The 7:06-a.m. report w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson

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Highway 6 (7th Street) in Atlantic, is closed in preparation for road construction work, which is expected to begin tomorrow. Local traffic may follow detours marked with flexible orange signs, to the more than two-dozen businesses located along 7th Street from Olive Street east, to just past the Burger King restaurant.Primary access to those businesses will be on the side streets off of East 6th and East 10th Street. Detours for through traffic are in-place from Highway 173 north, to Interstate 80, east to Highway 71, and south back to the east side of town.

Milling, or the removing of asphalt along the road is expected to begin Wednesday. The roadway will remain closed until the project is complete.

Detour map to local businesses along Hwy 6/7th Street in Atlantic, while construction is underway. (Courtesy Atlantic Chamber of Commerce)

A report in the Daily NonPareil says according to Creighton University officials, more than 5,000 people altogether are expected to have attended the visitation, vigil and funeral of Omaha Police Officer Kerrie Orozco since it began, Monday.

Image from the Orozco Funeral program, via the Omaha P-D Facebook page

The 29-year old Orozco was killed last Wednesday after gunfire broke out as she and three other officers tried to arrest Marcus D. Wheeler on a felony warrant charging him with first-degree assault. Wheeler, who shot Orozco once in the upper chest, was shot twice by Sgt. Jeffrey Kopietz. Both the officer and the suspect died at Creighton University Medical Center.

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — A 115-year-old log cabin will moved within Le Mars, Iowa, after avoiding demolition. The Sioux City Journal reports the cabin will be moved by May 31 from the Plymouth County Fairgrounds to the Plymouth County Museum grounds, where it will be restored. Fair officials had planned to demolish the cabin, but changed their minds after a concerned group of citizens asked if the structure could be moved to the museum.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Officials say there’s evidence a black bear has traveled into Dubuque. Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials say tracks found behind a home on the south side of the city belong to a black bear weighing between 100 and 200 pounds. Police say a bear sighting was reported Monday morning.

GRINNELL, Iowa (AP) — A Grinnell family spent the long weekend in Washington, D.C., at a national seminar and grief camp for those coping with the loss of a member of the armed forces. Kaanan Mackey says the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, known as TAPS, will give her five children, ages 6 to 16, a chance to meet others with similar experiences. Mackey’s husband, Matthew, died in 2010 from injuries following an accident on his way home from a drill weekend at Camp Dodge in Johnston. He served in the Marine Corps and Iowa Army National Guard.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Some people who remember old Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Sioux City are wondering what happened to the vibrant mural that once graced the building. The building opened in 1925 and was torn down 80 years later to make way for a new school, Irving Elementary. The artwork titled “Patriotic Mural” was unveiled in February 1966, created by Oglala Lakota artist Arthur Amiotte.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two Iowa inmates have been listed as escaped from state work release facilities. Iowa Corrections Department officials say 51-year-old Llewellyn Roberts escaped from the facility in Marshalltown and 26-year-old Eric Livingston from the Waterloo facility. Roberts’ five-year sentence for domestic assault in Tama County began on Aug. 19, 2013. Livingston’s 10-year sentence for robbery in Black Hawk County began on March 31, 2009.

A project that began in 2008 is now complete and the John Wayne Birthplace Museum is open for visitors in Winterset. The four-bedroom home in which Marion Morrison was born in 1907 has been a tourist stop since the 1980s, but the museum next-door to catalogue the life of the movie star who became known as John Wayne is holding its grand opening festivities this weekend. Joe Zuckschwerdt — the president of the new museum’s board of directors — says a 25-seat theater is a good first stop inside the museum.

“We have a wonderful minute-and-a-half introduction from John Wayne’s daughter, Aissa Wayne, which is just wonderful,” Zuckschwerdt says. “And then we have (an) eight-and-a-half motion picture that highlights John Wayne’s career, from his early days all the way ’til his last movie, ‘The Shootist’.” Among the items in the museum’s collection is John Wayne’s 1972 Pontiac Safari Station wagon with its raised roof, so he could still wear a hat while he drove.

“He was 6’4″ and he loved wearing hats, not just western hats,” Zuckschwerdt says. “This was his personal vehicle. He would get in there and drive all over Newport Beach. He was a regular guy.” Wayne appeared in more than 175 films. “The Shootist” — his last movie — was released in 1976. He died of cancer three years later at the age of 72.

(Radio Iowa)

An email is being forwarded around from Iowans to their loved ones that claims to contain advice about how to survive a heart attack if you’re alone. One expert says the email offers terrible advice. It claims you should cough, hard, with each breath until help arrives. Dr. Shikar Saxena, a cardiologist in Omaha-Council Bluffs, says it’s best to delete that email and try to forget the false remedy.

“That is absolutely ludicrous to say that somebody who’s alone who’s having a heart attack can cough and essentially save their life,” Dr. Saxena says. “You only have about ten seconds, if you’re truly having arrhythmia, before you’re going to pass out from it.” He says that valuable time would be much better spent getting to a phone and calling 9-1-1. Saxena explains the likely origins of the well-meaning but invalid email.

“When we have patients who have cardiac arrest or arrhythmias and we see them in the hospital, we tell them sometimes to cough and very rarely can we get them out of this arrhythmia,” Dr. Saxena says, “so that’s where this all started from.” The subject line in the email is: “How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone,” and it’s been floating around cyberspace for years but it’s found new life in the past few weeks. Shikar is a cardiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

(Radio Iowa)

Two central Iowa residents were injured in a pickup versus motorcycle accident Monday afternoon, east of Greenfield, in Adair County. The Iowa State Patrol says a 2012 Chevy pickup driven by 62-year old Harold Adams, of Ankeny, was traveling east on Highway 92 and slowing to a stop, waiting to turn north onto the Stuart Road, when an eastbound 2011 Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by 52-year old Daniel Bruce, of Norwalk, failed to stop in-time.

The cycle, also occupied by 53-year old Rhonda Bruce, of Norwalk, collided with the rear of the pickup. Both vehicles came to rest at the point of impact, in the upright position. The accident happened at around 2:30-p.m.

Daniel Bruce was flown by Mercy One helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. Rhonda Bruce was transported by Adair Rescue to the Adair County Hospital, in Greenfield. A report on their conditions is not available.

GRINNELL, Iowa (AP) — A Grinnell family is spending the long weekend in Washington, D.C., at a national seminar and grief camp for those coping with the loss of a member of the armed forces. Kaanan Mackey says the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, known as TAPS, will give her five children, ages 6 to 16, a chance to meet others with similar experiences.

Mackey’s husband, Matthew, died in 2010 from injuries following an accident on his way home from a drill weekend at Camp Dodge in Johnston. He served in the Marine Corps and Iowa Army National Guard. The Des Moines Register reports the family on Memorial Day usually places flags on veterans’ graves at the Grinnell cemetery. This year they will place stones on graves at Arlington National Cemetery.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Officials say there’s evidence a black bear has traveled into Dubuque. Nate Johnson with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says tracks found behind a home on the south side of the city belong to a black bear weighing between 100 and 200 pounds. Police say a bear sighting was reported Monday morning.