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Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association Pre-Season Poll

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May 26th, 2015 by Jim Field

Class 1-A:

  1. Alburnett
  2. Mason City Newman Catholic
  3. Van Buren
  4. Martensdale-St. Marys
  5. Pleasantville
  6. Coon Rapids-Bayard
  7. St. Albert
  8. Logan-Magnolia
  9. Lisbon
  10. Lenox

Class 2-A:

  1. Clear Lake
  2. Beckman Catholic
  3. Cascade
  4. Wilton
  5. Treynor
  6. New Hampton
  7. Hinton
  8. Mount Vernon
  9. Kuemper Catholic
  10. Iowa City Regina

Class 3-A:

  1. Davenport Assumption
  2. Dallas Center-Grimes
  3. Fairfield
  4. Norwalk
  5. Pella
  6. Central DeWitt
  7. Cedar Rapids Xavier
  8. Denison-Schleswig
  9. Harlan
  10. Carroll

Class 4-A:

  1. Cedar Rapids Kennedy
  2. Johnston
  3. Sioux City North
  4. Waukee
  5. Southeast Polk
  6. Iowa City West
  7. WDM Valley
  8. Des Moines East
  9. Cedar Rapids Jefferson
  10. Dowling Catholic

Monday Baseball/Softball Scores

Sports

May 26th, 2015 by Jim Field

Baseball:

  • Harlan 4, Carroll 0 (5 innings)
  • Martensdale-St. Marys 3, Guthrie Center 2

Softball:

  • Harlan 11, Underwood 3

Construction on Hwy 6/7th Street scheduled to start today

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May 26th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Highway 6 (7th Street) in Atlantic, is closed in preparation for road construction work, which is expected to begin tomorrow. Local traffic may follow detours marked with flexible orange signs, to the more than two-dozen businesses located along 7th Street from Olive Street east, to just past the Burger King restaurant.Primary access to those businesses will be on the side streets off of East 6th and East 10th Street. Detours for through traffic are in-place from Highway 173 north, to Interstate 80, east to Highway 71, and south back to the east side of town.

Milling, or the removing of asphalt along the road is expected to begin Wednesday. The roadway will remain closed until the project is complete.

Detour map to local businesses along Hwy 6/7th Street in Atlantic, while construction is underway. (Courtesy Atlantic Chamber of Commerce)

Detour map to local businesses along Hwy 6/7th Street in Atlantic, while construction is underway. (Courtesy Atlantic Chamber of Commerce)

 

Iowa baseball lands NCAA bid

Sports

May 26th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

For the first time since 1990 the Iowa baseball team is headed to an NCAA Regional. The Hawkeyes are the two-seed in a regional hosted by Missouri State and open Friday at noon against third seeded Oregon. The Hawkeyes finished the regular season with a record of 39-16.

Iowa coach Rick Heller envisioned this day when he took the job two years ago and is not surprised it happened this quickly. Heller says it was no fluke and the Hawkeyes earned their bid to the tournament.

Host and top seeded Missouri State will host Canisius in the other first round game.

Thousands expected for slain officer’s funeral

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May 26th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

A report in the Daily NonPareil says according to Creighton University officials, more than 5,000 people altogether are expected to have attended the visitation, vigil and funeral of Omaha Police Officer Kerrie Orozco since it began, Monday.

Image from the Orozco Funeral program, via the Omaha P-D Facebook page

Image from the Orozco Funeral program, via the Omaha P-D Facebook page

The 29-year old Orozco was killed last Wednesday after gunfire broke out as she and three other officers tried to arrest Marcus D. Wheeler on a felony warrant charging him with first-degree assault. Wheeler, who shot Orozco once in the upper chest, was shot twice by Sgt. Jeffrey Kopietz. Both the officer and the suspect died at Creighton University Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. John’s Church. A large-screen video feed is offered along with additional seating at the CenturyLink Center. Burial will be at St. Joseph Cemetery. The funeral procession will pass through Council Bluffs today (Tuesday), and the Council Bluffs resident will be buried at St. Joseph Cemetery. Visitation was Monday at St. John’s Catholic Church at Creighton University, which was followed by a vigil.

Funeral services will be held at 11-a.m. today at St. John’s Church. A large-screen video feed is offered along with additional seating at the CenturyLink Center. Burial will be at St. Joseph Cemetery. Parking lots reserved for the funeral are the levels of 24th Street and 20th Street garages, McGloin surface lot and the visitors lot (24th and Cass streets). Officials warn those in the area to be prepared to park on the eastern edge of the Creighton campus.

The Council Bluffs Police Department is shutting down all of West Broadway in both directions beginning at about 12:30 p.m. Traffic will be diverted north onto 16th Street. Eastbound traffic on Kanesville Boulevard from Eighth Street to North Avenue will also be closed. No left turns will be allowed across Kanesville Boulevard, police said. Access for north-south traffic will be available on 10th Street, 13th Street, Interstate 29 and 40th Street. Kanesville Boulevard and West Broadway will be reopened when the funeral procession if complete. In addition, McPherson Avenue will be closed from North Avenue to Indian Hills Road.

Orozco was a resident of Council Bluffs and a native of Walnut. She graduated from Walnut High School in 2004 where she played volleyball and basketball and competed in speech. She was a leader at school, as well as in the community she adopted in Omaha. Walnut Mayor Gene Larsen ordered the flags in town to be flown at half-staff in memory of Orozco. Last Friday, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad declared all flags in Iowa to be flown at half-staff from 8-a.m. to 5-p.m. in the slain officer’s honor.

Branstad is among those officials planning on attending the funeral.

NWS forecast for Cass & area Counties in Iowa: 5/26/15

Weather

May 26th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

402 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 2015

EARLY THIS MORNING…SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 20 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION NEAR 100 PERCENT.

TODAY…CLOUDY. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST 5 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 90 PERCENT.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN PARTLY CLOUDY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE MID 50S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGH AROUND 80. NORTHWEST WIND AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON.

THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 50 PERCENT.

FRIDAY…THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 70 PERCENT.

 

115-year-old cabin in Iowa to be moved to museum grounds

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May 26th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — A 115-year-old log cabin will moved within Le Mars, Iowa, after avoiding demolition. The Sioux City Journal reports the cabin will be moved by May 31 from the Plymouth County Fairgrounds to the Plymouth County Museum grounds, where it will be restored. Fair officials had planned to demolish the cabin, but changed their minds after a concerned group of citizens asked if the structure could be moved to the museum.

The cabin, which was built around 1900, had fallen into poor condition. But after an evaluation, a consultant who specializes in log cabin restoration said it could be repaired. The Plymouth County Historical Museum Board voted to move the cabin to museum grounds in April. The cost of saving the cabin includes $9,600 in moving expenses, and $20,000 for restoration.

 

Iowa early News Headlines: Tue., May 26, 2015

News

May 26th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Officials say there’s evidence a black bear has traveled into Dubuque. Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials say tracks found behind a home on the south side of the city belong to a black bear weighing between 100 and 200 pounds. Police say a bear sighting was reported Monday morning.

GRINNELL, Iowa (AP) — A Grinnell family spent the long weekend in Washington, D.C., at a national seminar and grief camp for those coping with the loss of a member of the armed forces. Kaanan Mackey says the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, known as TAPS, will give her five children, ages 6 to 16, a chance to meet others with similar experiences. Mackey’s husband, Matthew, died in 2010 from injuries following an accident on his way home from a drill weekend at Camp Dodge in Johnston. He served in the Marine Corps and Iowa Army National Guard.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Some people who remember old Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Sioux City are wondering what happened to the vibrant mural that once graced the building. The building opened in 1925 and was torn down 80 years later to make way for a new school, Irving Elementary. The artwork titled “Patriotic Mural” was unveiled in February 1966, created by Oglala Lakota artist Arthur Amiotte.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two Iowa inmates have been listed as escaped from state work release facilities. Iowa Corrections Department officials say 51-year-old Llewellyn Roberts escaped from the facility in Marshalltown and 26-year-old Eric Livingston from the Waterloo facility. Roberts’ five-year sentence for domestic assault in Tama County began on Aug. 19, 2013. Livingston’s 10-year sentence for robbery in Black Hawk County began on March 31, 2009.

John Wayne Museum opened this Memorial Day weekend

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May 25th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

A project that began in 2008 is now complete and the John Wayne Birthplace Museum is open for visitors in Winterset. The four-bedroom home in which Marion Morrison was born in 1907 has been a tourist stop since the 1980s, but the museum next-door to catalogue the life of the movie star who became known as John Wayne is holding its grand opening festivities this weekend. Joe Zuckschwerdt — the president of the new museum’s board of directors — says a 25-seat theater is a good first stop inside the museum.

“We have a wonderful minute-and-a-half introduction from John Wayne’s daughter, Aissa Wayne, which is just wonderful,” Zuckschwerdt says. “And then we have (an) eight-and-a-half motion picture that highlights John Wayne’s career, from his early days all the way ’til his last movie, ‘The Shootist’.” Among the items in the museum’s collection is John Wayne’s 1972 Pontiac Safari Station wagon with its raised roof, so he could still wear a hat while he drove.

“He was 6’4″ and he loved wearing hats, not just western hats,” Zuckschwerdt says. “This was his personal vehicle. He would get in there and drive all over Newport Beach. He was a regular guy.” Wayne appeared in more than 175 films. “The Shootist” — his last movie — was released in 1976. He died of cancer three years later at the age of 72.

(Radio Iowa)

Email offers bogus advice about surviving a heart attack

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May 25th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

An email is being forwarded around from Iowans to their loved ones that claims to contain advice about how to survive a heart attack if you’re alone. One expert says the email offers terrible advice. It claims you should cough, hard, with each breath until help arrives. Dr. Shikar Saxena, a cardiologist in Omaha-Council Bluffs, says it’s best to delete that email and try to forget the false remedy.

“That is absolutely ludicrous to say that somebody who’s alone who’s having a heart attack can cough and essentially save their life,” Dr. Saxena says. “You only have about ten seconds, if you’re truly having arrhythmia, before you’re going to pass out from it.” He says that valuable time would be much better spent getting to a phone and calling 9-1-1. Saxena explains the likely origins of the well-meaning but invalid email.

“When we have patients who have cardiac arrest or arrhythmias and we see them in the hospital, we tell them sometimes to cough and very rarely can we get them out of this arrhythmia,” Dr. Saxena says, “so that’s where this all started from.” The subject line in the email is: “How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone,” and it’s been floating around cyberspace for years but it’s found new life in the past few weeks. Shikar is a cardiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

(Radio Iowa)