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Crash in Council Bluffs results in car hitting a structure

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December 9th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

A collision between a car and and SUV Friday night in Council Bluffs, resulted in one injury and damage to a home. Council Bluffs Police report the driver of a 2005 Chevy Cavalier, 18-year old Katelyn Dewaele, of Council Bluffs, was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of a 2010 Jeep Liberty, 19-year old Mariah Yagow, of Norfolk, NE., suffered minor injuries, and was cited for Disobedience to Signs and Signals.

Officials say at around 9:20-p.m., Friday. emergency personnel responded to the area of North 30th St and Ave A in Council Bluffs, for a personal injury crash in which a vehicle struck a house. Investigators concluded that Yagow was driving her SUV north bound on 30th St. at Ave A, when she failed to yield the right of way, from the stop sign at 30th and Ave A.

Her SUV drove into the path of Cavalier, which was traveling west bound on Ave A. The two vehicles collided in the intersection sending the Jeep Liberty into the residential structure at 3000 Ave A, causing damage.  Building inspectors were called out to assess the damage to the residence.

5 Atlantic-CAM wrestlers into Quarterfinals at Council Bluffs Classic

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December 9th, 2017 by admin

Team Scores
1. Lincoln East 186.5
2. Apple Valley 152.5
3. Kearney 136.0
4. Waukee 135.5
5. Fort Dodge 133.5
6. Missouri Valley 113.5
7. Glenwood 110.0
8. Atlantic-CAM 94.0
9. Olathe North 92.5
10. Mill Valley High School 89.5
11. Grand Island 88.5
12. Plattsmouth 84.0
13. Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest 79.5
14. Spirit Lake Park 79.0
15. Olathe South 71.5
16. Woodbury Central 67.0
17. Underwood 66.5
18. Iowa City West 61.0
18. Millard West 61.0
18. Totino-Grace 61.0
21. Perry 59.5
22. Sergeant Bluff-Luton 59.0
23. Lewis Central 56.5
24. Gardner-Edgerton 55.0
25. Creighton Prep 53.0
26. Nebraska City 48.5
27. Papillion-La Vista 44.5
28. Norris 40.5
29. Millard North 38.0
30. Pittsburg High 33.0
31. Ames 31.5
32. Maysville R2 29.5
33. Saint James Academy 29.0
34. Omaha North 27.0
35. Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson 26.0
36. LeMars 25.0
37. South Sioux City 16.0
38. Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 11.0
39. St. Albert 2.0

Joe Weaver (106), Aybren Moore (113), Chase McLaren (132), Kole Hansen (138), John McConkey (285) all won opening round matches for Atlantic-CAM to move into the Quarterfinals. Conner Pellett (152), Kenny Jimmerson (170), and Cale Roller (182) were all consolation bracket winners to stay alive.

 

High school basketball scoreboard 12/8/2017

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December 8th, 2017 by admin

GIRLS

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Creston 59 Atlantic 52
Denison-Schleswig 44 Harlan 29
Shenandoah 48 Clarinda 19
Red Oak 74 St. Albert 54
Lewis Central 61 Kuemper Catholic 32

Western Iowa Conference

IKM-Manning 58 Missouri Valley 35
Riverside 48 Audubon 41
Logan-Magnolia 61 AHSTW 39
Treynor 55 Griswold 16
Underwood 40 Tri-Center 33

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 61 Coon Rapids-Bayard 29
Exira/EHK 78 Ar-We-Va 44
Glidden-Ralston 51 West Harrison 35
Paton-Churdan 47 Woodbine 35

Corner Conference

East Mills 33 Stanton 26
Sidney 58 Essex 30

Pride of Iowa Conference

East Union 42 Wayne 40
Interstate 35 52 Bedford 44
Southwest Valley 49 Pleasantville 47
Martensdale-St. Marys 51 Nodaway Valley 32
Mount Ayr 56 Southeast Warren 44

Missouri River Conference

Sergeant Bluff-Luton 51 Abraham Lincoln 45

BOYS

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 65 Creston 39
Harlan 70 Denison-Schleswig 49
Kuemper Catholic 63 Lewis Central 51
Shenandoah 62 Clarinda 58
St. Albert 89 Red Oak 51

Corner Conference

Fremont-Mills 80 Clarinda Academy 40
Stanton 56 East Mills 29
Sidney 77 Essex 35

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 73 Logan-Magnolia 57
Audubon 87 Riverside 45
IKM-Manning 56 Missouri Valley 33
Treynor 70 Griswold 25
Tri-Center 64 Underwood 55

Pride of Iowa Conference

Bedford 89 Interstate 35 77
Mount Ayr 60 Southeast Warren 15
Martensdale-St. Marys 67 Nodaway Valley 51
Pleasantville 59 Southwest Valley 40

Rolling Valley Conference

Ar-We-Va 63 Exira/EHK 60
CAM 70 Coon Rapids-Bayard 45
Glidden-Ralston 67 West Harrison 26
Woodbine 55 Paton-Churdan 49

Missouri River Conference

Abraham Lincoln 63 Sergeant Bluff-Luton 58

Atlantic boys hoops roll over Creston

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December 8th, 2017 by admin

The Atlantic boys basketball team found their offensive stride in the second quarter against Creston on Friday night and rolled to a 65-39 win at home.

The game was tied at the end of the first quarter at 10. Atlantic then outscored the Panthers 17-6 in the second quarter to take the lead. The Trojans pushed it out to a twenty point lead by the end of the third.

Austin Alexander was out from the outside, knocking down 7 threes on his way to 25 points.  Scott Leonard dropped in 16 points and Chase Mullenix had 14 points, 13 in the second half.

Atlantic improves to 2-2 on the season and next up they travel to Glenwood on Tuesday.

Creston was led by 14 points from Evan Jacobsen.  The Panthers fall to 1-3 on the year.

Atlantic girls come up short to Creston

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December 8th, 2017 by admin

The Atlantic girls basketball team came up just a bit short to Creston on Friday night at Atlantic High School 59-52. The Trojans trailed by 2 at the end of the first quarter and were down 6 at half.  Atlantic was within 42-36 at the end of the third quarter. A back and forth finish would see Creston hold.

Atlantic got within 4 points on two different occasions in the fourth quarter but couldn’t get that next timely basket to get over the hump.

Brielle Baker led all scorers with 31 points for the Panthers. Kelsey Fields dropped in 21 points and had 13 rebounds for the Panthers who improved to 3-2.

Atlantic was led by 16 points from McKenzie Waters and 13 from Cheyenne Elliott. The Trojans fall to 1-4 with the loss.

Prosecution rests in trial of mom accused of starving teen

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December 8th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A detective says an Iowa mother on trial in the starvation death of her 16-year-old daughter sent ranting texts saying she hated her children and calling them “worthless.”

The Des Moines Register reports that West Des Moines police detective Chris Morgan testified Thursday and Friday about text messages sent to others by 43-year-old Nicole Finn. She’s pleaded not guilty to murder, kidnapping and child endangerment in the October 2016 death of 16-year-old Natalie Finn. Natalie weighed just 85 pounds at the time of her death.

Morgan says Nicole Finn wrote in a March 2016 text, “They are worthless. I can’t stand them.” Morgan says Finn sent another text to her son after Natalie’s death saying she’d messed up.

The prosecution rested Friday. Finn’s defense team will present its case Monday.

Water levels on Missouri River to be cut back for winter

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December 8th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

Thanks to a wetter-than-normal year, water releases from the reservoir system which regulate the Missouri River are being cut back for winter, but not as drastically as normal. The U-S Army Corps of Engineers is preparing the river for the season ahead. The Corps’ Mike Swenson, one of the Missouri River Water Management Office team leaders, says the overall goal is to prep reservoirs to handle runoff from rain and snowpack melting in the spring.

Swenson says, “The whole idea is just to continue to monitor throughout the year and make adjustments as necessary to make sure the reservoir system is in good shape to handle that runoff.” Releases at Gavins Point Dam will drop to 21,500 cubic feet per second. That is higher than the normal drop of between 12,000 and 17,000 cubic feet per second. Last year, the Corps dropped releases to 18,000 cubic feet per second at the beginning of winter, then lowered them to 17,000 C-F-S later during the winter months.

“It’s still a lower release than we have during other times of the year, but it’s just slightly higher for the winter,” he says. Swenson says the higher levels will have multiple impacts. “With the higher winter release, that does provide some benefits to hydropower, a little bit more winter energy produced,” Swenson says. “It typically helps out the water intakes below the reservoir system.” He says the higher water should also help prevent ice jams this winter.

(Radio Iowa, w/Thanks to Brent Martin, Nebraska Radio Network)

Resignation accepted of Iowa teacher over racial comments

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December 8th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Forest City School board has accepted the resignation of an elementary school teacher placed on administrative leave following racial comments about high school basketball players aired in an online broadcast.

The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that the board unanimously approved Friday the agreement with third-grade teacher Holly Jane Kusserow-Smidt, who will receive her full contracted salary for this school year.

Kusserow-Smidt was working as a radio producer for station KIOW on Nov. 28 when she was hear laughing and agreeing with announcer Orin Harris, who referred to Eagle Grove boys he believed to be Hispanic because of their names as “foreigners” and saying they should “go back where they came from.”

Both Harris and Kusserow-Smidt were fired from the station. In her resignation letter, Kusserow-Smidt apologized to board members, administrators and students and the communities of Forest City and Eagle Grove.

Man sentenced to prison for crash that killed Iowa teen

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December 8th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

DENISON, Iowa (AP) — A Denison man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for a car crash that led to the death of a teenage girl. The Sioux City Journal reports that Ramon Hernandez was sentenced Friday in Crawford County District Court for his convictions on vehicular homicide, three counts of distribution of a controlled substance to a minor and five other counts. He had faced up to 109 years in prison.

Authorities say Hernandez drove through a farm field with four teenagers in his car before it plunged into the Boyer River on Jan. 19. He and three of the others reached safety. The body of 15-year-old Yoana Acosta, of Denison, was found a week later on Jan. 26.

Hernandez must serve 10 years before he’s eligible for parole.

Campbell named AP Big 12 Coach of the Year, 2 Cyclones on First Team

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December 8th, 2017 by admin

Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press Big 12 offensive player of the year for the second time in three seasons, and Sooners linebacker Ogbonnia Okoronkwo is the league’s top defensive player.

The playoff-bound Sooners have six first-team picks on the AP all-league team announced Friday. Mayfield, the AP player of the year and the Heisman Trophy favorite, was also the league’s top offensive player in 2015. Oklahoma big-play receiver Dede Westbrook took the honor last year.

Iowa State’s Matt Campbell was named the league’s top coach. The Cyclones have their first winning season since 2009, including wins over top-five teams Oklahoma and TCU.

West Virginia junior quarterback Will Grier, a former Florida transfer, was named the league’s top newcomer

The 2017 AP All-Big 12 team, as selected by a panel of 19 sports writers and sportscasters who regularly cover the league, with players listed alphabetically with name, school, height, weight, class and hometown. (“u-” denotes unanimous selections):

FIRST TEAM

Offense

QB— u-Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma, 6-1, 220, Sr., Austin, Texas.
RB_u-Justice Hill, Oklahoma St., 5-10, 185, So., Tulsa, Oklahoma.
RB_David Montgomery, Iowa St., 5-11, 219, So., Cincinnati.
T_u-Orlando Brown, Oklahoma, 6-8, 345, Jr., Duluth, Georgia.
T_Dalton Risner, Kansas St., 6-5, 300, Jr., Wiggins, Colorado.
G_Ben Powers, Oklahoma, 6-4, 310, Jr., Wichita, Kansas.|
G_Marcus Keyes, Oklahoma St., 6-3, 300, So., Port Allen, Louisiana.
C_Erick Wren, Oklahoma, 6-1, 306, Sr., Mesquite, Texas.
TE_u-Mark Andrews, Oklahoma, 6-5, 254, Jr., Scottsdale, Arizona.
WR_James Washington, Oklahoma St., 6-0, 205, Sr., Stamford, Texas.
WR_David Sills V, West Virginia, 6-4, 203, Jr., Wilmington, Delaware.
All-Purpose: KaVontae Turpin, TCU, 5-9, 153, Jr., Monroe, Louisiana.
K_Matthew McCrane, Kansas St., 5-10, 165, Sr., Brownwood, Texas.

Defense

DE_Mat Boesen, TCU, 6-4, 240, Sr., Torrance, California.
DE_Ben Banogu, TCU, 6-4, 245, Jr. McKinney, Texas.
DT_Poona Ford, Texas, 6-0, 305, Sr., Hilton Head, South Carolina.
DT_Will Geary, Kansas St., 6-0, 306, Sr., Topeka, Kansas.
LB_Malik Jefferson, Texas, 6-3, 240, Jr., Mesquite, Texas.
LB_Joel Lanning, Iowa St., 6-2, 230, Sr., Ankeny, Iowa.
LB_Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, Oklahoma, 6-1, 240, Sr., Houston.
CB_D.J. Reed, Kansas St., 5-9, 188, Jr., Bakersfield, California.
CB_Ranthony Texada, TCU, 5-10, 170, Sr., Frisco, Texas.
S_DeShon Elliott, Texas, 6-2, 210, Jr., Rockwall, Texas.
S_Kamari Cotton-Moya, Iowa St., 6-2, 198, Sr., Bakersfield, California.
P_Michael Dickson, Texas, 6-3, 205, Jr., Sydney, Australia.

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SECOND TEAM

Offense

QB_Mason Rudolph, Oklahoma St., 6-5, 230, Sr., Rock Hill, South Carolina.
RB_Rodney Anderson, Oklahoma, 6-2, 218, So., Katy, Texas.
RB_Justin Crawford, West Virginia, 6-0, 200, Sr., Columbus, Georgia.
T_Jake Campos, Iowa St., 6-8, 300, Sr., West Des Moines, Iowa.
T_Zachary Crabtree, Oklahoma St., 6-7, 310, Sr., Mansfield, Texas.
G_Matt Pryor, TCU, 6-7, 338, Sr., Long Beach, California.
G_Dru Samia, Oklahoma, 6-5, 302, Jr., Sacramento, California.
C_Brad Lundblade, Oklahoma St., 6-3, 300, Sr., Argyle, Texas.
TE_Ben Johnson, Kansas, 6-5, 245, Sr., Basehor, Kansas.
WR_Allen Lazard, Iowa St., 6-5, 222, Sr., Urbandale, Iowa.
WR_Keke Coutee, Texas Tech, 5-11, 180, Jr., Lufkin, Texas.
All-Purpose: D.J. Reed, Kansas St., 5-9, 188, Jr.
K_Austin Seibert, Oklahoma, 5-9, 210, Jr., Belleville, Illinois.

Defense

DE_Dorance Armstrong Jr., Kansas, 6-4, 246, Jr., Houston
DE_Jordan Brailford, Oklahoma State, 6-3, 250, So., Tulsa, Oklahoma.
DT_DeQuinton Osborne, Oklahoma St., 6-0, 305, Sr., Grand Prairie, Texas.
DT_Daniel Wise, Kansas, 6-3, 290, Jr., Lewisville, Texas.
LB_Travin Howard, TCU, 6-1, 213, Sr., Longview, Texas.
LB_Joe Dineen, Jr., Kansas, 6-2, 230, Jr., Lawrence, Kansas.
LB_Dakota Allen, Texas Tech, 6-1, 235, Jr., Humble, Texas.
CB_Kris Boyd, Texas, 6-0, 200 Jr., Gilmer, Texas.
CB_Brian Peavy, Iowa St., 5-9, 190, Jr., Houston.
S_Tre Flowers, Oklahoma St., 6-3, 200, Sr., Converse, Texas.
S_Nick Orr, TCU, 5-10, 187, Sr. S, DeSoto, Texas.
P_Nick Walsh, Kansas St., 5-11, 207, Sr., Lyndon, Kansas.
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Coach of the year — Matt Campbell, Iowa State.
Offensive player of the year — Baker Mayfield, QB, Sr., Oklahoma.
Defensive player of the year — Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, DE/LB, Sr., Oklahoma.
Newcomer of the year — Will Grier, QB, Jr., West Virginia