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(Podcast) KJAN Morning News & funeral report, 11/3/2015

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November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

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

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Freese-notis weather forecast & weather data for Atlantic, 11/3/15

Weather

November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

Today: Area of dense fog thru about 8-a.m.; Partly Cloudy & breezy. High 75. S @ 10-20 w/gusts to near 30.
Tonight: P/Cldy & breezy. Low 47. S @ 5-15 w/gusts to around 25.
Wednesday: Areas of fog early: P/Cldy. High 75. SW @ 10-20.
Thursday: A 60% chance of showers & thunderstorms. High 68. S-NW @ 15-25.
Thu. Night: Mostly Cloudy w/a 60% chance of shwrs & tstrms. Low 41.
Friday: P/Sunny. High 56.

Monday’s High in Atlantic of 77 tied the record set for Nov. 2nd, in 1965. Our 24-hour Low ending today at 7-a.m., was 45.. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 62, and the Low 39. The All-Time Record High in Atlantic on Nov. 3rd, was 77 in 2008. The Record Low was 6 degrees in 1966.

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4 Nebraska hospitals settle over heart device misuse

News

November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – An Omaha hospital has been included in a settlement with more than 450 hospitals over inappropriate use of a heart device. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Creighton University Medical Center was named in the settlement, which totals more than $250 million.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that from 2003 to 2010 each of 457 hospitals in 43 states implanted the devices during periods in the patients’ care that are prohibited by federal regulations.

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ELMER DONALD SHEEDER, 96, of Greenfield (Svcs. 11/6/15)

Obituaries

November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

ELMER DONALD SHEEDER, 96, of Greenfield, died Fri., Oct. 30th, at the Adair County Memorial Hospital, in Greenfield. Memorial services for ELMER SHEEDER will be held 2-p.m. Fri., Nov. 6th, at the Stuart-Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church, in Stuart. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home has the arrangements.

Visitation with the family will be from 5-until 7-p.m. Thu., Nov. 5th, at the Stuart-Mt.Vernon UMC.

Burial will be in the Sunnyhill Cemetery at Adair.

Memorials may be directed to the family.

ELMER SHEEDER is survived by:

His sons – Alvin (Kathy) Sheeder; Robert (Kathy) Sheeder; Kenneth (Wendy) Sheeder and Mike (Suzanne) Sheeder.

His daughters – Patsy (Larry) Silvey; Ardis (Francis) McGinnis; Cindy (Mike) Nelson; Beverly (Darrell) Moore, and Louise Lawson.

Many grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

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DOROTHY MAE (Jacobsen) MOSER, 83, of Stuart & formerly of Casey (Svcs. 11/4/15)

Obituaries

November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

DOROTHY MAE (Jacobsen) MOSER, 83, of Stuart (& formerly of Casey), died Sun., Nov. 1st, at Mercy Medical Center, in Des Moines. Funeral services for DOROTHY MOSER will be held 10:30-a.m. Wed., Nov. 4th, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, in Casey. Johnson Family Funeral Home in Stuart has the arrangements.

Visitation will be held from 5-until 7-pm Tue., Nov. 3rd, at the Johnson Family Funeral Home – Stuart Chapel.  Online condolences may be left at www.johnsonfamilyfuneralhome.com.

Memorials may be directed to the Dorothy Moser Memorial Fund.

Burial will be in the Oakwood Cemetery.

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Special Weather Statement: Patchy Dense Fog

Weather

November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

COUNTIES: ADAMS-UNION-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD-449 AM CST TUE NOV 3 2015

AREAS OF FOG…DENSE AT TIMES…HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHERN IOWA
EARLY THIS TUESDAY MORNING. VISIBILITY HAS DROPPED TO ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES. THE FOG WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE MORNING COMMUTE. PERSONS TRAVELING EARLY TODAY SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN ENCOUNTERING AREAS OF FOG…SLOW DOWN…USE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS…AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS NEAR SCHOOL BUS STOPS…INTERSECTIONS…AND RAILROAD CROSSINGS. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE AFTER 8 AM THIS MORNING WHEN THE FOG BEGINS TO LIFT.

COUNTIES: CASS-ADAIR-MADISON–

PATCHY FOG…POSSIBLY EXPANDING AND THICKENING THIS MORNING…CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE MORNING COMMUTE TO AROUND 8 AM. PERSONS TRAVELING EARLY TODAY SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN ENCOUNTERING AREAS OF FOG…SLOW DOWN…USE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS…AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS NEAR SCHOOL BUS STOPS…INTERSECTIONS…AND RAILROAD CROSSINGS. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE AFTER 8 AM THIS MORNING WHEN THE FOG BEGINS TO LIFT.

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Board permanently revokes license of a former Treynor Teacher/Coach

News, Sports

November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

A former Treynor teacher and coach accused of sexual abuse will never teach again in Iowa. According to the Daily NonPareil, the Board of Educational Examiners issued a permanent revocation of 46-year old Michael Travis’ teaching license last month after Travis pleaded guilty Aug. 18th to simple assault, a misdemeanor, and agreed to surrender his license to the state.

Travis did not have to register as a sex offender and did not serve any jail time. He received a deferred judgement, and he continued to maintain his innocence in a statement. He had been a teacher at Treynor Elementary School and an assistant softball coach at Treynor High School at the time of his arrest in May 2014.

A prosecutor with the Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office said the alleged victims – three former softball players and a fifth-grader, with alleged incidents from 2002 through 2006 – were involved in the plea deal and wanted to make sure Travis wouldn’t remain a teacher. The Board of Educational Examiners voted Oct. 9th to revoke his license as well as endorsements as a K-12 athletic coach, K-6 elementary classroom teacher and K-8 physical education teacher. He also held an expired substitute license.

The revocation carries no possibility of reinstatement.

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October enters Iowa weather record books as warmer, drier than normal

Weather

November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

The just ended month of October was warmer and drier than normal across Iowa. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says the statewide average rainfall total for the month was one-and-three-quarters inches (1.75 inches), about one inch less than usual for October. “The most unusual aspect there was the extremely dry start to the month, with very little rain anywhere in the state over the first 20 days of October,” Hillaker said. It was the 52nd driest October in Iowa in 143 years of record keeping.

Here in Atlantic, at the KJAN studios, we received 1.28″ of rain, and that was 1.48″ less than normal. Across the state, most of the month was ideal for farmers who were working to complete the harvest. “Temperatures averaged about 2.6 degrees warmer than usual…it ranks as the 46th warmest October,” Hillaker said. Many areas of central and southern Iowa have yet to record a hard freeze this fall. There was a range of 72 degrees between temperature “extremes” across Iowa last month. “The warmest reading we had, by far, came on the 11th of October at 91-degrees in Sioux City. That was a daily record for that day of the month. On the other extreme, a little less than a week later, it got down to 19-degrees on the morning of the 17th at Stanley up in Buchanan County in northeast Iowa,” Hillaker said.

In Atlantic, the Average High for the month was 66.1, which was 2 degrees warmer than normal. The Average Low was 39.5, which was just one-half degree warmer than normal. The month of November is starting off dry and warm — as highs are forecast to reach the 70s again Tuesday and Wednesday. Showers and much cooler conditions are expected to push into the state Thursday and Friday.

(Radio Iowa/KJAN)

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USDA: 85-percent of Iowa’s corn, 96-percent of soybeans, now out of the field

Ag/Outdoor

November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

The harvest of Iowa’s crops was slowed significantly by rainfall toward the end of October, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Through Sunday, 85-percent of the state’s corn crop was harvested. Despite all of the wet weather, that’s 10 days ahead of last year and two days ahead of the five-year average. Ninety-six percent of the soybean crop has been harvested. That’s equal to the five-year average, but eight days ahead of last year.

Last week was Iowa’s wettest week in over a month-and-a-half. The USDA reports Iowa farmers, on average, had a little over 4 “suitable” days for fieldwork last week. Marion County received the most rain at 2.86 inches. There are areas of southwest and south-central Iowa where over 30 percent of the corn and 10 percent of the soybean crop remains to be harvested.

(Radio Iowa)

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NWS forecast for the KJAN listening area: 11/3/15

Weather

November 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

EARLY THIS MORNING: PARTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG. SOUTH WIND NEAR 10 MPH.

TODAY: MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 20 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE MID 50S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.

WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTH WIND 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH.

THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN SHOWERS LIKELY AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHWEST WIND 15 TO 20 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.

FRIDAY: MOSTLY SUNNY. COOLER. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S.

 

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