Officials with the Iowa Department of Corrections said today (Saturday), the 23-year old Kevin Williams Scott Jr., who was convicted of robbery 1st degree in Polk County, failed to report back to Fort Des Moines Residential Facility after work as required.
Scott is a Black male, 5-feet 9-inches tall. He weighs about 189 pounds. Scott was admitted to work release on June 13th, 2017. Anyone with information on Scott’s whereabouts should contact their local law enforcement agency.
Kevin Scott, Jr.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock says he is free of cancer more than three months after the 78-year-old St. Louis Cardinals great announced he had been diagnosed with a type of blood cancer.
Brock said in a statement Friday that a doctor’s diagnosis that he had conquered multiple myeloma was “the greatest news ever.” He credited God and thanked family, friends and fans for their support, saying he remained hopeful.
Brock’s previous health issues have included having his left leg was amputated below the knee in late 2015 because of an infection caused by complications with diabetes. He was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes more than 15 years ago and has worn a prosthesis since the amputation.
He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985.
A traffic stop at around 5-a.m. today in Red Oak, resulted in a man being arrested for Driving While Intoxicated. Red Oak Police say 22-year old Spencer Edward Zarek, of Red Oak, was taken into custody near the intersection of Highway 34 and G Avenue, on a charge of OWI/1st offense. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.
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State health officials are giving Iowa families a heads-up about a new vaccination requirement for students going back to school next month. Under a new state law, a meningitis shot will be required for students entering 7th and 12th grades. Bethany Kintigh manages the Immunization Program at the Iowa Department of Public Health.
“We have been working to notify all of the health care providers in Iowa and working with the school nurses to let parents know about this requirement,” Kintigh says. “A lot of our local public health partners are doing campaigns gearing up for sports physicals in advance of school.”
The vaccine has been recommended for pre-teenagers since 2005 and she does not anticipate any shortages. Students entering those grades will be required to show proof of the meningitis vaccination and Kintigh says many students have already gotten the shots.
“This vaccine is already routinely recommended in our 11- and 12-year-old visit,” she says, “so we know when we look at our national immunization survey, about 75% of Iowa adolescents 13-to-17 have already received the meningitis vaccination.”
Kintigh says meningitis is a serious and potentially-deadly bacterial disease.
(Radio Iowa via Joyce Russell, Iowa Public Radio)
Iowa now has around two-thirds of the state in some sort of dry pattern running from the northwest to the southeast corner. The Iowa D-N-R’s Tim Hall says the state is in a little better shape than the last time we had widespread drought conditions in 2012. He says we went into that year with very little reserve in groundwater after a dry 2011. “At least in 2016 we crossed over into 2017 after a really wet fall and early winter. So, things are not as dramatically bad this year — primarily because we started the year in much better shape,” Hall explains.
He says that is not a reason to dismiss what’s happening now. “In general, there’s a lot of folks in the state that need to be paying attention to the soil moisture conditions and the groundwater condition, and being aware that things are pretty dry,” Hall says. Hall says we have been well behind normal July rainfall totals in parts of the state and relief isn’t expected anytime soon. “There doesn’t appear to be a real significant chance for broad rains over the next couple of weeks,” Hall says. “So a couple of dry weeks, some really hot temperatures, the vegetation is pretty active and it tends to pull a lot of moisture out of the soil as it grows. So, the pieces are in place for things to get certainly not better over the next couple of weeks — and certainly perhaps deteriorate even more.”
South-central Iowa has been the driest part of the state thus far, but Hall says northwest Iowa has the fewest options for drawing groundwater, and they need to keep an eye on the conditions.
(Radio Iowa)
HULL, Iowa (AP) – Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials say improper disposal of a pesticide and other chemicals led to a fish kill in northwestern Iowa. Officials say in a written release that DNR investigators looking into a fish kill in a small creek in Hull traced the problem upstream to Hull Coop Association. There, officials say, an employee rinsed out chemicals Wednesday morning after spraying corn. The rinse water containing fungicide and insecticide ran into a storm sewer, flowed under Highway 18 and entered the creek.
DNR fisheries staff estimates about 3,600 fish, mostly minnows, chubs and darters, were killed along 4,200 feet of stream. The DNR will seek appropriate enforcement action, including fish restitution.
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Today: Mo. Sunny. High 82. E @ 5.
Tonight: Mo. Clear. Low 59. E/NE @ 5
Sunday: Mo. Sunny. 81. E/SE @ 5
Sunday night: Mo. Clear. Low 59.
Monday: Mo. Sunny. High 83. S @ 5.
Tuesday: Sunny. High 85.
Friday’s High in Atlantic was 86. Our Low this morning was 61. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 76 and the low was 56. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 102 in 1917. The Record Low for this date was 46 in 1952.
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