Jim Field visits with Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center High School seniors Rachel Rumelhart, Logan Jensen, Cale Billheimer and Landon Foster.
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Jim Field visits with Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center High School seniors Rachel Rumelhart, Logan Jensen, Cale Billheimer and Landon Foster.
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The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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Today: Partly cloudy w/isolated afternoon showers. High 88. S @ 15-25.
Tonight: Showers & thunderstorms. Low 67. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstrms. High 79. S @ 10-20.
Thursday: P/Cldy to Cldy. High 67.
Friday: Mostly cldy w/shwrs & tstrms High 64.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 91, which tied the record set for May 15th that was first set in 1894! Our 24-hour Low was 68. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 55 and the low was 38. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 93 in 1939. The Record Low was 25 in 1907.
A traffic stop Monday night in Adams County resulted in an arrest. 19-year old Justice Guy Myers, of Villisca, was arrested at around 9:35-p.m., and charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana. Myers was brought to the Adams County Jail and held on $1,000 bond.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities in Texas say rookie Kansas Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes escaped injury after being robbed last weekend. The Smith County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office says Mahomes and three other victims were stepping from a vehicle on a driveway outside Tyler on Friday night when a suspect approached and gestured he had a handgun in his waistband.
Investigators say the man took property from the victims and sped away. Deputies later arrested two suspects and recovered items taken during the holdup. Smith County sheriff’s Sgt. Darrell Coslin told The Associated Press that the robbery appeared random, and that Mahomes was not targeted.
Mahomes played at Texas Tech and last month was selected by the Chiefs with the 10th pick in the first round of the NFL draft.
A trailer being pulled by a pickup truck fish-tailed Monday evening, causing a rollover accident in Pottawattamie County. The Iowa State Patrol says the 2015 Chevy Silverado pickup was traveling west on Interstate 80 near Neola at around 7:15-p.m., when the trailer began to sway, possibly due to the wind. The driver, 66-year old Louis David Damico, of Saegertown, PA, tried to correct the vehicles’ path, but the truck and trailer crossed both lanes of traffic.
The truck rolled onto its top and came to rest in the north ditch, while the trailer came to rest on its side in traveled portion of the roadway. Damico, and a passenger in the truck, 66-year old Almeda M. Damico, also of Saegertown, PA, were transported by Neola Rescue to Mercy Hospital. The couple was wearing their seat belts.
Two people from southwest Iowa were injured in a collision Monday evening, in Mills County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2011 GMC SUV driven by 42-year old Dawn Marie Hale, of Red Oak, and a 2010 KIA Forte driven by 22-year old Ashley Ann Greedy, of Henderson, collided as one of the vehicles was preparing to the turn north onto County Road M-16 from Highway 34. The accident happened at around 5:30-p.m.
Both women were transported by rescue crews from Red Oak and Malvern respectively, to area hospitals. Hale went to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, while Greedy was transported to Jennie Edmundson in Council Bluffs.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:50 a.m. CDT
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — An 88-year-old sex offender whose attack on an elderly woman led to an Iowa Supreme Court ruling last month has died at a mental health institute. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports 88-year-old William Russell Cubbage died Friday at the Independence Mental Health Institute. His death followed a supreme court ruling that the state had no legal responsibility to safeguard a 95-year-old woman who was sexually assaulted by Cubbage. He’d been released from custody and sent to her nursing home.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A special election has been scheduled to fill the Iowa House seat left open by the death of Rep. Greg Forristall. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed a proclamation Monday directing a special election on June 27 for House District 22. The district covers Pottawattamie County in southwest Iowa. Forristall, a Republican from Macedonia, died earlier this month.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa has been billed more than $20,000 so far to fight a second lawsuit challenging a new collective bargaining law. An invoice provided Monday to The Associated Press shows the Belin McCormick law firm in Des Moines is seeking the money for its work in April involving a lawsuit filed by the Iowa State Education Association. Four attorneys collectively worked about 63 hours. One attorney who completed more than 45 of those hours is being paid an hourly rate of $345.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A group has taken out a billboard ad down the block from Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Des Moines offices calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman to allow an independent investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia. Jim Arkedis, a former Defense Department intelligence analysist who heads the 4DPAC, says the group took out the ad because it wants Grassley to know his constituents really care about the issu
LORETTA J. SHEPPERD, 86, of Atlantic died Saturday, May 13th at Atlantic Specialty Care. Per Loretta’s wishes a Celebration of Life Picnic for LORETTA J. SHEPPERD will be held from Noon until 2-p.m. Wednesday, May 17th, in the fellowship hall at the 1st United Methodist Church in Atlantic. This is a change from the previous location at Sunnyside Park. Roland Funeral Service in Atlantic has the arrangements.
A private family inurnment will take place in the Atlantic Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the family for later designation to the United Methodist Women’s Pie Room Renovation and the Sunnyside Pool Renovation.
Online condolences may be left at www.RolandFuneralService.com
LORETTA J. SHEPPERD is survived by:
Daughter: Cindy Shepperd of Philadelphia, PA.
Sons: Chris (Cristie) Shepperd of Plattsmouth, NE., & Paul Shepperd, of Adel.
Brothers: Willis (Dee) Ahrenholtz. Leonard “Jake” (Shirley) Ahrenholtz. Jim (Karen) Ahrenholtz.
Sisters: Ruth (Gilbert) Carstens. Martha (Bob) Camden. Marie Jennings.
5 Grandchildren