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 area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect from a pursuit that occurred near Lenox, Tuesday evening. If you know who this is, please contact the Taylor County Law Enforcement Center at 712-523-2153.
Pursuit suspect
Area Counties: Sac-Crawford-Carroll-Audubon-Guthrie-Dallas-Cass-Adair-Madison-Adams-Union-Taylor and Ringgold….
Areas of dense fog have developed overnight and early this morning across portions of central, western, and southern Iowa. Scattered areas have seen visiblities drop to a mile or less, with others beginning to see restrictions as well. Travel this morning should be with caution, including usage of fog lights and reduced speeds.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines resident has been convicted of killing an Urbandale man after breaking into the man’s home and stabbing him. Polk County court records say a jury found 20-year-old Magai Anai Kur guilty on Monday of robbery and first-degree murder. The murder conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. His sentencing is set for Nov. 14.
Prosecutors say Anai Kur broke into the home of 77-year-old Robert Howe early on Sept. 3 last year, demanded money and then choked, punched and stabbed Howe after Howe tried to fight back. Prosecutors say Howe died of his injuries four months later, so they raised the charge of attempted murder to first-degree murder.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has handed Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds a victory in temporarily halting enforcement of a Barack Obama administration clean water rule in the state. The Waters of the United States rule is disliked by conservative groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Farm Bureau Federation which claim it’s classic government over-regulation. It was challenged in court in June 2015 by a dozen states seeking to halt its implementation.
The rule, supported by environmental groups, provides a definition for which rivers, lakes and other water bodies may be regulated by federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency. Iowa was not one of the original states in the lawsuit, but Reynolds had asked the court to allow the state to join in. That would mean Iowa also could halt enforcement of the clean water rule until the issue is fully litigated in the courts. On Tuesday Judge Daniel Hovland granted Reynolds’ request.
Police in Red Oak who conducted a traffic stop Tuesday evening in the 2400 block of Broadway, arrested the driver of the vehicle on warrants and for Driving While Barred. 31-year old Joshua Kenneth Wolcott (whose address was not listed in the report) was arrested on a Fremont County warrant charging him with three counts of Theft in the 4th Degree. Wolcott was being held in the Montgomery County Jail, awaiting extradition to Fremont County. His bond was set at $2,000.
EVELYN D. ASBERRY, 81, of Exira, died Monday, Sept. 17th, at the Exira Care Center. A Celebration of Life Memorial Gathering for EVELYN ASBERRY will be held from 2-until 4-p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23rd, at the Kessler Funeral Home in Exira, with a Scripture service at 3:30-p.m., Sunday.
The family will have a private inurnment at a later date in the Exira Cemetery.
EVELYN ASBERRY is survived by:
Her children – Bobbie Dee (Shelli) Asberry, Vickie Ann Asberry, and John (Denise) Asberry, all of Exira.
11 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, her special cousins David (Berniece) Larsen and Carol Fleming, other relatives & friends.
Strong storms that moved into western Iowa Tuesday afternoon, brought hail, winds of up to 60 miles per hour, and caused scattered power outages. According to the National Weather Service, a thunderstorm wind gust of up to 60-mph at around 3-p.m. was recorded by an Iowa DOT system, and hail a bit larger than the size of peas was observed. The event occurred about two-miles south/southeast of Adair.
Four-miles north/northeast of Anita, about 10-minutes earlier, a DOT automated site recorded a 60-mile per hour gust of wind. Power lines and/or poles were reported down in Kimballton Tuesday afternoon, as well, after storms pushed their way through Shelby and Audubon Counties.
There were no other, immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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