SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 345 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN IOWA: ADAMS FREMONT MILLS MONTGOMERY PAGE POTTAWATTAMIE RINGGOLD TAYLOR and UNION.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 345 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN IOWA: ADAMS FREMONT MILLS MONTGOMERY PAGE POTTAWATTAMIE RINGGOLD TAYLOR and UNION.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jung Ho Kang drove in two key runs with a seventh-inning double a day after Chicago police said they were investigating an allegation of sexual assault against the Pirates infielder, and Pittsburgh beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-5 on Wednesday night for its sixth straight comeback win.
Pittsburgh has won seven consecutive overall and leapfrogged St. Louis for second place in the NL Central. It got homers from David Freese and Sean Rodriguez, and Kang’s double off Jonathan Broxton (1-1) put the Pirates up 6-5 after they trailed 5-1.
Kang has not been charged, and Major League Baseball said in a statement it would “respond fully as additional facts emerge.” The Pirates have won three straight series at Busch Stadium after dropping their previous seven in St. Louis. Pirates relievers combined for five scoreless innings. A.J. Schugel (2-2) got the win and Mark Melancon picked up his 26th save.
Cardinals All-Star infielder Matt Carpenter left in the third inning with a right oblique injury after swinging awkwardly.
(all games start at 7-p.m. unless otherwise noted)
Class 4A
Region 1
Denison-Schleswig vs. Storm Lake @ Denison
LeMars vs Spencer @ LeMars
Region 8
Creston vs. Carroll @ Creston
Glenwood vs. Harlan @ Glenwood
Class 5A
Region 8
Council Bluffs/Abe Lincoln vs. Council Bluffs/T.J @ Abe Lincoln
Class 3A
Region 8
Atlantic 11, Red Oak 0
Shenandoah 12, Clarinda 5
Kuemper Catholic 7, Humboldt 3
Class 2A
Region 1
Logan-Magnolia 2,. Ridge View 0
MVAO 7, MMC-RU 3
West Lyon 6, Unity Christian 5
Region 8
I-35/Truro 11, West Central Valley 1
Earlham 17, AHSTW 4
Treynor 12, Tri-Center 0
Underwood 5, Mo. Valley 4
Class 1A
Region 2
Glidden-Ralston 11, Nodaway Valley 7
Newell-Fonda 5, Coon Rapids-Bayard 1
Region 7
Exira/EHK 10, CAM 0
River Valley 18, Audubon 1
Lawton-Bronson 10, Boyer Valley 0
Charter Oak-Ute 7, Riverside 3
Region 8
West Harrison 5, Fremont-Mills 0
Westwood 7, West Monona 2
Bedford 5, Sidney 3
Lenox 18, Stanton 1
1245 AM CDT THU JUL 7 2016
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 344 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE KJAN LISTENING AREA: ADAIR AUDUBON CARROLL CASS CRAWFORD DALLAS GUTHRIE MADISON and SAC.
* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE…
ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH POSSIBLE.
PROBABILITY TABLE:
PROB OF 2 OR MORE TORNADOES : <05%
PROB OF 1 OR MORE STRONG /F2-F5/ TORNADOES : <02%
PROB OF 10 OR MORE SEVERE WIND EVENTS : 30%
PROB OF 1 OR MORE WIND EVENTS > 75 MPH : 20%
PROB OF 10 OR MORE SEVERE HAIL EVENTS : 10%
PROB OF 1 OR MORE HAIL EVENTS > 2 INCHES : 10%
PROB OF 6 OR MORE COMBINED SEVERE HAIL/WIND EVENTS : 60%
Another report is showing thousands of working Iowans are not making enough money to cover basic needs such as food, housing, health care, and transportation. The “Cost of Living in Iowa” report, released today (Wednesday) by the Iowa Policy Project (IPP), finds 19-percent of working households in Iowa do not earn enough to cover a “basic needs family budget.” Peter Fisher is the author of the report and the IPP’s research director.
“We found almost one in five Iowa working families do not earn enough to achieve self sufficiency,” Fisher said. The IPP report indicates single parents in Iowa are struggling the most. “Approximately 12-percent of married couples with children living at home don’t earn enough. It goes up to 27.5-percent for single persons and a whopping 62-percent for single parents,” Fisher said. The report also finds 17-percent of Iowans living in urban areas do not earn enough to meet basic needs, while the figures rises to nearly 22-percent for those living in more rural Iowa counties.
“I think that reflects two things; one is we found higher costs of living in rural areas, largely because of substantially higher health insurance costs, longer commutes and higher transportation costs,” Fisher said. “When you combine that with poorer job opportunities and lower pay, in general, in rural areas and you end up with a significantly higher percentage of families struggling to get by.” The IPP report follows a United Ways of Iowa report released last week that found nearly one-third of Iowans struggle to afford basic living expenses. Fisher says the United Way report included more Iowa families who are living in poverty.
“Those fractions are not really comparable for a couple of reasons, one is they’re looking at all families, all households in the state, whether of not there’s somebody employed,” Fisher said. “They’re including senior families and families headed by somebody with a disability, for example, who can’t work. We’re looking only at families with a full-time worker, so we’re looking at working families.” This is part 2 of a three-part report from the Iowa Policy Project. In April, the IPP released part one, outlining basic-needs budgets for various family types across the state.
(Radio Iowa)
Sheriff’s officials in Union County, Wednesday afternoon, said a woman from Lenox was arrested Tuesday evening in Taylor County. 24-year old Breanna Serena Sarratt was taken into custody at around 7-p.m. on a Union County warrant for Possession of Methamphetamine. Sarratt was being held in the Ringgold County Jail for Union County, on $1,000 bond.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa casino supervisor, dealer and patron are charged with conspiring to cheat at roulette and split thousands of dollars in illicit winnings. A criminal complaint alleges the trio carried out the scheme on several occasions in February and March at the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs. In all, they allegedly split between $20,000 and $30,000 in earnings.
The conspiracy involved moving and adding additional chips to winning numbers, accepting late bets and placing additional wagers for guests. But it unraveled after a player noticed the cheating and complained to casino management, which alerted the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.
The DCI said that roulette supervisor Jonathan Rumery, dealer Jonathan Waugh and player Cody Schroeder have been arrested. All three face felony charges.
LAKE VIEW – A personal water craft exploded Tuesday on Black Hawk Lake in Sac County, sending two people to the hospital. 40-year old Chris Forman, and his 41-year old wife Angie, of Omaha, Neb., were operating the personal water craft when it flipped over. After finally being able to get the vessel upright, gasoline had apparently leaked into the engine compartment causing it to explode while being started shortly after 11 a.m. on Tuesday.
Both of the passengers were thrown into the water by the blast, but were wearing
life jackets. They were taken to Loring Hospital in Sac City where they were kept
overnight.
The Lake View Fire Department, Lake View Police Department and the Sac County
Sheriff’s Department assisted at the scene.
MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT- PAGE COUNTIES
346 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2016
DAY ONE…TONIGHT AND THURSDAY: THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON WILL MERGE INTO A LARGE COMPLEX AND ACCELERATE EAST INTO THE AREA LATE THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT. THE HIGHEST LIKELIHOOD FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHEAST NEBRASKA…MAINLY NORTH OF A NELIGH TO WAYNE TO SIOUX CITY LINE. HOWEVER…WIDELY SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA WITH DAMAGING WINDS…HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALL POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE AREA ON THURSDAY. WHILE ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED…A COUPLE OF STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE. .
DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY: A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS WEEKEND THROUGH THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. CURRENTLY…IT APPEARS THAT THE BEST STORM CHANCES WILL BE MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT WHEN SOME SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE. .
SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT… SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR THURSDAY.