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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa City-based testing company ACT intends to outsource more than 100 jobs to a Colorado company. ACT says 115 full-time positions and 40 temporary positions will be eliminated locally. The transition of the work to Startek will begin Aug. 1 and be finished in November. Startek is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
ACT says Startek can provide “a level of service that is no longer possible for a non-specialized company” such as ACT. ACT also says employees who do not find other positions with the company will receive severance packages.
The Creston Police Department reports two people were arrested Wednesday evening on drug charges. 25-year old Marcus Parkhurst and 25-year old Brittanee Short, both of Creston, were taken into custody at around 6:10-p.m. in an apartment located in the 300 block of W. Lucas Street. They were both charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance/1st offense, cited and released on a Promise to Appear in court.
Authorities said also, a woman reported that sometime between 10-and 10:30-a.m. Wednesday, someone entered her vehicle while it was parked in the 300 block of W. Adams Street. Taken from inside the vehicle, was a purse that contained keys, credit cards, ID and cash. The loss was estimated at $200.
The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has scheduled an open public board meeting for 8:30-a.m. Central Time June 18th in Washington, D.C., to determine the probable cause of the fatal, Dec. 12, 2017, Oakland, Iowa, school bus fire. The crash occurred when 74-year old school bus driver Donald Hendricks turned from a rural gravel road onto a residential driveway for student pickup. After 16-year old Megan Klindt boarded the bus, Hendricks reversed out of the driveway and backed across the road continuing until the bus’s rear wheels ran off the road. The bus came to rest with its rear half in a 3-foot-deep ditch next to the road.
NTSB investigation photos of Oakland School Bus fire
While Hendrick attempted to drive the bus out of the ditch, a fire began in the engine compartment and spread throughout the school bus. Both Hendricks and Klindt died, when they did could not escape the burning bus. The meeting will be lived-streamed, and a public docket for this investigation is available from the NTSB website at https://go.usa.gov/xmVnE
For more information, including the preliminary incident report, go to: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Pages/2019-HWY18MH003-BMG.aspx
(Radio Iowa) — We’re now at the halfway mark of tornado season in Iowa, and so far, there hasn’t been a single twister reported statewide this year. While tornadoes can strike during any month, April, May and June are considered the peak months. Meteorologist Chad Hahn, at the National Weather Service, says there is a reason why it’s been such a quiet period for the storms. “Of course, we’ve been experiencing a great deal of precipitation and certainly we’ve seen that with the ongoing river flooding across portions of the state,” Hahn says. “We’ve been cooler than normal over the past few weeks and because of that, we haven’t been able to get the thunderstorm activity going like we’d typically expect in the spring months here.”
After the prolonged cold spell, warmer weather should be moving in over the next few days. Hahn says that could bring a chance of thunderstorms, though likely nothing too rough. “At least at this point, the week looks fairly quiet, but we do see the mercury starting to rise off in the horizon,” Hahn says. “Of course, it’s not a matter of if, it’s when. We can’t let our guard down because we know when that switch flips, we’ll have to be ready to take the appropriate action if we have severe weather.” Hahn says Iowans should be prepared. “I encourage the public to know that we will get severe weather,” he says. “It’s not a matter of if, it’s when. When that does happen, it’ll likely go from zero to 60, so we need to battle the complacency bug and be ready for severe weather when it does strike.”
Last year, there were 69 tornadoes statewide with the most notable hitting Bondurant, Marshalltown and Pella on July 19th. Over the past decade, Iowa has seen as few as 16 tornadoes during all of 2012 and as many as 88 tornadoes in 2014.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Officials think a mountain lion seen in Des Moines likely has left town. The animal was spotted on security video last week west of downtown and on the city’s south side, not far from the airport. Des Moines police received two calls Wednesday morning from people who think they saw it, too, but the reports haven’t been confirmed.
Alex Murphy with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said Wednesday night that agency officials think the mountain lion has made its way out of the city, because there’s been no video or picture evidence or a confirmed sighting in the last few days.
(Radio Iowa) — Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is issuing a warning about the dangers of an escalating trade war with China. “As I like to tell the president when he says he likes tariffs, I try to remind him that Smoot-Hawley brought about the Great Depression, brought about Adolph Hitler, brought about World War II, brought about 60 million people losing their lives as a result of it,” Grassley says.
The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 raised tariffs on goods imported into the U.S. by 20 percent and sparked retaliatory tariffs from other countries on U.S. goods. According to Grassley, half the world lived in poverty after World War II, but reducing tariffs and promoting international trade have led nearly 50 percent of the world’s population to be classified as “middle class” today. “I like to tell the president that globalism has helped everybody, freeing up trade has helped everybody and let’s move on,” Grassley says.
Grassley, a Republican, made his remarks to the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. Fellow Republican Joni Ernst, Iowa’s other U.S. Senator, says Iowa farmers will suffer “permanent damage” if they lose access to the Chinese market. “We need free trade. We need fair trade and we are not seeing that from China right now,” Ernst says. “So I would say: ‘China, quit hemming and hawing. Let’s get back to the (negotiating) table. Let’s finish this deal.’ It will be good for China. It’ll be great for Americans.”
President Trump began imposing tariffs last year and is threatening to impose a 25 percent tariff on another 325-billion-dollars in Chinese goods next month if there’s no deal. Trump also has promised 15 billion dollars in federal aid to farmers to compensate for trade-related losses.
Today: Partly cloudy. High around 90. S @ 10-20.
Tonight: Partly cloudy w/isolated showers & thunderstorms late. Low 67. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High 84. S @ 10-20.
Saturday: P/Cldy w/scattered shwrs & tstrms. High near 84.
Sunday: Mo. Cldy w/showers & thunderstorms mainly in the morning. High 66.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 82. Our Low was 51. Last year on this date our High was 85 and the Low was 55. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 93 in 1939. The Record Low was 25 in 1907.
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