LaVon Eblen visits with Anna Elmquist about the Audubon Tour of Homes.
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Catch a live broadcast of the basketball doubleheader between the CAM Cougars and Boyer Valley Bulldogs tonight on the CAM Cougar Channel. The CAM Cougar Channel is a new cooperative effort between KJAN and CAM High School to help provide students experience in media. Students, with assistance from KJAN staff, will be providing live coverage of CAM Cougar sports and activities. From live play-by-play of Cougar sports, locally-produced specials, school and community activities. Tune in tonight as Eyon Steffensen and Tanner Williamson bring you Cougar basketball. You can watch live through the player on the CAM Cougar Channel page here.
The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports two arrests occurred Thursday afternoon. At around 4:40-p.m., 34-year old Kyle K. Kennedy, of Council Bluffs, was arrested following a traffic stop, in Underwood. Kennedy was taken into custody on a warrant for Violation/Contempt of Court, with regard to a No Contact/Protective order. He was being held without bond in the Pott. County Jail. And, at around 4-p.m. Thursday, a female inmate at the Pott. County Jail was served with a Sarpy County, NE. warrant, for being a Fugitive from Justice. 37-year old Carrie M. Guthiel, of Council Bluffs, who was being held on a Probation Violation and Theft in the 3rd Degree charges, was presented with the warrant and returned to the custody of Corrections Staff. She was being held on a $15,000 bond for the Probation Violation, and No bond on the Fugitive charge.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Meteorologists say heavy snowfall atop icy roadways and blowing snow could make travel exceptionally hazardous over the weekend in northern Nebraska and much of northern Iowa. The National Weather Service said Friday in winter storm warnings that up to 16 inches (41 centimeters) of snow could be dumped in northern Nebraska with lesser amounts to the south, where higher temperatures are expected as the wintry storm passes to the east.
The Iowa warnings say as much as 7 inches is expected in Sioux City, with lesser amounts to the east and south. Rain, freezing drizzle or sleet is expected to precede any snow. Wind gusts of up to 40 mph are forecast in parts of both states.
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — An investigation has found that a former secretary at an Iowa soil and water conservation district embezzled roughly $20,000 by writing unauthorized checks to herself. Outgoing State Auditor Mary Mosiman said Friday the case marks her office’s fourth investigation into misspending at one of the state’s 100 water districts in the last five years. The latest focused on Jessica Rutter, who was an office assistant for Jasper County’s district until her June resignation. A report issued by Mosiman says Rutter acknowledged to investigators that she wrote checks to herself that would typically double her pay.
Auditors found 23 unauthorized checks were issued between 2015 and 2017 that amounted to nearly $20,000. The report found a couple thousand dollars more in spending for personal and other improper expenses. Rutter, 39, has not been charged but the findings were forwarded to law enforcement agencies. A listed number for her was disconnected.
More State and area news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — A January trial has been scheduled for the mother of a baby whose lifeless body was found in an infant swing in northeast Iowa. Chickasaw County court records say 21-year-old Cheyanne Harris has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death. Authorities have said the body of 4-month-old Sterling Koehn was infested with maggots when found Aug. 30 last year in the swing by deputies and medics called to his parents’ Alta Vista apartment.
The child’s father, Zachary Koehn, was convicted Nov. 6 of first-degree murder and child endangerment. He is seeking a new trial. Harris’ trial is set to begin Jan. 29 in Le Mars. The trial is being moved to Plymouth County because of pretrial publicity.
(Radio Iowa) — As the Christmas shopping season hits full stride an expert says its time to be sure your on-line purchases are properly protected. The spokesman for the Johnston-based SHAZAM, Patrick Dix, says you should review how you are buying items on-line. “This a great opportunity for consumers to take stock of where they shop on-line and make sure that they are changing their passwords. That they are not using passwords — they are using pass phrases,” according to Dix. A pass phrase is a familiar line that you can make a few adjustments to and still remember. “A song lyric or a quote that you might like,” Dix explains. “And then what you do is you take letters out of the pass phrase and you use special characters. For instance, you might use a dollar sign for an S, a hashtag for an H or the at symbol (@) for an A.”
He says this should easily give you a strong pass phrase that won’t be hacked. “If you replace a couple of letters — two special characters at least — and then at least 12, probably 15 letters total in the pass phrase that you will always remember, that’s a really good way to make your password much more secure than your address, or your dog’s name,” Dix says. Dix says your address and dog’s name and other personal information are not that hard for someone who wants to hack your accounts to find out. “The fraudsters are using social engineering. They’ll get on your Facebook page and find out your mother’s maiden name very easily, or your old address, or the high school you went to or the college mascot or whatever it was” according to Dix. “All of those things are very hackable where random phrase or lyric from a song mixed with special characters is not.”
Another key to preventing the theft of your identity online is to keep your devices current. “Update the software on your computer or your phone to make sure that you have all of the latest security patches so you are protecting yourself,” Dix says. “These are the things if we are going to be shopping on-line — that old password that we’ve used forever on Amazon or Netflix –needs to be changed. And it needs to be changed about every 90 days.” Dix says a lot of problems that people have with getting hacked are because they didn’t do enough to make it hard to find out their passwords.