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A man serving a 17-year sentence out of Polk County for Conspiracy to Commit a Forcible Felony, Assault while participating in a Felony, and Carrying Weapons, was listed as escaped Saturday from the Ft. Des Moines Work Release Facility. Iowa Dept. of Corrections spokesman Fred Scaletta says 26-year old Nattiel Jay Wright was placed on escape status after he failed to return to the facility following an authorized furlough.
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Wright was transferred to work release on July 15th. His sentence began Jan. 15th, 2010. He’s described as being African American, 5-feet 9-inches tall, with black hair, brown eyes, and weighing 224 pounds. Wright has tattoos on his upper right arm, left and right forearms, chest, neck, and right hand. He also has scars on his left calf, right knee, and left forearm. Wright also has piercings in the left and right ears.
If you know where he is, call the Des Moines Police Department or Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
ELAINE M. EDEN, 91, of Atlantic, died Friday, Oct. 7th, at the Heritage House in Atlantic. Funeral services for ELAINE EDEN will be held 11-a.m. Thursday, Oct. 13th, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Atlantic. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Visitation with the family is from 10-until 11-am Thursday, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church (prior to the funeral service).
Burial will be in the Atlantic Cemetery.
Memorials may be directed to the Heritage House Good Samaritan Fund or St. Paul’s Lutheran.
ELAINE EDEN is survived by:
Her children – Kathy (Tom) Hayes, Jim Eden, and Pat Eden, all of Atlantic, and Mike Eden, of CA.
11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A Sioux City man has been found guilty of attempted murder and other counts in the shooting of a police officer. The Sioux City Journal reports that a Woodbury County jury found 19-year-old Isaiah Mothershed guilty Friday of two counts of attempted murder and four counts of first-degree robbery.
Authorities say Mothershed pulled a gun from a couch while his hands were handcuffed behind his back and shot Officer Ryan Moritz in a leg while being arrested Feb. 7. Police say that as officers struggled with Mothershed, the gun fired again, wounding Mothershed in a leg. Both have since recovered.
Prosecutors also presented evidence that Mothershed carried out several robberies and break-ins and fired a shot at a homeowner who interrupted a break-in. Mothershed’s sentencing date is pending.
MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa (AP) – The western Iowa city of Missouri Valley is looking annex dozens of parcels of land, including some where the city plans to build a new city hall and fire station. The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reports that the city is looking at annexing a portion of land east of the Harrison County town along U.S. Highway 30.
The area is mostly cropland, with some houses, and land owned by CHI Health that could be the site of a new hospital. It also includes land owned by the city were city hall and the station are planned. In all, City Clerk Rita Miller says, the proposed area includes 63 parcels of land.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – An Iowa firm has won a $1.9 million contract to complete work on a section of the Missouri River in southeast Nebraska. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded the contract to Western Contracting Corporation of Sioux City, Iowa.
The contract calls for widening out the top of the river to create an area about 200 feet wide. Sixteen new concrete structures will be built along river as well. The work is expected to begin this fall and be competed in the fall of 2017.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Fitting tribute to Iowa football or Hawk-eyesore? That’s what a judge must decide. Angry neighbors have filed a lawsuit against the Iowa City Board of Adjustment for allowing a couple to proceed with their plan to build a 7,500-square-foot home that will resemble the University of Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium.
Cedar Rapids television station KCRG reports that the lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Neighbors of Manville Heights Association requests an injunction to block construction of the home and for the repeal of the city’s building permit allowing it. The house Reed and Sandy Carlson plan to build would look like the Hawkeyes’ 87-year-old stadium, complete with brick siding and a replica of the press box.
The association has expressed concern about the home’s size, the potential for big parties, as well as drainage, fire safety and traffic issues. But the board said the home met all of the city’s guidelines.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Akrum Wadley broke off a 54-yard touchdown run with 5:28 left and Iowa hung on to beat Minnesota 14-7 on Saturday. Wadley had 14 carries for 107 yards for the Hawkeyes (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten), who matched the program record with their eighth straight road.
Mitch Leidner completed 13 of 33 passes for 166 yards and was also picked off twice for the Gophers (3-2, 0-2), who were flagged for eight penalties for 58 yards and forced to punt nine times. After Wadley’s score, LeShun Daniels Jr. ran in the 2-point conversion. Leidner threw his second interception on the following possession, but the Gophers got the ball back again with no timeouts and 86 seconds remaining.
Brian Smith’s leaping catch out of bounds at the 13-yard line put them in position to tie the game, but Leidner’s fourth-down throw to Smith on a fade route in the corner of the end zone fell short. Shannon Brooks gave Minnesota a 7-6 lead midway through the third quarter with a 9-yard run. Beathard’s streak with a touchdown pass in nine straight games was stopped.
Next up for Iowa: The Hawks travel to face Purdue, where they’ve won three times in a row and haven’t lost since 2007.
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) – Grant Kraemer threw for three touchdowns, running back Conley Wilkins passed for a score and ran for another, and a late interception helped Drake hold off Valparaiso 35-21 on Saturday. Kraemer was 17 of 31 for 236 yards passing and helped Drake (3-3, 2-1 Patriot) to a 28-14 halftime lead with 3- and 6-yard TD passes to Eric Saubert and a 19-yarder to Keegan Gallery.
Wilkins threw one pass, an 18-yard TD strike to Zach Zlabis, and rushed for 205 yards on 37 carries. Drake had a 28-21 lead with 5:18 to play when Jimmy Seewald threw a long pass that was intercepted by Jabari Butler. The Bulldogs scored eight plays later on Wilkins’ 8-yard run.
Joey Diaz-Martinez intercepted a second-quarter pass by Kraemer and returned it 49 yards for a score and Valparaiso (2-4, 1-2) converted a fumble by Kraemer into a score with Seewald’s 14-yard TD pass to Frank Catrine in the third quarter.
VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) – Chris Streveler threw for two touchdowns and ran for a third as South Dakota remained unbeaten at home after holding on for a 28-25 win over Northern Iowa Saturday in the 100th Dakota Days football game.
Northern Iowa (2-3, 1-1 Missouri Valley) entered the game ranked 11th in all three Football Championship Subdivision polls but has lost three of its last four games. Northern Iowa had won seven of the previous eight meetings between the teams, including a 20-7 decision last year.
Streveler ran 69 yards for a touchdown in the second minute of the game and put the Coyotes (2-3, 1-1) in front for good by hitting Tacari Carpenter with a 75-yard touchdown pass midway through the second quarter. The pair reconnected from 29-yards out in the third quarter to make it 28-17,
Aaron Bailey sneaked in from the 1 to pull Northern Iowa within a field goal, 28-25 early in the fourth.
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