 12th through the 20th. The archery season closes Saturday to allow for the shotgun season and will re-open on December 21st. The late muzzleloader season opens at the same time and both will run through January 10th.
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The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest today (Friday), of a man from southern Iowa’s Clarke County. 48-year old Ike Matthew Findley, of Murray, was arrested just after 5-a.m. at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, for violation of a protection order. Findley was being held without bond in the Union County Jail until making an appearance before the Magistrate.
More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast w/Chris Parks.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Three of Iowa’s largest hospital-and-clinic systems have signed contracts to provide care to patients who will be enrolled in new Medicaid managed-care programs. Gov. Terry Branstad’s office announced Thursday that the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, UnityPoint Health and Genesis Health System have signed such contracts.
The Des Moines Register reports that Democratic lawmakers have expressed concern that Branstad’s plan to turn over administration of the $4 billion Medicaid program to private, for-profit companies is moving too quickly. The new system is to take effect Jan. 1st. Genesis spokesman Craig Cooper says his system has the same concerns, but that it signed up with two of the four managed-care contracts so as not to leave patients in the lurch.
The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports an OWI arrest. 43-year old Todd Edward Kimpson, of Corning, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, following a traffic stop at around 11:15-p.m. Nov. 28th. Kimpson’s bond was set at $1,000.
Arrested Nov. 27th in Adams County, was 22-year old Jordan Alan Perrin, of Corning, who was also charged with OWI/1st offense. The arrest followed a traffic stop.
Double Dual at Audubon
The Atlantic/CAM wrestling team opened up their season with two dual victories in Audubon. The Trojans beat the Wheelers 48-21 and Griswold 66-18. Audubon won four of 7 matches in the dual with Atlantic but open weights gave the Trojans the win. Atlantic won four out of five contests against Griswold. Audubon took down Griswold 36-24 by winning 3 of 4 contested matches. Two Audubon wrestlers won twice on the night: Jacob Soll (152) and Dustin Andreasen (160).
Double Dual at Bedford
Quad at Clarke
Double Dual at Glenwood
Double Dual at Lewis Central
Quad at Logan-Magnolia
Double Dual at Nodaway Valley
Double Dual at Red Oak
Double Dual at Riverside
Quad at Thomas Jefferson
Today: Areas of fog this morning; Mo. Sunny. High around 50. S @ 10-15.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low around 30. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy. High near 50. S @ 10-15.
Tom. Night: A chance of showers. Low 33.
Sunday: Light rain in the morning; Mo. Cldy. High 45.
Monday: P/Cldy. High near 50.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 45. Our 24-hour low ending today at 7-a.m. was 18. Last year on this date we reached 35 for a High and 17 was the low. The All-time Record High in Atlantic on this date was 66 in 1998, while the Record Low was -8 in 1905
Sunrise is at 7:29-a.m.. Sunset is 4:50-p.m.