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Authorities in Central Iowa are investigating two reported incidents of strangers allegedly trying to pick up students outside schools. According to KCCI-TV in Des Moines, Des Moines Public School District parents received an email from school officials, claiming a man tried to convince a middle school student to get into his vehicle near Moulton Elementary School.
The school district said the vehicle was a black Range Rover with tinted windows and described the man as being heavyset with dark skin and a nearly-shaved head. The man appeared to be in his early 30s and had facial hair, according to the school district.
Parents of students in the Prairie City-Monroe Community School District said they received an e-mail about an incident that allegedly happened Wednesday afternoon, outside the Monroe Elementary School. During the incident, a woman and two men in a silver car approached a female student and claimed the girls’ parent asked them to pick her up and take her home from school.
The driver of the car was a woman with red, bushy hair. The men were wearing T-shirts with cut-off sleeves.
BLAIRSTOWN, Iowa (AP) — The state Department of Transportation is looking to expand U.S. Highway 30 from two lanes to four on a stretch in eastern Iowa. KWWL-TV in Waterloo reports that the DOT wants to do the work on a 14-mile stretch of highway near Blairstown and Van Horne in Benton County. Catherine Cutler, a district transportation planner, says the idea has been in the works since the early 2000s.
Culter says it’s the last segment between Cedar Rapids and Ames to become a four-lane highway, and the project is driven by additional capacity needs for passenger cars and semitrailers. Cutler says expanding the road’s capacity will also improve safety by giving drivers better passing opportunities. The first stages of construction could take place next summer.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Council Bluffs man who is accused of threatening to kill the city’s mayor. The Daily Nonpareil reports that 33-year-old Chase Points faces charges of first-degree harassment, assault and disorderly conduct in a place of business. Points was being held without bond Thursday at the Pottawattamie County Jail. Council Bluffs police say an officer who was sent to Mayor Matt Walsh’s city hall office on Wednesday heard Points screaming expletives.
A subsequent records check showed Points had an outstanding arrest warrant for harassment and assault at City Hall on Sept. 27, when employees say he got in an employee’s face and left a threatening note on Walsh’s desk. Police say Points posted other threatening messages on Facebook.
Today: Cloudy w/areas of fog & drizzle this morning; Showers & thunderstorms later today. High 62. SE @ 10-20.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy w/showers & tstrms. Low 50. SE-N @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Mo. Cldy w/light rain or shwrs. High 56. N @ 10-20.
Sunday: Cldy w/rain. High around 58.
Monday: Mo. Cldy w/shwrs & tstrms. High 70.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 58. The Low was 38. We received .07″ rain overnight into early this morning. Last year on this date our High was 66 and the Low was 57. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 93 in 1963. The Record Low was 22 in 2012
SHIRLEY LaVON BLADT, 83, of Walnut, died Wed., Oct. 3rd, at the Nebraska Medical Center. Funeral services for SHIRLEY BLADT will be held 2-p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7th, at the First Presbyterian Church in Walnut. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Avoca has the arrangements.
Friends may cal at the funeral home on Saturday, Oct. 6th, from 2-until 4-p.m.
Burial will be in the Layton Township Cemetery in Walnut.
SHIRLEY BLADT is survived by:
Her daughters – Debra (Ralph) Adams, of Thornton, CO.; Kathy Weston, of Stanton, and Brenda (Bruce) Walter, of Walnut.
Her sister – Sharon Yearsley, of Omaha.
8 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great grandchildren.
Friday (10/05/2018)
CLASS 4A:
District 7
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson at Ames
Des Moines, North at Urbandale
Valley, West Des Moines at Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln (Game Time: 5:30 PM)
CLASS 3A:
District 1
Denison-Schleswig at Storm Lake
District 2
Perry at Carroll
District 9
ADM, Adel at Glenwood
Creston-O/M at Winterset
Harlan at Lewis Central
CLASS 2A:
District 9
Atlantic at Greene County (Game at 5:00pm)
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll at Red Oak
Shenandoah at OABCIG
CLASS 1A:
District 8
Clarinda at Mount Ayr
Panorama, Panora at Van Meter
West Central Valley, Stuart at ACGC
District 9
Cherokee, Washington at MVAOCOU
Missouri Valley at Treynor
Underwood at East Sac County
CLASS A:
District 2
IKM-Manning at Alta/Aurelia
District 9
Earlham at Southwest Valley (Game at 5:30pm)
Nodaway Valley at AHSTW
St. Albert, Council Bluffs at Riverside, Oakland
District 10
Lawton-Bronson at Tri-Center, Neola
West Monona at Westwood, Sloan
Woodbury Central, Moville at Logan-Magnolia
CLASS 8:
District 6
East Union, Afton at Lamoni
Lenox at Murray
Moravia at Seymour
Mormon Trail, Garden Grove at Southeast Warren, Liberty Center
District 7
Clarinda Academy at Bedford
Essex at Griswold
Fremont-Mills, Tabor at East Mills
Stanton at Sidney
District 8
CAM, Anita at Boyer Valley, Dunlap (Game at 5:30pm)
Coon Rapids-Bayard at Glidden-Ralston
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton at Woodbine
West Harrison, Mondamin at Audubon
Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County report an incident in the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Room Thursday, resulted in the arrest of a Villisca man. 61-year old Kurt Alan Wagaman was taken into custody at around 11:25-p.m. and brought to the Montgomery County Jail. Wagaman was charged with Disorderly Conduct, and Interference with Official Acts. His bond was set at $300. Red Oak Police assisted Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies in handling the incident.
(Radio Iowa) — Republican Senator Joni Ernst says she’s still hopeful a group of negotiators can agree on a new Farm Bill, but she says that may not happen until after next month’s election. Ernst is the only Iowan on the congressional committee trying to come up with a compromise. The 2014 Farm Bill expired September 30th. Congress is supposed to revisit federal food and ag policy issues every five years and vote to reauthorize the Farm Bill.
“If it is possible to bring the House and the Senate together, get to a consensus, do that after the midterm election, maybe we would be able to get the Farm Bill reauthorized by the end of the year,” Ernst said. “If that does not happen, then we would be looking at some sort of extension.” Voting to keep the the 2014 Farm Bill policies in place for another year is an option. Congress has used temporary extensions in the past when negotiations over a new Farm Bill have faltered.
“I would much rather have the Farm Bill reauthorized than go through these short-term extensions,” Ernst says. A few federal programs have been impacted since the Farm Bill expired five days ago. “However, SNAP and crop insurance, they are still good to go,” Ernst says. “No worries there, those remain in place.” SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also referred to as food stamps.
Having the so-called “lame duck” congress approve the next Farm Bill in November or December — after the election — is not unprecedented. The 1970 and 1990 Farm Bills were passed in the weeks after the mid-term elections in those years. The 2014 Farm Bill was actually supposed to be passed in 2013, but it took congress 21 months to come up with a final deal that could pass both the House and Senate.
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