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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A law firm has sued two clients for more than $2.5 million the firm says it’s owed from the more than $7.6 million the clients have recovered from Sioux City for a 2016 collision with a city bus. The Sioux City Journal reports that the Munger, Reinschmidt & Denne firm sued Chad and Rosanne Plante on Tuesday, saying they’d agreed to pay a one-third contingency fee if their claims against the city pertaining to the collision were settled without filing a lawsuit against the city. They were. The firm’s Stan Munger says the Plantes told him the contingency agreement “is against public policy.”
Rosanne Plante says she and her husband have paid Munger’s firm $380,000, and “he has apparently determined that is not sufficient.”
(Radio Iowa) — The University of Northern Iowa is reporting a drop in fall enrollment. The school’s associate vice president for enrollment management, Matt Kroeger, says they anticipated the drop. “Total enrollment from last year is down 695 students and I want to say it’s 444 undergraduates and 251 graduate students,” Kroeger says. Kroeger says the number of new students was down. “And also our incoming transfer students were down around 85 or 90 or so. So, the number of new students definitely had an impact on the total,” according to Kroeger. The drop has been figured into their budget.
He says they anticipated the decline in new students and they had a record graduation rate for students who graduated in three years or less. The Cedar Falls school has struggled to keep its enrollment up and he says that will again be a focus. “We’re planning on doing that with both expanding our reach and increasing our market share of Iowa high school graduates. And those students coming from Iowa community colleges as well,” Kroeger says. “But also looking out of state. We feel that we have the opportunity to grow our non-resident freshmen and transfers as well — so it will take a combination of both of those.”
The University of Iowa also saw its enrollment drop. But had the U-I’s Brent Gage, says that was by design. “We had several years where we were bringing in some of the largest classes we had ever brought in in the history of the university,” Gage explains. “And as we developed our strategic plan we really looked to more right-size the university to where we felt we could provide the optimal student experience. The incoming freshman class has 48-hundred-six students and Gage says it falls in the range they’ve been working on. “Which is kind of between 47-hundred and five-thousand new incoming students. So, that is something that we’ve been kind of strategically working on doing the last couple of years,” Gage says.
The U-I saw a drop in international students, and he says the competition for those students has gotten tougher. “We’re also seeing that the dollar is just incredibly strong right now. So the buying power that the families had anticipated having — when it’s time for those students to leave — that’s not always the case that they thought it was going to be,” Gage says. Total enrollment this fall is 31-thousand-656 students — which takes some 13-hundred postdoctoral students out of the count from last year under a new counting system now used by the Board of Regents.
Gage, who is the school’s associate vice president for enrollment management, says downsizing a bit has advantages. He says it gives the students better course selection and more open beds in the residence halls, which allows for returning and transfer students to live on campus. “For our physical plant and for our resources and our faculty we want to make sure that with the resources that we have that we’re providing the best possible education experience for the people who choose Iowa.”
The third state school — Iowa State University saw a drop of one-thousand-and one students. A spokesperson says they saw a decline primarily in international and transfer students. I-S-U had seen eight years of record enrollments before a decline last fall of 339 students.
(Radio Iowa) — A new book chronicles the short life and hundreds of quotes from the University of Iowa’s most famous football player whose 16-foot-tall statue stands in front of the stadium named in his honor. This summer marks the 100th anniversary of Nile Kinnick’s birth and author Mark Wilson of Iowa City spent a full decade compiling the quotes from Kinnick’s letters, diaries, journals, essays and speeches. “My whole goal was to preserve his legacy,” Wilson says. “There’s new generations coming on every single year, new freshmen. I’ve met little children coming in for the first time. Dad or Mom might say, ‘Well, we’re here at Kinnick Stadium,’ and they’re obviously going to ask, ‘Who was Kinnick?'”
Wilson’s book is called, “The Way of Nile C. Kinnick, Jr.: Insights, Images, and Stories of Iowa’s 1939 Heisman Trophy Winner.” There are a total of 366 Kinnick quotes in the book, one for every day of a leap year, along with dozens of photos and stories. Wilson says Kinnick has been a personal inspiration in his own life and he hopes the book inspires others — as he finds the quotes are still useful decades later. “They are covering about every topic you can think of: government, war, poverty, race, religion,” Wilson says, “some of the things he thought about, his faith, education, football.”
Kinnick was an honors student and a superior athlete, Wilson says. The 5-foot-8, 170-pound Adel native broke 14 Iowa records his senior year. The quotes draw both from Kinnick’s time as a student and while he was in the military. Navy Ensign Kinnick died at age 24 during World War Two when his fighter plane crashed during a training flight in 1943. Kinnick’s grandfather was George Washington Clarke, who served two terms as Iowa’s governor. Many of Kinnick’s family members were involved in politics and Wilson is convinced had Kinnick lived, he would have eventually run for president. Wilson, a first-time author, is a retired Iowa City teacher and is an ambassador for the U-I Athletics Hall of Fame.
“All of my royalties on every book sold will go back to the six Nile Kinnick scholarships,” Wilson says. “There’s one for leadership, four that are memorial scholarships, and one for women. It’s my giveback. I was an elementary teacher and didn’t have a lot of money to give but I can sure give back the royalties from this book.” The book is being printed by Ice Cube Press, based in North Liberty. It’s available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, the Hawkeye shops, and at icecubepress.com.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a body found in a rain-swollen Cedar Rapids stream may be that of a missing kayaker. The man’s body was pulled from Indian Creek on Thursday afternoon. Officials on the scene couldn’t verify that it was that of 34-year-old John Conley. His wife, 30-year-old Samantha Conley was rescued Monday from the stream after their kayak overturned. The body was found less than a mile downstream. Tests will be conducted to confirm the victim’s identity.
Week 3 schedule for Iowa High School Football. All games in 11-player action are non-district this week. 8-Player games are now district contests. Some games may be listed twice for each district that teams are included in.
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson at Denison-Schleswig (ND)
Lewis Central at Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln (ND)
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson at Denison-Schleswig (ND)
Western Christian, Hull at Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City (ND)
ADM, Adel at Grinnell (ND)
Carlisle at Creston-O/M (ND)
Harlan at Carroll (ND)
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll at Glenwood (ND)
Lewis Central at Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln (ND)
Winterset at North Polk, Alleman (ND)
Clarinda at Atlantic (ND)
Clarke, Osceola at Red Oak (ND)
Greene County at Saydel (ND)
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll at Glenwood (ND)
OABCIG at Cherokee, Washington (ND)
Treynor at Shenandoah (ND)
Clarinda at Atlantic (ND)
Mount Ayr at Central Decatur, Leon (ND)
Nodaway Valley at ACGC (ND)
Panorama, Panora at Interstate 35, Truro (ND)
Van Meter at Madrid (ND)
West Central Valley, Stuart at Southwest Valley (ND)
MVAOCOU at West Monona (ND)
Missouri Valley at Riverside, Oakland (ND)
OABCIG at Cherokee, Washington (ND)
Ridge View at East Sac County (ND)
Treynor at Shenandoah (ND)
Tri-Center, Neola at Underwood (ND)
Colfax-Mingo at Wayne, Corydon (ND)
Grand View Christian School at Cardinal, Eldon (ND)
Lynnville-Sully at Highland, Riverside (ND)
Mount Ayr at Central Decatur, Leon (ND)
North Mahaska, New Sharon at B-G-M, Brooklyn (ND)
Woodward Academy at Martensdale-St. Marys (ND)
AHSTW at Westwood, Sloan (ND)
Earlham at Pleasantville (ND)
Missouri Valley at Riverside, Oakland (ND)
Nodaway Valley at ACGC (ND)
St. Albert, Council Bluffs at Logan-Magnolia (ND)
West Central Valley, Stuart at Southwest Valley (ND)
AHSTW at Westwood, Sloan (ND)
Gehlen Catholic, LeMars at Woodbury Central, Moville (ND)
Hinton at Lawton-Bronson (ND)
MVAOCOU at West Monona (ND)
St. Albert, Council Bluffs at Logan-Magnolia (ND)
Tri-Center, Neola at Underwood (ND)
Lamoni at Murray
Lenox at Seymour
Moravia at Southeast Warren
Mormon Trail at East Union
Bedford at Stanton
Clarinda Academy at Fremont-Mills
Essex at Sidney
Griswold at East Mills
Audubon at Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton
CAM at Glidden-Ralston
Coon Rapids-Bayard at Woodbine
West Harrison at Boyer Valley
Hawkeye Ten Conference
(3-1) Creston 25-25-18-25, Southwest Valley 18-18-25-14
Western Iowa Conference
(3-0) Missouri Valley 28-25-25, Riverside, Oakland 26-21-17
(3-1) Nodaway Valley 25-22-25-25, Audubon 15-25-8-22
(3-1) Treynor 26-25-21-25, IKM-Manning 24-14-25-10
(3-0) Tri-Center, Neola 25-25-25, Logan-Magnolia 10-15-10
(3-0) Underwood 25-25-25, AHSTW, Avoca 21-14-14
Rolling Valley Conference
(3-1) Boyer Valley 25-25-22-25, MVAOCOU 14-20-25-21
(2-1) Coon Rapids-Bayard 17-21-15, Earlham 21-19-8
(2-0) Coon Rapids-Bayard 21-21, Perry 17-16
(2-0) Coon Rapids-Bayard 21-22, Ogden 18-20
(2-0) Carlisle 22-21, Coon Rapids-Bayard 20-11
(2-0) Panorama 21-21, Coon Rapids-Bayard 15-11
(2-0) Panorama 21-21, Perry 12-16
Corner Conference
(3-0) East Mills 25-25-25, South Page 6-15-12
(3-1) Fremont-Mills 18-25-25-25, Griswold 25-15-12-20
(3-0) Sidney 25-25-25, Stanton 6-10-21
Pride of Iowa Conference
(3-1) Central Decatur, Leon 22-25-25-25, Lenox 25-23-17-15
Other Scores
(3-0) Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 25-25-25, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 8-14-13
(2-1) Earlham 17-21-15, Perry 21-16-11
(2-0) Mount Ayr 25-25, Clarke, Osceola 15-14
(2-0) Mount Ayr 25-25, Pleasantville 19-18
Today: Mostly cloudy w/a 30% chance of rain, mainly during the afternoon. High 68. E/NE @ 10-20.
Tonight: A 20% chance of rain. Low 54. E/NE @ 10.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny. High 71. E/NE @ 10.
Tom. Night: Partly cloudy. Low 51.
Sunday: Sunny. High 73.
Sunday night: Mo. Clear. Low 52.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 78. Our Low 61. We received .08″ rain in Atlantic early this morning (thru 7-a.m.), at KJAN. Last year on this date our High was 76 and the Low was 40. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 98 in 1893. The Record Low was 34 in 1956.
Police in Council Bluffs arrested a man without incident Thursday afternoon, following a bank robbery. Officers were sent at around 3:41-p.m. to 518 E Broadway for a robbery that had occurred 10-minutes earlier. Officers located a man matching the description of the suspect, in the area of Main Street and Broadway. Their investigation revealed that 29-year old Larry E. Burns, of Council Bluffs, entered the Centris Credit Union with a bandana over his face and demanded cash.
Burns did not display a weapon. He obtained an undisclosed amount of cash and fled in a southerly direction. Burns was located seven minutes later, with the stolen cash. No weapons were recovered. None of the personnel at the Centris Credit Union were injured.
Burns was charged with Robbery 3rd Degree and Theft in the 1st Degree, along with a Probation Violation. He is being held at the Pottawattamie County Jail at this time. The investigation was assisted by officers from 4th Judicial District Probation Office and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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