More State and area news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Anita Rescue and Wiota Fire were dispatched this morning to a two-vehicle collision with rollover accident west of Wiota, at 655th and Whitepole Road. The call went out at 7:48-a.m. According to the report, one vehicle was on the road while the other rolled into the ditch. Additional details are currently not available.
Another crash was reported in the Omaha area on eastbound I-80 near the I-480 split. That crash was reported around 7:30 a.m. The Nebraska Department of Transportation reports that the center two lanes are closed. Avoid the area and use an alternate route if possible.
Jim Field visits with Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce Programs Director Kelsey Beschorner about a Pink Cruise event planned for Thursday to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Week and Benefit the Cass County Relay for Life.
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The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast with Jim Field.
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The Creston Police Department reports the arrest at around 8:50-p.m., Tuesday, of 40-year-old Aaron Riepe. The Creston man was arrested at his residence on a Union County Warrant for the charge of Violation of Probation. Riepe was being held in the Union County Jail awaiting bond hearing.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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(Radio Iowa) – An ethanol plant in northwest Iowa designed to make the fuel from corn cobs and stalks rather than kernels has closed. The Des Moines Register was first to report the “Project Liberty” plant in Emmetsburg had closed. Iowa State University agronomist Emily Heaton says corn stover can easily be converted into cellulosic ethanol, the hard part is competing with the price of petroleum. “It’s the same story of the plant in Nevada that DuPont closed and now unfortunately POET’s Project Liberty is closing and that is a real loss for Iowa,” she says. “Those were two, ground-breaking, first-in-the-nation cellulosic ethanol plants that simply couldn’t compete with the low price of oil that we’ve had for the last few years.”
DuPont closed its cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada in 2017. POET shut down production at the Emmetsburg plant about a year ago and took steps to lay off its remaining employees this summer. The ethanol plants still operating in Iowa use corn kernels to make the fuel. Heaton’s research at Iowa State focuses on using perennial crops. “The idea was that we would get started to using corn stover to make cellulosic ethanol,” she says, “but then switch to using these high-yielding perennial crops, like switchgrass, to make ethanol.”
Heaton says switchgrass and other perennials that can used to produce ethanol have the side benefit of holding valuable Iowa soil in place and improving water quality. “Really the opportunities that cellulosic ethanol presents for Iowa are huge,” Heaton says, “which is why the loss of these first generation corn stover plants is so real for the state.”
More than two-thousand people — including the King of the Netherlands — attended the grand opening of the ethanol plant in Emmetsburg in 2014. The plant was a joint venture of a Dutch company and POET, an ethanol company based in South Dakota. The State of Iowa provided 20 million dollars for job training and construction costs. The U.S. Department of Energy provided 100 million dollars worth of grants to build the plant.
(Radio Iowa) A season like none Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz has experienced is set to open . A nine game Big Ten sprint begins Saturday with a visit to Purdue.
It marks the first time since 1980 the Hawkeyes have opened the season with a Big Ten foe.
Ferentz says the off again, on again Big Ten plan has made it difficult to get the team ready.
Ferentz says the team and staff will be tested on Friday before they leave for the game and then will be tested the morning of the game.
Sophomore defensive back Julius Brents says they are excited to finally reach game week.
The challenge for the Iowa defense will be slowing down a Purdue offense that features standout receivers Rondale Moore and David Bell.
Brents says the concern with Moore is his ability to make big plays.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa State coach Matt Campbell does not want to put too much emphasis on Saturday’s outcome at Oklahoma State but it is difficult to ignore. The 17th ranked Cyclones visit the sixth ranked Cowboys and the winner takes a big step toward to the Big-12 Championship game.
Campbell says it is too early in the season to talk about what is at stake.
Campbell says experience is a major factor in Oklahoma State’s success on defense. The Cowboys are yielding only nine points per game in a 3-0 start.
Two years ago in Stillwater Brock Purdy made his first start in the Cyclones’ 48-42 victory over the 25th ranked Cowboys.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa sophomore receiver Tyrone Tracy says he will kneel during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner prior to the Hawkeyes’ season opener at Purdue. It has been a topic since charges of racial disparities in the program came to light during the summer.
Tracy says he believes the program is moving in the right direction when it comes to the issue of race.
Tracy says there could be other players who join him in taking a knee.
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz says players have the option to stand or kneel during the anthem.
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