The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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(UPDATE) Area Counties: Adair-Adams-Audubon-Cass-Dallas-Fremont-Guthrie-Harrison-Madison-Mills-Montgomery-Pottawattamie-Shelby-Page and Union.
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING…
The National Weather Service has issued a Dense Fog Advisory, which is in effect until 9 AM CDT this morning.
* VISIBILITY…Less than a quarter miles at times.
* IMPACTS…Restricted visibilities will result in difficult driving conditions, especially during the morning commute.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Dense Fog Advisory means visibilities will frequently be reduced to less than one quarter mile. If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.
Today: Dense Fog Advisory until 9-a.m.; Otherwise Mostly sunny. High around 90. S @ 10-15.
Tonight: Fair to partly cloudy. Low 72.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy w/isolated showers & thunderstorms. High 88. S @ 10-15mph.
Monday: P/Cldy w/isolated showers & tstrms. High 88.
Tuesday: Mo. Cldy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High 84.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 84. We received .01″ rain after 7-a.m. (the 24-hour cut-off time), Friday. Our Low this morning 60. Last year on this date our High was 78 and the Low was 62. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 108 in 1936. The Record Low was 34 in 1934.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports a man and woman from Pottawattamie County were arrested late Friday on separate charges following a traffic stop. 37-year old Danielle Rene Adams, of Council Bluffs, was arrested on a Page County warrant for two counts of Theft in the 5th Degree. Adams was turned over to Page County Sheriff’s Deputies, and was being held in the Page County Jail on a $600 cash bond. 21-year old John Leroy Adams, also of Council Bluffs, was arrested for Driving While Barred. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 cash bond.
Red Oak Police, Friday evening, arrested 43-year old Marcus Eugene Johnson, of Red Oak. Johnson was taken into custody at around 7:35-p.m. in the 300 block of 4th Avenue, on a felony charge of Theft in the 2nd Degree. He was brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where Johnson’s bond was set at $5,000.
Audubon-Cass-Adams-Taylor-Harrison-Shelby-Pottawattamie-Mills-Montgomery-Fremont-Page Counties…
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING…
The National Weather Service has issued a Dense Fog Advisory, which is in effect until 9 AM CDT this morning.
* VISIBILITY…Less than a quarter miles at times.
* IMPACTS…Restricted visibilities will result in difficult driving conditions, especially during the morning commute.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Dense Fog Advisory means visibilities will frequently be reduced to less than one quarter mile. If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.
Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports that on Friday evening, the Fremont County K9 Unit conducted a traffic stop on I-29 around the Nebraska City exit in Fremont County. During the course of the stop, 50-year old John Tracy Miller, of Hamburg, was found to be in possession of 59 grams of Methamphetamine.
Miller was previously released from corrections in January of this year for delivery of methamphetamine. He was transported to the Fremont County Law Enforcement Center and is being charged with Possession of Methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.
Miller is currently being held on $100,000.00 cash bond. The case is still on going, with pending charges in other incidents. The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Mills Co K9 Unit.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — Miles Mikolas and Tyler O’Neill each homered to help St. Louis to an early lead and the Cardinals withstood a rally by Colorado to beat the Rockies 7-5 for their fourth straight win. O’Neill also had an RBI double and Kolten Wong added three hits and a sacrifice fly for the Cardinals in a game between teams in the thick of their respective division races and running 1-2 in the NL wild-card race.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ryan O’Hearn and Hunter Dozier hit back-to-back home runs leading off the ninth against Cleveland closer Cody Allen to lift the Kansas City Royals over the Indians 5-4. After a broken water pipe near the outfield fountains led to a half-hour delay in the fourth, the Royals and Indians put on a splashy finish. Cleveland’s Yonder Alonso hit his second homer of the game in the eighth, a two-run shot for a 4-3 lead. O’Hearn and Dozier then rescued Kansas City from a sixth straight loss.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A game between the Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Indians was delayed 30 minutes after a pipe burst near Kauffman Stadium’s iconic outfield fountains, causing flooding on the right field warning track. Water began leaking onto the field in the top of the fourth inning. Relievers in the Royals bullpen yelled to alert stadium officials to the problem, triggering the stoppage.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas basketball fans hoping to see coach Bill Self rappel over a seven-story building this weekend will be disappointed. Self announced in May that he would go “Over the Edge” of a downtown Lawrence building to help raise funds for the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Self said in a statement Friday that he’s been sidelined by a minor hernia repair. Self says he plans to watch the event and will come through with his pledge to raise $10,000 for the charity.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State coach Matt Campbell has suspended four freshmen indefinitely for what he calls “multiple incidents of poor choices and behavior.” Newcomers Tayvonn Kyle, Jaeveyon Morton, Joseph Scates and Dallas Taylor-Cortez won’t be involved in team activities or have access to Iowa State’s athletic facilities. Campbell says it was a pattern of conduct rather than a single incident. The Cyclones open the season at home Sept. 1 against South Dakota State.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska running back Tre Bryant is giving up football because of chronic knee pain. Coach Scott Frost says Bryant had difficulty sleeping. Bryant set career highs with 31 carries for 192 yards against Arkansas State last year and followed that with 20 carries for 102 yards against Oregon. He was injured against Oregon and didn’t play again. Frost said Bryant looked good in practices and he was in line to get playing time this season.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — IndyCar driver Robert Wickens underwent surgery this week on his right arm and lower extremities and tests showed the Canadian does not have additional injuries following his crash at Pocono last weekend. Wickens had surgery to stabilize a fracture associated with a spinal cord injury. IndyCar says the severity of that injury is still unknown. IndyCar says Wickens will require additional corrective surgery and rehabilitation. He remains hospitalized in Pennsylvania.
MADISON, Ill. (AP) — The starts of recent IndyCar races at Mid-Ohio and Pocono have been a bit shaky, even though the drivers leading the field to green have been cleared of wrongdoing. Still, as the season winds down and the intensity ramps up, it seems that everybody is riding a fine line when the green flag first flies.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two young black men have filed a lawsuit alleging that they were racially profiled by two white Des Moines police officers who pulled over their car for no apparent reason and handcuffed one of them while searching the vehicle without a warrant or probable cause. The lawsuit over the July 15 stop was filed Friday on behalf of 23-year-old Montray Little and 21-year-old Jared Clinton.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A top Republican fundraiser whose firm works for several prominent immigration hardliners is the partial owner of the land where the Mexican man accused of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts lived rent-free. Nicole Schlinger is married to the president of the family farm that has acknowledged providing employment and housing to Tibbetts’ suspected killer for four years.
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — A candidate for Boone County attorney has filed a lawsuit against the Wapello and Boone county attorneys and others. The Ottumwa Courier reports Friday the suit filed by Republican lawyer Stephen Swanson, who now is running for Boone County attorney, was prompted by an Aug. 10 story by The Des Moines Register. The story said when Swanson worked as an assistant county attorney in Ottumwa, he lost his job because of missing court deadlines. Swanson disputes those claims and says he resigned.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials say they’re giving a $344 million raise to two companies that manage the state’s Medicaid program. The state’s share is nearly $103 million, or a 7.5 percent increase. The federal government will cover the remainder. The Iowa Department of Human Services, which oversees the health care program for 680,000 poor and disabled Iowans, said Friday the additional funding is “a manageable increase.”
The Atlantic Trojans started the 2018 high school football season in positive fashion on Friday night with a 45-6 victory at Saydel. It was a game that seemed destined for a shoot-out early, with both teams scoring on their opening possessions. Following those traded blows it was all Trojans. Atlantic racked up 25 points in the second quarter to take command of the game and would add 14 more in the third.
A big momentum change came with the Trojans leading 12-6 following a Tyler Moen touchdown run. Moen scored again by picking off a pass from the Eagles’ Cash Lee and returning in 45 yards to pay-dirt. That seemed to take the wind fully out of the Eagles’ sails. Turnovers would play a big role with Saydel throwing the one interception and losing 3 fumbles on the night.
Atlantic Head Coach Mike McDermott said he liked the way the team showed a lot of toughness, running the ball well with multiple players and clamping down on defense. He was a little disappointed in the amount of penalties but felt a number of them were due to aggressive play, which is okay.
Atlantic quarterback Chase Mullenix was 2-5 passing for 49 yards and he rushed 12 times for 81 yards and two touchdowns. The Trojans out-gained the Eagles on the ground 317-110 yards. Atlantic was also efficient in late down conversions, especially early in the game, going 5 of 9 on third down and 2 of 4 on 4th down.
Saydel’s Cash Lee was 6-8 passing for just 43 yards and 1 touchdown. Andrew Malone was the Eagles’ leading rusher with 55 yards on 9 carries.
Atlantic comes out on top in their first Class 2A game and will head back home to host Hawkeye 10 rival Creston next Friday.