Hawkeye Ten
Denison-Schleswig 7, Storm Lake 6
Raccoon River Conference
Carlisle 12, Grinnell 0
Boone 13, Norwalk 2
West Central Activities Conference
Pleasantville 10, Bishop Garrigan 1
Other Non-Conference Scores
Fort Dodge 15, Des Moines North 1
Southeast Polk 8, Des Moines Roosevelt 4
Lynnville-Sully 13, Collins-Maxwell 0
Des Moines East 16, Roland-Story 4
Class 1A
Van Meter 10, Lamoni 0
Humboldt 3, Webster City 0
Solon 2, Regina Catholic1
Des Moines Christian 10, Chariton 0
Wahlert Catholic 2, Clayton Ridge 0
Dike-New Hartford 3, Aplington-Parkersburg 1
Pella Christian 3, Grand View Christian 2
St. Albert 7, Riverside 0
Assumption 6, West Branch 0
Bishop Heelan 4, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 0
East Sac County 3, Sioux Center 1
Gilbert 3, Gladbrook-Reinbeck 0
Harlan 3, Kuemper Catholic 1
Tri-Center 4, Missouri Valley 3
Nevada 10, Williamsburg 0
Treynor 6, Logan-Magnolia 0
Underwood 11, AHSTW 0
West Central Valley 6, Clarke 0
(Red Oak, Iowa) – Police in Red Oak report three people were arrested on drug charges Wednesday afternoon. At around 3:30-p.m., Officers with the Red Oak Police Department conducted a search warrant on a residence in the 400 block of N. 4th Street. As a result of the warrant and investigation, Police arrested 54-year-old Kenneth Gerald Owens, 47-year-old Chrystal Rush Stewart, and 60-year-old Robert Wade Abraham, of Red Oak.
Owens was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance/Methamphetamine, Gathering where marijuana is used, and Possession of Paraphernalia. His bond was set at $1,000. Stewart was arrested for Gathering where marijuana is used. Her bond was also set at $1,000. And, Robert Abraham was charged with PCS/Marijuana – 2nd or subsequent offense, Gathering where marijuana is used, and Poss. of paraphernalia. His bond was set at $2000. Abraham was also taken into custody on a valid warrant for Failure To Appear on an original charge of Domestic Abuse Assault/2nd offense. Bond on that was charge was $2,000, cash-only.
(Des Moines, Iowa) – A bill adopted by the Iowa Legislature this year that is meant to more harshly penalize open meetings violations might also enable city councils, school boards and others to deliberate in secret, according to the Iowa Public Information Board. The Iowa Capital Dispatch reports House File 2539 would increase the penalties for violating a state law that generally requires governmental bodies to operate transparently. That includes providing sufficient notice and agendas for their meetings and deliberating and voting in public.
Purposeful violations of that law could result in fines of up to $12,500 for each board or council member who participated — up from $2,500 — according to the bill. It would further require repeat offenders to be expelled from office. However, a late amendment to the bill might have undercut those provisions.
Under current law, it’s permissible for a majority of a board’s or council’s members to attend the same social event “when there is no discussion of policy or no intent to avoid” open meetings requirements. With the amendment, lawmakers sought to emphasize that includes gatherings that are “hosted or organized by a political party, political candidate or civic organization.”
“There’s some concerns in some smaller counties in Iowa that have, say, three (county) supervisors, that if they’re attending a social event for a political party or a civic gathering, that they would be in violation of the open meetings law,” Sen. Scott Webster, R-Bettendorf, said last month in support of the amendment during debate in the Senate. “This clarifies that’s not a meeting.”
The problem is that the additional text was placed in a way that fully exempts those gatherings from open meeting requirements, said Erika Eckley, executive director of the Iowa Public Information Board, which is charged with deciding whether government officials violate open meetings and records law.
“This language is in direct conflict with the transparency requirements of Iowa’s sunshine laws and will create an enormous loophole for government bodies to allow for decisions to be made in secret, avoiding public consideration and disclosure, which is contrary to ensuring accountability of government to Iowans and the legislative intent behind the legislation,” Eckley wrote in a letter to Gov. Kim Reynolds this month.
Eckley sent that letter at the direction of IPIB’s legislative committee, which sought to notify Reynolds of their interpretation of the bill before Reynolds potentially signs it into law. Reynolds should veto the bill, said Randy Evans, executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, which advocates for open government. Evans supports increasing the fines for violations but said the apparently errant amendment has negative implications that far outweigh the bill’s benefits.
The bill was amended and adopted unanimously in the Senate in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session on April 18. The change was then approved by the House.
OSCEOLA, Iowa [KCCI] — A former southern Iowa county attorney who was convicted in 2021 of operating while intoxicated — her second offense — and child endangerment is back in the hot seat with a third offense OWI arrest. KCCI reports, that according to court records, Michelle Rivera, former Clarke County attorney, was arrested in Osceola on Tuesday evening after a car collision where the car she was driving struck another vehicle shortly after 5 p.m.
According to the criminal complaint, an officer who arrived on the scene at East McLane Street and South View Drive noticed Rivera showed “impaired balance, slurred speech, bloodshot watery eyes and the odor of an intoxicating beverage coming from her person.” The officer wrote that when he asked Rivera how much she had to drink that day, she initially denied having consumed any alcohol before saying she had one drink at 5 p.m. at work, and then admitted to having four alcoholic drinks.
Rivera reportedly refused a standard field sobriety test and a preliminary breath test and was arrested for operating while intoxicated and taken to the Clarke County Jail. Rivera has since posted a $500 bond and is scheduled to be back in court on May 28. The third offense OWI is a Class D felony carrying a penalty of up to five years in prison.
Rivera’s first OWI conviction came after she was arrested for drunk driving after she lost the November election for Clarke County attorney in 2018. Her second conviction came in March 2021, when she pleaded guilty to OWI and two counts of child endangerment – substantial risk. For that case, she received a suspended two-year prison sentence for each of the child endangerment charges. For the OWI, she also received a two-year prison sentence, with all but 30 days suspended. She was ordered to serve 30 days in the Warren County Jail and placed on probation.
According to the Iowa Department of Corrections website, Rivera completed her probation for the 2021 conviction on Feb. 16, 2023. As a result of Rivera’s 2018 arrest, some cases she handled in the courts were called into question. One case involving a man who admitted to child sex abuse was dismissed entirely.
Rivera was the Clarke County Attorney from 2011 to 2019.
Today: Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny to sunny. High near 76. West northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Clear, with a low around 52. .
Tomorrow: Sunny, with a high near 80. South winds 5-to 10-mph in the morning.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 83.
Sunday: Partly Sunny w/a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. High near 79.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 70. Our Low this morning, 56. We received .32″ rain Wednesday, at KJAN. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 80 and the Low was 48. The Record High for May 16th was 93 in 1939. The Record Low was 25 in 1907. Sunrise: 6:01. Sunset: 8:33.
(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds has signed legislation that creates new labeling requirements for meat and egg alternatives. “If it comes from a plant, an insect or a petri dish, consumers deserve to know,” Reynolds said. Starting July 1st, any plant-based, lab grown or insect-based protein product sold in Iowa stores will have to be clearly labeled as something other than meat or eggs.
“It’s about the common sense idea that a product that’s labeled chicken, beef, pork and so on should maybe actually come from — get this — an animal,” Reynolds said. “That’s kind of what we’re up against sometimes, right?” Reynolds signed the bill before a large crowd gathered on a farm near Ladora where hogs and cattle are raised.
Senator Dawn Driscoll, a Republican from Williamsburg who raises cattle, calls it a “meat integrity” law. “Consumers deserve the truthful labelling on products,” Driscoll said, “and our children deserve better than lab-grown protein.” The law directs state officials to seek a waiver to prevent Iowans from using federal food assistance to buy imitation egg products. It also prohibits school districts, community colleges and the three state universities from buying lab-grown meat and any misbranded protein.
Governor Kim Reynolds signed two bills into law before a crowd on the Pat and Laura Bloome farm in Iowa County, near Ladora. (RI photo)
Representative Heather Hora, a Republican from Washington, is a pork producer. “This bill protects the millions of farmers’ check off dollars invested in marketing meat and eggs throughout the world,” Hora says. “Iowa’s farm families work hard every day to bring nutritious red meat to the market. Lab-grown products are not the same as high quality pork or beef or other meats raised by Iowa farm families and consumers deserve truthful, transparent labeling on products.”
Reynolds signed a second bill into law during her farm stop. It extends a capital gains tax break on state income taxes for the sale of livestock used for breeding, like bulls, boars and rams. “Farm families will save nearly $18 million by 2030,” Reynolds says.
Only Iowans who own livestock and get at least half of their annual income from farming will be able to claim the tax break.
The Griswold Tigers are coming off a 10-0 loss to Tri-Center last season in the first round of the Class 1A-Region 7 playoff bracket. The Tigers are coached by Ryan Lockwood this season, who is in his fourth season as the coach.
The Tigers just won their home opener on Tuesday night, when they got a 11-1 win over Audubon. Griswold junior Bode Wyman pitched over six solid innings, while striking out fifteen Audubon batters to help secure the win. The Tigers currently have 1-0 overall record on the season.
Griswold will be bringing everyone back from last years team, due to not losing anyone to graduation according to coach Lockwood.
Coach Lockwood talked about what his roster going to be looking like this season.
Griswold will have many pitching options this season says coach Lockwood.
The Tigers next game will be Tuesday May 21st, when they will take on East Mills in Corner Conference regular season game. The first pitch of that game will be at 7:30 p.m
IOWA CLASS 1A REGION 1 FINAL AT LAKE CREEK, ST. MARY’S STORM LAKE
State team qualifiers: 1. Central Lyon 403, 2. Akron-Westfield 410.
IOWA CLASS 1A REGION 2 FINAL AT CRESTWOOD HILLS GOLF COURSE, CAM
State team qualifiers: 1. BCLUW 378, 2. Newell-Fonda 397
Area team scores:
3. Sidney 410
4. Mount Ayr 416
5. St. Albert 424
6. Riverside 458
Riverside Scores: Kaycie Perkins 114, Akia Turney 128, Jadyn Beckman 130, Laney Rice 135
IOWA CLASS 1A REGION 5 FINAL AT HONEY CREEK RESORT, MORAVIA
State team qualifiers: 1. Highland Riverside 350, 2. New London 363
Area team scores:
4. Martensdale-St. Marys 412
5. Nodaway Valley 436
IOWA CLASS 2A REGION 2 FINAL AT CARROLL MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE
State team qualifiers: 1. Roland-Story 335, 2. Kuemper Catholic 381
IOWA CLASS 2A REGION 3 FINAL AT LEON COUNTRY CLUB, CENTRAL DECATUR
State team qualifiers: 1. Van Meter 346, 2. West Marshall 348
Area team scores:
3. Red Oak 375
6. Shenandoah 435
Area individual state qualifiers: 2. Brynn Knaus, Red Oak (79), 4. Sophi Pedersen, Treynor (83)
IOWA CLASS 3A REGION 2 FINAL AT NISHNA HILLS GOLF COURSE, ATLANTIC
State team qualifiers: 1. Gilbert 299, 2. Nevada 348
Area team scores:
3. Sergeant Bluff-Luton 368
4. Atlantic 370
5. Harlan 404
6. Denison-Schleswig 407
9. Bishop Heelan Catholic 423
11. Glenwood 454
Creston NTS
Atlantic scores: Belle Berg 86, Makenna Schroeder 89, Abby Muller 96, McKenna Sonntag 99, Emma Rose 106, Nevaeh Fewson 130.
IOWA CLASS 4A REGION 1 FINAL AT WILLOW CREEK GOLF COURSE, WDM VALLEY
State team qualifiers: 1. Waukee Northwest 339, 2. Southeast Polk 359
Area team scores:
7. Lewis Central 411,
9. Abraham Lincoln 479,
Thomas Jefferson NTS
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks says having the Chinese Communist Party pay for Muscatine students’ travel to China is a bridge too far. Miller-Meeks released a written statement, acknowledging the historical connection Muscatine has with China and its president. ‘
Xi Jinping stayed with a Muscatine family in 1985 during a cultural exchange. However, Miller-Meeks points to a story in The Guardian about an eight day trip to China for 24 Muscatine students that was paid for by the Chinese government. She says the situation is a national security concern and a sobering reminder of China’s aim to infiltrate U-S institutions.
Miller-Meeks issued her statement at 5 p.m. Wednesday and Radio Iowa was unable to reach Muscatine school officials for comment.
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