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Man serving time on sex abuse charges out of Audubon Co. dies in prison

News

November 4th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

(IOWA CITY) – Officials with the Iowa Department of Corrections report 65-year old Russell Kenneth Fidler died from natural causes a little after 12:30-a.m. Saturday. Fidler, who had been incarcerated for the crime of Sexual Abuse, 2nd Degree from Audubon County, was pronounced dead at the University of Iowa Hospitals, where he had been taken due to a medical emergency.

Fidler’s incarceration in prison began on February 4, 2004.  Fidler, originally from Villisca, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, without parole, following a jury conviction for the second-degree sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl with cognitive mental disabilities and attention deficit disorder,  in April, 2003, at a residence in Kimballton.

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Atlantic girls swimming takes 12th at State, Miller places in two events

Sports

November 4th, 2018 by admin

The Atlantic girls swim team competed at State Meet in Marshalltown this weekend and came away with a12th place team finish with 63 points. Ames was the team champion with 372 points. The State Meet was held at the Marshalltown YWCA/YMCA.

Heres a look at the events for the Trojans:

200 Yard Medley Relay: 14th Atlantic 1:52.96 1:52.58 6 1) Annamaria Lowary JR 2) Mckenna Ewoldt SR 3) Clare Christensen JR 4) Aleah Hermansen FR
200 Yard Freestyle: Cambry Miller- Prelims: Qualified 12th 1:56.01 q. Finals: 14th 1:57.51
200 Yard IM: Annamaria Lowary- Prelims: 27th, DNQ 2:16.01
100 Yard Butterfly: Claire Christensen- Prelims: 25th, DNQ 1:00.05
100 Yard Freestyle: Cambry Miller- Prelims: Qualified 10th 53.18. Finals: 9th 53.64.
200 Yard Freestyle Relay- 8th Atlantic 1:38.78 1:38.41 1) Aleah Hermansen FR 2) Kathryn Landhuis JR 3) Clare Christensen JR 4) Cambry Miller SR
100 Yard Backstroke: Annamaria Lowary: Prelims: 22nd, DNQ 1:00.08
400 Yard Freestyle Relay-  7th Atlantic 3:37.40 3:34.63 1) Aleah Hermansen FR 2) Annamaria Lowary JR 3) Clare Christensen JR 4) Cambry Miller SR

Full meet results can be found here.

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MICHAEL N. HJULER, 59, of Audubon (Svcs. 11/6/18)

Obituaries

November 4th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

MICHAEL N. HJULER, 59, of Audubon, died Thursday, Nov. 1st, at Mercy Hospital Medical Center, in Des Moines. Funeral services for MICHAEL HJULER will be held 10:30-a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6th, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, in Audubon. Kessler Funeral Home in Audubon has the arrangements.

Friends may call at the funeral home, where the family visitation is at 5-p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5th.

Burial will be in the Bethany Lutheran Cemetery, northeast of Kimballton.

MICHAEL HJULER is survived by:

His parents – Don & Darlene Hjuler, of Audubon.

Brothers/Sisters – Mark Hjuler, of Killeen, TX, and Craig (Lorna) Hjuler, of Spring, TX; Debbie Campbell, of Audubon; Denise (Steve) Purdy, of Denison, and Donna (Paul) Lauritsen, of Waukee; Kyepok Hjuler, of KY

17 Nieces & Nephews

17 Great-Nieces & Nephews

other relatives and many friends.

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Red Oak woman arrested on a Mills County warrant

News

November 4th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Police in Red Oak Saturday evening, arrested a woman wanted on a warrant out of Mills County. 29-year old Katie Rose Carnes, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 5:52-p.m. in the 800 block of N. 4th Street and brought to the Montgomery County Jail. Carnes’ bond was set at $5,000, in association with the warrant for Failure to Appear on a Possession of a Controlled Substance/1st offense, charge.

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Skyscan Forecast for Atlantic & the area, Sunday 11/4/18

Weather

November 4th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Today: Cloudy w/a 20% chance of rain before 9am. High near 44. North wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Tonight: Cloudy to partly cloudy w/a 30% chance of rain after 5-a.m. Monday. Low around 37. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southeast after midnight.
Monday: Rain. High near 47. S/SE wind 5-15 w/gusts to around 25. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Monday Night: Mostly cloudy & breezy, w/a 60% chance of rain through midnight. Low 36. S wind @ 10-15 becoming NW & gusting to near 25 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny & windy, with a high near 46.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 43.
Thursday: A 30% chance of rain and snow through 4-pm, then a chance of snow. High near 37.

Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 44. Our Low this morning, 41. We received one-half inch of rain here at KJAN from 7-a.m. Yesterday, through 6-a.m. Today. Last year on this date our High was 52 and the Low was 40. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 75 in 1909 & 1978. The Record Low was -1 in 1991.

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Other Iowa college football scores from Saturday (11/3/18)

Sports

November 4th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Benedictine (Kan.) 25, Grand View 13

Cornell (Iowa) 23, Grinnell 13

Northwestern (Iowa) 42, Concordia (Neb.) 28

Dubuque 17, Simpson (Iowa) 6

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Midwest Sports Headlines: 11/4/2018

Sports

November 4th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Spencer Evans made a 25-yard field goal with 8 seconds left Saturday to give Purdue a 38-36 upset over No. 19 Iowa. David Blough threw three touchdown passes to Terry Wright and topped the 300-yard mark for the fifth time this season as the Boilermakers moved within a game of the Big Ten West’s division lead. The Hawkeyes lost their second straight road game when their vaunted defense couldn’t come up with one final stop.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Brock Purdy threw for 263 yards and three touchdowns, two of them big-play strikes to Hakeem Butler, and Iowa State rolled to a 27-3 victory over Kansas. The Cyclones have won four straight after putting their freshman quarterback under center. The Jayhawks struggled a week after upsetting TCU.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Austin Errthum kicked four consecutive first-half field goals, the longest from 43-yards out, to stake Northern Iowa to a 19-3 halftime lead and spark the Panthers to a 26-16 in over Illinois State in a Missouri Valley Conference showdown. After JT Bohlken converted from 27-yards out on the Redbirds opening possession, Errthum capped three of UNI’s next four drives with field goals, hitting from 30, 30, 27 and 43 yards.

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Iowa early News Headlines: Sunday, 11/4/2018

News

November 4th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 4:30- a.m. CST

URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — A central Iowa couple face charges after police say they left their 9-month-old baby home alone for hours to go to a bar. Television station KCCI reports that police arrested 22-year-old Bryan Austin McCrea Bozarth and 20-year-old Ashley Lee Routh King on Friday. Each has been charged with child endangerment, and King also faces an underage drinking charge.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed seeking to represent hundreds of victims of a former Iowa youth basketball coach now facing 15 to 180 years in prison for sexually exploiting them. The lawsuit was filed Friday by law firm Grefe & Sidney and names as defendants former Iowa Barnstormers coach Greg Stephen, the Barnstormers organization and its supervising organization, the Amateur Athletic Union. Stephen pleaded guilty last month to sexual exploitation and child porn charges and is awaiting sentencing.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Officials in Iowa City are reminding residents to compost their fall pumpkins and leftover Halloween jack-o-lanterns instead of trashing them. To do this, residents are asked to put pumpkins with yard waste collection, which is composted. Residents who do not receive curbside services can take pumpkins at no cost to the City’s compost facility located at the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraskans and Iowans are being reminded to set their clocks back an hour before going to bed Saturday. Standard time returns this weekend at 2 a.m. Sunday. The change means most Americans will get an extra hour of rest, but those working overnight shifts might toil an hour longer. It also means some will forget to change their clocks, and show up early for church or other events on Sunday.

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Errthum’s 4 FGs spark Northern Iowa past Illinois St, 26-16

Sports

November 3rd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Austin Errthum kicked four consecutive first-half field goals, the longest from 43-yards out, to stake Northern Iowa to a 19-3 halftime lead and spark the Panthers to a 26-16 win over Illinois State in a Missouri Valley Conference showdown Saturday.

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Evans’ field goal sends Purdue past No. 19 Iowa 38-36

Sports

November 3rd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Spencer Evans made a 25-yard field goal with 8 seconds left Saturday, giving Purdue a 38-36 upset over No. 19 Iowa and putting the Boilermakers back in the Big Ten’s West Division title hunt. David Blough threw three touchdown passes to Terry Wright and topped the 300-yard mark for the fifth time this season.

The Boilermakers (5-4, 4-2 Big Ten) have won five of their last six and beat their third ranked team this season — the first time they’ve achieved that feat since 2003 — to move within one game of division leader Northwestern.

The Hawkeyes (6-3, 3-3) lost their second straight road game despite Nate Stanley’s big day. The junior quarterback threw for 275 yards with one TD and ran for another but the conference’s No. 2 scoring defense allowed a season-high point total.

After watching their playoff aspirations vanish with last week’s loss at Penn State, the Hawkeyes’ Big Ten title hopes now likely faded away, too. Iowa probably will fall out of the Top 25 after losing in back-to-back weeks by a total of eight points.

Iowa hosts division-leading Northwestern next weekend.

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