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MAC Shootout recap

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January 15th, 2018 by admin

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The Jenny Ed Sports Med MAC Shootout will have two final games on Monday night after wrapping up their original schedule on Saturday night. Four games were wiped out due to weather conditions on Thursday: Tri-Center vs. Logan-Magnolia girls and boys and Lourdes Central Catholic vs. Thomas Jefferson girls and boys were cancelled Thursday. With those cancellations, event organizers were able to schedule two games to be played tonight that will feature two of those teams. The Tri-Center Trojans will face the Thomas Jefferson Yellow Jackets in a girls and boys game. The girls game is set for a 5:30pm tip-off and the boys will follow with a 7:00pm start.

The rest of the weekend schedule went on as planned with 13 games being played between Friday and Saturday. We had coverage of the first two games as Underwood took both games of a doubleheader with Riverside. The Eagles took the girls game  54-17 behind 17 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 steals from Karley Larson. Lauren Shapcott was just shy of a double-double with 14 points and 9 rebounds as the Eagles improved to 10-4.

Underwood ran away with a win in the boys game as well 71-37. It was only an 8 point lead at halftime but the Eagles outscored the Bulldogs 29-3 to take full control of the game and a running clock came into play in the fourth quarter. Thomas Conn had 20 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 steals to lead the Eagle victory. Underwood improved to 8-5 with the win.

We picked up our coverage again on Saturday with the Fremont-Mills Knights boys picking up a 56-34 win over the Louisville, NE Lions. The Knights steadily increased their lead throughout the game and shared the ball very well. Jaeger Powers had 14 points to lead the Knights. Mason Vanatta had 10 points and 9 rebounds, Austin Gartner and Eli Owen each added 9 points for F-M.

The next game up was the AHSTW Lady Vikes taking on the Bennigton, NE Badgers. Both teams struggled offensively throughout the game. The Lady Vikes took a one point lead into the final quarter but the Badgers would have a big final period to take the win 42-31. Bailey Jones had a monster fourth quarter for Bennington with 10 points in the period on her way to 16 overall that lead all scorers. Jones hit two big three-pointers in that fourth quarter burst. Kinsey Scheffler had 7 points and 14 rebounds in the loss for AHSTW.

Our final coverage game from the event had the Atlantic Trojans boys sqauring off against the Bishop-Neumann, NE Cavaliers. That game also proved to be an offensive struggle for both teams and it was a 22-all game at halftime. Bishop-Neumann built a lead as big as 14 in the third quarter at 41-27. The Trojans went on an 18-5 run from that point that brought them within one at 46-45 but that’s as close as they would get. Bishop-Neumann hit some big shots and milked away the clock down the stretch to pull off a 50-46 win. Trey Ahrens led the Cavaliers with 17 points, including a big three off a scramble situation in the fourth quarter. Scott Leonard led Atlantic with 21 points and 11 rebounds. The Trojans suffered their second close loss in as many nights after falling 59-54 at Lewis Central on Friday night.

The Saturday slate featured 9 games that were all border battle games facing Iowa teams against Nebraska squads. Iowa teams took the first four games but then Nebraska teams won the last 5 to take the border battle series 5-4.

Orient, IA man arrested for probation violation

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January 15th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Sheriff’s officials in Union County report two weekend arrests. At around 11-p.m. Friday, Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 46-year old Kevin Jay Giles, of Orient. Giles was taken into custody at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Union County warrant for probation violation. Giles is being held in the Union County Jail on $10,000 bond. And, Just before 9-p.m. Sunday, 50-year old Hiram Lavoy Annis II, of Lorimor, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Polk County warrant for failure to appear on a child support matter. Annis was being held in the Union County Jail on a $3,790 bond until being transported to the Polk County Jail.

Glenwood man arrested on warrant, Sunday

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January 15th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Glenwood Police report 28-year old Joshua Hastie, of Glenwood, was arrested Sunday, on a Mills County warrant for Failure to Appear in Court. He was also charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. His total bond was set at $2,800.

Blood supplies in Iowa getting dangerously low

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January 15th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

While many government offices are closed today (Monday), LifeServe is open and holding blood drives at several Iowa locations on this Martin Luther King Junior holiday as blood supplies are getting dangerously low. Danielle West, spokeswoman for the Des Moines-based LifeServe, says December and January are typically the worst months of the year for donations as so many people are on vacation, traveling or the weather’s bad. “We want to remind people how important it is to give blood because the need at hospitals is still the same no matter how many donors are coming out,” West says. “We’re definitely seeing our blood supply go lower and lower than we’d like it to be so we’re reminding people to come out and donate if they can.”

While donations are needed of all blood types, West says a few types in particular are more urgently sought. “O-negative is the universal blood type so anyone can receive O-negative, and O-positive is the universal positive blood type,” West says. “Those are usually the most critical but really all of our blood types are lower right now than we’d like them to be.” Donating a single pint of blood may help save the lives of as many as three hospital patients. Iowans shouldn’t be too concerned about the amount of time they’ll have to commit to donating a pint. “You can be in and out in 45 minutes to an hour and that’s from start to finish,” West says. “Really, the donation process where you’re actually on the chair is five to ten minutes total. You start with registration, we do a short questionnaire, a mini-physical, you’re in the chair for five to ten minutes and then we have snacks and goodies at the end of every donation.”

LifeServe has offices in Ames, Des Moines, Fort Dodge, Mason City, Marshalltown and Sioux City, and serves hospitals across Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. “We partner with around 120 hospitals which means we are their sole provider and they only get blood products from LifeServe,” West says. “If we don’t have what we need on our shelves to support them, we have to go find it elsewhere, which is not what we like to do or where we’d like to be.” To schedule an appointment, call 800-287-4903 or visit www.lifeservebloodcenter.org.

High school wrestling scoreboard 1/13/2018

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January 15th, 2018 by admin

Griswold Duals

Southwest Valley 5-0
East Mills 3-2
Nodaway Valley 3-2
Tri-Center 3-2
Griswold 2-3
Clarinda Academy 1-4
St. Albert 1-4
Exira-EHK 0-5

ADM Tiger Invitational

1 Waukee 197.0
2 Dallas Center – Grimes 182.5
3 Red Oak 154.5
4 West Central Valley 127.0
5 Ames 123.0
6 Adel DeSoto Minburn 119.0
7 Roland Story 106.5
8 Coon Rapids Bayard 72.0
9 Nevada 56.0
10 Iowa City Liberty 54.0
11 Clarke 41.0

Red Oak had five finalists and two came away with titles. Justin McCunn won at 152lbs and Thomas Bentley was a champ at 182lbs.  Dalton Arnold was a champion for Coon Rapids-Bayard at 220lbs and stayed unbeaten on the season.

Kuemper Catholic Dual Tournament

  1. Missouri Valley 5-0
  2. Storm Lake 4-1
  3. AC/GC 3-2
  4. Kuemper Catholic 1-4
  5. Audubon 0-5

Nick Haynes, Nathan Haynes, and Connor Lange led the Big Reds to the title as they all had four pin victories. Audubon’s Dylan Obermeier also had a strong day with four pins.

LeMars Invite

1 Cherokee 187.0
2 Le Mars 172.5
3 Sioux City North 161.0
4 AHSTW 151.0
5 Sioux Center 145.0
6 Sibley Ocheyedan 142.5
7 West Sioux 141.0
8 Sheldon/South O`Brien 118.0
9 Hinton 97.0
10 South Sioux City 82.5
11 Sioux City West 39.0

AHSTW had four finalists at the tourney with Gabe Pauley picking up a title at 170lbs.  Jaeden Rasmussen at 126lbs, Joe Kenkel at 182lbs, and Braday Canada at 220lbs were all runner-up finishers.

Perry Invitational

1 Webster City 189.0
2 Panorama 185.0
3 Sergeant Bluff- Luton 179.5
4 Logan-Magnolia 151.0
5 Van Meter 140.0
6 DSM East 138.0
7 Woodward-Granger 122.5
8 Dowling Catholic 113.5
9 Carlisle 105.0
10 West Marshall 97.0
11 Perry 82.5
12 Carroll 80.5
13 Eagle Grove 68.5
14 Saydel 60.5
15 South Hamilton 13.0

Logan-Magnolia had seven wrestlers finish in the top 5. Garret Thompson was a champion at 145lbs. Briar Reisz was a runner-up at 113lbs for the Panthers.

Ron Scott Memorial Dual Tournament @ Mt. Ayr

Lathrop (MO) 8-0
Martensdale-St Marys 7-1
Riverside 5-3
Shenandoah 5-3
Harlan 5-3
East Union 3-5
Mount Ayr 2-6
Central Decatur 1-7
Durant 0-8

Iowa City police accuse woman of beating 11-year-old son

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January 15th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have accused a Coralville woman of beating her 11-year-old son. Court records say 33-year-old Joni Reed is charged with child endangerment causing injury and with two counts of child endangerment. Police say the two had been separated by the time officers arrived Thursday evening at a residence in Iowa City. The boy had a bruise above his left eye and scrapes on his arms. He also complained of pain in his head.

Officer say Reed had been drinking. Her blood alcohol content tested over at more than twice the legal limit, had she been driving.

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Atlantic-CAM wrestlers take third at Loyd Shaffer Invite

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January 15th, 2018 by admin

The Atlantic-CAM wrestling team took a third place finish at the Loyd Shaffer Invitational at Marion on Saturday.  The Trojans finished behind Williamsburg and Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest.

Chase McLaren took the 132 pound title while John McConkey grabbed the top spot at 285.  Joe Weaver was the runner-up at 106lbs and Kole Hansen was the runner-up at 126lbs.

Team Scoring:

  1. Williamsburg 244.5
  2. Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest 175
  3. Atlantic 166.5
  4. Mount Vernon 143
  5. Grinnell 141
  6. Wilton 136.5
  7. Marion 126
  8. Louisa-Muscatine 89.5
  9. Monticello 83.5
  10. Cedar Rapids Xavier 83
  11. Maquoketa 78
  12. North Linn 76
  13. Benton Community 68
  14. Keokuk 62.5

(Podcast) KJAN 8-a.m. News, 1/15/2018

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January 15th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

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Bluffs Casino carjacking suspect turns himself-in Sunday

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January 15th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Officials with the Council Bluffs Police Department today (Monday), report a suspect in the Dec. 30th carjacking incident at the Horseshoe Casino, was arrested Sunday after he turned himself-in on warrants. With assistance from the public the suspect was identified as 51-year old John Edward McAuliffe Jr., of Omaha.  Detectives were able to obtain Arrest Warrants for McAuliffe charging him with Attempted Murder, Robbery 1st Degree and Willful Injury.  McAuliffe remains held in the Pottawattamie County Jail after turning himself-in on the warrants.

John Edward McAuliffe, Jr.

The incident occurred at around 4:45-a.m., December 30th, 2017. Council Bluffs Police and Fire Departments were dispatched to the Horseshoe Casino on that date, for a report of a male party laying in the parking lot who had been shot. It was discovered the male party had been the victim of a robbery / car-jacking in the parking lot. The victim was shot by a suspect as the victim attempted to flee on foot from the vehicle. The suspect fled from the scene with the victim’s vehicle, a gray 2006 Ford F-150 Super-Crew.

The victim was transported to the University of Nebraska Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. The victim’s vehicle was recovered by the Omaha Police Department in the area of the 2000 block of South 45th St. It had been burned.