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Three people from Council Bluffs were injured during a single-vehicle rollover accident Sunday night, in Harrison County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2003 Ford Explorer driven by 35-year old Brandy Huddleston was traveling south on Interstate 29 at around 9:05-p.m., when the suv partially entered the grassy median. Huddleston over-corrected, sending the vehicle out of control. It rolled over and came to rest in the west ditch.
Two of the three occupants, Huddleston, and her passenger, 30-year Raylnn Francisco, were flown by separate LifeNet helicopters to Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs. Another passenger, 21-year old Ramsey Edenburn, was transported by ambulance to the hospital in Missouri Valley. The Patrol says Huddleston and Edenburn were wearing their seat belts, but Francisco was not.
The crash, which happened a few miles south of Modale, remains under investigation.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Another Democrat is joining the race to be Iowa’s secretary of state. Des Moines small-business woman Deidre DeJear formally announced her candidacy Sunday. The 31-year-old owns Caleo Enterprises, a marketing firm that helps small businesses with branding. She says one of her priorities would be to boost turnout in local and midterm elections as well as presidential and other statewide balloting.
DeJear was a field organizer for the 2012 Obama campaign and directed the campaign’s outreach to Iowa’s African-American voters. Already in the Democratic race to replace Secretary of State Paul Pate is former congressional candidate Jim Mowrer. The Republican Pate hasn’t publicly said whether he’ll seek another term.
Today: Area of morning fog; Partly cloudy w/isolated showers & thunderstorms. High 78. NE @ 10.
Tonight: Isolated shwrs ending; P/Cldy. Low 55. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: P/Sunny to Sunny. High near 80. V @ 5-10.
Wednesday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. Shwrs & tstrms. High 76.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High 80.
Sunday’s High in Atlantic was 77. Our Low this morning, 56. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 79 and the low was 57. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 103 in 1937. The Record Low for this date was 45 in 1989.
Firefighters say a cigarette likely caused a house fire that destroyed a home in the Buchanan County town of in Brandon on Sunday morning. Neighbors say the home in the 800 block of South Street is connected to Roger Bentley and James Bentley. Twelve years ago, Roger was living in the home. He is currently serving time in prison for kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old girl. His brother James is serving time for taking pornographic photos of the girl. The men’s father, Howard Bentley, bought the home more than 30 years ago. He still owns it and rents it to tenants. The tenants got out without injury.
An Iowa State University study finds domestic violence interventions that help men recognize and deal with emotions have higher success rates, when compared to traditional programs. Amie Zarling, a professor of Human Development and Family Studies at I-S-U, is the paper’s lead author.
She says traditional intervention which tries to change men’s thinking towards women isn’t effective in preventing domestic violence. The new program she created takes a different position.
“Facilitators facilitate from a stance of collaboration, a non-judgmental stance toward participants,” Zarling says. “They are in the same boat as participants. We’re all human. We all have flaws. We may make different choices and things, but we all have the same weaknesses.” The program doesn’t come from the standpoint of lecturing, giving advice or problem solving. She says it’s more about teaching the men how to change their behaviors so they can change their lives.
Zarling found those who received the intervention she developed are nearly half as likely to reoffend. “We tried to generate some of those uncomfortable emotions in group and help them through responding to them in a different way,” Zarling says.
The research finds men convicted of domestic violence are nearly 50-percent less likely to reoffend if they participate in the intervention that emphasizes emotional awareness. Zarling’s study was published in the journal “Psychology of Violence.”
(Radio Iowa, w/Thanks to Sarah Boden, Iowa Public Radio)
The Iowa Hawkeyes entered fall practice with some coaching changes and questions about who will step up to fill key positions. Head coach Kirk Ferentz says that’s nothing unusual for him.”This is my 28th year now at Iowa — 19th as head coach — and it’s like every year, every time you start a new season you have new challenges, new opportunities. It’s a different equation than any other year and the trick is to put it all together. And that’s the beauty in my mind of college football. That’s probably why it’s such a popular sport,” Ferentz says.
Ferentz is looking for a new starting quarterback and says Nathan Stanley and Tyler Wiegers have both done a good job competing and are making strides. He says the decision on the starter will come down to one thing for the coaching staff. “It really gets down to leading the team, that’s what it gets down to,” Ferentz says, “and all of us have an opinion on that certainly. We’ll keep observing, we’ll watch, we’ll pull information. At some point, we’ll have to make some decisions and go from there. But it will be a group effort.”
Ferentz doesn’t have to worry about experience at running back as Akrum Wadley enters his senior season. “We’ve seen him, we’ve witnessed him, and he is, you know — boy, he’s right on task right now. His weight’s good, his attitude has been tremendous. He’s practicing really well. Again, only six workouts, but he’s looking like a senior player and a good senior player, and that’s — referencing the quarterback, we know whoever it is, we’re getting a new quarterback. So our best guys better be out there doing it,” Ferentz says.
He says graduate transfer James Butler has added important depth at the position. “Like last year, we were better when we had two guys that could help us there,” Ferentz says “If we have three, that would be great too. So that’s just going to give everybody a better chance to play better. That will be easy to have those guys complement each other. We’ve got to make sure all three are ready to go.”
Another big change has Brian Ferentz taking over as offensive coordinator this year. He will be calling the plays, and the elder Ferentz says he called plays one year as a coach, but that was never his dream. He says Brian is ready for the new challenge. “Brian’s been intrigued. A lot of that goes back to his time spent in New England, worked on both sides of the football. That’s a pretty cerebral outfit up there, certainly, with their quarterback starts there, Bill O’Brien as coordinator, and then Coach Belichick. He’s run some guys. I think he’s very inquisitive that way. I was more of just like a dumb line coach, just block that guy or whatever. So we’re cut from a little different cloth that way, and I think he’s ready for it,” Ferentz says.
He knows it’s a position that’s always in the spotlight and everyone has an opinion on. “You know, he’s good right now until the first time we have to punt,” Ferentz says. Iowa opens the season September 2nd hosting Wyoming in Kinnick Stadium.
(Learfield Sports)
Nathan Stanley is in a battle for the starting quarterback job for Iowa as they prepare for the season opener. The sophomore from Menomonie, Wisconsin was the backup quarterback last season and is trying to beat out Tyler Wiegers for the starting role. “Competition just breeds success, so we’re just pushing each other each day trying to get better,” Stanley says.
His approach is simple. “Just come out and do my best, really that’s all you can do,” Stanley says. “Hopefully that’s good enough for the coaches and hopefully that’s good enough to win the job.” Winning the job also means getting used to a new offensive coordinator. Stanley says it has not been a big change.
He says there’s a lot of concepts that are similar to last year, and much of the change involves terminology.
Stanley feels he’s becoming more and more comfortable with the offense with each practice. Stanley says they installed a lot of stuff in the spring and a lot of that carried over, making it easier as they got into the fall. The coaches say they don’t know exactly when they will make a decision on the starter, but say both quarterbacks have been competing hard. Iowa opens the season September 2nd hosting Wyoming.
(Learfield Sports)