DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld Iowa’s hunting laws ruling that just because someone owns land in Iowa it doesn’t mean they have a right to hunt on it. The court finds that Iowa’s laws that provide hunting advantages to permanent residents do not violate the constitutional rights of nonresident landowners.  Three men who own land in Iowa but have permanent homes in other states challenged Iowa’s hunting laws as unconstitutional claiming they discriminate against nonresident landowners.

The court says Iowa lawmakers have developed an extensive statutory scheme that results in the conclusion “that landownership in Iowa is not accompanied by the right to hunt on one’s own land.”  The men objected to Iowa laws that make more licenses available to permanent residents at a lower price.

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Tonight we will begin our 2013-14 season of high school basketball coverage in Council Bluffs.  We will feature Atlantic opening their season with a road match-up at St. Albert in boys hoops.  The Falcons are coming off a season opening loss to Wahoo Newman, Nebraska last night and will host a Trojans team that will have lots of new faces after losing their top seven last year to graduation.  This will also be the debut for Atlantic head coach Alan Jenkins on the bench.  We are on the air at 7:30 tonight on AM 1220, FM 101.1, on the web at kjan.com and you can watch the game courtesy of KJAN TV.  We’ll be streaming the live video of the game on the TV page at kjan.com.  Join Jim Field and Chris Parks for all the action!

• Audubon 55, Griswold 16
• Audubon 39, Atlantic/CAM 35
• Atlantic/CAM 57, Griswold 6

• Clarinda 48, Lewis Central 21
• Lewis Central 50, Shenandoah 18
• Clarinda 75, Shenandoah 6

• Red Oak 41, Missouri Valley 27
• Denison-Schleswig 37, Red Oak 36
• Denison-Schleswig 46, Missouri Valley 33

• Glenwood 72, St. Albert 6
• Glenwood 63, Kuemper Catholic 9
• Kuemper Catholic 54, St. Albert 24

• Underwood 45, Southwest Iowa 30

• A-H-S-T 48, Exira/EHK 30

• Clarke 48, Southwest Valley 27

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Melissa Dixon scored seven of her game-high 27 points in the final 1:22 as No. 25 Iowa came back to defeat 22nd-ranked and previously unbeaten Syracuse 97-91 in the Big Ten/ACC challenge Thursday night. Dixon hit all 27 points — on 7 of 11 3-pointers — after halftime as Iowa (9-1) clawed back from a 47-37 gap.

Bethany Doolittle scored a career-high 25 for the Hawkeyes, Samantha Logic added 14 and Kali Peschel 10 with eight rebounds. The Hawkeyes hadn’t led since 12:06 of the first half when a Dixon 3 brought them to 71-69, and then Peschel grabbed a defensive rebound and scored for a 72-71 lead.

Syracuse (8-1) was led by 25 points on 10-for-13 shooting from Brittney Sykes, who also hauled down 10 boards. Sykes scored 10 of her points in the final 7:14 as she and Iowa’s Dixon and Logic traded baskets and the lead.

BOYS BASKETBALL

• Bishop Neumann,NE 63, St. Albert 47
• Denison-Schleswig 65, Storm Lake 42
• Riverside 56, Stanton 44
• Underwood 52, East Mills 36
• East Union 36, North Harrison, MO 28
• Heartland Christian 77, Omaha Nation, NE 70 (OT)

GIRLS BASKETBALL

• Stanton 52, Riverside 33
• Underwood 42, East Mills 41
• North Harrison , MO 48, East Union 31

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Branden Albert is hurt, so is Jon Asamoah, and the No. 1 overall pick in last April’s draft has gone through a painful series of growing pains this season. It’s been a tough time to be a member of the Kansas City Chiefs offensive line.

Yet despite all the shuffling caused by a spate of injuries, the front five has played perhaps its best football of the season the last three weeks, which just so happen to have coincided with the offense’s best performances of the season — and a frustrating three-game losing streak.

Offensive guard Jeff Allen said the line is simply getting comfortable with coach Andy Reid’s offense. Finally, after 12 weeks of regular-season games.

It appears the Iowa Board of Regents has rejected former Iowa State University basketball player, Bubu Palo’s, appeal to rejoin the team. Palo was temporarily suspended, but then returned last season after a sexual assault charge against him was dropped. An unidentified complainant challenged that reinstatement, and I-S-U President Steven Leath made the decision to dismiss Palo for a violation of I-S-U’s Student Code of Conduct. Regents president, Bruce Rastetter, says the Board agrees with President Leath in a case involving a student’s appeal.

“I think the board reviewed the university’s decision and felt the same and we confirmed President Leath and the university’s decision,” Rastetter says. Rastetter says privacy laws prevent him from confirming that Palo was the subject of the vote, but the former athlete said he expected the Regents to hear his case Wednesday. Regents attorney Tom Evans says when a student loses an appeal before the Regents, they have a limited time to appeal to district court.

“Typically it’s 30 days. We’ll follow up and notify the student’s legal counsel and the legal counsel can notify the student,” Evans says.

(Radio Iowa)