(Red Oak, Iowa) – A woman from Red Oak was arrested Thursday night on an Assault charge. Red Oak Police report 31-year-old Makayla Dawn Hudson was taken into custody in the 1100 block of Kelly Circle at around 10:45-p.m., for Assault causing bodily injury. She was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $1,000 bond.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 49. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable.
Tonight: Clear, with a low around 28. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Sunny, with a high near 60. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tom. Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 35.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy w/a 30% chance of rain in the afternoon. High near 55. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday Night: Cloudy &breezy,w/a 50% chance of rain. Low around 38.
Monday: Cloudy & breezy w/a 60% chance of rain through mid-day. High near 45.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 67. Our Low this morning was 23. This day last year the high was 34 and the low 11. The record high for Nov. 17th in Atlantic was 73 in 1941. The record low was -2 in 1959. Sunrise is at 7:11 am and sunset is at 4:59 pm.
(Radio Iowa) – There’s another tick to be on the look-out for, especially if you raise cattle or horses in Iowa. The Asian longhorned tick has been found in 19 states, including Missouri. Veterinarian Grant Dewell says “They can bite humans, but they tend to prefer livestock.” Dewell is with Iowa State University Extension, and his research specialty is beef cattle.
The Centers for Disease Control has issued a warning about these ticks due to recently published research about three Ohio cows that died after being bitten tens of thousands of times by Asian longhorned ticks. This tick species was first found in the U-S in 2010. Dewell says a female can produce on her own. “A single female will produce several thousand eggs…so they can really expand exponentially their numbers once they get into a population,” Dewell says, “They can really overwhelm an animal in some cases.”
Asian longhorned tick (Iowa State University Extension photo)
Researchers in Ohio concluded the cattle there died of blood loss. Dewell says it’s important to keep grass cut around feedlots and make sure animals are grazing in pastures, because ticks prefer to live in areas with tall grass.”We’ll see how far north it spreads,” Dewell says. “It is somewhat cold tolerant, but it doesn’t love the cold either. We have ticks in Iowa, but they’re not as severe as in Missouri and Arkansas and those types of (warmer) places.”
While Asian longhorned ticks seem to prefer cattle and horses, they have been found on dozens of animals in the United States. A man from New York is the first known human to be bitten in the U-S by this species of ticks. That happened in June of 2018.
Kansas State outscored the second ranked Iowa women 12-0 to close the game and beat the Hawkeyes 65-58 in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes did not score in the final two minutes and 43 seconds as they fall to 3-1.
Iowa coach Lisa Bluder. The Hawkeyes shot just 36 percent, including two-of-21 from three point range.
Iowa hosts Drake Sunday night.
The Iowa men return to action Friday night at home against Arkansas State. The Hawkeyes are coming off a 92-84 loss at eighth ranked Creighton and coach Fran McCaffery says his team learned a valuable lesson at the start of the second half.
McCaffery was pleased with the performance of the four freshmen who are expected to play key roles this season.
EIGHT-PLAYER
Bishop Garrigan, Algona 39, Bedford 30
CLASS A
West Hancock 30, Woodbury Central 28
CLASS 1A
Grundy Center 42, MFL MarMac 0
CLASS 4A
Lewis Central 40, Western Dubuque 21
(Radio Iowa) – Three of the four Iowans who serve in the U-S House are calling on a fellow Republican to resign immediately. Congressman Zach Nunn of Bondurant says a report from the House Ethics Committee shows New York Congressman George Santos has not lived up to the ideals of honesty and transparency that Americans deserve from their elected representatives.
Congresswoman Ashley Hinson of Marion says Santos conduct was illegal and unacceptable. The ethics panel’s report found Santos blatantly stole from his campaign fund and lied about his background. Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks of LeClaire says if Santos doesn’t resign, the House should vote to expel him.
Nunn, Hinson and Miller-Meeks posted their statements on social media shortly after the House Ethics Committee released its report today (Thursday). Congressman Randy Feenstra of Hull has not commented publicly on the report. At the beginning of the month, all four Iowans who serve in the U-S House voted against a resolution to remove Santos from office — joining the majority of House Republicans who said they were waiting on the Ethics Committee report before making a judgment.
Santos has said he will not seek reelection in 2024, but he has refused to resign.
(Radio Iowa) – A-C-T scores among Iowa high school students who took the test dropped slightly from a year ago and far fewer students are taking the test.
The average A-C-T composite score for seniors who graduated from an Iowa high school last spring was 20-point-eight. That compares to a score of 22 for the 2014 graduating class in Iowa. Nine years ago, 68 percent of high school seniors in Iowa took the A-C-T. Just under half took it this past year.
Iowa, Iowa State and U-N-I no longer require students applying for admission to take the A-C-T.
(Radio Iowa) – The trial of the Sioux City woman accused of committing election fraud in elections when her husband’s name is underway and expected to last into next week. Kim Taylor is accused of filling out ballot request forms AND absentee ballots for several Vietnamese residents in the Sioux City area.
An Iowa State University student testified that when he tried of file his absentee ballot from Ames, he discovered someone had already cast a vote in his name. His mother, who testified through an interpreter, said Taylor called her to see if she needed help voting and Taylor completed the paperwork, but Nguyen signed the ballot. She also testified Taylor told her it was o.k. to complete ballot request forms for her son and daughter, but she never would have done that if she knew it was a crime.
Kim Taylor and her husband Jeremy Taylor have denied the charges.
(Radio Iowa) – Even though temperatures are in the 50s and 60s today (Thursday), there will be a time down the road, perhaps soon, when snow arrives in Iowa — and lots of it. Meteorologist Chad Hahn, at the National Weather Service in Johnston, says they’re launching new guidelines which stipulate how winter storm watches and warnings are issued, based on the amount of snow that’s predicted to fall.
For Iowa and all points north, Hahn says it’ll be six inches or more of snow, but as you go south, that criteria decreases to account for climatological differences. Hahn says the changes won’t be all that noticeable for the winter storm forecasts that are being issued in Iowa.
The old system used time restraints, so much snow over so many hours, and he says now, it’ll simply zero in on a winter event.
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