HONOR STUDENTS
Creston High School honor students met in the school’s library for a photo after the graduation ceremony Sunday. See the photo and others from graduation on page 2A. >>
ON TO DISTRICTS
The Creston/O-M boys golf team sails to districts with three players finishing in the top four in Atlantic Friday. Read more in SPORTS, page 5A. >>
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Off the rails
MONDAY, MAY 18, 2015
An estimated 80 Burlington Northern Santa Fe train cars were blown off the tracks near Osceola after an early Sunday morning storm. Wind speeds reached 75 mph. ■
By AMY HANSEN
vanced notice from the National Weather Service for the Clarke County area. That is one reason why the sirens didn’t go off. “It was just here and gone,” Duffus said. “The meteorologist talked about how nobody saw this.”
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OSCEOLA — An early morning thunderstorm Sunday had enough force to blow approximately 80 Burlington Northern Santa Fe train cars off the tracks in Clarke County. “(The storm) was here one minute and gone the next,” said Osceola Police Chief Marty Duffus. What was thought to be a potential tornado touchdown is now appearing to be straight-line winds. According to Allan Mathias with Clarke County Emergency Management, his last update from the National
Another touchdown OST photo by AMY HANSEN
Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad cars are blown off the tracks near Lacelle Road in Osceola on Sunday.
Weather Service showed a storm with straight-line winds of 60-70 miles per hour. The winds could have reached 75 miles per hour at one point. The storm caused the damage between 3 and 3:30 a.m.
Sunday. Most of the damage is in the rural parts of the county, west of Osceola. The empty train cars blew off the tracks near Lacelle Road. According to BNSF officials, there were no reported
injuries and no major financial losses in the accident. However, because of the mud the storm created, clean up took several hours Sunday. Inside the town limits, there was reported damage to trees and aluminum car
ports.
No warnings
The severe thunderstorm appeared to take many people by surprise, and Duffus did say there was no weather warning issued. It was confirmed there was no ad-
GRADUATION DAY
One hundred seventeen students received a diploma from Creston High School Sunday. Five valedictorians were honored at the ceremony. Senior Erendira Ornelas wins Great Strides Award. ■
CNA photos by KYLE WILSON
Valedictorians for the class of 2015 are, from left, Brenna Baker, Ashley Harris, Kyle Jennett, Natalie Mostek and Monica Powers. Salutatorian was Kaleb Cook.
LEFT: Creston senior Ericka Abell receives her diploma from school board member Tom Eagan Sunday. ABOVE: The seniors celebrate graduating with the toss of their caps and silly string in the air Sunday afternoon. Here, Sheona Barnett, middle, smiles while cleaning some of the silly string out of her hair.
See more photos from graduation on page 2A. Also, view all photos from the graduation ceremony online at www.crestonnews.com by clicking on the photos tab. Video from Sunday can also be viewed there. ■
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According to the Des Moines Register, a tornado touched down in Ogden, in Boone County, between 3:52 and 4 a.m. Duffus said the fast-moving storm could have gone from Clarke County up north to Ogden. Duffus said officials from the weather service were scheduled to come Sunday or today to access the damage.
Kerry slams North Korea, vows security for South SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday accused North Korea of a litany of crimes and atrocities while reassuring South Korea of America’s “ironclad” security commitments. Kerry blamed North Korea for continuing to break promises, make threats and “show flagrant disregard for international law” by continuing to build its nuclear bomb and missile programs even as it oppressed its own people. He said North Korea’s “horrific conduct” must be exposed and vowed to ratchet up pressure on Pyongyang to change its behavior, particularly since it has rebuffed repeated attempts to restart nuclear disarmament negotiations. “They have grown ■ John Kerry, the threat of their U.S. secreprogram and have tary of state, acted with a kind of reckless abandon,” blamed North Kerry said, referKorea for ring to North Korea continuing to and its work on a growing arsenal of break prommissiles and nuclear ises and make bombs that Pyongthreats. yang hopes will one day be able to reach the U.S. mainland. His comments come less than a week after South Korea’s spy agency said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his defense chief executed with an anti-aircraft gun for complaining about the young ruler, talking back to him and sleeping during a meeting Kim presided over. That allegation, if true, adds to worries about the erratic nature of Kim’s rule, particularly after Pyongyang claimed last weekend it had successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine. Kerry called the reported killing just the latest in a series of “grotesque, grisly, horrendous, public displays of executions on a whim and fancy.” He said that if such behavior continued, calls would grow in the international community for North Korea to be referred to the International Criminal Court.
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