WE GOT 34/100 OF AN INCH OF RAIN LAST NIGHT!
TODAY, COOLER, BUT STILL 90. COOLER WITH MORE RAIN POSSIBLE TOMORROW.

A TREE WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING LAST NIGHT AND ELECTRIC WAS OFF IN THE AREA FOR OVER AN HOUR.

JACKSON COUNTY HAS BEEN ISSUED AN OPEN BURNING BAN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

RODNEY ALLEN TRACY, 39, FROM MAQUOKETA, WAS SENTENCED AUGUST 4TH TO MORE THAN 12 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR DISTRIBUTING AND USING METH. HIS WIFE AND CO-DEFENDANT, JODEE TRACY, AGE 44, WAS SENTENCED JULY 20TH TO 43 MONTHS IN PRISON. BOTH ARE BEING HELD IN THE CUSTODY OF THE US MARSHAL UNTIL THEY CAN BE TRANSPORTED TO A FEDERAL PRISON. THERE IS NO PAROLE IN THE FEDERAL SYSTEM.

IN MAGISTRATE COURT, DAVID WILLGUS, AGE 48 AND DAVID SANDERS, AGE 42, BOTH OF MAQUOKETA, WERE CHARGED LAST NIGHT WITH PUBLIC INTOXICATION. IT WAS THE 11TH PUBLIC INTOXICATION OFFENSE FOR WILGUS AND THE 6TH FOR SANDERSON.

DORIS DECKER, 88, OF IOWA CITY DIED MONDAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO SONS, LUREN AND RICHARD STIMMEL BOTH OF MAQUOKETA.

HAD COFFEE THIS MORNING WITH LEORNARD MOREHEAD, WHO WAS A STANDOUT QUARERBACK FOR MAQUOKETA HIGH IN THE LATE 50'S AND ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, WAS MAQUOKETA'S FOOTBALL COACH.
HE AND HIS WIFE, MARY JANE, ARE VISITING FAMILY HERE IN TOWN AND LIVE IN FLORIDA.

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN. DID YOU SEE MAQUOEKTA'S SAGE ROSENFELS THROW A TOUCHDOWN PASS FOR THE DOLPHINS MONDAY NIGHT?

DENNIS VOY.