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Enrollment drops at Iowa’s 3 public universities

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September 13th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

By The Associated Press – Total enrollment has dropped at Iowa’s public universities. The University of Iowa on Thursday reported enrollment of more than 31,200 students this fall, compared with nearly 31,700 last year. The University of Northern Iowa reported enrollment of nearly 10,500, down from more than 11,200 last fall.

Iowa State University reported nearly 33,400 students this fall, down from nearly 35,000 last year. The number of students enrolled from other countries dropped this year at all three universities.

Police: Explosion destroyed Des Moines house, damaged others

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September 13th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say an explosion destroyed a house in Des Moines and damaged others. The blast occurred around 3:15 a.m. Friday, a few blocks northeast of Birdland Park. Police say no injuries have been reported. Natural gas is suspected of being the source of the explosion. An investigation is underway.

Skyscan Forecast – Friday, Sept. 13th, 2019

Weather

September 13th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Today: Mostly sunny. High 78. W-NW @ 10-20.

Tonight: Fair to Partly cloudy. Low 56. Winds light & variable.

Tomorrow: P/Cldy w/isolated afternoon showers & thunderstorms. High 84. S @ 10-15.

Sunday: Scattered morning shwrs & tstrms; P/Cldy. High 87.

Monday: P/Cldy. High 88.

Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 79. We received .49” rain. Our Low this morning 56. Last year on this date our High was 86 and the Low was 65. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 98 in 1893 & 1939. The Record Low was 25 in 1902.

Area High School Volleyball Scores from 9/12/19

Sports

September 13th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Western Iowa Conference 

(3-1) Missouri Valley 25-22-25-25, IKM-Manning 20-25-10-18
(3-1) Riverside 27-25-21-26, Audubon 25-14-25-24 (Gracie Bluml 28 digs and becomes Riverside’s all-time digs leader. Previous record was 626, Bluml now with 654.)
(3-1) Treynor 25-21-25-25, AHSTW 12-25-16-12
(3-2) Tri-Center 27-24-25-14-15, Underwood 25-26-20-25-9

Rolling Valley Conference 

(3-0) Ar-We-Va 25-25-25, Paton-Churdan 18-18-20
(2-0) Coon Rapids-Bayard 21-21, Perry 15-18
(3-2) Glidden-Ralston 27-25-23-25-16, Boyer Valley 29-22-25-17-14
(2-0) Griswold 21-21, Woodbine 8-15
(2-0) Griswold 21-21, CAM 15-9

(2-0) Woodbine 25-25, CAM 17-21

Corner Conference 

(2-0) East Mills 25-25, Bedford 6-14
(2-0) East Mills 25-26, Stanton 16-20
(2-0) Stanton 25-25, Bedford 17-9

Pride of Iowa Conference 

(3-0) Lenox 25-25-25, Central Decatur 19-16-15

Bluegrass Conference 

(3-0) Lamoni 25-25-25, Orient-Macksburg 21-9-11
(3-0) Moravia 25-25-25, Twin Cedars 10-19-11
(3-1) Murray 25-20-25-25, Ankeny Christian 20-25-19-19

Other Scores

(3-0) CB Abraham Lincoln 25-25-25, CB Thomas Jefferson 11-15-12
(3-1) Creston 25-25-18-25, Southwest Valley 21-22-25-23
(2-0) Mount Ayr 25-25, Clarke 23-11
(2-0) Mount Ayr 25-25, Pleasantville 19-18
(2-0) Perry 21-21, Panorama 16-10
(2-1) Perry 23-20-15, Earlham 21-22-8

High School Football Schedule – Week 3 – 09/13/2019

Sports

September 13th, 2019 by admin

Friday (09/13/2019)

CLASS 4A

District 7
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln at Lewis Central
Denison-Schleswig at Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson

CLASS 3A

District 1
Denison-Schleswig at Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson

District 2
Carroll at Harlan

District 9
Carroll at Harlan
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln at Lewis Central
Creston-O/M at Carlisle
Glenwood at Kuemper Catholic, Carroll
Grinnell at A-D-M, Adel
North Polk, Alleman at Winterset

CLASS 2A

District 1

District 9
Atlantic at Clarinda – ON KJAN
Cherokee, Washington at OABCIG
Clarke, Osceola at Red Oak
Glenwood at Kuemper Catholic
Saydel at Greene County
Shenandoah at Treynor

CLASS 1A

District 2
IKM-Manning at South Central Calhoun ( (ND))

District 7
Earlham at Pleasantville
Interstate 35 at Panorama
Martensdale-St. Marys at Woodward Academy
Regina, Iowa City at Pella Christian
Wayne at Colfax-Mingo
Woodward-Granger at South Hamilton

District 8
ACGC at Nodaway Valley
Atlantic at Clarinda- ON KJAN
Central Decatur at Mount Ayr
Interstate 35 at Panorama
Madrid at Van Meter
Southwest Valley at West Central Valley

District 9
Cherokee, Washington at OABCIG
East Sac County at Ridge View
Riverside at Missouri Valley
Shenandoah at Treynor
Underwood at Tri-Center
West Monona at MVAOCOU

CLASS A

District 9
ACGC at Nodaway Valley
Earlham at Pleasantville
Logan-Magnolia at St. Albert, Council Bluffs
Riverside at Missouri Valley
Southwest Valley at West Central Valley
Westwood at AHSTW

District 10
Lawton-Bronson at Hinton
Logan-Magnolia at St. Albert, Council Bluffs
Underwood at Tri-Center
West Monona at MVAOCOU
Westwood at AHSTW
Woodbury Central at Gehlen Catholic, LeMars

CLASS 8

District 6
East Union at Mormon Trail
Murray at Lamoni
Seymour at Lenox
Southeast Warren at Moravia

District 7
East Mills at Griswold
Stanton-Essex at Bedford

District 8
Boyer Valley at West Harrison
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton at Audubon
Glidden-Ralston at CAM – ON CAM COUGAR CHANNEL
Woodbine at Coon Rapids-Bayard

Midwest Sports Headlines: 9/13/19

Sports

September 13th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — Dexter Fowler and Kolten Wong opened the game with successive home runs and the St. Louis Cardinals connected five times in all to beat the Colorado Rockies 10-3. Marcell Ozuna, Rangel Ravelo and Harrison Bader also homered for St. Louis, which holds a four-game lead over Chicago and Milwaukee atop the NL Central. Held to a total of two runs in losing the first two games of the series at Coors Field, the Cardinals quickly bounced back. Fowler homered on the first pitch of the game.

CHICAGO (AP) — Hunter Dozier hit a tie-breaking, three-run home run in the sixth, Jorge Soler had his third homer in two days and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 6-3. Whit Merrifield walked and Soler singled off Chicago starter Lucas Giolito in the decisive inning. Then Dozier drove a 1-2 pitch into the left-field bleachers for a 5-2 lead. The homers spoiled a record performance by Giolito, who set a team mark with eight consecutive strikeouts.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Despite an offseason overhaul of the Chiefs defense, Week 1 proved that there is still plenty of room for improvement. Kansas City was sliced to shreds by a sixth-round pick, Gardner Minshew, despite rolling to a 40-26 victory over the Jaguars.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — When AFC West rivals Kansas City and Oakland meet both teams will be without the receivers they thought would be major parts of their offense. Tyreek Hill of the Chiefs got injured in Week 1, while the Raiders released Antonio Brown two days before their opener. Sammy Watkins stepped up last week for Kansas City. Oakland got big contributions from Tyrell Williams and Darren Waller.

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — It will be the end of an era of sorts this weekend in Oakland. Not that anyone figures to be mourning what should be the final NFL game ever played on a field with infield dirt, especially the players who have had to deal with the bad footing, ripped jerseys, scraped arms and legs and hard falls onto a surface with no cushion.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State heads to Mississippi State for its first road game under Chris Klieman, while Kansas hits the road to Boston College for the first time under Les Miles. West Virginia has a home game against North Carolina State and Texas Tech heads to Arizona. What do they all have in common? The four Big 12 programs have a chance to make Power Five statements this weekend for their new head coaches.

Iowa early News Headlines: Friday, Sept. 13, 2019

News

September 13th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:30 a.m. CDT

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Public defenders are seeking to stop representing an Iowa man charged with murder after revelations that their boss moonlights for a police department involved in the case. Lawyers with the special defense unit of the State Public Defender’s office said in a filing Wednesday that they now believe their representation of Jeffrey Stendrup is a conflict of interest. They have asked a judge for permission to withdraw from the case

ADEL, Iowa (AP) — Two men arrested on suspicion of breaking into an Iowa courthouse say they were hired to test the building’s alarm system. The Des Moines Register reports that the men were found in the Dallas County Courthouse early Wednesday after an alarm was tripped. The men told deputies they worked for the cybersecurity firm Coalfire and had been hired to test the courthouse alarm system, but court officials say they sought only to test the security of electronic records.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Police in southeastern Iowa have identified a man killed in a shootout with law enforcement officers. The Division of Criminal Investigation says 20-year-old Caleb Daniel Peterson, of Burlington, was the suspect killed in the exchange just before 1 a.m. Wednesday. No officers were injured. An autopsy has been ordered.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Drake men’s basketball player has been charged with an off-campus shooting that he says was accidental. Des Moines police say Tremell Murphy was charged Thursday with discharging a firearm inside city limits and making false reports to law enforcement. Court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him. A university spokesman says Murphy has been removed from basketball activities. Murphy was a starting forward for the Bulldogs as a junior last year.

Fowler, Wong open with HRs, Cardinals beat Rockies 10-3

Sports

September 12th, 2019 by admin

DENVER (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals had the upper hand from the start on a day the ball was flying out of Coors Field.

Dexter Fowler and Kolten Wong opened the game with successive home runs and the Cardinals connected five times in all, beating the Colorado Rockies 10-3 on Thursday.

Marcell Ozuna, Rangel Ravelo and Harrison Bader also homered for St. Louis, which holds a four-game lead over Chicago and Milwaukee atop the NL Central.

“A day game here, the ball always flies, but you’ve still got to put the barrel on it,” said Fowler, who spent the first six years of his career with Colorado. “It was good to get us started like that.”

Limited to a total of two runs in losing the first two games of the series at Coors Field, the Cardinals quickly bounced back.

Fowler drove the first pitch of the game from Tim Melville into the second deck and Wong followed with a drive that soared over the center field wall.

“I knew he wasn’t going to throw me many fastballs,” Fowler said. “I looked at some video and he was throwing a lot of sliders, so I just hit the first one (fastball).”

Nolan Arenado homered and doubled to drive in a pair of runs for Colorado. Josh Fuentes hit his first big league home run.

Miles Mikolas (9-13) went five innings and allowed three runs on five hits. He struck out five and walked one.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: Return home for a key series against NL Central Division rival Milwaukee with RHP Adam Wainwright (11-9, 4.16 ERA) slated to pitch Friday night’s opener. Wainwright’s 16 career wins against the Brewers are the most among active pitchers.

Rockies: RHP Jeff Hoffman (1-6, 7.06 ERA) is making his sixth start this season at home, where he has gone 1-3 with a 7.33 ERA as Colorado opens a series against San Diego. He’s bidding for his first win since May 29 against Arizona.

Two companies to sell short-term, high-deductible insurance plans in Iowa

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September 12th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — State regulators have approved two short-term health insurance plans for sale in Iowa. Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen says these are 364-day plans — and they are an option for healthy Iowans who cannot afford the premiums for individual policies being sold in the Affordable Care Act marketplace.

“It’s a policy that will fit a niche in the market for people that have been priced out under the ACA plans,” Ommen says. The approved plans are sold by Golden Rule Insurance Company and United States Fire Insurance Company. “These two companies were the first two companies to submit those plans for our approval and we’ve reviewed them,” Ommen says, “and they do comply with Iowa law.”

In-hospital services will be covered, including surgeries and emergency room visits, as well as out-of-hospital care like going to the doctor — even if its via a video “tele-medicine” link. Customers will be able to renew policies for three years. The plans do have higher deductibles, however. “But for people that were priced out of the (Affordable Care Act) that have incomes over 400 percent of the federal poverty level, this coverage is affordable in terms of premium, where some of those ACA plans have simply skyrocketed out of reach for a lot of middle class Iowans,” Ommen says.

A family of four with an annual income of more than 99-thousand dollars do not qualify for the federal subsidies to buy health insurance. These short-term plans will be attractive to younger, healthy Iowans, but Ommen says Iowans with pre-existing conditions will not be able to buy these policies.

Ommen says until congress makes significant changes, the health insurance market will not function properly as younger, healthy adults will continue to balk at buying a health insurance policy at a price that’s equal to one offered to a 60 year old.

LOIS IRENE DARRINGTON, 91, of Griswold (Memorial Svc. at a later date)

Obituaries

September 12th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

LOIS IRENE DARRINGTON, 91, of Griswold, died Wed., Sept. 11th, at home. A public memorial service for LOIS DARRINGTON will be held at a later date. Rieken Duhn Funeral Home in Griswold is assisting the family with arrangements.

A private graveside service, for immediate family, will be held at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Council Bluffs.

LOIS DARRINGTON is survived by:

Her husband – Marvin Darrington.

Her sons – Don (Susan) Darrington, and Bruce (Barbara) Darrington.

4 grandchildren; 3 great grandchildren; her brother-in-law Byron (Jan) Darrington; and sisters-in-law, Vera Beamer and Esther Darrington.