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Jim Field visits with Kate Olson about the Cass County Master Gardeners scholarship and grant programs.
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Cut steak into 1/4″ strips. Coat with salt and pepper. Drop in bottom of crock pot with onion. Mix garlic salt, Worcestershire sauce, bouillon and ketchup; pour over meat. Cover and cook on low 6 to 8 hours, or until tender. When done turn control to high and add wine and mushrooms. Mix flour with small amount of cold water and add to meat mixture, stirring until blended. Cook on high 15 minutes until thickened. Stir in sour cream and turn off heat. Serve over rice or noodles.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a woman stabbed to death outside her home on the west side of Sioux City. She’s been identified as 24-year-old Kenia Alvarez-Flores. Police say she died at a hospital after being stabbed several times before 8 a.m. Sunday. Authorities have arrested and charged 20-year-old Melissa Camargo-Flores, of Dakota City, Nebraska. Her attorney didn’t immediately return a call Tuesday from The Associated Press.
Court documents say Camargo-Flores admitted stabbing Alvarez-Flores and told investigators she’d been involved in a relationship with the victim’s boyfriend. Authorities say the two women were not related.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Johnston teacher accused of groping and making sexual comments to an anatomy class student has been given two years of probation. Court records say 34-year-old Dustin Mead entered an Alford plea to a harassment charge in a plea deal. He originally pleaded not guilty to sexual abuse and sexual abuse by a school employee. The Alford plea means Mead acknowledges there’s enough evidence for a jury to reach a guilty verdict, but he says he didn’t commit the acts alleged.
Mead resigned from his teaching job at Johnston schools in April 2017 after a female student alleged he gave her grades she didn’t earn, made sexual comments and groped her during the 2015-2016 school year.
Mead’s lawyer, Guy Cook, told The Des Moines Register that Mead “maintains his innocence because he is innocent.”
While the initial reaction to the grain and livestock markets was negative after U-S tariffs were announced, Iowa State University Extension Grain Marketing Specialist says some of those markets have shown signs of recovery. Chad Hart says there is some hope the U-S and China may begin negotiations to minimize the impact of the trade war. Hart says some if not all of the tariffs might not happen as they could be negoitiated away. He says while the tariffs were announced, they don’t go into place for two months.
Hart says the initial drop in soybean prices came back up some and there is hope the time lag before the tariffs happen gives hope the damage can keep from being too bad. He says there is time for negoitiators to get rid of the tariffs before they even start, and that led to some rebound in the markets after the initial drop. Hart says several Iowa farm and commodity organizations have had trade missions to China in order to build a relationship. He says it may be difficult for those farm organizations to maintain the trusting relationship needed with the Chinese. He says it often takes years to build up a trade relationship, but it can be swept away rather quickly.
(Radio Iowa)
Today: Area of fog possible this morning; Mo. Sunny. High 54. SW @ 10-15.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 38. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 70. SW @ 15-25.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High 68.
Friday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/showers. High near 70.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 36. Our Low this morning (as of 5-a.m.), was 26. We received just a trace of drizzle and snow flurries Monday. Last year on this date our High was 59 and the Low was 29. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 94 in 1930. The Record Low was 17, in 1989.
Sheriff’s deputies in Montgomery County, Monday night, arrested a Cass County man on a drug charge. 19-year old Markus Joshua Bothwell, of Griswold, was arrested at the intersection of Elm and 2nd Streets, in Elliott, at around 8:35-p.m. Bothwell was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance, and brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where his bond was set at $1,000.