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Boys Soccer scoreboard Saturday 4/15/2017

Sports

April 16th, 2017 by admin

Carlisle 3, Nodaway Valley 0
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 2, Davenport, North 1 (OT)
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 2, Pella 1
Creston 2, Indianola 1
Denison-Schleswig 3, Davenport, North 1
Des Moines, Roosevelt 5, Denison-Schleswig 0
Winterset 3, Creston 1

Skyscan forecast & weather data for Atlantic: 4/16/17

Weather

April 16th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

Today: Mostly sunny. High 66. N @ 5-10.

Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low 46.

Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 72. S @ 5-10.

Tuesday: A 40% chance of shwrs & tstrms. High 70.

Wednesdsay: A 60% chance of shwrs & tstrms. High 66.

Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 74. Our Low this morning 46. We received one-tenth (.1”) of an inch of rain yesterday. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 76 and the low was 55. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 88 in 1898. The Record Low was 19 in 1988.

Red Oak man arrested for assault Sat. night

News

April 16th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

Red Oak Police report a man was arrested on an assault charge, Saturday night. Officers arrested 35-year old Thomas Zachary Bentley, of Red Oak, at around 9:30-p.m. in the 100 block of E. Maple Street. Bentley was brought to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center and held without bond on a charge of  Domestic Abuse Assault.

Severe Storm report from 4/15/17

News, Weather

April 16th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

Strong thunderstorms brought heavy rain, some brief tornadoes or funnel clouds, and large hail to parts of Iowa Saturday evening and night. The Severe Storms Predication Center issues a Severe Thunderstorm Watch a little after 5-p.m., Saturday, and it wasn’t long before warnings for severe weather were popping up in southwest Iowa.

The National Weather Service says one-inch diameter (quarter size) hail began to fall three-miles south/southwest of Pacific Junction in Mills County, just before the Watch was issued. Nickel size hail fell two-miles southwest of Thurman, in Fremont County, at around 5:35-p.m., but nearby, quarter-size hail was falling. About 10-minutes later, the hail had increased to the size of ping pong balls.

At around 7:40-p.m. quarter-size hail fell at Greenfield, in Adair County, and soon after, penny size hail was falling in Stuart. At around 8:45-p.m., ping-pong ball size hail fell around Mondamin, in Harrison County, and in Logan about 5 minutes later.  Quarter size hail fell around Portsmouth, in Shelby County, and golf ball size hail fell Persia at around 9:20-p.m. Golf ball size hail was also reported in southeast Iowa, near New Virginia and Traer.

There were no confirmed tornadoes in southwest Iowa, but there were reports of funnel clouds. Just south of the State line in Missouri at around 7:40-p.m., a trained spotter in Blanchard, Iowa, observed a funnel cloud had formed four-miles northeast of Westboro, MO., and law enforcement confirmed a funnel cloud near Rockport, MO., at around 7:15-p.m. In eastern Iowa’s Linn County, trained firefighter spotters saw a funnel cloud during a lightning event near Central City.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

IL man dies in eastern IA motorcycle crash Saturday evening

News

April 16th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

Heavy rain and hail contributed to a fatal motorcycle crash Saturday evening in eastern Iowa’s Johnson County. The Iowa State Patrol reports at around 5:50-p.m., a 2001 Chevy Prism driven by 55-year old Leroy Foster, Jr., of Marion, was traveling eastbound on Interstate 80 and had illegally parked with its hazards on in heavy rain and hail. 70-year old George P. Taylor, La Moille, IL, was traveling east on a 2012 Harley Davidson motorcycle, and saw traffic slowing in front of him due to the weather conditions.

Taylor pulled onto the south should to avoid a collision, and sideswiped the Chevy. Taylor, who was not wearing a helmet, was ejected from the cycle and came to rest in the middle of I-80. He died from his injuries at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics in Iowa City.

Hawks baseball team clinches series over Cornhuskers

Sports

April 16th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

A three-run seventh-inning sent the University of Iowa baseball team to a 5-3, series-clinching victory over Nebraska Saturday night, at Haymarket Park in front of the Huskers’ largest home crowd since 2015.  The win gives Iowa its second Big Ten series victory this season and moves the Hawkeyes’ record to 22-11 overall and 5-3 in Big Ten play. It is Iowa’s first series win in Lincoln.

Iowa starter Ryan Erickson recorded his first win of the year, allowing three runs (two earned) on six hits. He struck out six batters in six innings. Nebraska starting pitcher Derek Burkampeer, a Muscatine, Iowa, native, suffered the loss, giving up three runs on six hits in 6 1/3 innings.

The Hawkeyes will go for the series sweep this afternoon (Sunday) just after 2-p.m. The game will be televised live on BTN.

(Hawkeye Sports.com)

Iowa early News Headlines: Sunday, 4/16/17

News

April 16th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 5:00 a.m. CDT

WINTERSET, Iowa (AP) — An iconic Madison County, Iowa, covered bridge _ pictured on the cover of the best-selling novel “The Bridges of Madison County” _ has been destroyed by fire, and authorities say they suspect it was intentionally set. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office tells the Des Moines Register that the fire at the Cedar Bridge was reported around 6 a.m. Saturday. Officials say the bridge was fully engulfed by the time firefighters got to the bridge near Winterset in south-central Iowa.

WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) — A day-care center where the director was arrested on drug charges is closing. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the owner of the Little Learners Preschool and Daycare on Technology Place in Waverly said the business was closing at 6 p.m. Tuesday due to recent events. Police arrested 44-year-old Kelly Raney Hampton, of Waverly, on April 6 for misdemeanor possession of methamphetamine and marijuana and other charges.

SIBLEY, Iowa (AP) — A former Sibley-Ocheyedan football coach and middle school teacher fired in 2015 after the superintendent found him sleeping in his classroom next to a middle school boy has been charged with sexual assault. The Sioux City Journal reports that 38-year-old Kyle Thomas Ewinger, of West Burlington, was fired after he was found with a 10-year-old boy sleeping on an air mattress. The boy later said he had been sexually assaulted that night.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — State prosecutors have taken the rare step of asking the Iowa Supreme Court to reverse the conviction of a man sentenced last year to up to 10 years for sexually abusing a teenage boy. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that Iowa Attorney General’s Office says in a new filing that Doug Lindaman, of Charles City, was allowed to represent himself at his trial without knowingly waiving his right to have an attorney.

Ex-Iowa football coach charged with sex assault of boy

News, Sports

April 15th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

SIBLEY, Iowa (AP) – A former Sibley-Ocheyedan football coach and middle school teacher fired in 2015 after the superintendent found him sleeping in his classroom next to a middle school boy has been charged with sexual assault.

The Sioux City Journal reports 38-year-old Kyle Thomas Ewinger, of West Burlington, was fired after he was found with a 10-year-old boy sleeping on an air mattress. The newspaper says the boy at the time denied anything sexual had happened, but later said that Ewinger had performed a sex act on him, according to a March criminal complaint.

Ewinger was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree sexual assault. He’s free on $10,000 bond.

GLORIA ARDELLE GLEAVES, 84, of Oakland (Svcs. 4/18/17)

Obituaries

April 15th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

GLORIA ARDELLE GLEAVES, 84, of Oakland, died Friday, April 14th, at the Oakland Manor Nursing Home in Oakland. Funeral services for GLORIA GLEAVES will be held 10:30-a.m. Tue., April 18th, at the Oakland United Methodist Church. Rieken-Vieth Funeral Home in Oakland has the arrangements.

Visitation with her family is on Monday, from 5-until 7-p.m., at the Oakland United Methodist Church.

Interment will be in the Oaklawn Cemetery.

Memorials may be directed to the Oakland UMC. the Nishna Heritage Museum, or the Eckle’s Memorial Library.

GLORIA GLEAVES is survived by:

Her husband – Gene, of Oakland.

Her sons – Mike Gleaves, of Avoca; Jeff (Jean) Gleaves, of Kelseyville, CA; Terry (Amy) Gleaves, of Oakland.

Her sister – Doris Eyler, of Carson.

Her brother – Delford “Jeep” Miller & wife Ruth, of Oakland.

7 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, other relatives, her daughter-in-law Leslie Gleaves, of Council Bluffs, and many friends.

LYLE SCHRUM, 91, of Urbandale (Svcs. 4/22/17)

Obituaries

April 15th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

LYLE SCHRUM, 91, of Urbandale, died Saturday, April 15th, at Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. Funeral services for LYLE SCHRUM will be held 11-a.m. Saturday, April 22nd, at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in West Des Moines. Ohde Funeral Home in Manning is in charge of the arrangements.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-until 7-p.m. Friday, April 21st, and again at the Covenant Presbyterian Church on Saturday, from 10-a.m. until the time of service.

Burial, with military honors, will be in the Manning Cemetery 3-p.m. Saturday.

LYLE SCHRUM is survived by:

His daughters – Nancy Schrum, of Urbandale, and Susan Davis, of Adel.

His brother – John Burton Schrum, of Norton, KS.

5 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.