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Shenandoah man cited following an accident in Creston

News

October 3rd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Creston, Iowa) – No injuries were reported following a collision Saturday morning, in Creston, but a man from Shenandoah received three citations. Creston Police say a 2018 Chevy Silverado pickup driven by 43-year-old Bruce Allen Tracy, of Murray, was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of Lincoln and Townline Streets, when his vehicle was hit from behind by a 2007 Saturn Aura XE. The driver of the car, 31-year old Anthony Robert Darling, of Shenandoah, told Police he was having issues with his brakes, and could not stop.

Darling was cited for Failure to Maintain Control, Driving while license denied, suspended, cancelled or revoked, and Failure to provide proof of accident insurance. Both vehicles sustained an estimated $6,000 damage, each.

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Drake edges past Butler

Sports

October 3rd, 2021 by admin

The Drake Bulldogs edged out a 6-3 win over the Butler Bulldogs on Saturday in Indianapolis. Drake trailed 3-0 at half. Cross Robinson had the lone score with a four yard touchdown run that capped a 90-yard drive to start the second half.

Butler threatened to take the lead back after driving all the way down to the Drake 1 yard line but defensive lineman Max Johnson forced a fumble that Drake linebacker Declan Carr recovered in the end zone for a touchback.

Colin Howard led the Drake offense with 92 yards on four catches. Drake halted a 3 game losing streak and improved to 2-3 overall and 1-1 in Pioneer Football League play. Drake returns to Drake Stadium next Saturday for a noon contest against Dayton.

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UNI wins homecoming tilt over Youngstown State

Sports

October 3rd, 2021 by admin

UNI fans had a happy homecoming on Saturday as the Panthers flew past Youngstown State 34-7 at the UNI-Dome.

Theo Day went 11-16 passing for 186 yards and two touchdowns for the Panthers. Dom Williams gobbled up 119 yards on the ground with a score. UNI led 31-0 by the intermission after scoring 21 in the second quarter.

The Panthers move to 3-1 on the season and will travel next weekend to face North Dakota State.

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Iowa State routs Kansas 59-7

Sports

October 3rd, 2021 by admin

Iowa State broke the game open early and routed Kansas 59-7 on Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames.

The Cyclones scored a school record 28 points in the first quarter and pushed out to a 38-0 lead by halftime, taking advantage of two Jayhawk turnovers in the process.

Brock Purdy had a stellar performance going 17-22 fro 245 yards and four touchdowns trough the air. Breece Hall racked up 123 yards on the ground and scored twice. The Cyclones rushed for a season-high 290 yards as a team.

Iowa State improves to 3-2 overall and 1-1 in the Big 12. The Cyclones now have a bye week before a road trip to Manhattan, KS to face Kansas State.

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Earlham wins small school field at Steve Johnson/Dan Huston Invitational at Wartburg

Sports

October 3rd, 2021 by admin

Earlham took the title in the boys orange division of the Steve Johnson/Dan Huston Invitational at Wartburg College on Saturday and Nodaway Valley finished 20th. Earlham scored 127 points to wiyn and were led by a 4th place finish from Jayden Dickson and a 5th place finish from Dominic Braet.

Nodaway Valley was led by a 10th place finish from Doug Berg with a time of 16.37. Malachi Broers went 56th place with a time of 18:25.

The Earlham girls finished 11th and were paced by a 12th place finish from Olivia Spurling. The Nodaway Valley girls were 17th out of 20 team. Jass Christensen was the Wolverines top runner with a 35th place finish. Pine Island. MN won the girls team title.

Check out the full results from the meet HERE

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High School Volleyball Scoreboard 10/02/2021

Sports

October 3rd, 2021 by admin

Tri-Center Tournament

(2-0) Red Oak 21-21, Lawton-Bronson 10-14
(2-0) Red Oak 21-21, IKM-Manning 15-12
(2-0) Red Oak 21-21, Atlantic 12-5
(2-1) Red Oak 21-19-15, Westwood 14-21-10
(2-0) Red Oak 21-21, Tri-Center 19-19
(2-0) Tri-Center 21-21, Atlantic 18-17
(2-0) Tri-Center 21-19, Lawton Bronson 21-6
(2-0) Tri-Center 21-21, IKM-Manning 1-15
(2-0) Tri-Center 21-21, Westwood 7-8
(2-0) Atlantic 21-21, IKM-Manning 9-15
(2-1) Atlantic 21-20-15, Westwood 14-22-13
(2-0) Lawton Bronson 20-21-15, Atlantic 22-14-5
(2-0) Lawton Bronson 21-21, IKM-Manning 5-8
(2-0) Westwood 21-21, IKM-Manning 8-17

CB TJ Tournament

POOL A

(2-0) Missouri Valley 25-25, Thomas Jefferson 18-16
(2-1) Missouri Valley 25-18-25, St. Albert 21-25-6
(2-0) Missouri Valley 25-25, Shenandoah 10-14
(2-0) St. Albert 25-25, Thomas Jefferson 9-15
(2-0) St. Albert 25-25, Shenandoah 8-17
(2-1) Shenandoah 27-23-16, Thomas Jefferson 25-25-14

POOL B

(2-0) Treynor 25-25, Denison-Schleswig 12-13
(2-0) Treynor 25-25, Siouxland Christian 5-17
(2-0) Treynor 25-25, ADM 16-17
(2-0) ADM 25-25, Denison-Schleswig 19-23
(2-0) Denison-Schleswig 25-25, Siouxland Christian 21-18

CONSOLATION: (2-0) St. Albert 25-25, ADM 22-14
CHAMPIONSHIP: (2-0) Missouri Valley 25-25, Treynor 23-16

Des Moines Christian Tournament

(2-0) Glenwood 21-21 Gilbert 11-15
(2-1) Glenwood 21-19-15 Waukee 15-21-11
(2-0) Des Moines Christian 21-21 Glenwood 17-15
(2-0) Western Christian 21-26 Glenwood 15-24
(2-1) North Polk 13-21-15 Glenwood 21-14-10

Urbandale Tournament

POOL A

(2-1) Lewis Central 19-21-15 Dallas Center-Grimes 21-13-7
(2-0) Urbandale 21-22 Lewis Central 18-20

POOL B

(2-0) Sioux City North 21-21 Ames 16-18
(2-0) Indianola 21-21 Sioux City North 16-17
(2-1) Sioux City North 22-22-15 Southeast Polk 24-20-11

POOL C

(2-1) Ankeny Centennial 12-21-15, CB Abraham Lincoln 21-15-10
(2-0) CB Abraham Lincoln 21-21, Des Moines Lincoln 15-10

POOL D

(2-0) Johnston 21-21, LeMars 16-17
(2-0) Waukee Northwest 21-21, LeMars 18-8
(2-0) LeMars 21-21, Des Moines East 18-18

BRACKET PLAY

(2-1) Urbandale 22-25-15, Sioux City North 20-21-11
(2-0) Pella 21-21, CB Abraham Lincoln 6-17
(2-0) CB Abraham Lincoln 21-21 LeMars 18-16
(2-1) Indianola 21-25-15, Lewis Central 25-22-10
(2-1) Dallas Center-Grimes 26-25-15, Abraham Lincoln 28-16-6

River Valley Tournament

(2-0) Alta-Aurelia 21-21, Boyer Valley 10-14
(2-0) Remsen, St. Marys 21-21, Boyer Valley 9-6
(2-1) Boyer Valley 12-21-18, River Valley 21-14-16
(2-0) Boyer Valley 21-21, Woodbury Central 9-6

Greene County Tournament  

(2-0) Stanton 21-21, Grinnell 12-19
(2-0) South Hardin 21-21, Stanton 15-18
(2-0) Boone 23-24, Stanton 21-22
(2-0) Stanton 21-21, Des Moines Hoover 9-11

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Clarinda man arrested after motorcycle pursuit & crash

News

October 3rd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Red Oak, Iowa) – An attempted traffic stop Saturday night in Montgomery County, resulted in a pursuit and arrest of a man from Clarinda. According to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were performing routine patrol on Highway 48 southbound at around 9-p.m., when a motorcycle approached them northbound. Deputies activated their in-car radar, and observed the motorcycle was traveling at 102 miles per hour. The Deputy activated their red light and siren, and made a U-turn to catch up with the cycle.

As they got behind the machine, they observed it had an Iowa license plate which came back to a gray, 2013 Harley Davidson. The cycle took off at a high rate of speed, leading deputies on a pursuit through Red Oak to Highway 71, where the motorcycle crashed. At that time, the operator, Jason Patrick Fahey, of Clarinda, was arrested and charged with Eluding. His bond was set at $2,000.

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Democrats say if GOP uses state surplus for tax cuts, relief should be targeted

News

October 3rd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The top Democrat in the Iowa House says the State of Iowa wouldn’t have had a more than $1 billion surplus at the end of the last fiscal year in June, if it weren’t for federal pandemic relief. House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst is among the Democrats citing Biden’s signature on bills that did things like increase the federal child tax credit and extend Medicaid coverage to at least 75,000 more low-income Iowans. “Iowa’s economy is strong, in many ways, because of the work that President Biden has done to help Americans get out of the pandemic and help Iowa’s economy recover,” Konfrst says.

Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has said with a budget surplus of more than $1.24 billion, lawmakers should cut income taxes — with the long-term goal of completely eliminating the state income tax. Konfrst says Democrats will lobby for targeted tax relief.

“Certainly if there are tax cuts, they need to be going to working families,” she says. “We need to make sure that tax cuts aren’t, again, going to wealthy families or to corporations or special interests and I also need to acknowledge the fact that our schools have been underfunded for a long time. Iowa’s mental health system needs more funding and health care and prescription drug costs still hurt Iowa family budgets, so whatever we can do to alleviate that I think is a really good use of that money.”

Jennifer Konfrst

And Konfrst says some state agency budgets have been trimmed too far. “It takes a long time to get services from state agencies because they’ve been cut so much,” she says. As an example, Konfrst cites the Department of Human Services which does things like manage food stamps and Medicaid and investigate allegations of child abuse.

“This is not a criticism of the department. This is just that they’re understaffed and underworked,” Konfrst says. “We’ve seen this with Iowa Workforce Development. We’ve had people with unemployment challenges that they’ve not been able to get a call back. I had a constituent who didn’t receive his unemployment check during the pandemic for three months and that was not because somebody wasn’t doing their job, it’s just because there aren’t enough people to do the job.”

Konfrst made her comments during taping of the “Iowa Press” program which aired Friday night on Iowa PBS.

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Judge issues temporary order against Iowa dog breeder

News

October 3rd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A federal judge is ordering a southern Iowa dog breeder to immediately have a veterinarian conduct a “head to tail” evaluation of every dog on the property after federal inspectors say they found dogs in danger of starvation and death.

Daniel Gingerich, who operates the Maple Hill kennel near Seymour, has been a USDA licensed dog breeder since 2019. Federal inspectors report dogs were being fed moldy, contaminated food and did not have access to water.

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order, requiring Gingerich to immediately stop breeding, euthanizing or disposing of any dogs. Gingerich is being accused of evading federal oversight by hiding dogs from USDA inspectors. He’s also accused of committing at least 100 violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

The judge who issued the temporary order said the dogs were being subjected to “shockingly inadequate” care. No criminal charges have been filed against Gingerich. Radio Iowa has been unable to reach Gingerich for comment.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture also has a state inspection record on file.

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September rainfall well below average

News, Weather

October 3rd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – September ended with scattered showers across the state — but State Climatologist Justin Glisan says the preliminary numbers show those showers were scarce much of the month. “What we’re looking at is about one-point-six-five inches right now — and that’s a little over one-point-eight inches below average. So, a pretty dry month,” Glisan says. He says it won’t be in the top ten for dryness — but will make that next tier.

“This will be one of the top 20 driest Septembers on record. If we look at central and north-central Iowa, we has some coop stations that have had really dry September — top ten,” he says. The drought monitor for this week shows only about 24 percent of the state is without some sort of dry conditions.

Glisan says the dryness came with some heat as well. “Statewide average temperature was about 67 degrees, and that’s about three degrees above average,” according to Glisan. “So, if we look at the historical rankings going back 149 years — it looks like a top 30th warmest September on the record books.”

Glisan says the indicators are pointing toward the warmth continuing in October — with the possibility of a break in the dry weather. “We are seeing a slight trend in the short-term outlooks to near normal or a slightly elevated shot at wetter conditions in northern Iowa getting out into the first half of October,” he says. “But we are definitely if you are looking at the six to ten, eight to 14 in the final October outlook — a very strong signal for warmer than average temperatures.”

The precipitation potential will be good news for those areas that saw a deficit in September.

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