The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:05-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports two male, native American juveniles absconded from the Clarinda Academy shortly before midnight, Friday. One of the boys is 5-feet 11-inches tall, has brown hair and brown eyes. He is wearing a black t-shirt and black pants. The other male is 5-feet one inch tall, also with brown hair and brown eyes. If you see or have seen juveniles matching those description, contact your local law enforcement agency.
The Clarinda Academy is a residential academic and behavioral health treatment facility for adolescent males.
FLORENCE JEANNE FRIEND, 97, of Harlan, died Friday, May 29th, at home. A private family funeral service for FLORENCE FRIEND will be held Sunday, May 31st, at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home, in Harlan.
FLORENCE JEANNE FRIEND is survived by:
Her daughters – Janet (James) Swensen, of Harlan, & Jo (Alan) Kenkel, of Defiance.
15 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great grandchildren.
DEWEY ANDREW HESS, 81, of Harlan, died Friday, May 29th. Funeral services for DEWEY HESS will be held 10:30-a.m. Wed., June 3rd, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, in Harlan. Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan, has the arrangements. (NOTE: Social Distancing Standards will be observed during visitation and services.)
Friends may call at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan on Wednesday, from 9-a.m. until the time of service.
Burial is in the Jackson Cemetery at Jacksonville (IA).
DEWEY HESS is survived by:
His Wife – Darlene Hess of Harlan
His Son – Kevin (Lisa) Hess, of Van Meter
His Daughter – Deanna (Bill) Specht, of Sartell, MN
4 Grandchildren, other Relatives & Friends.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/scattered showers. High 68. E @ 5-10.
Tonight: Cloudy w/showers. Low 57. E @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy w/ showers. High 70. SE @ 5-10.
Monday: Showers ending in the morning, becoming P/Cldy & warmer. High 83.
Tuesday: P/Cldy. High near 90.
Friday’s High in Atlantic was 76. Our Low was 48. Last year on this date, the High was 77 and the Low was 53. The record High on May 30th in Atlantic was 105 in 1934. The record Low was 33, in 1930.
Police in Red Oak say a man was taken into custody at around 11:20-p.m. Friday, for Interference with Official Acts. 27-year old Steven Ripley, of Red Oak, was taken into custody in the 500 block of E. Reed Street and brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where his bond was set at $300.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
UNDATED (AP) — Big 12 schools still got a strong payout from the conference during the pandemic. The revenue distribution to the league’s 10 schools for the 2019-20 school year averages $37.7 million each. That figure announced at the end of the league’s virtual spring meetings was down only about $1.1 million a school from last year. That ends a 13-year streak of increasing revenues. The decrease came after the cancellation of the basketball tournaments, and then spring sports. There is still plenty of uncertainty moving forward as campuses get ready to welcome athletes back for voluntary workouts.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa has added Troy to its non-conference football schedule in four years. The athletic department announced the Hawkeyes will host the Trojans Sept. 14, 2024, at Kinnick Stadium. It will be the teams’ first meeting. Iowa also announced a change to the 2023 schedule. Home dates with Western Michigan and Utah State have been exchanged from previous contracted dates. Utah State will visit Iowa City on Sept. 2, 2023, with Western Michigan playing at Iowa on Sept. 16.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska golfers or those with ties to the state can try to qualify for the Korn Ferry Tour’s Pinnacle Bank Championship in July. The 36-hole qualifier will be played at ArborLinks in Nebraska City on July 2. Professional and amateur golfers with Nebraska ties and a handicap index of 4.0 or less can vie for an exemption into the July 27-Aug. 2 tournament at The Club at Indian Creek in Omaha. Entry deadline is June 23. Details are available on t he tournament website, the pinnaclebankchampionship.com.
Officials with the Iowa Department of Public Health, Saturday (today), report Cass County has one new positive case of COVID-19, for a total of 12. Nine people have also recovered from the virus in the County. The only other changes in numbers for the surrounding counties, was in Guthrie County where there were two more cases (for a total of 50; 30 have recovered), and in Shelby County, which had an additional case (for a total of 35; 30 have recovered).
In western/southwest Iowa, the latest RMCC data show 12 persons were hospitalized over the past 24 hours, 6 were in an ICU, 5 were admitted to a hospital, and 3 people were on ventilators.
Statewide, to date:
Officials with Pottawattamie County Public Health, late Friday, reported there are 12 new cases of COVID-19 among residents of Council Bluffs. PCPH said also, “We are sad to report our eight COVID-19 related death for Pottawattamie County.” The patient was a woman from Council Bluffs who was 81 years of age or older, and had pre-existing medical conditions.
Six of the 12 new, positive COVID-19 cases are persons age 18-to 40, two are age 41-to 60, and one is a person 81 years of age or older. Those persons were tested between May 23rd and 27th. PCPH says so far, 2,915 Pottawattamie County residents have been tested for the virus. Of those, 272 tested positive.
An additional six people have recovered, for a total of 152. Seven patients are hospitalized, and 99 are self-isolating. A total of 79 cases are the result of community spread. For additional COVID-19 information, including case demographics filtered by county, go to the IDPH COVID-19 dashboard at coronavirus.iowa.gov.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:45 a.m. CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of several hundred people who gathered near the downtown police headquarters after a peaceful rally earlier in the evening. Live video by KCCI-TV showed police trying to talk with protesters at a rally several days after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody. Floyd’s death has led to nights of protests and unrest in Minneapolis and St. Paul that have spread to other cities around the country. Organizers of a rally outside Des Moines police headquarters had asked people to leave after the hour-long event but some remained nearby, occasionally shouting slogans at police who were wearing helmets and holding shields. Police fired tear gas about 9 p.m., leading many protesters to run into nearby streets.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Meatpacking plants that had to briefly close due to coronavirus outbreaks have been back up and running for weeks, but production backlogs are forcing farmers to euthanize thousands of hogs that can’t be processed, drawing complaints from animal welfare advocates. The preferred methods of euthanizing hogs include gunshots or electrocution, but when thousands must be destroyed en masse, producers shut off the ventilation, causing heat to build up in barns and kill them. Animal welfare groups say that is inhumane and should be stopped. An estimated 2.5 million hogs are backed up on farms nationwide.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — State budget experts say Gov. Kim Reynolds and the legislature will have about $360 million less to use for next year’s budget than earlier expected. The Iowa Revenue Estimating Conference, a group of three people responsible for estimating state revenue, set lower expectations for this year and next after debating the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The group lowered the state revenue estimate for the current year, which ends June 30, by $150 million from a March estimate. For next year, officials will have about $7.88 billion to work with. That’s about $360 million less than had been estimated in March.
EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say they believe they’ve found the remains of a missing Arizona woman and her stepfather in Iowa inside the stepfather’s car after it was found buried in an undeveloped lot. The Waterloo Courier reports that authorities were waiting for confirmation from a medical examiner that the remains found on a dead-end road in Evansdale, Iowa, are those of 28-year-old Elissa Landry and 45-year-old David Batten, of Chino Valley, Arizona. Landry and Batten were reported missing April 19. No arrests have been made, but a 24-year-old suspect who was formerly from Waterloo, Iowa, has been detained.