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Atlantic girls fall short in see-saw game with Harlan

Sports

February 7th, 2019 by admin

The Atlantic girls basketball team came up short in a see-saw affair with Harlan on Thursday afternoon 56-51. The game was full of big runs by both teams and the Cyclones were able to make just a couple more plays in the final minutes to edge out the win.

The Trojans started the game poorly with little offense and too many turnovers and found themselves down 12-6 at the end of the first quarter. The Trojans stepped up their defensive pressure and the offense ramped up in the second quarter. The Trojans outscored the Cyclones 24-14 in the second quarter to take the halftime lead. Haley Rasmussen led that offensive barrage with 14 of her game high 18 points in that 2nd quarter. The third quarter was all runs. The Cyclones opened the half with an 8-0 run to take back the lead and the Trojans answered with an 11 point rally. The Cyclones then ripped off 7 straight and the game was tied at 41. The Trojans scored the last 4 of the quarter and led 45-41 after three. The fourth quarter finally saw the teams start to trade buckets down the stretch. It was tied at 51 for a long while before Anna Ahrenholtz scored on a third chance opportunity to give the Cyclones the lead and eventually the win. A free throw from Jocelyn Cheek gave Harlan a three point lead with under a half minute to play and Chloe Hansen sealed the game with a steal and layup in the final seconds.

Atlantic Head Coach Dan Vargason said the Trojans just didn’t finish chances inside at the end.

Coach Vargason was proud of the way the team turned around the game in the second quarter and took better care of the ball.

The Trojans got 15 points from McKenzie Waters to go along with Rasmussen’s 18. Atlantic ends the regular season at 4-17 and will travel to Shenandoah for their 3A Regional first round game Saturday. We’ll have that game on KJAN with pregame at 6:50pm and tip-off at 7:00pm.

Harlan was led by 16 points from Jocelyn Cheek and 13 each from Macie Leinen and Anna Ahrenholtz. The Cyclones close the regular season at 5-15 and will have their first round 4A Regional Quarterfinal at Glenwood on February 13th at 7:00pm.

East-central Iowa farmer hurt, house leveled in explosion

News

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — A Poweshiek County farmer has been injured in a suspected gas  explosion that leveled his home. The Des Moines Register reports the explosion happened just before 10 a.m. Thursday on the 70-acre farm of Wayne Cheney that sits about 13 miles southeast of Brooklyn in east-central Iowa.

Cheney was among a number of people interviewed by police in the disappearance last summer of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts from her hometown of Brooklyn. Her body was later found in a cornfield, and former farmhand Cristhian Bahena Rivera has been charged with first-degree murder in her stabbing death.

Poweshiek County Sheriff Tom Kriegel says Cheney was sent to an Iowa City hospital with burns and was conscious when first responders reached him. He is expected to survive. Kriegel says Cheney told firefighters he was trying to light a space heater when the home exploded.  Investigators believe gas had filled the house.

RALPH SHRIVER, 91, of Oakland (Lifelong Pottawattamie Co. Resident) (Svcs. 02/11/2019)

Obituaries

February 7th, 2019 by admin

RALPH SHRIVER, 91, of Oakland (A lifelong Pottawattamie County resident) died Wednesday, February 6th at the Oakland Manor in Oakland. Funeral services for RALPH SHRIVER will be held on Monday, February 11th at 10:00am at the Loess Hills Funeral Home in Carson.

Visitation will be held on Sunday, February 10th from 3:00pm-5:00pm at the funeral home.

Burial will be in the Carson Cemetery in Carson.

A memorial fund has been established.

RALPH SHRIVER is survived by:

Children: Jerry Shriver of Avoca. Jackie (Mike) Schoening of Hancock. Larry (Bev) Shriver of Underwood. Robin Trede of Avoca. Paula (Randy) Turner of Oakland. Terry Shriver and Sara Haines of Carson.

Sisters-in-law: Vesta Kirkpatrick, Eloise Haight, and Jeannete Michaelson.

14 Grandchildren

17 Great-Grandchildren

1 Great-Great-Grandchild

Many Nieces, Nephews, Other Relatives, and Friends.

Car-vs-snow plow in Fremont County: woman & child hurt

News

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

A woman and her child were injured in Fremont County, Thursday morning, when the car they were in struck a snow plow, about a mile north of Shenandoah. The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office reports the accident happened on Highway 59 at around 9:46-a.m.

Photo’s courtesy the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office.

Officials say a 1997 Chevrolet Lumina driven by Tory Stalder, of Shenandoah, was traveling northbound on Highway 59, when the vehicle went out of control on the slick road. Stalder over-corrected, and in doing so her vehicle entered the southbound lane, where it collided with a an Iowa Dept. of Transportation snowplow driven by Zachary Dailey, of Essex.

Stalder and her minor child were transported by Shenandoah Rescue to Shenandoah Memorial Hospital as a precaution. A report on their injuries was not immediately available. Daily was uninjured in the crash.

The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office was assisted at the scene by Shenandoah Fire and Rescue and Shenandoah Police Department

Page County Sheriff’s report (2/7)

News

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Page County Sheriff Lyle Palmer reports the arrest on Wednesday, of a Shenandoah woman. 19-year old Athea Makenna Ruth Hamilton was taken into custody on a Page County Warrant for Violation of Probation.

Hamilton was arrested at the Page County Sheriff’s Office. She posted immediately posted a $2,500 bond and was released pending future court proceedings. The woman was not booked into the jail.

Fire causes Wells Fargo customers to lose access to accounts

News

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

NEW YORK (AP) — Wells Fargo customers are experiencing issues today (Thursday) with accessing online or mobile banking as well as other banking services, after a fire happened at one of the bank’s data centers. Wells Fargo on Thursday blamed the technical issues on smoke, which was “detected following routine maintenance.”

It is unknown how many Wells Fargo customers have been impacted, but the fire at the unspecified location has caused reported outages to Wells Fargo’s mobile banking app as well as its online banking portal.

Boy tells judge he was locked under basement stairs

News

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

ELDORA, Iowa (AP) — A 9-year-old boy clutched a stuffed animal as he told a judge that his father’s girlfriend often withheld food and helped lock him under a staircase in the basement at their Iowa home. The boy wept at times as he testified Wednesday against 40-year-old Traci Tyler. She is being tried separately from her boyfriend, Alex Shadlow. Both are charged with kidnapping. The couple is accused of locking the boy in the basement for at least nine hours a day during the summer of 2017. Investigators say the boy was forced to sleep on the concrete and use a tin cup as a toilet.

The boy says Tyler also made him carry a backpack filled with rocks. The Des Moines Register reports the boy said the basement was “supercold” and that he couldn’t get out of the enclosure.

Murder trial begins for man accused of killing Iowa hunter

News

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

CENTERVILLE, Iowa (AP) — The first-degree murder trial has begun for a man accused of killing a hunter in south-central Iowa. Appanoose County Attorney Susan Scieszinski said in her opening statements Wednesday that there is no known motive for the November 2017 killing of 31-year-old Curtis Ross. The Daily Iowegian reports that Ross was shot 10 times with a high-powered rifle, stabbed more than 26 times and his neck, abdomen and legs gashed open. A sheriff’s deputy found Ross’ naked body in a creek on public hunting grounds.

Scieszinski said the evidence will show Davis perched from a hilltop, using an AR-15 to shoot Ross. Officials say Davis’ finger and palm prints found on ammunition in the area connected him to the killing, and a search of his family farm turned up a hidden AR-15 that forensics determined was used in the shooting.

Iowa Legislature debates who should run sports betting

News, Sports

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature is moving forward a series of bills that would legalize sports betting. Lawmakers discussed four bills Wednesday in a Senate subcommittee, and the bills are on the calendar for discussion Thursday by House members. The bills offer opportunities for competing groups, including state-licensed casinos, a horse racing group, the Iowa Lottery and professional sports organizations, to run sports gambling operations.

Rep. Bobby Kaufmann drafted the bills to give the various gambling interests a chance to argue why they’d offer the best sports betting platform. Legislative leaders say they plan to support a single plan that allows one or more organizations to run sports gambling. The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission would regulate operations run by casinos, professional leagues or horse groups while the Iowa Lottery would oversee such betting if its plan is approved.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last May that states can legalize sports betting. Eight states accept bets and several others are considering laws that would enable sports betting.

Blizzards & ice storms. What did you expect in February?

News, Weather

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — More wicked weather is snarling traffic and freezing fingers across much of Iowa. The entire state is under a Winter Weather Advisory, an Ice Storm Warning is in effect for southeast Iowa, while a Blizzard Warning is posted for northwest and north-central Iowa. Meteorologist Mindy Beerends, at the National Weather Service in Johnston, says only a few inches of snow are predicted but the winds will be whipping up whatever falls, potentially causing white-out conditions. “Winds will be strong enough that we are expected to see blizzard conditions, starting late morning in northwestern Iowa and into the afternoon in north-central Iowa,” Beerends says. “That looks to continue through the evening hours with winds gusting 40 to 45-miles an hour at times.”

Another round of frigid, arctic air will arrive in Iowa shortly. “Tonight, we could see wind chills dipping to between 30-below and 40-below in parts of far northern Iowa and then between 20-below and 30-below for portions of central and southern Iowa,” Beerends says. “Those bitter cold wind chills will continue tonight into tomorrow morning and the temperatures will drop again Friday night, looking at lows around ten-below to teens-below in far northern Iowa.”

The long-range forecast calls for more chances for snowfall on Sunday and again on Monday night and into Tuesday