(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Red Oak Police Department reports a woman was arrested at around 6-p.m. Wednesday, on two active Montgomery County warrants for Violation of Probation. 48-year-old Keyla Rae Churchill, of Red Oak, was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on bond amounting to a total of $10,000 ($5,000 for each warrant).
Today: Mostly sunny & windy. High near 38. N/NW winds 15-35 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 23. N/NW winds 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high near 43. N/NW wind around 5-10 in the morning.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 49.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 35.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 44. Our Low this morning, 27. Last year on this date, the High was 43 and the Low was 18. The Record High in Atlantic on Nov. 21st was 71 in 1990. The Record Low was -14 in 1937. Sunrise: 7:15. Sunset: 4:56.
Maya McDermott poured in 37 points and the UNI women outscored Iowa State 19-2 to close the third quarter and stunned the eighth ranked Cyclones 87-75 in the McLeod Center.
That’s UNI coach Tanya Warren. It was the Panther’s first game after senior standout Grace Boffeli was ruled out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL. It was the Panther’s first win over a top ten opponent.
McDermott made 14-of-21 shots from the field to finish with a career high and only had one turnover in 35 minutes of action.
McDermott says it was an emotional victory for the Panthers.
UNI was 12-of-25 from three point range but McDermott says defense was the key to the win.
The Cyclones shot 45 percent for the game but were just two-of-11 from three point range in the second half.
That’s ISU coach Bill Fennelly who says the closing moments of the third quarter turned the game around.
It is Iowa State’s first loss of the season and Fennelly says his team will need to bounce back with a good effort Sunday when they host Drake.
The Iowa Hawkeye women jumped out to an 18-4 lead at the end of one and beat Kansas 71-58 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls. Hannah Stuelke had 16 points and 10 rebounds, Lucy Olsen had 16 points and coach Jan Jensen says defense was the difference.
Jensen was happy with the way her team had to grind out a win.
The Hawkeyes got 23 points off the bench and Olsen says several freshmen played key roles.
The Hawkeyes improve to 5-0.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission listened to public comment Wednesday on the proposal for the 275-million dollar Cedar Crossing Casino. The casino would be located along the Cedar River near downtown Cedar Rapids and would feature slot machines, table games, restaurants, and a 15-hundred seat entertainment venue. Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O’Donnell spoke in favor of the casino.
“Cedar Crossing is one more compelling reason to stay and build our lives and futures here,” she says. O’Donnell told the commission that there’s much excitement in the city and Linn County for proposal. “Let me paint a picture for you of what this project is going to look like. Cedar Crossing is a casino and it’s a comprehensive entertainment destination,” O’Donnell says. “We’re talking about bars, restaurants, an entertainment center and other venues that will enrich our city’s already vibrant arts and entertainment scene.”
Representatives of other cities and counties that already have casinos urged the commission to reject the Cedar Rapids application. The commission will make a decision on awarding a license for the Cedar Rapids casino in February.
(Radio Iowa) – A 55 year old man serving a life prison sentence for shooting his wife to death in their central Iowa home has died in state custody. In April of 2014, Vallerie Cory’s co-workers at the Firestone plant in Des Moines asked police to do a welfare check because she had missed work. Her husband, Jeremy Cory, told a policeman who went to the couple’s home in Cambridge that he didn’t know where she was.
During a search, police found her body upstairs. She’d been shot 18 times and the rifle used in the shooting was found in a closet. State prison officials have announced that Jeremy Cory was pronounced dead Monday night at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, but the agency’s news release did not reveal the cause of his death. He was 55 years old.
Cory appealed his first degree conviction twice, arguing his lawyers were ineffective. He also appealed the amount of restitution he was ordered to pay his wife’s estate.
(Radio Iowa) – The leaders of Iowa’s Catholic churches say they stand in solidarity with migrants. President-elect Trump says he plans to use the military to deport undocumented immigrants who entered the country illegally. The bishops’ letter says they’ll advocate for just treatment of migrants within the framework of the law. Tom Chapman is executive director of the Iowa Catholic Conference.
“What they at least wanted to do initially is to make sure they said something to migrants that says: ‘We’re with you, we’re praying with you, and we will serve you to the extent that we can,'” Chapman said. Last week, the U-S Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement calling for federal policy that welcomes refugees and creates a pathway to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally, but have been here for many years. They also called for a secure southern border. This week’s statement from the Catholic bishops in Iowa says migrants face immense challenges and their letter is meant to send the message that they are not alone.
“We all serve together, you know. We’re supposed to be a community,” Chapman says. “This issue has been a top priority for them both at the state and federal level, so they wanted to make sure that people knew where they stood in terms of trying to stand with people and seeing what policy looks like going forward.” Chapman says Catholic Charities helps people with legitimate claims receive legal status to stay in the United States. 
“I know in Sioux City Catholic Charities, they have a very extensive welcome program for immigrants,” Chapman said, “and those are things that are happening in different parts of the state.” The American Immigration Council estimates there are over 52-thousand undocumented immigrants in Iowa.
(Harlan, Iowa) – Officials with Harlan Municipal Utilities, late Wednesday night, issued a Boil Order for all HMU customers in the City of Harlan. Residents in the city should boil all water before using for consumption until further notice. This includes the customers in the Cresthaven Addition. Water service may be intermittently interrupted during this time.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Atlantic City Council met in a regular, but brief meeting this (Wednesday) evening. Among the action items on their agenda was the First Reading of an Ordinance “Amending the Code of Ordinances of the City of Atlantic” by “Amending Provisions Pertaining to All-Terrain Vehicles and Snowmobiles.”
City Councilman Dana Halder….
As previously mentioned in our newscast, City Administrator John Lund said Iowa Senate File 2130 was developed in response to a 2020 survey, asking ATV and UTV riders what they would like to see changed in Iowa law, to better support riders of those vehicles. The survey results determined riders wanted to ride on more County and State roadways in all 99 counties, under a uniform State law. Cities were then left to create their own rules, but were not allowed to charge permitting fees.
Atlantic City Administrator John Lund makes his report to the City Council (11-20-24)
The City of Atlantic’s Community Protection Committee met last August to review the options for adopting an ordinance regarding the use of ATV’s and UTV’s on city streets, and has reviewed and recommended to the Council an amended ordinance, which includes:
In other business, the Atlantic City Council approved a pay application to Hydro-Klean, LLC for the 2024 Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project, and a related resolution accepting the work for the project and Ultra Violet CIPP (Cured In Place Pipe) Lining Project. City Administrator John Lund provided a preview of some of the issues affecting local governments such as Atlantic’s City Council, that the Iowa Legislature is expected to begin tackling, some of which may be more hurtful than helpful.
He said the Legislature has an interesting definition of leaner government.
Lund says there seems to be a big disconnect on what some community priorities are, with regard to the legislature.
He said we will also continue to see Senate File 295 – A bipartisan property tax reduction bill that some say would make Iowa’s fiscal situation worse fading in the next two-or-three years before it completely gone. It remains to be seen how that will impact state appropriation to provide partial “backfill” payments to the local governments whose revenue would be impacted by these reductions.
But on the plus side, Lund said, the “Say Yes to EMS” public measure passed in Cass County. Lund is getting ready for the legislature to convene, and how their actions will impact the City’s budget.
Creston firefighter uses a thermal imaging device to check for hot spots on a heater.
Firefighters ventilated the home and removed the damaged flooring. (Photos from the Creston FD Facebook page)
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