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Skyscan forecast for Atlantic & the area: 2/8/2019

Weather

February 8th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Today: **Wind Chill Advisory until Noon** Mostly sunny. High 12. NW @ 10-15. WC as low as -25.

Tonight: Fair to Partly Cloudy. Low -4. SE @ 5.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy. High 26. SE @ 10-20. WC -10.

Sunday: Mo. Cldy w/a chance of snow. High 28.

Monday: Mo. Cldy w/a chance of afternoon snow. High around 30.

Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 8. We received .6” new snow (.01” liquid). Our Low this morning was -5. Last year on this date our High was 25 and the Low was 2. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 62 in 1954. The Record Low was -34 in 1971.

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Bohannon’s late run helps No. 20 Iowa hold off Indiana 77-72

Sports

February 8th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Iowa’s Jordan Bohannon waited patiently for his chances Thursday.
When they came, the junior guard delivered a seemingly bigger blow with each successive shot.
The junior guard matched his season-high by scoring 25 points including the last 11 to help the No. 20 Iowa hold on for a crucial 77-72 victory at Indiana.

While the Hawkeyes (18-5, 7-5 Big Ten) didn’t play their best ball, the combination of Tyler Cook early and Bohannon late was all Iowa needed Thursday. Cook had 13 points, five rebounds and three assists in the first half, staking Iowa to a 46-36 halftime lead. He finished with 21 points and seven rebounds as Luka Garza spent most of the game in foul trouble.

Bohannon’s closing flurry was even better. Twice in the final 91 seconds, he beat the shot clock with demoralizing, long 3-pointers and then he finished it off by making five of six free throws in the 27 seconds to prevent Indiana from even getting a chance to tie the score.

The result: Iowa won its second straight, ended a three-game losing streak in the series and won at Assembly Hall for the first time since 2015. The Hawkeyes demonstrated just how good they can be in the first half. And they showed how tough they can play by fending off the Hoosiers’ late charge. It was good enough to pick up a key road win.

Iowa improved to 3-3 on the road and 6-2 in games decided by single digits. The Hawks head home Sunday, to face Northwestern.

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Gustafson’s 41 leads No. 16 Iowa women past No. 23 Spartans

Sports

February 8th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Megan Gustafson poured in 41 points and grabbed 14 rebounds Thursday night to lead No. 16 Iowa to an 86-71 win over No. 23 Michigan State. Kathleen Doyle added 18 points with four 3-pointers, eight assists and seven rebounds for the Hawkeyes (18-5, 9-3 Big Ten Conference).

Gustafson was 17 of 24 from the field and made all seven of her free throws as Iowa avenged an 84-70 loss at Michigan State on Dec. 30 when she became the Hawkeyes’ all-time leading scorer. The nation’s leading scorer (26.7 ppg) pushed her career total to 2,429 points.

Freshman Nia Clouden, who scored a career-high 27 in the first meeting, led the Spartans (16-6, 6-5), who had won three straight, with 20 points, 10 in the fourth quarter. Gustafson scored Iowa’s first eight points and had 11 in the first quarter to stake the Hawkeyes, who are 12-0 at home, to a 23-15 lead.

It was 50-38 at halftime and when Clouden’s 3-point play pulled MSU within nine, Gustafson scored the last eight in a 10-0 run that put Iowa’s lead in double figures for good.

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Boys/Girls Basketball Scores from Thu., 2/7/19 & schedule for ppnd/cnxd games

Sports

February 8th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

BOYS BASKETBALL

Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 67, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 40
Creston 51, Clarinda 44

POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS

Kuemper Catholic, Carroll vs. South Hamilton, Jewell, ccd.
Tri-Center, Neola vs. IKM-Manning, ccd.
Underwood vs. MVAO-CO-U, ppd.
Winterset vs. Perry, ccd.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Harlan 56, Atlantic 51
Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 64, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 51
Clarinda 65, Creston 29
South Sioux City, Neb. 90, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 58
West Central Valley, Stuart 49, AC/GC 34

Class 1A Region 6, First Round

Bedford 57, College Springs South Page 27
Diagonal 53, Essex 30
Murray 44, Stanton 43
Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 49, East Union, Afton 33

Class 1A Region 7, First Round

Baxter 44, Grand View Christian 31
Fremont Mills, Tabor 59, Orient-Macksburg 24
Griswold 28, East Mills 17

Class 1A Region 8, First Round

West Harrison 66, Heartland Christian 39

POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS

Ar-We-Va, Westside vs. Riverside, Oakland, ppd. to Feb 9th.
Audubon vs. Coon Rapids-Bayard, ppd. to Feb 8th.
Boyer Valley, Dunlap vs. Whiting, ppd. to Feb 9th.
Glidden-Ralston vs. Woodbine, ppd. to Feb 8th.
Lenox vs. Mormon Trail, Garden Grove, ppd. to Feb 9th.
Sidney vs. Logan-Magnolia, ccd.
Tri-Center, Neola vs. IKM-Manning, ccd.
Winterset vs. Perry, ccd.

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Booker taking 2020 campaign, call for social justice to Iowa

News

February 8th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is taking his call for social justice to Iowa, where he plans to visit with black leaders this weekend on his first trip to the early 2020 caucus state as a Democratic presidential candidate. Booker is using rhetoric reminiscent of the civil rights movement to distinguish himself early in the race. And although Iowa is a vastly white state, the sentiment echoes within the state’s Democratic base.

“I think more and more people are seeing that social justice doesn’t just apply to race,” said Nancy Bobo, a white Des Moines Democrat who likes Booker. “When I think of social justice, I think of all the different laws and structures that impede opportunities for people for a whole range of reasons.”

Race is shaping up to be central to the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. Democratic prospects have called President Donald Trump’s portrayal of immigrants racist and roundly condemned his reaction to the deadly 2017 demonstration in Virginia as being sympathetic toward white supremacists.

Booker would conspicuously be the first presidential candidate this year to visit Black Hawk County, where the black population — at 9 percent — is three times that of vastly white Iowa. He plans to meet Friday (today) with black leaders in Waterloo, Iowa’s most African-American city per capita.

Before visiting Waterloo, Booker plans to campaign today (Friday) at a church in Mason City that has been active in officiating same-sex marriages in a state where they were legal before the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision granted the right nationally. Booker could appeal to that segment of Iowa voters who sent Democrat Tom Harkin, an outspoken advocate for worker and civil rights, to the Senate for 30 years until his retirement in 2014.

Booker is also scheduled to hold events in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City today (Friday) and to campaign in Marshalltown and Des Moines on Saturday.

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Iowa early News Headlines: Friday, Feb. 8th 2019

News

February 8th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 2:55 a.m. CST

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 of their Iowa home. The boy wept at times as he testified Wednesday against 40-year-old Traci Tyler. She is on trial separately from her boyfriend, Alex Shadlow. Both are charged with kidnapping. Investigators say the couple locked the boy in the basement space for at least nine hours a day in 2017.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is taking his call for social justice to Iowa, where he plans to visit with African-American leaders on his first trip to the early 2020 caucus state as a Democratic presidential candidate. Booker is using rhetoric reminiscent of the civil rights movement to distinguish himself early in the 2020 race. And although Iowa is a vastly white state, the sentiment echoes within the state’s Democratic base. Booker’s two-day trip begins Friday.

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. Poweshiek County Sheriff Tom Kriegel says Cheney, who is expected to survive, was trying to light a space heater when the explosion happened.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A bill to ban the use of cellphones while driving in Iowa has advanced out of a Senate subcommittee. The bill prohibits a driver from using a cellphone or similar electronic device unless it’s in hands-free mode. It expands current Iowa law that bans texting while driving.

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Onawa sees improvement in water color

News

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — A western Iowa city that has been dealing with brown water for almost a year says it has finally found a fix. Onawa’s water has been a brownish reddish color due to moderately high levels of iron and another metal called manganese. State environmental officials say the main impact of the manganese is it makes the water look bad. Sarah Haptonstall says that’s exactly whey she avoids drinking her tap water.

“Some days I have clear water and some days it looks like someone got shot in my bathtub,” Haptonstall says. The city started treating its water with a chemical compound called sodium permanganate about one week ago. Onawa’s Water Treatment Plant Operator David Richardson says they’ve seen immediate improvements.

He says the manganese levels in their tanks dropped the very next day and it has gotten better every day since. But he says it could take a while to clear all the manganese out of some of the water lines. “We’ve had some people comment that their water is clearing up. Keep in mind we have over 50 dead end water mains that have a lot of sediment in them,” he says, “so it will take extra time to get the sediment out of those pipes.”

Onawa has a population around three-thousand and bills itself on the city website as having the widest main street in the United States.

(Thanks to Kaite Piekes, Iowa Public Radio)

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Panel OKs Senate bill to ban cellphone use while driving

News

February 7th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A bill to ban the use of cellphones while driving has advanced out of an Iowa Senate subcommittee. The bill would prohibit drivers from using cellphones or similar electronic devices unless they are in hands-free mode. It expands current Iowa law that bans texting while driving. Public safety and health care professionals on the job are exempted.

If approved, drivers could be fined $100. Those using a device who cause serious crashes would face much higher potential fines and driver’s license suspensions.

House Speaker Linda Upmeyer says she wants more information before committing to supporting a bill but acknowledged lawmakers have heard from a lot of people frustrated by distracted driving.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says 17 states have approved hands-free only laws for all drivers.

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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.

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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.

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