Today: Partly cloudy & windy. High 70. SW @ 15-25mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 43. Winds becoming N @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 68. E @ 5-10.
Friday: P/Cldy to Cloudy w/a chance of showers. High 70.
Saturday: Cldy & windy w/a chance of rain. High 43.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 61. Our Low was 21. Last year on this date our High was 64 and the Low was 30. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 91 in 1996. The Record Low was 18, in 1956 & 2004.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Matt Carpenter hit a two-run home run with no outs in the 11th inning to lift the St. Louis Cardinals over the Milwaukee Brewers 5-3. Carpenter turned around a pitch from J.J. Hoover for the third game-ending homer of his career. It capped a night in which St. Louis rallied from one-run deficits in the ninth and 10th innings.
NEW YORK (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina and Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo both have been suspended one game for their dustup over the weekend. Molina, who bumped plate umpire Tim Timmons during the bench-clearing dispute, has appealed and can continue to play until the process is complete. The Cardinals were hosting Milwaukee. Lovullo, who also was fined, missed a game at San Francisco.
UNDATED (AP) — Mark McGwire says he could have hit 70 home runs in a season without taking performance-enhancing drugs. The current bench coach for the San Diego Padres tells The Athletic he regrets taking the drugs because he “didn’t need to.” McGwire hit a single-season record 70 home runs in 1998 while with the St. Louis Cardinals. McGwire says he wished there was testing when he played because there’s “no way” he would have used PEDs.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Felix Hernandez pitched into the sixth inning, Guillermo Heredia homered and the Seattle Mariners bounced back from a blowout loss to Kansas City with an 8-3 rout of the Royals. Hernandez was shelled his last time out in San Francisco, but allowed three runs, six hits and a walk in 5 2/3 innings against Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals have placed Alex Gordon on the disabled list with a torn hip labrum and recalled fellow outfielder Abraham Almonte from Triple-A Omaha. Gordon woke up with pain on Monday and was examined in greater detail Tuesday, and the results showed that an old tear he’d been playing through had worsened. Royals manager Ned Yost was hopeful the recovery time will be 10 days to two weeks.
NEW YORK (AP) — Kansas and North Carolina State are the latest schools to be swept up in a bribery scandal involving college basketball. A rewritten federal indictment released in the New York case alleges that an Adidas representative paid parents of athletes willing to commit to the schools. According to court papers, the Adidas representative, who no longer works for the company, agreed to funnel $90,000 to the family of a Kansas recruit and $40,000 to a recruit at North Carolina State.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:50 a.m. CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed into law an immigration enforcement bill that bans so-called sanctuary cities. The Republican governor signed the bill privately Tuesday. The news was tucked into a press release about 16 other bill signings. The legislation will require law enforcement to follow requests from federal agents to hold a jailed person suspected of being in the country illegally. Local governments risk losing state funding if they don’t comply with the law.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — The University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls is proposing an undergraduate resident tuition increase of 2.8 percent for the upcoming academic year. The Courier reports that the Iowa Board of Regents will provide the first of two readings on the proposed rates for all three of Iowa’s public universities on Wednesday and Thursday in Council Bluffs.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa board has put on hold plans to require public workers in the state to preregister to vote in key union elections. The Public Employment Relations Board announced Tuesday it would not move ahead with proposed administrative rules that would have required a registration process before so-called recertification elections. Representatives for several unions said at a legislative committee meeting last week that such a system would suppress voter participation.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — An Ames manufacturing plant has been fined following the workplace death in January of an employee. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Danfoss Power Solutions $12,000 following an investigation into the Jan. 18 death of 45-year-old John Lavery.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — The University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls is proposing an undergraduate resident tuition increase of 2.8 percent for the upcoming academic year. The Courier reports that the Iowa Board of Regents will provide the first of two readings on the proposed rates for all three of Iowa’s public universities on Wednesday and Thursday in Council Bluffs.
UNI’s proposed rate, which comes to a $209 jump, is below the maximum 4 percent threshold established by the board earlier this year. With 90 percent of its undergraduate students coming from Iowa, UNI enrolls the highest proportion of resident undergraduates of all three public universities, which include the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.
Officials with ISU Extension in Adair County said Tuesday, that all Adair County 4-H and FFA market lamb and market goat exhibitors must weigh and tag their animals at a countywide weigh-in event on Saturday, April 28th, from 8:30–10:30am, at the Adair County Fairgrounds in Greenfield. Official ear tags are $1.50 each and must be purchased at weigh-in. For further information, contact Adair County Extension at 641-743-8412.
The Union County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday, that officials with Agriland FS, Inc., of Winterset, reported Monday morning, that sometime between Sunday and Monday, someone stole fuel from their bulk tanks in Afton. The loss was estimated at $1,600.
The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports Brian Todd Rink, of Atlantic, turned himself in to the Sheriff’s Office Tuesday, on a DCI charge of Assault. Rink plead guilty to an amended charge of simple assault, was fined and placed on placed on six-months unsupervised release before being released.
BRUCE HEILESEN, 66, of Harlan died Monday, April 9th at home. Funeral services for BRUCE HEILESEN will be held Thursday, April 12th at 11:00am at Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.
Visitation will be held Wednesday, April 11th from 4:00pm-8:00pm at Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan with family present from 6:00pm-8:00pm.
Burial will be in the Harlan Cemetery.
BRUCE HEILESEN is survived by:
Mother: Darlene (Jensen) Heilesen of Harlan.
Daughters: Bailey Heilesen of Harlan. Johanna (Chad) (Heilesen) Lyon of Sutherland, NE.
Daughters’ Mother: Annie Hammer of Harlan.
Sister: Pat (Don) Holdsworth of Irwin.
Brother-in-law: Lance Carver of Zearing.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association released the assignments for State Qualifying Track Meets on Tuesday. It will be a literal sprint for teams to prepare for those meets this season as those meets are 30 days away despite the fact that very few meets have been completed due to the poor spring weather.
In Class 3A Atlantic will be a host site and teams competing there will be ADM, Atlantic, Carroll, Creston, Denison-Schleswig, Glenwood, Harlan, and Winterset. Follow the links below to see full assignment lists.
Southwestern Community College Head Men’s Basketball Coach Todd Lorensen is leaving to take the same position at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake.
BVU Director of Athletics Jack Denholm made the announcement on Tuesday that Lorensen was becoming the coach pending successful completion of a standard background check.
Lorensen just completed his fourth season at Southwestern Community College in Creston where he compiled a coaching record of 113-25. Lorensen lead the Spartans to the 2016-17 National Junior College Athletic Association Division II National Championship with a 36-1 record. The Spartans followed that up with a third place finish this past season.
Prior to taking over at Southwestern, Lorensen was head coach at Iowa Wesleyan University for one season, and also had stints as an assistant coach at Truman State, UNO, and Grand View University. Lorensen played one season at Quincy University in Quincy, IL and three years at Grand View University.
Lorensen takes over the Buena Vista job from Brian Van Haaften who left to become the Head Coach at Dordt College in March. The Beavers were 17-9 during the 2017-18 campaign.
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