Girls:
- Abraham Lincoln 7, Atlantic 0 (Maren McNees had 25 saves for the evening & Alisha Hinzman led the team defensively with 11 interceptions & Alyssa Beccera had 8 steals)
Boys:
- West Central Valley (Stuart) 7, Missouri Valley 1.
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Iowa parents paying child support could go to court and ask to have their ex-spouse submit to drug tests every six months under a proposal advanced, but then withdrawn by a Republican in the Iowa Senate. Senator Mark Chelgren, a Republican from Ottumwa, got the idea from a constituent. “Because of some consternation and some problems that have arised with his ex-wife, there is a strong belief on his part that she may have gotten involved in drugs,” Chelgren said during debate, “and that the money that is going to the children is instead being diverted to this drug habit.” Chelgren told his colleagues he wouldn’t name names and didn’t know if the drug-use allegation was true, but he proposed that a person paying child support could get a court order requiring the person who has custody of the kids get a drug test. If that person failed the test or refused to take it, the child support would be paid to a custodian appointed by the court.”This way the money is actually going for the children and not necessarily to be used on drugs,” Chelgren said.
A few Democrats in the Senate openly laughed as Chelgren explained his proposal. Senator Jack Hatch, a Democrat from Des Moines, suggested ugly divorces and break-ups would get uglier if this proposal became law. “We know that it will be used defiantly against one of the parents — ususally against the woman,” Hatch said. “And it would cause the damage not only to the woman but also to the family and to the children to have one parent inappropriately every six months ask for a screening.” Chelgren responded. “You know, we do have a drug problem in this state,” Chelgren said. “It doesn’t mean everybody in this state, obviously, is on drugs. It doesn’t mean that every single individual or family member or someone who’s taking care of families is on drugs — clearly, but we shouldn’t be ducking our head and running away every time there’s a difficult issue coming up.”
Chelgren then withdrew his drug-testing proposal, which he was trying to tack onto a much larger bill that outlines state spending for the Iowa Department of Human Services. Chelgren has another proposal he hopes to add to that bill — a requirement that all Iowa welfare recipients submit to random drug tests.
(O. Kay Henderson/Radio Iowa)
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455 AM CDT FRI APR 13 2012 National Weather Service/Des Moines
DAY ONE…TODAY AND TONIGHT: ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE DAY TODAY. HOWEVER…NO SEVERE WEATHER IS FORECAST TODAY. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA TONIGHT…WITH AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL.
DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY:
THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING…WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS LIKELY LOCATED SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. LARGE HAIL…DAMAGING WINDS…AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STRONG STORMS.
ANOTHER ROUND THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON…MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY WITH THE AMOUNT OF SEVERITY AT THIS TIME…BUT STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL CANNOT BE RULE OUT.
SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT…
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO SATURDAY NIGHT…AND POSSIBLE AGAIN ON SUNDAY.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drake is one of eight teams set to play in the annual Anaheim Classic basketball tournament in November. The Bulldogs will join NCAA tournament teams California, St. Mary’s and Xavier, NIT participant Drexel along with Rice, Georgia Tech and Pacific. Drake will play three games in four days starting on Nov. 22. First-round pairings will be announced in July.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to release another report examining last year’s flooding along the Missouri River. The Corps will release a report Friday looking at how much free space it would have needed in reservoirs along the river to handle last year’s deluge of water. The report will also look at how other uses of the river, such as navigation and recreation, would have been affected by storing that much floodwater. A report from outside experts released in December said the corps did the best it could to deal with last year’s record flooding. Officials have said nearly all of the 16.3 million acre-feet of the planned storage space for floodwater is available in reservoirs along the Missouri River thanks to recent warm, dry weather.
356 AM CDT FRI APR 13 2012 National Weather Service/Des Moines – Cass and Area Counties in Iowa
TODAY…CLOUDY UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON THEN BECOMING PARTLY SUNNY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MID MORNING… THEN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON. BREEZY…WARMER. HIGH IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTH WIND 15 TO 25 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.
SATURDAY…CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON…THEN THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE LATE IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MID 70S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH INCREASING TO AROUND 20 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 60 PERCENT.
SATURDAY NIGHT…THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. BREEZY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTH WIND 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 70 PERCENT.
SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING…THEN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. BREEZY. HIGH AROUND 70. SOUTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS 50 PERCENT.
SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. BREEZY…COOLER. LOW IN THE MID 40S.
MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY…COOLER. HIGH IN THE MID 50S.
An explosion at a home in Council Bluffs Thursday evening resulted in one person being sent to the hospital, suffering from severe burns. Witnesses told Omaha television station KETV that a man came running from the house shortly after the fire occurred. Council Bluffs Fire Chief Alan Byers confirmed the victim suffered critical burns to 50-percent of his body, and was transported to the Nebraska Medical Center. The man’s name and a report on his condition are not currently available.
The blaze at 310 South 10th St. was reported at 7:45 p.m. Byers said both neighbors and police reported hearing a number of explosions coming from the second floor of the home, which is located a short distance west of Bayliss Park.
The blaze was snuffed out in about a half hour. Chief Byers couldn’t say for sure what started the fire, but he indicated there were combustible materials inside the home. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.