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Today: Sunny, with a high near 51. Wind chill values as low as zero early. West southwest wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 26. Northwest wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
M.L.King Day: A 20 percent chance of snow showers after 3pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 37. Northwest wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Monday Night: A 50 percent chance of snow showers before midnight. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 4. Wind chill values as low as -15. Blustery, with a north wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 17. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable.
Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 12.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 22. Blustery.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Hallie Christofferson went more than 33 minutes between field goals Saturday and a Cyclone rally fell short as Kansas State posted an 80-74 win over No. 13 Iowa State Saturday night. Averaging 21.5 points in her last four Big 12 games, Christofferson’s first-half jumper gave the Cyclones a 5-2 lead, but by the time she scored her second, they trailed by 14. She finished 2 of 11 from the field.
Kansas State (8-9, 2-4 Big 12) got 27 points from Leticia Romero and 23 from Katya Leick to post its first win over the Cyclones in eight regular-season games. The Cyclones were just 20 of 59 from the field (33.9 percent) in Manhattan. Brynn Willliamson scored 17 points and Nicole Blaskowsky added another 16.
Iowa State, which now has lost three straight after starting the season with 14 consecutive wins, falling to No. 15 Oklahoma State and West Virginia at home.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Daishon Knight scored 17 points and grabbed seven rebounds off the bench as Illinois State made a big first-half lead stand up for a 77-63 win over Drake Saturday night. The Redbirds raced to an 18-6 start in the first five minutes of the game and led 42-25 at intermission.
Reggie Lynch scored 14 points and grabbed seven boards for Illinois State (11-7, 4-2 Missouri Valley), with Bobby Hunter and Nick Zeisloft adding 13 and 12 points, respectively. The Redbirds shot 48 percent from the floor (26 of 54) and were 16 of 19 from the line.
Richard Carter tossed in 24 points, hitting 9 of 10 from the line, to lead Drake (10-8, 1-5). Aaron Hawley scored 14 points for the Bulldogs, who shot 16 of 46 (34.8) from the field and 24 of 30 from the line.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowans are dealing with another blast of winter weather that has caused snarled traffic and threatened to dump nearly a half-foot of snow on some areas. At Iowa City, a multi-vehicle pileup blamed on bad weather shut down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 on Saturday morning. At least one lane had reopened by late morning.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials want people to know where snowplows are working during winter weather. The state Department of Transportation is offering an interactive online map that shows where the vehicles are currently located. It’s under the agency’s winter driving section. The map is available via desktop or mobile device.
CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says a Minnesota man was injured while racing a snowmobile on Clear Lake in northern Iowa. The DNR says 29-year-old Tyler Hall of Twin Lakes, Minnesota had finished a run as part of the Jack Helgren Memorial Race near Clear Lake State Park on Saturday morning when he lost control of his snowmobile and hit a snow drift at high speed. Hall, who was wearing a helmet was taken to a Mason City hospital.
LINEVILLE, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has lifted a boil advisory in the southern Iowa city of Lineville. The DNR announced yesterday it had determined the water in the Wayne County city of about 200 people was safe. Lineville is 28 miles west of Centerville.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Jonathan Holmes scored 23 points and Cam Ridley had 16 points and 11 rebounds to lead Texas to an 86-76 win over No. 8 Iowa State on Saturday, sending the Cyclones to their third consecutive loss. The Longhorns (14-4, 3-2) got their biggest win of the season with their third in the row in the Big 12. Javan Felix scored 17 for Texas, including a big 3-pointer in the momentum-changing run in the second half.
Georges Niang scored 18 to lead Iowa State, which started the season 14-0. The Cyclones (14-3, 2-3) hadn’t lost three in a row since the 2010-2011 season and haven’t won in Austin since 2005. Melvin Ejim scored 17 for the Cyclones who went 11 of 32 on 3-pointers.
After their first losing season in 15 years last season, the Longhorns look like a team growing in confidence with Kansas State, Baylor and Kansas up next.
DELPHINE JENSEN, 84, of Greenfield, died Fri., Jan. 17th, at the Good Samaritan Society in Fontanelle. Celebration of Life Services for DELPHINE JENSEN will be held on Saturday, January 25th, at 10:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Greenfield. The Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield is in charge of the professional arrangements.
Visitation will be held on Friday, January 24th, at the Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with the family greeting friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Online condolences may be left to the family at www.steenfunerals.com.
Memorials may be directed to the Delphine Jensen memorial fund to be established by the family at a later date.
DELPHINE JENSEN is survived by:
Her son, Micheal Jensen of Greenfield; 3 grandchildren; 3 great grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowans are dealing with another blast of winter weather that has caused snarled traffic and threatened to dump nearly a half-foot of snow on some areas. All of Iowa is under some type of weather advisory from the National Weather Service. Most of the northwestern half is under a winter weather advisory, with much of the southwestern half is under a wind advisory, with gusts of 45 mph or higher expected until sunset.
At Iowa City, a multi-vehicle pileup blamed on bad weather shut down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 on Saturday morning. At least one lane had reopened by late morning. The National Weather Service says a fast-moving winter storm could dump as much as 5 inches of snow in and around the Dubuque area on Saturday.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Nate Buss scored 26 points and Seth Tuttle added 21 as Northern Iowa shot 67.4 percent from the field and defeated Missouri State 94-89 on Saturday. Buss hit 10 of 13 field goals and made 5 of 6 from beyond the arc, where the Panthers (10-8, 4-2 Missouri Valley Conference) were 13-of-21. Tuttle made 7 of 8 from the field.
Trailing 61-59 and facing its only deficit of the game, Northern Iowa went on a 20-6 run to take a 79-67 lead. Missouri State (12-6, 2-4) cut its deficit to 88-86 on a 3-pointer with 28 seconds left, but the Panthers then converted their final six free throw attempts. Ron Mvouika scored 28 for the Bears, who shot 59.3 percent from the field. Mvouika went 10 of 13 from the field and hit all six of his 3-point attempts.
It was Missouri State’s third straight loss.
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