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MERRITT SPRY, 74, of Anita (Svcs. 2-20-2013)

Obituaries

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

MERRITT SPRY, 74, of Anita, died Thu., Feb. 14th, at the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. Services for MERRITT SPRY will be held at 10:30 AM Wed., Feb., 20th at Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Anita.

Visitation with the family will be from 5:00 to 7:00 PM on Tues., Feb., 19th at Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Anita.

Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery in Anita.

Lunch after burial will be at Congregational  United Church of Christ.

MERRITT SPRY is survived by:

Children: Scott (Deanna) Spry of Wiota; Jody (Steve) Schuler of Anita; Kipp Spry of Anita and Clint (Janet) Spry of Anita.

Siblings: Rose Watson of Anita; Bill (Nancy) Darrow of Summerfield, FL and Joe Spry of Arizona.

And five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Villisca man arrested for OWI

News

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

A Villisca man was arrested Thursday night in Montgomery County, on an OWI charge. Sheriff’s officials say 44-year old Ronald L. Borem was arrested as a deputy responded to an “unknown situation” call at Borem’s residence. Borem was brought to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center and held on $1,000 bond.

(Podcast) Skyscan Forecast: Fri., Feb. 15th 2013

Podcasts, Weather

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

The Freese-Notis (podcast) weather forecast for Atlantic & the KJAN listening area, and weather data for Atlantic….

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NWS Forecast for the KJAN listening area: Fri., Feb. 15 2013

Weather

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON THEN BECOMING CLOUDY. COLDER. SCATTERED FLURRIES IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. SCATTERED FLURRIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LOW 10 TO 15. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SATURDAY...PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 30S. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. NOT AS COLD. LOW IN THE MID 20S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

SUNDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. WARMER. HIGH IN THE MID 50S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S.

WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY…COLDER. HIGH IN THE UPPER 30S.

No. 24 Iowa State women beat No. 22 Oklahoma 72-66

Sports

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Hallie Christofferson scored 27 points and grabbed 10 rebounds Thursday night, and No. 24 Iowa State beat No. 22 Oklahoma 72-68 to move into second place in the Big 12. Chelsea Poppens added 19 points and eight rebounds for the Cyclones (18-5, 9-4 Big 12), who completed a season sweep of the Sooners. Iowa State won the previous meeting 82-61 on Jan. 15 in Ames, Iowa. Nicole Blaskowsky scored 15 for Iowa State. The Cyclones’ lead never got below four points down the stretch.

Three players scored 14 points for the Sooners (18-6, 8-4). Sharane Campbell, Aaryn Ellenberg and Nicole Griffin shared the scoring honors with Morgan Hook scoring 13 for Oklahoma. Four Sooners fouled out as Iowa State was 27 of 34 from the free-throw line, led by Christofferson who was 11 for 14.

Marble scores 22, Iowa holds off Penn State 74-72

Sports

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Devyn Marble scored 22 points and Melsahn Basabe blocked a potential game-tying layup with 21 seconds left to help Iowa hold off Penn State 74-72 on Thursday night. Iowa (16-9, 5-7 Big Ten) led by at least 10 twice in the game but couldn’t put away the league’s last-place team until late.

The Nittany Lions (8-16, 0-12) went 0 for 2 from the field in the last 30 seconds with a chance to tie or take the lead, capped by Basabe’s block of Jermaine Marshall’s drive to the paint. Marble was fouled on the ensuing inbounds and hit two foul shots for a four-point lead with 20.9 seconds left.

Penn State had one last chance, down three with 1.5 seconds left and Marshall on the foul line. Marshall hit both shots, but the Nittany Lions whiffed on a chance for a game-tying putback if Marshall had missed at the line.

Area Boys High School Basketball Scores from Thursday, Feb. 14th 2013

Sports

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

BOYS BASKETBALL
Harlan 70, Carroll 51
Norwalk 68, ADM, Adel 47

1A District Quarterfinals
Ankeny Christian Academy 59, Madrid 34
Earlham 52, Adair-Casey 31
Guthrie Center 63, Woodward-Granger 32
Woodward Academy 63, Grandview Park Baptist, Des Moines 56
Lamoni 81, East Union, Afton 36
Martensdale-St. Marys 55, Lenox 49
Mount Ayr 59, Diagonal 45
Murray 73, Corning 33
East Mills 57, Fremont Mills, Tabor 37
Sidney 44, Nishnabotna 33
South Page, College Springs 54, Stanton 50
Villisca 65, Bedford 57
CAM, Anita 73, A-H-S-T, Avoca 70, 3OT
Riverside, Oakland 59, Griswold 56
Underwood 56, Logan-Magnolia 38
West Harrison, Mondamin 80, Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 65
Ar-We-Va, Westside 77, River Valley, Correctionville 50
Lawton-Bronson 81, Siouxland Community Christian 28
West Monona, Onawa 74, Boyer Valley, Dunlap 47
Woodbury Central, Moville 70, Charter Oak-Ute 39

2A District Semifinals
Nodaway Valley 67, Panorama, Panora 29
Red Oak 54, Clarinda 43
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 61, Treynor 52
IKM-Manning 49, Tri-Center, Neola 44
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 57, OA-BCIG 45

Cardinals extend contract of GM, option on Matheny

Sports

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals have agreed to a three-year contract extension with general manager John Mozeliak and exercised the 2014 option for manager Mike Matheny. The 44-year-old Mozeliak will now be with the Cardinals through 2016. Matheny, in the second year of a two-year contract, is now guaranteed through next year. Terms were not announced.

Chairman William DeWitt says the management team shares the same vision and he praised both managers, saying Matheny did a “remarkable” job in his first season, coming within a win of taking the team to a second straight World Series.

Sebelius appoints Kansan to head HHS region which includes Iowa

News

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A registered nurse and former congressional candidate from northeastern Kansas has been chosen to head a four-state region of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the appointment of Stephene Moore as director of HHS Region 7 on Thursday. The region covers Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska.

Moore, of Lenexa, KS,has been a senior adviser at HHS for the past year. She is the wife of Dennis Moore, a Democrat who spent six terms in the U.S. House representing Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District. Stephene Moore won the Democratic nomination to succeed her husband in 2010 but lost the general election to Republican Kevin Yoder.

Olympic wrestling snub doesn’t curb buzz in Iowa

Sports

February 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For three hectic days in Des Moines, Iowans will too busy celebrating their love of wrestling to worry much about its Olympic future. Roughly 10,000 fans packed Wells Fargo Arena on Thursday morning for the opening session of the Iowa individual wrestling tournament — a 72-hour spectacle that will pack local freeways, restaurants and hotels and draw as many as 80,000 fans to the state capital. Surrounded by screaming fans, making “states” remains special for Iowa high school wrestlers. The tournament opens just days after the International Olympic Committee decided to cut the sport out of the Olympics in 2020.