Class 5A Semifinals
Iowa City High 58, Johnston 52
Iowa City West 58, Indianola 45
Class 4A Semifinals
Marion 56, Center Point-Urbana 46
Grinnell 68, LeMars 47
Class 3A Semifinals
Crestwood 72, North Polk 48
Sioux Center 65, Monticello 57
Class 5A Semifinals
Iowa City High 58, Johnston 52
Iowa City West 58, Indianola 45
Class 4A Semifinals
Marion 56, Center Point-Urbana 46
Grinnell 68, LeMars 47
Class 3A Semifinals
Crestwood 72, North Polk 48
Sioux Center 65, Monticello 57
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Sioux City authorities have released the name of a man whose body was found inside a burned sport utility vehicle. Police identified the man Thursday as 41-year-old Matthew Fisher, who lived in Sioux City. The fire was reported the evening of Feb. 18 in a SUV parked outside a residence. The fire and death are still being investigated.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association released the bracket for the Class 4A Boys State Basketball Tournament next week in Des Moines. Take a look at the full bracket by following the link below.
To commemorate Atlantic’s Sesquicentennial this year, the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce is selling t-shirts on behalf of the Sesquicentennial Committee to celebrate the milestone. Chamber Executive Director Baily Smith said “We’re happy to provide the community with something to remember the year by. Community members will be able to keep these shirts as a memento for this community accomplishment.”
T-Shirts are available at the Rock Island Depot, located at 102 Chestnut Street, for $15. Sizes range from small to 3XL, with a limited amount of each size. There are also youth sizes available for $10. All proceeds from the shirt will go towards fireworks for the 4th of July. Sesquicentennial Co-Chair Steve Livengood said “The committee felt this was a great way to visually represent the city’s 150th birthday and a way to get the community involved to help celebrate.”
For information regarding events scheduled throughout the year, visit www.atlanticiowa.com or call City Hall at 712.243.4810. The Sesquicentennial Committee, co-chaired by Steve Livengood and Barb Barrick, meets the third Tuesday of every month at 5:30 PM at City Hall for those who are interested in getting involved.
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Kim Reynolds has ordered all state flags in Iowa to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise until sunset on Friday, March 2, 2018, in honor and remembrance of Reverend Billy Graham. The governor’s order is issued in conjunction with President Donald Trump’s proclamation to lower all United States flags to half-staff for the same length of time.
Flags will be at half-staff on the State Capitol Building and on flag displays in the Capitol Complex. Flags will also be half-staff on all public buildings, grounds and facilities throughout the state. Individuals, businesses, schools, municipalities, counties and other government subdivisions are encouraged to fly the flag at half-staff for the same length of time as a sign of respect.
The Nodaway County Missouri Attorney’s Office reports a man from Cass County, IA, was sentenced Monday to three-years in prison on a rape charge. 21-year old Hunter Bechtol, of Atlantic, was found guilty by a grand jury, of Felony 2nd Degree Rape. The jury handed-down its unanimous verdict after just three-hours of deliberation, following a two-day trial in late January.
Bechtol was charged with having sexual intercourse without consent, with a confidential victim on the Northwest Missouri State University campus, last April. Second degree rape in Missouri is punishable by up to seven years in prison, a fine of up to $10,000, or any combination of the two penalties. The prosecution had argued for a seven-year sentence, while Bechtol’s attorneys asked for probation.
The East Pottawattamie County 4-H program offered “STEM Kids” after school program on Wednesday’s in February from 3:00 – 4:30pm at the Carson Fire Station Meeting Room for all 4th grade youth. 11 excited youth spent Wednesday afternoons leaning about science, technology, engineering and math through hands on activities, teamwork and experiments. Throughout the month of February, youth learned about the engineering design process by making their own “machines” to move and sort candy; force and energy through making their own roller coasters with loops and hills out of pool noodles; did experiments with popcorn, and learned why bubbles are round along with different bubble experiments.
The Cooking with Kids Afterschool program is being offered to 4th graders attending the AHSTW Schools on Tuesday’s during the month of March.
The Branstad who ran Donald Trump’s 2016 general election campaign in Iowa has left the Trump Administration and is returning to consulting work. Eric Branstad is the oldest son of Terry Branstad, the former Iowa governor who Trump named U.S. Ambassador to China. Eric Branstad had been serving as White House liaison to the U.S. Department of Commerce since Trump took office. His wife and children remained in Des Moines.
Branstad left his D.C. job several weeks ago. Branstad is joining Mercury, a “public strategy firm” that has companies and politicians as well as other COUNTRIES as clients. Eric Branstad will be a managing director and will open an office for the firm in Des Moines.
Branstad’s move was first reported this (Thursday) morning by Politico Playbook, a daily newsletter. Eric Branstad had worked as a political consultant before he joined the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016.
(Radio Iowa)
Tax reform and how it will affect the bottom line were topics addressed at Wednesday’s John Deere annual meeting in the Quad Cities. Sam Allen, chair and C-E-O of Iowa’s largest manufacturing employer, was asked about the 900-million dollar hit Deere reported in its first quarter earnings due to tax reform. Deere spokesman Ken Golden says in the long run, the drop in federal taxes will be good for the company, for Deere dealers and for farmers. “Each year until the new tax reform law went into effect, depreciation was an annual decision,” Golden says. “We saw customers waiting to make their decision on buying equipment based on what was going to happen to the law. The permanence is really what Mr. Allen was talking about in smoothing out this kind of impact that depreciation has on large equipment purchases.”
Deere opened the shareholders meeting with a video celebrating the 100th anniversary of entering the tractor business. Tony Knobbe is one of the organizers of this year’s Gathering of the Green. He invited Allen and the audience to next month’s convention for John Deere tractor collectors. Knobbe is very proud of the theme the group selected — “Legend, Made Legacy.” “If you look in their annual report, on the second page you’ll read, ‘The Hundred Year Legacy of the John Deere Tractor’,” Knobbe says. “And down here, it says ‘The Legend Runs On’. I know we didn’t steal it from them because this wasn’t produced when we produced our theme.”
During the meeting, Sam Allen quoted an old letter from a Deere board member. It was written before the company bought the Waterloo Gas Engine Company in 1918, and said, “The tractor will never replace the mule.”
(Radio Iowa)