SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 201 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS . IOWA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE: BUENA VISTA; CHEROKEE; CLAY; DICKINSON; HARRISON; IDA; LYON; MILLS; MONONA; O`BRIEN; OSCEOLA; PLYMOUTH; POTTAWATTAMIE; SHELBY; SIOUX and WOODBURY.
EXIRA, Iowa (AP) — Officials in western Iowa have set a nearly century-old elementary school on fire as they look to save money and offer training. About 100 firefighters from a dozen departments turned up Sunday in Exira to participate in the controlled burn. Most of the large brick building’s interior was burned within two hours.
Dozens of residents gathered across the street to watch the blaze. Some called the burning bittersweet. Others said the building, which closed in 2011, needed to come down for safety reasons. The Exira Elk Horn-Kimballton Community School District says the controlled burn will save them up to $60,000 in demolition costs and offer critical training to area firefighters.
Police in Council Bluffs say one person was injured during a single-vehicle accident Thursday night. The Omaha World-Herald reports 39-year old Wayne A. Beberniss, of Council Bluffs, suffered a broken neck and several lacerations, after the car he was driving went out of control in the 3600 block of West Broadway Street and hit a raised median before it also slammed into a guardrail and bounced-off into the median. The accident happened at around 11-p.m.
Rescue personnel used a mechanical device to remove Beberniss, who was trapped in his 1989 Ford Mustang. He was transported to Creighton University Medical Center for treatment of serious injuries.
Police said speed and reckless driving were likely contributing factors in the crash.
Today: Partly Sunny & breeezy, w/a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. High near 87. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight: Cloudy w/an 80% chance of showers & thunderstorms. Some severe storms are possible, with hail & high winds the main threat. Low around 68. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
Monday: A 30% chance of showers & thunderstorms, mainly before 7am, oherwise Partly sunny, with a high near 84. West wind 10 to 20 mph.
Mon. Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 62. West wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly Sunny w/a 30% chance of showers & thunderstorms during the afternoon. High near 81. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.
Tue. Night: Showers & thunderstorms. Severe weather possible, including large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. Low around 63.New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Wednesday: Severe storms possible during the morning, with large hail, damaging winds & isolated tornadoes. Otherwise partly Sunny. High near 76.
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Saturday’s High in Atlantic was 84. Our low 67. We also received .02″ of an inch of rain at the KJAN studios.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Michael Wacha worked six innings of three-hit ball in his fifth rain-delayed start of the season and Oscar Taveras homered in his second career at-bat for the St. Louis Cardinals in a 2-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday.
Yusmeiro Petit (3-3) gave up two hits in six innings for the Giants, but one of them was Taveras’ 418-foot drive in the fifth. Petit subbed for injured Matt Cain, placed on the 15-day disabled list with a hamstring injury, for the second straight start.
The Cardinals have piled up 6 hours, 30 minutes of idle time in Wacha’s starts, with delays of 51 and 47 minutes Saturday. The total includes a 61-minute weather delay before the first pitch against the Yankees his last start for a storm that failed to materialize, and the Cardinals lost in 12 innings.
SCOTT C. PETERSEN, 37, of Omaha, died Thu., May 29th. Services for SCOTT PETERSEN will be held 10-a.m. Tue., June 3rd, at the Bethany Lutheran Church in Elkhorn, NE. (4200 N. 204th St.). Heafey-Hoffman-Dworak-Cutler Funeral Home in Omaha has the arrangements.
The family will receive friends from 4-to 8-pm Monday (June 2nd), at the Bethany Lutheran Church in Elkhorn, NE.
Interment will be in the Prospect Hill Cemetery in Elkhorn, NE.
Memorials may be directed to the Petersen Children Education Fund.
SCOTT C. PETERSEN is survived by:
His wife – Kara R. Petersen.
His children – Bowen and Cheyenne.
His parents – Steve L. and Sherri A. Petersen.
His brothers – Shane (Julie) Petersen, and Spencer (Colleen) Petersen.
His grandparents – Janet Petersen, Melvin and Vinita Smith
His in-laws, other relatives and the Elkhorn and Omaha Fire Family.
331 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2014
LATE THIS AFTERNOON…PARTLY SUNNY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 50 PERCENT.
TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY BEFORE MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 PERCENT.
SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE UPPER 80S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT…A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 70 PERCENT.
MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MID 80S. SOUTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 50 PERCENT.
MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE MID 60S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE LOWER 80S.
TUESDAY NIGHT…THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. LOW IN THE LOWER 60S. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 70 PERCENT.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad has vetoed tens of millions of dollars in state spending that legislators had approved, with some of the biggest cuts targeting environmental protection and recreation projects.
The Des Moines Register reports that Branstad trimmed state money for the Resource Enhancement and Protection fund, which helps pay for trails, parks and other outdoor recreation, to $16 million. The Legislature had approved $25 million.
Branstad also cut $18.6 million for construction at Iowa State University’s agricultural and biosystems engineering complex, $14 million for routine maintenance or major repairs of state buildings and $8 million for renovation of the University of Iowa’s dental science building. He also cut another $10 million for projects ranging from university buildings to radon testing at schools.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for his role in a drug kidnapping case. The Sioux City Journal reports that 25-year-old Gerry Patterson was sentenced Friday to 134 months in prison for kidnapping and four weapons counts. Patterson had pleaded guilty in October.
Prosecutors say Patterson and Trey Boykin lured a Briar Cliff University student into Boykin’s car in February 2013 on the pretense of selling him marijuana. Prosecutors say the two drove the student away from campus, held the student against his will and robbed him.
Boykin, also of Sioux City, was found guilty in January of kidnapping and conspiracy to distribute marijuana. He was sentenced Thursday to more than 12 years in prison.
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