The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — In the first full month of her presidential campaign, Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris is planning a tour of the nation’s four early-voting states. Harris’ schedule announced Tuesday includes two days each in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa and Nevada, states where support will be key to building momentum in a crowded 2020 Democratic field. The first-term senator from California will make her first visit to New Hampshire and then her first stop in Nevada since she officially declared her candidacy. She will be returning to Iowa and South Carolina, which she visited after launching her bid.
While the Harris campaign said specifics would be released later, the dates of her early-states tour are: South Carolina, Feb. 15-16; New Hampshire, Feb. 18-19; Iowa, Feb. 23-24; and Nevada, Feb. 28-March 1.
Harris, 54, announced her candidacy Jan. 21 during a national TV appearance, then appeared at an official kickoff rally Jan. 27 before thousands of people in downtown Oakland, California.
Harris’ campaign has already named Deidre DeJear as her campaign chair in Iowa and Will Dubbs as Iowa state director, signs of how the nascent campaign is growing in the state holding the first voting of the 2020 primary.
In New Hampshire, Harris has added Craig Brown as her campaign’s state director.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A jury has acquitted a 31-year-old man accused of punching to death a 2-year-old girl in Iowa County. Court records say Cody Stevenson was found not guilty Monday of first-degree murder. A criminal complaint said Stevenson struck the daughter of his live-in girlfriend three or four times in the abdomen on June 30, 2017, at a Williamsburg apartment. Authorities say the girl died three days later.
He testified Friday that he’d told authorities that he punched the girl but said so only to protect her mother. He says she punched her daughter. Court records don’t show the woman has been charged. The trial was moved to Cedar Rapids because of pretrial publicity.
The Audubon County Sheriff’s Office, Monday, posted a report on arrests dating back to early January. Most recently:
Other arrests in January:
Red Oak Police, Monday night, arrested a woman on an assault charge after officers responded to a residence in the 1300 block of Sunnyslope Drive, for a physical domestic assault in progress. Officers separated both parties and arrested 26-year old Bailey Anne Bostwick, of Red Oak, for Domestic Abuse Assault/1st offense. Bostwick was taken into custody at around 8:30-p.m. and transported to the Montgomery County Jail, where she was being held without bond, pending an appearance before the magistrate.
Today: Increasing clouds w/a chance of light rain-freezing drizzle-snow mainly this afternoon. High 26. E @ 5-10.
Tonight: Cloudy w/light snow-freezing drizzle ending (<1″ snow). Low 18. N @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Cldy w/light snow-freezing drizzle mainly in the afternoon. High around 31. W @ 5-10.
Thursday: Cldy w/light snow. Nearly steady temp in the lower teens. NW @ 15-40.
Friday: P/Cldy. High around 12.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 20. We had a trace of snow Monday morning. Our Low this morning (as of 5-a.m.) was 8. Last year on this date our High was 15 and the Low was -13. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 66in 1948. The Record Low was -26 in 1936.
(Radio Iowa) — Republican Governor Kim Reynolds and key Republicans in the legislature met yesterday (Monday) and settled on a “per pupil” spending level for the 2019/2020 school year. They’ve agreed to boost general state support of public K-through-12 schools by a little more than two percent, slightly less than what Governor Reynolds recommended last month. Senate Republican Leader Jack Whitver of Ankeny says the deal includes more money to offset transportation costs and address inequities in the state funding formula — for a total package of nearly 90 million more dollars to public schools.
“I think the most important thing when it comes to school funding is we promise an amount that we can actually fund,” Whitver says, “and this amount that we’re promising today is an amount that we’re very confident we’ll be able to fund in the future.”
The state’s education community had been lobbying for more. Melissa Peterson is a lobbyist for the Iowa State Education Association which represents 34-thousand Iowa teachers. “While we appreciate that 2.06 percent is better than the rates that have been assigned that last couple of years,” she says, “we know that school districts in Iowa need at least three percent to keep up with the cost of inflation.”
Last year, the Republicans at the statehouse approved a one percent hike in per pupil state funding for the current school year. The previous year, the increase was one-point-one percent. Legislative leaders expect the G-O-P’s general school spending level for NEXT year to gain final approval in the House and Senate next week.
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Creston 65, Atlantic 59
Denison-Schleswig 63, OA-BCIG 34
Glenwood 87, Clarinda 45
Red Oak 63, Southwest Valley 43
Shenandoah 52, Tri-Center 35
Sioux City East 53, Harlan 33
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW, Avoca 58, Nodaway Valley 55
IKM-Manning 83, MVAOCOU 45
Logan-Magnolia 57, Underwood 42
Riverside 58, Whiting 54
Treynor 75, Audubon 40
Rolling Valley Conference
Ar-We-Va, Westside 58, Paton-Churdan 47
CAM 98, West Harrison 57 (CAM clinches the RVC Championship. Paige McAfee reaches 1,000 career points)
Coon Rapids-Bayard 50, Boyer Valley 41
Exira-EHK 71, Woodbine 34 (Win 400 for Head Coach Tom Petersen)
Glidden-Ralston 55, West Central Valley 34
Corner Conference
Sidney 59, Fremont-Mills 33
Lenox 61, Stanton 35
Other Scores
ADM, Adel 69, Carroll 57
Boone 37, Winterset 34
Martensdale-St Marys 64, East Union 13
Mount Ayr 67, Interstate 35, Truro 38
Van Meter 49, Earlham 30
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 56, Creston 47
Denison-Schleswig 63, OA-BCIG 34
Glenwood 81, Clarinda 53
Red Oak 54, Southwest Valley 51
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 58, Nodaway Valley 55 (Clayton Akers 20pts, Michael Mantell 14pts, 11reb)
IKM-Manning 41, MVAO-CO-U 35, OT
Logan-Magnolia 57, Underwood 42
Treynor 56, Audubon 36
Tri-Center, Neola 57, Shenandoah 54
Rolling Valley Conference
Ar-We-Va 79, Paton-Churdan 51
Boyer Valley 38, Coon Rapids-Bayard 27
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 98, Woodbine 75 (Cole Burmeister 24pts, reached 1,000 career points, Trever Schulz 23, Josh Pettepier 21, Dakota Rold 21)
West Harrison, Mondamin 66, CAM, Anita 58
Corner Conference
Sidney 56, Fremont Mills, Tabor 51
Stanton 74, Lenox 53
Other Scores
Bedford 60, Lamoni 52
Carroll 62, ADM, Adel 57
Mount Ayr 48, Interstate 35,Truro 39
West Monona 47, River Valley, Correctionville 45
Winterset 59, Boone 46
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Lindell Wigginton scored 17 points to help lead No. 17 Iowa State to a 75-74 victory over Oklahoma. Marial Shayok added 16 points, 10 in the final eight minutes, including a crucial off-balance 3-pointer as the shot clock expired with 1:19 remaining, for Iowa State (18-5, 7-3 Big 12).
UNDATED (AP) — No. 2 Duke is to face No. 3 Virginia in a rematch of one of the season’s most entertaining games. The Blue Devils won the first meeting 72-70 to hand the Cavaliers their first loss. The rematch will be at Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Missouri’s Cuonzo Martin is downplaying his return to Tennessee as a visiting men’s basketball coach for the first time since the end of his own tenure coaching the Volunteers. Martin already faces enough of a challenge trying to upset the top-ranked Vols. Tennessee will take a school-record 16-game winning streak into Tuesday night’s game against Missouri.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have instituted a lifetime ban against a fan accused of flashing a laser at New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady during last month’s AFC championship game. The Kansas City Star reports that the Chiefs say the team is also working with authorities to charge the fan “as aggressively as possible.” That decision would ultimately be made by Jackson County prosecutors.