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Creston Police say a Creston business, CHS, Inc., reported Thursday afternoon, that someone had stolen a portable welder from their storage building at 1310 E. Howard Street. The theft happened sometime between Sept. 1st and Dec. 15th, and resulted in a loss of about $4,500.
Winter Weather Advisories in effect (See the Weather Page)
Today: Cloudy w/light snow mixed at times w/sleet-freezing rain. Light ice accumulation Snowfall less than ½”. High 30. SE @ 15-30.
Tonight: Cloudy w/mixed precip changing to all snow. Low 16. N @ 15-30. Wind chill around 0.
Tomorrow: Cloudy w/a of light snow. (1” total) High early of 16 w/temps falling during the day. N-NW @ 15-30. Wind chill as low as -20.
Tomorrow night: Patchy blowing snow. Gradual clearing. Low around -13. NW @ 15-20. Wind chill values as low as -30.
Sunday: Partly Cloudy. High around 10.
Monday: P/Cldy. High 28.
Our 24-hour High in Atlantic (ending at 7-a.m. today) was 20 (The daytime high Thursday was 14). The 24-hour Low was 2. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 34 and the low was 27. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 59 in 1902. The Record Low was -22 in 1951.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A state board has ruled that an Iowa casino does not have to follow the state’s open records laws because it no longer owes a debt to the county where it operates. The Iowa Public Information Board issued the opinion in response to a request from the Des Moines Register. Prairie Meadows casino in Altoona lost its federal nonprofit status earlier this year and has declined to release records related to contracts of its top executives.
The casino’s board is appealing the IRS decision on its nonprofit status. The casino had argued it no longer has to abide by Iowa’s open records laws because it’s no longer indebted to Polk County.
Iowa is joining 19 other states to sue the six largest generic drug makers. State Attorney General Tom Miller says they are alleging two illegal actions by the companies. “One is sort of a failure to compete, to use the time period and the mechanisms when a drug leaves its patent and gets into the generic category. And secondly, to allege that they manipulated and fixed prices of generic drugs.”
He says there are two specific drugs involved. “One is an antibiotic and the other is an oral diabetics medication,” Miller explains. “So two pretty important and well-used drugs that we are alleging antitrust activity on behalf of the six generic drug companies.”
The antibiotic is doxycycline hyclate, the oral diabetes medication is glyburide. Generic drugs currently account for approximately 88 percent of all prescriptions written in the United States, so Miller says many Iowans could have been impacted. “We don’t know how many Iowans have been affected, but we think it is significant. Generally as a rule — we assume that Iowans use about one percent of whatever the consumer product is — because we are one percent of the population,” according to Miller.
The states are seeking two things in the federal lawsuit. “An injunction that would prohibit any of this antitrust activity in the future, and then we would want damages for the sales that have taken place,” Miller says. Miller says it is a complicated legal case that could take awhile, although there’s a good possibility they could reach a settlement. “In antitrust cases — like most civil cases — they are settled. Some are tried, but the majority of the cases are settled,”Miller says.
The lawsuit was filed in the U-S District Court for the District of Connecticut. The lawsuit is against the following companies: Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc., Auribindo Pharma U-S-A Inc., Citron Pharma L-L-C, Mayne Pharma (USA) Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Teva Pharmaceuticals U-S-A Inc.
(Radio Iowa)
The director of the Iowa Department of Education has filed an ethics complaint against an eastern Iowa superintendent who’s tapped into the district’s cash reserves rather than lay off teachers. Staci is a spokeswoman for the department. “We have a lot of respect for the fact that the superintendent of the Davenport School District is trying to do the right thing for kids,” Hupp says. “However, it’s illegal for a school district to overspend its authorized budget and we have an obligation when that happens to file a complaint.”
A couple of years ago, Davenport Superintendent Art Tate began calling on lawmakers to change the formula for distributing state aid to schools. He argues it’s short-changing his district and others. Tate and other Davenport officials appeared before a state panel on Tuesday, seeking permission to spend more than the current legal limit.
“Ultimately, the School Budget Review Committee wasn’t comfortable with granting additional authority to a school district that is intentionally breaking the law,” Hupp says, “so the request…was unanimously denied.”
Hupp says spending cash reserves is not against the law. “But it’s a violation to overspend your authorized limit when you’re a school district,” Hupp says. The ethics complaint against Tate has been filed with the Iowa Board of Education Examiners. Last year, Tate said he was willing to risk losing his license to be an educator to make the point that the formula for distributing state school aid should be changed.
(Radio Iowa)
There is a wide range of opinions on which way cattle and hog prices will go in 2017. One of the more optimistic outlooks comes from Iowa State University Extension farm management specialist and livestock economist Shane Ellis. “I’m not saying it’s going to be an easy-go year or we’re going to make lots of money, but I do see some improvement and possibly we could get back into the positive for the year in 2017,” Ellis says. “Two-thousand-eighteen should be even better. I see this being kind of a slow recovery, but I do see a recovery coming.”
One of the reasons for his optimism, Ellis says, is the strengthening U.S. economy. “As folks are more secure in their employment and wages are going up, incomes are going up, we’ll tend to spend more money on the higher-end protein sources, such as American-grown beef and pork,” Ellis says.
Continued strong exports of beef and pork should also contribute to the price recovery, according to Ellis.
(Reporting by Ken Anderson, Brownfield Ag News)
Red Oak Police early this (Friday) morning, arrested a man on an assault charge. 22-year old Jacob William Avery, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 1:15-a.m. for Domestic Assault. The victim of the assault suffered minor physical injuries during the incident. Avery was being held in the Montgomery County Jail without bond, pending an appearance before the magistrate.
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 6-A.M. TODAY (FRIDAY) TO 9-P.M. SATURDAY (12/17), FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: CASS, ADAIR, ADAMS, AUDUBON, GUTHRIE, DALLAS, MADISON, RINGGOLD, TAYLOR AND UNION…..Total ice accumulation of 1/10″ is possible today followed by 1-to 2-inches of snow. Winds will be easterly today at 10-15 mph shifting to the north/northwest at 20-40mph on Saturday. Visibility will be reduced to 3 miles or less at times Saturday, due to potential snow and blowing snow. Ice covered surfaces, slick roads and sidewalks today into tonight, along with reduced visibility, partially covered roads and slick spots are possible. Hazardous travel conditions are likely today into Saturday.
Winter Weather Advisory for counties in purple; Wind chill warning for counties in light blue; Winter Storm warning for counties in pink. http://www.weather.gov/dmx/
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 9-A.M. TODAY (FRIDAY) UNTIL 6-P.M. SATURDAY, FOR HARRISON, SHELBY, POTTAWATTAMIE, MILLS, MONTGOMERY, FREMONT AND PAGE COUNTIES, AND, A WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL BE IN EFFECT FROM 6-P.M. SATURDAY UNTIL 11-A.M. SUNDAY. Freezing drizzle is expected to develop today by Mid-morning and continue into this evening. Some sleet could also occur. The freezing drizzle will change to all snow late tonight and continue through Saturday afternoon. Total ice accumulation of 1/10″ is possible today followed by 1-to 3-inches of snow.
Wind chill values will fall to -20 by Saturday evening and -25 Saturday night into early Sunday. The dangerously low wind chill values will cause frost bite to exposed skin in a short period of time.
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEAN PERIODS OF SNOW, SLEET, OR FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS THAT CAN RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS, WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.