Northern Iowa softball coach Ryan Jacobs says team chemistry has been a big part of the Panther’s success. UNI takes a 38-11 record and school record 17-game winning streak into Thursday morning’s quarterfinal round of the Missouri Valley Tournament in Carbondale, Illinois, against Drake.
Jacobs says all of the players accepted their role.
Drake advanced with a 7-0 win over Evansville. The Panthers beat the Bulldogs three times during the regular season by a combined score of 29-5.
Iowa baseball coach Rick Heller is not sure if leading hitter Keaton Anthony will be back in the lineup on Friday when the Hawkeyes open a three game series at home against Michigan State. Anthony was one of a handful of baseball players benched for last weekend’s series against Ohio State as the University investigates gambling allegations involving more than two dozen athletes. Anthony leads the Big Ten in hitting with a .463 average and has driven in 19 runs in 14 conference games.
Heller says the Hawkeyes are preparing as if they won’t have Anthony in the lineup.
Heller says he is confident in how the University investigation is handling it.
Losing an All-American during a stretch run is a tough break but Heller believes the Hawkeyes are still a team that can make a run to an NCAA Regional.
Without Anthony in the lineup the Hawkeyes still managed to take two of three games from Ohio State.
The Hawkeyes are 10-7 in the Big Ten and 34-12 overall.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa will no longer require experienced physician assistants — known as P-As — to be work under the direct supervision of doctor in order to practice medicine. P-As who are newly licensed, though, will have to have an agreement with a supervising doctor for two years before they may practice independently. Governor Kim Reynolds signed the bill making those changes into law today (Wednesday).
“This is a game changer for rural hospitals and it really makes a difference to be able to provide that access to Iowans who need it,” Reynolds says. “We want to make sure that we do everything we can to maintain health care in rural Iowa.” Over half of the licensed P-As in Iowa today are working in rural communities. Representative Josh Turek, of Council Bluffs, says about 40 percent of the P-As who graduate in Iowa, though, leave to practice elsewhere. “Allowing the PAs to operate independently I think will lead us to keeping more of our PAs here as we are the Harvard of the PAs,” Turek says.
The first class of P-As graduated from the University of Iowa in 1974. The P-A program at Des Moines University has been operating nearly four decades. In the past decade, St. Ambrose University in Davenport and the University of Dubuque started P-A training programs. The P-A program at Northwestern College in Orange City started in 2020.
Onawa, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Public Safety reports that at around 1:50-a.m today (Wednesday), the Monona County Communications Center responded to an individual suffering from being stabbed and was subsequently receiving medical treatment at the Burgess Health Center, Onawa. The individual was flown Mercy One in Sioux City, Iowa.
After an investigation by the Monona County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the stabbing victim has been identified as 32-year-old Derek Webster Jr., of Monona, Iowa. Webster Jr is currently in stable condition at Mercy One.
Inessa Lyons, 30 year old, of Monona, Iowa was arrested by the Monona County Sheriff’s Office and has been charged for Attempted Murder and Willful Injury.
Court documents indicate Webster told investigators he’d been attacked outside a bar by a white man on a motorcycle, but Lyons later admitted Webster had repeatedly asked her to take him to a store to buy more booze and she stabbed him with a knife in their kitchen.
Inessa Lyons
Note: A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Class 1A Boys Golf Sectional @ Quail Run Golf Course (Tri-Center)
05/10/2023 in Neola (Par 72)
Team Scores
Individual Top Ten
Full results: 2023 Boys Sectional 1A Meet – Tri-Center
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State head coach Kevin Dresser announced the addition of Cody Chittum to the program Wednesday afternoon. Chittum was ranked as the No. 1 pound-for-pound high school prospect by FloWrestling after the 2021-22 season.
Chittum brings an impressive list of credentials to Ames. The projected 157-pounder has won Who’s Number One, Super 32 – one of the country’s most prestigious high school wrestling events – and a junior freestyle national title.
The Tennessee native also took fourth at the U20 men’s freestyle world team trials and won gold at the Junior Pan-American Games in Colombia last year. Wrestling unattached, Chittum reached the quarterfinals of the 2022 Southern Scuffle before suffering a high-ankle sprain and medically forfeiting out of the tournament.
Chittum spent his freshman high school season at Blair Academy where he was a Beast of the East champion and a National Prep runner-up. As the pandemic hit, Chittum stayed in Tennessee and enrolled at Cleveland High School, where he won a state title in 2021.
Most recently, Chittum competed on the senior level freestyle circuit and medaled in three events. He earned silver at the Bill Farrell and bronze medals at the Henri Deglane and Egypt Ranking Series.
KAREN GERSTORFF, 63, of Greenfield, died Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at the Adair County Memorial Hospital in Greenfield. No services are planned for KAREN GERSTORFF at this time. Lamb Funeral Home in Greenfield is in charge of the arrangements.
Online condolences may be left to the family at www.lambfuneralhomes.com.
Memorials may be directed to the Karen Gerstorff Memorial Fund to be established by the family at a later date.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – Rolling Hills Bank and Trust has partnered with the Atlantic Parks and Rec Department, to purchase fruit trees for our area parks as a community orchard. During an Ambassadors meeting Parks Director Wyatt Adderton spoke about the tree loss in our parks, and how they were going to need to replace some trees.
Photos courtesy Rolling Hills Loan Officer BJ Hart
Assistant Parks Director Jeff Christensen later commented about a beloved pear tree located near the pool that they lost recently. He said it was a shame that it died so many people loved that tree. 
Rolling Hills Loan Manager B.J. Hart said “I went back to the bank wanting to do something and talked with CEO Keith Honke about a tree project. Keith encouraged me to get some information which prompted me to contact our new director. As Wyatt and I were talking the idea was born to have a community orchard.”
The Parks and Recreation Department purchased 26 fruit trees. Apple, Pear and Cherry Trees. The first tree for the Community Orchard was planted today (Wednesday), at Sunnyside Park.
[UPDATE 7:48-A.M. 5/11] – Mr. Brown was located on 05-10-23 at approximately 6:00 pm in Tarkio Missouri. According to Council Bluffs Police, he was located by an Atchison County Missouri Deputy. He was found healthy and the family has been notified.
(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – Police in Council Bluffs are asking for your help in locating man who hasn’t been seen since Sunday. Clint A. Brown, of Council Bluffs, was last seen driving a dark blue 2000 Chrysler Town & County Mini Van with Iowa License Plate IZG-974.
Clint Brown
The family is very concerned about his safety. If you have had any contact with him, or know of his possible location, please call 911 or make contact with the Council Bluffs Police Department at 712-328-4728, thank you.
(Radio Iowa) – A report on tax collections since July 1st of 2022 shows state revenue is up nearly two percent compared to the previous 10 month period. In March, the State Revenue Estimating Conference predicted state tax revenue would drop by half a percent this fiscal year. The uptick in ACTUAL tax receipts happened despite the state paying out 107 million dollars MORE in state income tax refunds than it did through the end of April last year.
Jeff Robinson of the Legislative Services Agency says there’s been a bit of a slow down in overall state tax collections since April 3rd, though. That includes a dip in sales tax payments to the state. Iowans who filed their 2022 STATE income tax returns by May 1st and are owed a refund should get it within the next two weeks according to Robinson.
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