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Jim Field recaps local election results.
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Two Nebraska men were seriously injured early this (Wednesday) morning during a single-vehicle accident northeast of Council Bluffs. Lt. John Reynolds with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Department told KJAN, the accident, involving a 2009 Toyota Corolla, occurred a little after 3-a.m., near the 13-mile marker on Interstate 80.Reynolds says the vehicle was westbound on I-80 at around 3:05-a.m.,when it left the road and entered the median at about the Idlewood overpass, near Underwood. The car continued over an embankment, rolled and came to rest on Idlewood Road.
The driver of the car, 21-year old Thomas Reber, and his passenger, Michael Miller, both of Papillion, NE, were injured and transported by Underwood Rescue to Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, where Reber was in stable condition. Miller was later transferred to the Creighton University Medical Center. A report on his condition is not available. Neither man was wearing a seatbelt.
Alcohol and excessive speed are not believed to be factors in the wreck. Reber was cited for Failure to Maintain Control.
Hy-vee grocery stores across the Midwest will honor America’s veterans this Friday, Nov. 11th, by serving them a free breakfast in advance of Veterans Day. Hy-Vee President Randy Edeker says the event has grown in popularity in the past several years, with more than 80,000 free breakfasts served to vets in 2010.
The breakfast buffet is complimentary for veterans, and open to others at a small cost. Some Hy-Vee stores have planned programs, displays, entertainment or other activtities to go along with the breakfast. Serving takes place from 7-a.m. until 11-a.m.
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State Athletics Department is making available an 11-11-11 ticket offer this Friday only with $11 reserved seats for the Nov. 18 Big 12 football game against No. 2 Oklahoma State. The $11 tickets will only be sold for 11 hours (8 a.m.-7 p.m. CST) on Nov. 11. Tickets are for select Jack Trice Stadium sections.
Tickets can be purchased online Friday at cyclones.com, at the ticket office and by phone from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at 1-888-ISU-CYCLONE (888-478-2925) or 515-294-1816.
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FOR SALE: 2 tickets for the Iowa vs Michigan State game Sat., November 12th. $75 each. 249-8037
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say snow totals ranging from 2 to 6 inches have been reported in central Iowa. A National Weather Service winter weather advisory says up to 7 inches is expected in some areas before the storms leave the area by midmorning Wednesday. Service meteorologist Darren Snively says that roads will be slick, so people will have to remember how to drive safely in winter conditions. No weather-related road closures have been reported, although several highways in the north-south middle third of the state were covered with snow or a slushy mixture, and some power outages were reported.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – An Omaha, Neb., woman has been sentenced to 80 months in federal prison for her role in an Iowa-based conspiracy to make methamphetamine. The U.S. attorney’s office says 35-year-old Jennifer Biggerstaff was sentenced on Nov. 4 in U.S. District Court. She pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Prosecutors say she participated in a scheme in which 5 1/2 pounds of methamphetamine was made at a farm in rural Mills County between February 2003 and May 2011. They say Biggerstaff and others involved in the conspiracy bought pseudoephedrine from stores in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri, with the popular decongestant being used to make methamphetamine. Others also stole anhydrous ammonia in southwest Iowa. Three others have already been sentenced in connection with the case. Three others await sentencing.