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Man killed, woman wounded in Sioux City parking lot shooting

News

August 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a man was killed and a woman wounded in a shooting inside a vehicle at a restaurant parking lot in Sioux City. Sioux City police say officers were sent to the Chili’s just north of the Missouri River around 6 p.m. Sunday. The man’s body was found inside a sport utility vehicle. The wounded woman they found was taken to Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City. Their names haven’t been released.

Photo's courtesy Radio Iowa

Photo’s courtesy Radio Iowa

shooting 1Police Sgt. Brian Clausen says the woman is not suspected of shooting the man. He declined to say whether officers suspect the man had shot the woman and then himself.

PHYLLIS M. [Roth] LARSEN, 87, of Audubon (Svcs. 8/31/16)

Obituaries

August 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

PHYLLIS M. [Roth] LARSEN, 87, of Audubon, died Saturday, August 27th, at the Friendship Home in Audubon. Funeral services for PHYLLIS LARSEN will be held 10:30-a.m. Wed., Aug. 31st, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Audubon. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.

Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is at 5-p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30th.

Burial will be in the St. Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery, south of Audubon.

PHYLLIS LARSEN is survived by:

Her son – Tom Larsen, of Atlantic.

Her daughter – Angie (Larry) Petersen, of Exira.

Her brothers – Keith Roth, of Cedar Rapids, and Joe (Mary) Roth, of Panora.

8 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, 1 great-great grandchild, other relatives and friends, her sisters-in-law, and her best friend, Bea Jorgensen, of the Friendship Home.

Hit-and-run incidents under investigation in Villisca

News

August 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County are investigating two hit-and-run incidents that took place Sunday morning, in Villisca. Authorities say a blue 2008 Nissan Versa owned by a Des Moines man, and a silver 2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser owned by a man from Shenandoah, were struck sometime between midnight and 3-a.m. Sunday, while they were parked in the 100 block of East 6th Street, in Villisca.

The suspect vehicle is described as being white in color. No other information is known. If you have any information as to the identity of the vehicle that may have struck the parked vehicles, or the driver of the vehicle, please contact the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office at 712-623-5107.

Red Oak man arrested on Theft charge Sun. night

News

August 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Police in Red Oak arrested a man on a 5th Degree Theft charge, Sunday night. 47-year old Robby Dale Lukehart, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 8-p.m. in the 300 block of 1st Avenue. Lukehart was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond.

NWS forecast for Cass & surrounding Counties in IA, 8/29/16

Weather

August 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

346 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2016

EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. PATCHY FOG. SOUTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 30 PERCENT.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE MID 60S. EAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 40 PERCENT.

TUESDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHEAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE MID 60S. NORTHEAST WIND AROUND 5 MPH.

WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 70S.

Game week begins at Iowa and Iowa State

Sports

August 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Game week is here for Iowa and Iowa State as both teams open at home on Saturday. The Hawkeyes take lofty expectations and a number-17 ranking in the Associated Press Poll into their opener against Miami of Ohio. Junior linebacker Josey Jewell says the Hawks have focused more on the two losses to end last season than the perfect 12-0 regular season.

The line between a good season and a great one is slim and Jewell says the Hawkeyes are focused on the details that made them successful last year. The Matt Campbell era begins at Iowa State when the Cyclones host Northern Iowa. Campbell says it may be game week but the evaluation process continues for the new staff.

Joel Lanning enter his first full season as the starting quarterback. The Ankeny native hopes to accomplish what few Cyclone signal callers have done in recent years and that is open and finish the season as the starter.

UNI enters the season with high expectations ands the Panthers are ranked fifth in the FCS preseason coaches poll.

(Radio Iowa/Learfield Sports)

Trump says ‘family farms are the backbone’ of US

Ag/Outdoor, News

August 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says agriculture is a “vital component” of the U.S. economy and he’s promising to protect the ethanol production mandate and reign in federal farm regulations. “Family farms are the backbone of this country, remember that,” Trump said Saturday. “And I know what’s happening to you.” Trump used part of his speech at Senator Joni Ernst’s event this weekend to speak directly to farmers.

“We’re going to make America grow again. Grow — that begins with supporting our family farms right here in Iowa. Do we have any farmers in the room? Stand up! Beautiful,” Trump said, as the crowd erupted in applause and cheers. Trump is singling out the Waters of the U.S. rule, calling it “a disaster” that must be eliminated. “We are going to end the EPA intrusion into your family homes and your family farms for no reason,” Trump said. “What they’re doing to you is a disgrace and we’re going to get rid of a lot of those regulations that don’t mean anything except cost you a lot of money and a lot of the time and in many cases you lose your farms over the regulations.”

And Trump is accusing President Obama of “lying” about his support of the Renewable Fuels Standard. “You can trust Hillary Clinton far less,” Trump said. “…Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms just like she wants to shut down the miners and the steel workers…She will do this not only through radical regulation, but also by raising taxes on family farms.”

Clinton has proposed raising the federal estate tax and people would have to pay if they inherit from any married couple whose estate is worth more than seven million dollars. According to Bloomberg Politics, Clinton’s estate-tax proposals would affect four out of every thousand estates in the country. A Clinton spokesman also says a year ago Clinton offered “a comprehensive plan” to “build a more vibrant rural America” and “Donald Trump will only work to build an economy that works for people like himself.”

On August 26th of last year, Clinton called for “strengthening” the Renewable Fuels Standard and reducing federal regulations on community banks that serve farmers and rural customers. She also promised to “change the formula” for key federal farm programs so “family operations” get crop insurance subsidies, but “big businesses” don’t.

(Radio Iowa)

Democrats describe stakes of 2016 election at Progress Iowa ‘corn feed’

News

August 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The group “Progress Iowa” held its second annual “Corn Feed” fundraiser in Des Moines Sunday afternoon and Iowa Democrats at the top of the 2016 General Election ticket spoke to the crowd of about two-hundred. Dave Loebsack of Iowa City — the only Democrat in the state’s congressional election — says there’s a lot on the line this year. “What happens at the top of the ticket has some effect on the rest of us down ballot, so it is absolutely imperative that we get Hillary Clinton elected president of the United States. I know you’re all going to help us do that,” Loebsack said, to applause.

Monica Vernon, Kim Weaver and Jim Mowrer — the three other Democratic congressional candidates in Iowa — also spoke. Patty Judge, the Democrat who is challenging Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, says Grassley is part of “an orchestrated” G-O-P plan to “try to give Barack Obama a black eye every day.” “Everybody said to me when I got into this: ‘Have you absolutely lost your mind?…Don’t you know that can’t beat Chuck Grassley? Chuck Grassley wins elections by 30 or 40 points,” Judge said.

People in the crowd started to clap and one woman yelled “Fired up and ready to go,” Judge continued: “I’m telling you, we are in single digits right now here in August. We can do this.” Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley was the event’s keynote speaker. O’Malley began with a barb aimed at Terry Branstad, Iowa’s Republican governor, but he spent most of time talking about the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

“It’s time to put this racist bully in his place and put a tough woman in her place: the White House,” O’Malley said at the end of his remarks to the crowd. Iowa is among the few truly “toss up” states in the General Election, with recent polls showing the presidential race close here. “Early voting” in Iowa starts in a month.

(Radio Iowa)

Iowa early News Headlines: Monday, Aug. 29th 2016

News

August 29th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New data show there’s an increase in the number of former Iowa inmates returning to prison, and corrections officials are still figuring out why. The Iowa Department of Corrections measures recidivism as the percent of offenders released from prison or work release who return to corrections within three years. For the budget year that ended in June, just over 1,600 offenders were in that category for a rate of 34.2 percent. That’s up from 31.9 percent the previous year.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa City officials and a local Realtor still hope to fill a city-owned, 173-acre industrial park that has been vacant for the last seven years. The 420th Street Industrial Park was certified as “shovel ready” in 2012.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Nearly two months after a suspect in a Dubuque killing was ordered to have a psychiatric evaluation he was finally transferred to a state facility earlier this month. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports the delay in Helmon Betwell’s case is fairly typical for Iowa defendants waiting for an evaluation at a state facility in Coralville.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Fort Dodge woman surprised to learn she was pregnant three hours before giving birth. The Des Moines Register reports that the mom didn’t experience any typical symptoms of pregnancy before she gave birth, so the arrival of her fourth child was a surprise Friday.

Additional details on Sunday I-80 crash released

News

August 28th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

(Update to earlier report) The Iowa State Patrol says two people were injured in a single-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon on Interstate 80 east of Walnut. Officials say the driver of a 2007 Toyota Camry, 34-year old Osam Adam Mohamed Juma, of Philadephia, PA, and his passenger, 23-year old Ali Khamis, of Fort Morgan, CO., who were not wearing their seat belts, were transported by Walnut Rescue to the Cass County Hospital.

The pair were injured when the car they were in went out of control at around 4:17-p.m. as it was westbound and crossed the median before crossing the eastbound lanes at the 46.6-mile marker. The car overturned onto its top and came to rest in the south ditch. The accident remains under investigation.

Photo submitted to KJAN

Photo submitted to KJAN

The ISP was assisted at the scene by deputies with the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, Walnut Fire and Rescue, and personnel with Iowa Dept. of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement (MVE).