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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut butter into flour until crumbly. Press into an ungreased 13″ x 9″ baking dish. Bake until light nrown, 18-22 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Meanwhile, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Fold in 1 cup whipped topping. Spread over the cooled crust.
Beat the milk and pudding mix on low speed for 2 minutes. Carefully spread over cream cheese layer. Top with remaining whipped topping. Refrigerate at least one hour.
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Lab results stemming from an investigation into a January accident in Taylor County has resulted in charges for the driver. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office late Wednesday night, said charges of operating while under the influence of a combination of alcohol and drugs were filed against 60-year-old Ricky Scott, of Lenox. Scott was driving a 2002 Ford F-150 on J-20 southwest of Lenox January 16th, when he swerved to miss a dog. His pickup left the road and flipped onto its side in a ditch.
Scott was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Des Moines after the crash. Authorities say a specimen taken from Scott following the accident was sent to the Iowa DCI Laboratory for analysis. The Iowa State Patrol assisted in the crash investigation.
(Radio Iowa) — Sioux City’s homeless shelter has closed one month earlier than normal. Warming Shelter director Lindsay Landrum says board members made the difficult decision to close the shelter doors Wednesday for the season. “The coronavirus is the main reason — just because we don’t have the capabilities to quarantine people within the shelter,” Landrum says. “Not if they get sick, but when they get sick. We just don’t have the capabilities to do that.”
Landrum says their were concerns about the health of those staying at the shelter, as well as her staff. Around 30 people were standing on the streets around the shelter after they were told the building was closing — including this man. “This morning they just closed it down because they said someone had a high fever…so the closed down the warming shelter for the rest of the season, so a lot of us don’t have anywhere to go,” he says.
Landrum says some of the people staying there have been ill, but anyone coming in to stay was screened. “And what that screening process was, was taking their temperature and asking them some questions. And we did have a couple of people with a high fever — and they came back with a strep throat diagnoses. So, it wasn’t the virus at all,” Landrum says.
Landrum says she’s working with the city to find some housing and hotel vouchers for the homeless population. The shelter will continue to take donations for next season and also for the renovation of the building to expand their services.
(Radio Iowa) — One man is dead, another injured after a shooting in Marshalltown. Police found two gunshot victims when they arrived on the scene in the 400 block of Union Street just before 9:30 last (Wednesday) night. One of the victims, a 22-year-old male died at the scene. The other, a 27-year-old male was taken to Unity Point Health-Marshalltown with gunshot wounds.
No arrests have been made, the DCI is among the departments assisting Marshalltown Police with the investigation. It is the second fatal shooting in Marshalltown is less than two weeks.
Police in Red Oak arrested a woman following a minor injury accident Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of N. Eastern Avenue and E. Corning Street. Authorities say 49-year old Kai Dione Swanson, of Red Oak, was driving a 2011 Ford Explorer southbound on N. Eastern Ave., when the SUV went out of control, left the road, and struck a tree head-on. Swanson suffered a minor injury. She was checked out by medics but refused treatment and transport to the hospital.
Swanson was arrested for OWI/1st offense and transported to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center, where her cash bond was set at $1,000.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 58. Our Low this morning (as of 4:50-a.m) was 42. Last year on this date, the High was 59 and the Low was 34. The Record High for March 26th in Atlantic was 88 in 1907. The record Low was -2 in 1955.
(Radio Iowa) — State officials say there 280 ventilators available for use in the state right now. Critically ill COVID-19 patients will experience respiratory failure and need ventilators to breathe. Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management director Joyce Flinn says the state hopes to get more ventilators.
“We have some ventilators on order,” Flinn says. “I believe it’s a very small number because they’re very hard to find.” State officials are encouraging hospitals to use plans from the Centers for Disease Control and convert anesthesia machines into ventilators. Early last week, government officials indicated the number of ventilators in the state was confidential information because they’re part of emergency plans.
On Wednesday, officials released those numbers, along with an estimate that there are enough doctors, nurses and other caregivers employed today to hospitalize nine-thousand people. Flinn says data on the amount of face masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment currently available in Iowa is a constantly changing number.
“We’re buying lots of gowns, lots of gloves, swabs, test kits,” Flinn says. Purchases are being made by the state as well as individual hospitals around the state, according to Flinn. Iowa National Guard soldiers delivered protective equipment for medical staff to more than 20 county distribution sites around the state on Wednesday.