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DANIEL LEE WEIHS, 50, of Walnut (Svcs. 12-7-12)

Obituaries

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

DANIEL LEE WEIHS, 50, of Walnut, died Sat., Dec. 1st, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Memorial services for DANIEL WEIHS will be held 10:30-a.m. Fri., Dec. 7th, at the Walnut American Legion Hall in Walnut. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Avoca has the arrangements.

Visitation at the funeral home is from 8am-to 8pm Thu., Dec. 6th, with the family present to greet friends from 5-to 7-pm.

Inurnment at the Brighton Cemetery in Marne will be held at a later date.

DANIEL WEIHS is survived by:

His wife – Amy Weihs, of Walnut.

His son – Josh (Kayla) Weihs, of Panama.

His daughters – Katie Jo Weihs & boyfriend Christian Holzapfel, and Amy Marie Sandbothe & boyfriend Josh Thomas, all of Walnut.

His sister – Susan Eva Marie Weihs & special friend Sara Ferrell, of Kansas City, MO.

His brothers – Douglas Weihs and girlfriend Becky Anderson, of Manson; Dennis, Jeffrey and Joseph Weihs, all of Marne, and John (Vickie) Weihs, of Walnut.

and 4 grandchildren.

(Podcast) Skyscan Forecast: Mon., Dec. 3rd 2012

Podcasts, Weather

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

From Freese-Notis Meteorologist Harvey Freese, and, weather data for Atlantic from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson….

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Nat’l. Weather Service Forecast for Cass & area Counties in Iowa – Dec. 3rd 2012

Weather

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

355 AM CST MON DEC 3 2012

...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST EARLY THIS MORNING

EARLY THIS MORNING…CLOUDY. AREAS OF DENSE FOG. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHWEST WIND AROUND 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST IN THE AFTERNOON. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. COLDER. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 50S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHWEST WIND NEAR 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. NOT AS COOL. LOW IN THE LOWER 40S.

THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S.

Iowa Guard troops deploy to Honduras

News

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

Forty Iowa National Guard soldiers deployed yesterday (Sunday) for a mission in Honduras. The soldiers are part of a Military Police unit and Colonel Greg Hapgood, a spokesman for the Iowa Guard, says they will be part of “Joint Task Force Bravo” based in Honduras.
“Particularly they work on countering what they would call ‘transnational’ organized crime, narcotics and other kinds of criminal activity,” Hapgood says. “They do humanitarian assistance and disaster relief down there and they work on building up the militaries of those nations in Central America and that entire region to make them stronger bearers of their own security.” The Iowa soldiers will spend a couple of months at Fort Bliss in Texas for training before moving on to Honduras.

“Certainly going to Honduras is somewhat new for the Iowa National Guard in recent history,” Hapgood says. “We’ve previously operated down there particularly in the 1990s and the early 2000s, but the 186th Military Police Company is excited to go do this job…and they’re ready to go.” The Iowa unit is based at Camp Dodge, in Johnston, and a send-off ceremony was held there Sunday afternoon.

“The Iowa National Guard has done a number of deployments, particularly starting in the mid-1990s through the present day in more than 35 nations around the world,” Hapgood says. “Certainly, with Honduras, it’s been a while since the National Guard has been there on any type of lengthy basis but these soldiers are trained and ready to go do their job.” This particular military police unit has been deployed to Iraq three time — in 1996, during the first Iraq War, then in 2003 and 2004 and again in 2007 and 2008. They were deployed in 1996 to provide law enforcement at U.S. military installations in Germany. Honduras has been ravaged by drug-related corruption and violence and the country has the highest homicide rate in the western hemisphere, 16-times higher than the U.S. murder rate and more than double Colombia’s.

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Tulsa, Iowa State will meet in Liberty Bowl

Sports

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Conference USA champion Tulsa will get another shot at Iowa State when the teams meet in the Liberty Bowl. The Cyclones accepted the bid to the Dec. 31 game on Sunday. Tulsa (10-3) earned its Liberty Bowl bid Saturday by defeating UCF 33-27 in overtime. Iowa State (6-6) won four of its first five games this season, but the Cyclones have gone 2-5 since. The Cyclones will be playing in the Liberty Bowl for the first time since 1972, when they lost 31-30 to Georgia Tech.

When the teams met back on Sept. 1, Iowa State beat Tulsa 38-23 in Ames. The Cyclones’ Steele Jantz threw two touchdown passes and Shontrelle Johnson rushed for 120 yards.

‘Normal couple stuff’ before Chiefs murder-suicide

Sports

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As investigators search for a motive to help explain why Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself, a discordant picture of the couple began to emerge. A friend of Belcher’s girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, said they had lived apart briefly earlier in the year but had gotten back together by Thanksgiving. Brianne York said Sunday the couple argued about “normal couple stuff” but that her friend was “really happy about being a mom.” York thought there was some mistake when she learned Belcher had killed Perkins at the couple’s home Saturday.

Police said Belcher then drove to Arrowhead Stadium, where he thanked his coach and fatally shot himself. Belcher and Perkins had a 3-month-old daughter, Zoey. Police didn’t release any additional information Sunday.

Smith sells Gold Gloves for $519,203

Sports

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — Ozzie Smith turned gold into cash. The Hall of Fame shortstop sold his 13 consecutive Gold Glove Awards from 1980-92 for $519,203, SCP Auctions said Sunday. The price includes a 20 percent commission, known as a buyer’s premium.

Two pairs of Muhammad Ali boxing gloves used during fights each sold for $385,848. They were used against Sonny Liston on Feb. 25, 1964, and for his first bout against Joe Frazier on March 8, 1971. A Babe Ruth team sweater from around 1922 sold for $250,642, Oscar Robertson’s NBA MVP Award from 1963-64 for $177,632 and a Robertson 1960 U.S. Olympic team jersey for $121,324. Paul Hornung’s 1956 Heisman Trophy sold for $173,102. A Lou Gehrig game-used bat from 1938 or ’39 sold for $75,205 — the same price as a 1966 Green Bay Super Bowl ring presented to Steve Wright.

SCP said the winning bidders wanted to remain anonymous.

Chiefs owner Hunt: ‘So many people are hurting’

Sports

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt offered sympathy Sunday to the families affected by the murder-suicide involving one of his players, calling it “an incredibly difficult 24 hours for our family.” Hunt spoke to The Associated Press on the field before the Chiefs’ game against the Carolina Panthers. He said the Chiefs consulted with the league about whether to play the game as scheduled, but ultimately left it up to coach Romeo Crennel and the team captains to decide.

Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli were in the parking lot of the Chiefs’ practice facility Saturday morning when linebacker Jovan Belcher shot himself in the head. Belcher had shot his girlfriend multiple times at a nearby residence just minutes earlier. Hunt said Pioli called him from the parking lot immediately after the shooting, and said that Sunday’s game would be “incredibly difficult for them.”

Costas advocates for gun control at halftime

Sports

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — NBC broadcaster Bob Costas used his halftime segment on “Sunday Night Football” to advocate for gun control following this weekend’s murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, causing an immediate debate on social media. In a segment about 90 seconds long, Costas paraphrased and quoted extensively from a piece by Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock.

After praising the column, Costas said: “In the coming days, Jovan Belcher’s actions and their possible connection to football will be analyzed. Who knows? But here, wrote Jason Whitlock, is what I believe. If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.”

Belcher shot and killed Perkins, the mother of his 3-month-old daughter, on Saturday morning, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in the parking lot of the team’s practice facility.

The online reaction to Costas’ segment was swift, with many people criticizing the broadcaster for expressing his personal views on a program meant for entertainment.

Woman seeks money for freeing long-imprisoned men

News

December 3rd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A monthlong trial of two men seeking $100 million for their wrongful conviction in a 1977 Council Bluffs killing could end next week, but a former prison barber who is largely responsible for their freedom wonders if she’ll be compensated for her work. Anne Danaher of Kansas City spent years researching the case against Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee, two Omaha teenagers who were convicted of killing a former police officer. They had spent decades in prison when Danaher discovered investigators withheld records from defense lawyers.

This evidence led the men to be freed, and both received large settlements. Now they’re seeking more money from investigators and Council Bluffs. Danaher says Harrington promised to share any settlement with her, but she’s received no money. She’s filed a lawsuit seeking compensation.