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COUNCIL BLUFFS – Atlantic’s Lexi Reynolds and the 200-yard freestyle relay picked up the only Trojan wins in a dual meet with Council Bluffs Lewis Central Tuesday night.
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Due to the Trojan Bowl not quite being game ready, the Atlantic seventh grade football game scheduled for Thursday will be moved to Creston. Game time is 5:45 pm.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and local community groups will host a groundbreaking ceremony for a new campground at 1 p.m. Thursday at Lake Manawa State Park.
On Sept. 14 officers with the Atlantic Police arrested Paul Jordan, 59, of Temple, Texas, for public intoxication. Jordan was taken into custody, transported to the Cass County Jail, booked in and held.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS – Atlantic’s Lexi Reynolds and the 200-yard freestyle relay picked up the only Trojan wins in a dual meet with Council Bluffs Lewis Central Tuesday night.
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Due to the Trojan Bowl not quite being game ready, the Atlantic seventh grade football game scheduled for Thursday will be moved to Creston. Game time is 5:45 pm.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and local community groups will host a groundbreaking ceremony for a new campground at 1 p.m. Thursday at Lake Manawa State Park.
On Sept. 14 officers with the Atlantic Police arrested Paul Jordan, 59, of Temple, Texas, for public intoxication. Jordan was taken into custody, transported to the Cass County Jail, booked in and held.
SHELBY COUNTY — Suspects are on the loose after evading law enforcement in a pursuit in Pottawattamie and Shelby Counties.
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On Sept. 14, deputies with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office arrested Daryl D Armstrong, 60, of Anita, on two Sheriff’s Office warrants for violation of a no contact order. Armstrong was taken …
POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY — A Marne man was injured in Pottawattamie County on Wednesday morning in a single car accident.
SHELBY COUNTY — Suspects are on the loose after evading law enforcement in a pursuit in Pottawattamie and Shelby Counties.
Cass County Road N28, also known as 690th Street, will close on Wednesday, Sept. 23 just south of Iowa 83 at the Iowa Interstate Railroad, for repairs to that crossing. According to a report by Cass County Secondary Roads officials, a signed detour be via Iowa Highway 83, US Highway 71 and C…
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Officials with the Cass/Atlantic Development Corporation are partnering with Iowa Workforce Development and Iowa Economic Development Authority to complete a Laborshed employment study for the Cass area. This study will geographically define which communities contribute to Cass workforce, re…
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CASS COUNTY – There’s a new face at Cass/Atlantic Development Corporation (CADCO). Jessi Klever started as assistant to CADCO Executive Director Jennifer McEntaffer on May 11.
ATLANTIC – The Atlantic Chamber received $2,000 worth of gift cards as part of a $200,000 donation from Fareway Stores, Inc. to Iowa Chamber of Commerce Executives (ICCE. Donations are given to chambers in communities with Fareway stores. They will be given to small businesses in the Atlanti…
Atlantic competed Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the Creston Invitational and got some great performances on the course at Southwestern Iowa Community College.
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Rock Island-Milan School Board members approved a 2020-2021 budget with a slightly improved education fund deficit from prior projections and heard a construction update for Washington Junior High School and Rock Island High School.
WHAT WE KNOW: Law enforcement agencies had a stand-off with Jeffrey R. Blunk, 30, of Geneseo on Tuesday that resulted in a member of the United States Marshal's Fugitive task force shooting and killing Blunk.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Carson Kelly had a three-run homer, Caleb Smith and Riley Smith combined to throw a six-hitter and the Arizona Diamondbacks rolled to a 7-0 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Tyler Lyons walked to the mound to relieve Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, then walked right back to New York’s dugout without throwing a pitch against Toronto.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Jamal Murray had 28 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds and made two late 3-pointers to halt a Lakers charge, helping the Denver Nuggets to a 114-106 victory Tu…
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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Alysha Clark's putback at the buzzer lifted the Seattle Storm past the Minnesota Lynx 88-86 on Tuesday night in the first game of the semifinal series.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Max Kepler hit the tying home run in the eighth inning and the game-winning single with two outs in the 10th, giving the Minnesota Twins a 5-4 victory over the Detroit Tiger…
SOUTHWEST IOWA — Superintendents in two southwest Iowa school districts reported having confirmed exposures to or cases of COVID-19 among individuals in their districts this week.
MANNING – Throughout the month of September, the Recovery Center at Manning Regional Healthcare Center aims to increase awareness of substance abuse as well as support individuals in their recovery from previous alcohol and substance abuse addictions.
HARLAN – The Alzheimer’s Association invited Harlan and surrounding area residents to join the fight to end Alzheimer’s by participating in the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® planned for today, Saturday, Sept. 12.
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SOUTHWEST IOWA — Raising awareness — and funds — for Childhood Cancer and looking for ways to stay physically fit during the coronavirus pandemic lead a southwest Iowa banker to get on his bike and ride 100 miles on Iowa gravel roads.
ELK HORN — Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton School District officials announced on Thursday that six individuals in the district had been quarantined due to COVID-19 — but have not tested positive — and have plans in place in the event the district sees a 10 percent or higher absentee rate, due to …
NEW YORK (AP) — “I did the best I could,” President Donald Trump said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Votes in hand, Senate Republicans are charging ahead with plans to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before the Nov. 3 election, launching a divisive fight over Democratic objections before a nominee is e…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sweeping bipartisan vote that takes a government shutdown off the table, the House passed a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday night, shortly after President Donald Trump prevailed in a behind-the-scenes fight over his farm bailout.
HOBART, Australia (AP) — More pilot whales were found stranded on an Australian coast Wednesday, raising the estimated total to almost 500 in the largest mass stranding ever recorded in the country.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will aim to stop adding to the global warming problem by 2060.
MOSCOW (AP) — What do you do when Vladimir Putin offers you Russia’s new coronavirus vaccine, for free?
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivered a defiant and fiery speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly as his nation grapples with the Middle East’s worst coronavirus outbreak and a weakened economy, but he insisted that it is the U.S. that will surrend…
At a predominantly Republican gathering earlier this week, a remark was made that was patently untrue. ‘Like the Democrats say, vote early and vote often’.
“For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.”
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I don’t usually write twice in a week, but this one’s Big (no pun intended).
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I was covering Griswold’s volleyball tournament on Saturday with photos aplenty.
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Highlights of this day in history: Richard Nixon gives his 'Checkers' speech; Rome's Augustus Caesar born; Lewis and Clark finish trek to America's West; Psychologist Sigmund Freud dies; Musicians Ray Charles and Bruce Springsteen born. (Sept. 23)
