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(Updated) – 4 injured, 1 from Perry dead, following eastern Iowa crash, Saturday morning

News

February 19th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Hazleton, Iowa) – Four people were injured and a person from Perry died early Saturday morning, following a crash in eastern Iowa’s Buchanan County, south of Hazleton. The Iowa State Patrol reports the crash happened on Highway 150, at around 2:38-a.m.

Authorities say a 2011 Chevy Silverado pickup driven by 27-year-old Brian Goedken, from Independence, was traveling south on Hwy 150, when the vehicle crossed the center line, and struck a northbound 2008 Pontiac driven by 31-year-old Ronald Landals, from Perry, head-on. The pickup also struck a 2021 Ford Explorer. The SUV was driven by 26-year-old Mitchel Franck, from Fairbank, Iowa. Franck is a Buchanan County Sheriff’s Deputy.

Landals died at the scene. The other two drivers were injured, along with 21-year-old Meadow Lynn, from Independence, and 28-year-old Erin Bernardino, from Des Moines.  All of the crash victims were wearing their seat belts. Of those injured, Goedken and Lynn were taken to St. Lukes Hospital in Cedar Rapids. The other two were transported to separate hospitals, with Bernardino taken to the UIHC in Iowa City, and Franck transported to the Buchanan County Hospital in Independence.

The accident remained under investigation. Assisting the Patrol at the crash scene, were deputies from the Buchanan and Fayette County Sheriff’s Departments, along with Hazleton Fire and EMS.

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2022 State Wrestling – Class 2-A/1-A Consolation Semifinals

Sports

February 19th, 2022 by Jim Field

Class 2-A: 

  • 106 – Aiden Smith (Atlantic/CAM) lost to Colin Cassady (West Liberty) 6-3
  • 113 – Vincent Mayberry (Glenwood) lost to Kaiden Dietzenbach (Notre Dame) MAJOR DEC 14-6
  • 126 – Ethan Follmann (Atlantic/CAM) lost to Bo Koedam (Sergeant Bluff-Luton) FALL 4:17
  • 145 – Kale Downey (Clarinda) lost to Brady Stille (Decorah) 8-5
  • 160 – Dawson Bond (Red Oak) beat Logan Fairchild (Winterset) 3-2
  • 170 – Sterling Rodman (Carroll) lost to Brady Ortner (Vinton-Shellsburg) FALL 3:27
  • 182 – Zane Bendorf (Harlan) lost to Braden McShane (New Hampton/Turkey Valley) 9-5
  • 285 – Logan Green (Clarinda) lost to Ethan Hooyer (Sioux Center) 5-3 (SV-1)

Class 1-A: 

  • 113 – Corbin Reisz (Logan-Magnolia) beat Brody Brisker (Wilton) MAJOR DEC 17-6
  • 113 – Tegan Slaybaugh (AC/GC) beat Cael Judish (Sumner-Fredericksburg) FALL 5:03
  • 120 – Blake Allen (Underwood) beat Preston Klostermann (Alburnett) FALL  4:38
  • 132 – Elliot Cooney (Nodaway Valley) lost to Joe Ebaugh (Denver) MAJOR DEC 11-2
  • 138 – Stevie Barnes (Underwood) beat Kaiden Knaack (Don Bosco) MAJOR DEC 11-2
  • 152 – Shea Parkis (Kuemper Catholic) lost to Lincoln Holub (Lisbon) MAJOR DEC 14-2
  • 160 – Gavin McGuire (Logan-Magnolia) beat Cade Molyneux (Sigourney-Keota) MAJOR DEC 10-1
  • 220 – Cal Wanninger (Kuemper Catholic) beat Conner Reed (Sigourney-Keota) FALL :56

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Conservation Report 02-19-2022

Ag/Outdoor, Podcasts

February 19th, 2022 by admin

Chris Parks and Cass/Adair County Conservation Officer Grant Gelly talk the great outdoors. This week they discuss upcoming listening sessions, late season ice fishing, eagle numbers, and great backyard bird count.

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DNR/ISU trying to help a turtle species grow

Ag/Outdoor, News

February 19th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is joining with Iowa State University on a project to document and help a specific type of turtle increase its numbers. The D-N-R’s Karen Kinkead says the Blanding’s turtles don’t mature and reproduce at a very fast rate. “The average is about 14 years — but it varies individually by turtle before they lay their first eggs. And the nests are very susceptible to predators — particularly raccoons and skunks,” Kinkead says. She says there’s been less trapping in the state and that has led to increased predators for the turtle. The Blanding’s turtles are found in wetland areas of northwest and central Iowa. “They are a state-listed species, so we don’t give out specific locations,” according to Kinkead. “They’ve got a bit of a black market following, so we try to keep that private so that the turtles aren’t collected illegally.”

Blanding’s turtle (IA DNR photo)

The plan is to monitor the turtles with radio transmitters. “The University of Northern Iowa has been doing some work on a different species of turtles for a very long time — and so they’ve sort of figured out the methodology of which transmitters to use and how to set them and how to attach them to turtles. And it should work the same way on the Blandings turtles that we are interested in,” she says. They also plan to work with the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines to gather some eggs and hatch out turtles to be placed back in the wild. “We think that doing it that way a turtle in captivity will be about the size of a three-year-old turtle in the wild after about a year,” Kinkead says. “And just that just gives them a bit more protection and gives their shell will harden and they get to a larger size — so it’s harder for like a great blue heron to swallow them whole for example.”

The Blanding’s turtles can live to be 75 years old. She says it’s important the D-N-R’s Wildlife Diversity Program does what it can to help this species. “They’ve certainly been around a very, very long time and I don’t think it is responsible of us to let them go extinct on our watch if we can help it,” Kinkead says.

The D-N-R is providing 163-thousand dollars for the project, with I-S-U chipping in 57-thousand. They have a two-and-a-half-year agreement to track and detail the lives of the turtles.

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Skyscan Forecast Saturday 02/19/2022

Weather

February 19th, 2022 by admin

Skyscan Forecast  Saturday, February 19, 2022  Dan Hicks

Today: Mostly sunny. S @ 10. High 36.

Tonight: Partly cloudy. S @ 10. Low 30.

Sunday: Partly cloudy. SW @ 15-25. High 59.

Sunday night: Partly cloudy. Light and variable winds becoming ENE 10-15. Low 25.

Monday: Mostly cloudy. High 35.

Tuesday: Cloudy w/ light snow. High 18.

Yesterday’s high was 61 and the low was 12. This day last year we had a high of 26 and a low of -22. The all-time record high was 71 in 2017. The record low was -22 in 1936. Sunrise this morning is 7:09 a.m. and sunset tonight will be 5:58 p.m.

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Girls Regional Basketball Schedule Saturday 02/19/2022

Sports

February 18th, 2022 by admin

CLASS 3A Regional Finals

Region 7 @ Denison: Sergeant Bluff-Luton vs. Des Moines Christian 7:00 p.m.

CLASS 4A Regional Semifinals

Region 8
Lewis Central @ Glenwood 7:00 p.m.
Creston @ Winterset 7:00 p.m.

CLASS 5A Regional Semifinals

Region 1
CB Thomas Jefferson @ Johnston 7:00 p.m.
Fort Dodge @ Des Moines North 7:00 p.m.

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Exira-EHK advances with high energy win over East Mills

Sports

February 18th, 2022 by admin

The Exira-EHK Spartans are heading back to the Regional Finals after a 58-40 win over East mills in Elk Horn on Friday night. The Spartans controlled most of the game with high energy and intense defense. The Spartans were up 12 at half and put the game out of reach with a 13-6 advantage in the third quarter.

Exira-EHK Head Coach Tom Petersen said he was really proud of the effort the girls brought to the game.

Macy Emgarten led the Spartans with 21 points. Shay Burmeister added 13 and Quinn Grubbs added 11. Emgarten was excited to advance.

Exira-EHK improved to 22-1 on the season. The Spartans will play in a Regional Final for the third straight season and for the 7th time in the past 8 seasons. They will face off against Stanton next Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in Atlantic. Coach Petersen talked about meeting the Viqueens.

East Mills was led by 15 points from Emily Williams and 12 from Miah Urban. The Wolverines end their season with a record of 19-5.

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Girls Regional Semifinal Basketball Scoreboard 02/18/2022

Sports

February 18th, 2022 by admin

CLASS 1A

Region 2
Newell-Fonda 75, Audubon 39
Remsen-St. Mary’s 69, Woodbine 45

Region 8
Exira-EHK 58, East Mills 40- ON KJAN
Stanton 56, CAM 47

CLASS 2A

Region 7
Panorama 57, Central Decatur 28
Nodaway Valley 67, Earlham 50

Region 8
Treynor 45, West Central Valley 34
Underwood 61, IKM-Manning 20

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2022 State Wrestling – Class 1-A Semifinals & 3rd Round Consolation Results

Sports

February 18th, 2022 by Jim Field

Semifinals:

  • 113 – Eli Becerra (Missouri Valley) beat Tegan Slaybaugh (AC/GC) MAJOR DEC 9-1
  • 120 – Blake Allen (Underwood) lost to Garret Rinken (Nashua-Plainfield) 5-0
  • 126 – Jace Rose (Riverside) beat Cameron Clark (West Sioux) 6-5
  • 132 – Gable Porter (Underwood) beat Brody Neighbor (Alburnett) 9-2
  • 132 – Elliot Cooney (Nodaway Valley) lost to Garrett Funk (Don Bosco) MAJOR DEC 12-0
  • 138 – Stevie Barnes (Underwood) lost to Cade Siebrecht (Lisbon) 3-2 (TB-1)
  • 145 – Hagen Heistand (Underwood) beat Bryce McDonough (Central Springs) 8-7
  • 152 – Wyatt Reisz (Logan-Magnolia) beat Lincoln Holub (Lisbon) 6-4
  • 160 – Gavin McGuire (Logan-Magnolia) lost to Maximus Magayna (Columbus Catholic) MAJOR DEC 8-0
  • 220 – Cal Wanninger (Kuemper Catholic) lost to Jared Thiry (Don Bosco) 1-0
  • 285 – Rex Johnson (Logan-Magnolia) beat Cody Fox (East Buchanan) FALL :45

3rd Round Consolation:

  • 113 – Corbin Reisz (Logan-Magnolia) beat Brayden Maeder (SW Valley) FALL 3:06
  • 138 – Hayden Fischer (AHSTW) lost to Kaiden Knaack (Don Bosco) 4-1
  • 152 – Shea Parkis (Kuemper Catholic)  beat McKade Munn (Nashua-Plainfield) 10-3
  • 152 – David Helton (St. Albert) lost to Jace Nelson-Brown (Emmetsburg) FALL 5:40
  • 170 – Denver Pauley (AHSTW) lost to MaCade Bloker (North Butler-Clarksville) 5-3
  • 195 – Carter Davis (Underwood) lost to Logan Hageman (South Winneshiek) 2-1 (TB-1)
  • 220 – Cooper Andersen (Panorama) lost to Jayden Soard (South Central Calhoun) FALL 3:49
  • 285 – Daniel Gregory (Treynor) lost to Mitchel Marr (Riceville) 9-5

1A Team Scores
1. Don Bosco 142.5
2. Lisbon 89.0
3. Logan-Magnolia 72.0
4. Underwood 68.5
5. Nashua-Plainfield 56.0
6. North Butler-Clarksville 52.0
7. West Sioux 48.0
8. New London 41.5
9. Hudson 39.5
10. West Hancock 38.0

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Trial in Atlantic Attempted Murder case delayed for a month

News

February 18th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The trial for an Atlantic man facing felony charges of Attempted Murder and Willful Injury Causing Serious Injury, has been continued (delayed) for one month. 34-year-old Richard J. Doss, Jr., was set to stand trial this Tuesday, Feb. 22nd, but according to online court records updated Friday (Feb. 18th), the trial has instead been moved to March 22nd, at 9:30-a.m. His Pre-Trial Conference will be held March 14th.

Doss is accused of stabbing a man on Jan. 5th at an apartment complex across from Cass Health, in Atlantic. He has plead not guilty, and earlier waived his right to a speedy trial. Doss Jr., was arrested Dec. 6th, hours after a man arrived at the Cass County Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Room on Jan.5th, after being stabbed.

Photo of Richard DOSS Jr. (Iowa DPS photo)

The victim – whose name has not yet officially been released – was treated at the hospital and then transported by helicopter to UNMC in Omaha for further treatment.

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