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Trading Post

May 5th, 2017 by Jim Field

FOR SALE: 18 Volt Lithium Earthwise Rechargeable Leaf Blower and 12″ Chainsaw. Comes with charger and battery. $75 for both. Call 250-0266.

GARAGE SALE:  10th Maple- Friday 1-6, Saturday 8-12.  Boy and girl clothes newborn to size 5. Shoes, pots and pans, bed sheets, dog carrier, and much more.

FREE: Looking to re-home 8 cats. 4 females and 4 males that range in age from 2-8. 2 females are longhaired, one three-colored and one grey and white. 2 shorthair females, one three colored striped and one white with a grey stripe. Males include a 3 colored striped with white paws, black and white, orange and white, and an all black. Would be good for a farm or acreage. Both indoor and outdoor cats. Located in Wiota, call 712-254-6218 or 712-783-4598 in the afternoon/evening.

Man accused in jail escape to be held in another Iowa county

News

May 5th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a man accused of killing a deputy and wounding another while escaping from the Pottawattamie County jail before being recaptured in Nebraska, will be held at a different county jail once he returns to Iowa. Twenty-three-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty agreed to extradition during a hearing Thursday in Omaha.

Woodbury County Sheriff Dave Drew said Correa-Carmenaty will be held at his jail in Sioux City and that his officers will take great caution in handling him. Authorities say Correa-Carmenaty had just been sentenced to 45 years imprisonment in an unrelated case when he managed to grab one of the two deputies’ guns while being transferred the Council Bluffs jail.

Heartbeat Today 5-5-2017

Heartbeat Today, Podcasts

May 5th, 2017 by Jim Field

Jim Field visits with Audubon High School seniors Kaitlin Schultes, Katie Konkler, Paytn Schramm and Taylor Nielsen.

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(Podcast) KJAN Morning Sports report, 5/5/2017

Podcasts, Sports

May 5th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast w/Jim Field.

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Congressman King talks about House health care bill

News

May 5th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

All three of Iowa’s Republican congressmen voted for the health care bill that passed in the U-S House Thursday afternoon. Fourth District Congressman Steve King and former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachman were the first Republicans in congress to introduce bills seven years ago that called for repeal of the Affordable Care Act. King says this shouldn’t be represented as full repeal of Obamacare, because he says it is not. King invited Bachman onto the House floor with him to press the “yes” button together.

He’s satisfied with most of the elements of the bill that passed the House: “Its the package that repeals significant components of Obamacare, puts some pieces in place that are closer to free market, not as free market as I would like…what they do is they satisfied most peoples concerns and stretched other people’s concerns to the absolute limit,” King says.

King says “Obamacare” has collapsed and many of the companies that provided policies have dropped out of the program. He says the bill will save taxpayers money: He says the bill will cut taxes by 999 BILLION dollars in 10 years, cuts spending by one-point-one-five TRILLION dollars, which he says is a 151 BILLION dollar deficit reduction, while it eliminates the employer mandate and eliminates the individual mandate.

The lone Democrat in Iowa’s congressional delegation, Dave Loebsack, voted against the bill as did all House Democrats. The bill passed the House 217-213, and now goes to the Senate.

(Radio Iowa)

3 arrests in Creston

News

May 5th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

Police in Creston report one person was arrested on separate charges this (Friday) morning and two people were arrested Thursday afternoon. 21-year old Chandy Rose Waldhauser, of Lake City, was arrested a little after 2:30- this (Friday) morning, for OWI/1st offense. She was later released on a $1,000 bond.

On Thursday, Creston Police arrested 34-year old Jacob Jeffrey Fry, for Parole Violation, and 37-year old Dustin Ray Kilgore, on two warrants for Probation Violation. Both men are from Creston. Kilgore was being held in the Union County Jail on a total of $10,000 bond. Fry was being held in the jail without bond, until he’s seen by a magistrate.

And, a Creston man reported to Police Thursday evening, that the license plate was missing from his motorcycle. It’s not clear when the theft occurred.

(Podcast) KJAN Morning News & funeral report, 5/5/2017

News, Podcasts

May 5th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson

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Previewing US Ag Sec Perdue’s visit to Iowa

Ag/Outdoor, News

May 5th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

The new U.S. Secretary of Agriculture will spend much of today (Friday) in Iowa. According to the U.S.D.A., Sonny Perdue will deliver his first “major farm policy speech” as the nation’s ag secretary during a mid-morning event at a cattle farm near Nevada. IOWA Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey will be there.

“Certainly in his second week in the job, it’s a great thing to be to have him here,” Northey says. “I think Iowans are going to like him a lot. He’s going to feel very much like a regular down-to-earth, Iowa farmer almost — with a little bit of a twang.”

Perdue is the former governor of Georgia, but — as Governor Terry Branstad notes — Perdue has extensive roots in agriculture. “He’s been involved in the elevator business and, of course, he’s a veterinarian,” Branstad says. Branstad and Perdue had dinner in April when Branstad was in Washington, D.C. “That’s when he told me…’I might be from Georgia, but I don’t raise peanuts or cotton on my farm. I raise corn and soybeans,'” Branstad says.

Northey says there’s an ethanol plant near Perdue’s farming operation and Perdue has sold corn to the plant. Northey is rumored as under consideration for a job in the U.S.D.A. Northey says he hasn’t had an interview and hasn’t been told he’ll have one today (Friday) while Perdue’s in Iowa.

(Radio Iowa)

Hawkeyes set to visit Michigan State

Sports

May 5th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

The Iowa Hawkeyes baseball team opens the stretch run of the Big Ten season this  afternoon (Friday), by opening on three game series at Michigan State. At 9-6, the Hawks are part of a four-way logjam in third place. A strong finish will require the Hawkeyes to start finding a way to win on the road.

At 7-8, Michigan State is 8th in the league race. The top eight teams play in the Big Ten Tournament. Iowa is 27-16 overall. The action in East Lansing gets underway at 2:05-p.m.

(Learfield Sports)

Skyscan forecast & weather data for Atlantic: 5/5/17

Weather

May 5th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

Today: Mostly Sunny. High 74. NW @ 5-10.

Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 50. W/NW @ 5-10.

Tomorrow: Mostly Sunny. High 71. N/NE @ 5-10.

Sunday: Mo. Sunny. High near 69.

Monday: Partly cloudy w/spotty afternoon showers. High 74.

Tuesday: P/Cldy. High 81.

Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 71. Our Low this morning was 36. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 74 and the low was 36. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 96 in 1909. The Record Low was 29 in 1935.