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Today: Mostly Cloudy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 73. SE @ 10-20.
Tonight: Partly Cloudy to Cloudy w/showers ending. Low 57. S-W @ 10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy. High 72.
Thursday: Mo. Cldy w/showers & tstrms. High 72.
Friday: Isolated showers in the morning; Becoming P/Cldy. High 62.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 77. Our 24-hour Low (ending today at 7-a.m.) was 46. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 62 and the low was 36. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 90 in 1938 & 2005. The Record Low was 20 in 1968.
An ongoing investigation into drug activity following a traffic stop last spring in Ringgold County has resulted in charges. The Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office reports 49-year-old Harvey Ray Roach, Jr. was charged with felony distribution and selling of methamphetamine.
Roach, whose last reported address was listed as Tingley, was arrested following a search of a vehicle in March by the Ringgold County K9 Unit. The investigation into Roach’s alleged narcotics involvement was conducted by the Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office, the State of Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, and the South Central Iowa Drug Task Force.
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Republican Congressman David Young’s bill calling for the Veterans Administration to fix problems with its suicide hotline has cleared the U.S. House and awaits action in the Senate.
Young’s bill calls on the Veterans Administration to come up with a way to ensure all calls to the crisis line are answered.
Young says it means if calls continue to slip through the cracks, the V-A must tell congress they need more staff, more training for the staff already there or even better technology to deal with call volume. The crisis line fielded half a million calls last year. Young had hoped his bill would clear the Senate last week, but it didn’t. He expects the bill will pass when congress convenes AFTER the November election. About 20 veterans commit suicide in America every day, but a recent report found few of those veterans had gotten services from the V-A in the year before their death.
(Radio Iowa)
345 AM CDT TUE OCT 4 2016
EARLY THIS MORNING…MOSTLY CLOUDY. WARMER. SOUTHEAST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.
TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS BEFORE NOON. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 70S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 90 PERCENT.
TONIGHT…THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE MID 50S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NEAR 100 PERCENT.
WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 70S. WEST WIND AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH IN THE AFTERNOON.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE MID 50S. EAST WIND NEAR 5 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.
THURSDAY…THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH IN THE LOWER 70S. EAST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 90 PERCENT.
THURSDAY NIGHT…THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. COOLER. LOW IN THE MID 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.
FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. COOLER. HIGH IN THE UPPER 50S.
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Trever Ryen was sitting in a dorm room at Northern Iowa watching Iowa State playing Texas when he got the itch to play football again. Ryen had given up the game for a track scholarship with the Panthers. But when Ryen saw the Cyclones battle the Longhorns under the lights on national television, he realized he was letting his dream of playing at Iowa State pass him by.
“In my head I was like, ‘Man. It’d be so sweet playing at Jack Trice (Stadium) at night,'” Ryen said. “After watching that game I was like, ‘You know what? Screw it. I’m going to go try to live the dream.'”
The Cyclones are thrilled he did. Ryen, a junior wide receiver, enters this weekend’s game at Oklahoma State as the nation’s leader in punt return average. e is averaging 22.3 yards on seven returns. Four of them have gone at least 25 yards, with a long of 55.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In the aftermath of a lopsided loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith acknowledged that “you own this right now, you wear it and it stinks.” The Chiefs will smell for quite a while.
Their embarrassing 43-14 loss on Sunday night left them 2-2 through their first four games, and with more questions than answers heading into a week off. Their offense was inept, their defense was fileted by Ben Roethlisberger and Co., and even their usually solid special teams were a stumbling mess.
“You’d love to go into it on a better note,” Smith said of the bye, “but who knows? Whether we like it or not, it’s here. We have to use it. Get healthy, regroup and bounce back from this.” Smith was sacked four times by a Steelers defense that had just one through the first three games. And one week after picking off six passes and forcing eight turnovers against the Jets, the Chiefs didn’t force a single turnover against the Steelers. Roethlisberger was 22 of 27 for 300 yards and five scores.
Officials with the Griswold School District late Monday afternoon said in a social media post, “Due to limited numbers and player injuries,” [the district feels] “it is in the best interest of [its] football players and program to cancel this week’s game at Earlham.” Officials added, “The district will continue to evaluate weekly and will make determinations concerning future games at a later time.”
The Earlham School District first posted the change notice on its social media page. The Districts said “This circumstance is especially disappointing as this was supposed to be the Homecoming game. This is an unfortunate situation that is out of the District’s control.” The District said “All other Homecoming activities planned for this week will take place as scheduled.”
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A monthly survey of business leaders suggests the economy will remain weak in nine Midwest and Plains states. Weakness in agriculture and energy continue to weigh on the region’s economy. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says the region’s economy will continue to lag behind the nation as a whole.
KEOKUK, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected of killing a woman in Keokuk was found dead in the basement of his home. The Iowa Department of Public Safety says officers investigating the weekend shooting death of Carrissa River obtained a search warrant and went to the Keokuk home of Russell J. Tallman on Sunday afternoon. A state tactical team entered the home, where officers found the 39-year-old Tallman dead in the basement with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa prison officials say a man serving a life sentence for a 1974 first-degree murder conviction has died of natural causes. Atwell Conner, Jr., was 71. Iowa Department of Corrections spokesman Fred Scaletta says Conner died of colon cancer Sunday morning while in hospice care. He was convicted along with George Nowlin of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Maureen Connolly in Cedar Rapids.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Harvest is underway with 10 percent of the corn crop and 21 percent of soybeans already completed in Iowa while Nebraska farmers reported 15 percent of corn harvested, behind the five-year average and 27 percent of soybeans in bins, right at average.