The Iowa Women’s Basketball team held an opponent under 60 points for the fourth time this season and defeated Bradley Saturday 60-53 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Junior Ally Disterhoff led Iowa with 16points but a strong defensive effort and a 45-40 rebounding edge were key to the victory. Iowa held Bradle to 28 percent shooting from the field. Iowa improves to 9-2 overall and will next host Drake for a 5:00pm tipoff on Tuesday.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Mike Gesell scored 17 points, including a crucial dunk with 30 seconds left, and Iowa held off Drake 70-64 on Saturday. The Hawkeyes (8-3) blocked a school-record 14 shots – including six from freshman Nicholas Baer – in beating the in-state rival Bulldogs for the 32nd time in their last 35 meetings.
Iowa went on a 13-2 run midway through the second half, but Ore Arogundade’s 3-pointer pulled Drake within 66-64 with 1:37 left. Jarrod Uthoff answered with a layup, and Gesell’s dunk sealed a win that was a lot closer than expected for the Hawkeyes.
Baer also scored 13 points with seven rebounds for Iowa. Reed Timmer had 25 points – including 16 straight down the stretch – to lead the Bulldogs (4-7), who have dropped four in a row.
In an update to our earlier reports, the Iowa State Patrol has released the names of the persons injured in a two-vehicle crash in Wiota late Saturday morning. Authorities say 20-year old Matthew H. Paulson, of Adair, who was not wearing a seat belt, was flown by LifeNet helicopter to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha following the crash on Highway 83 on the west side of Wiota. Also injured in the crash was 75-year old Donna J. Kopaska, and her passenger, 76-year old Jerry D. Kopaska, both of Adair. The couple, who wear wearing their seat belts, where transported by Atlantic Medivac to the Cass County Memorial Hospital. Donna Kopaska was then transported by ambulance to Mercy Hospital. The accident happened at around 11:40-a.m.
Photos by KJAN News Director Ric Hanson,
The Patrol says Paulson was traveling east on Highway 83 in a 2000 Buick Lesabre, when for unknown reasons, he crossed the center line of the road. Donna Kopaska, who was driving a 2000 Dodge Ram 1500 westbound, tried to avoid the collision by braking and steering to the right shoulder of the road, but the car hit the pickup on the left front side. The truck came to rest near the curb of the road, while the car skidded about 100 feet before stopping in the middle of the road.
There was no word on the condition of the crash victims.
PHYLLIS HODNE, 93, of Irwin, died Sat., Dec. 19th, at the Manning Plaza Nursing Home. Funeral services for PHYLLIS HODNE will be held 10:30-a.m. Mon., Dec. 28th, at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-until 6-pm Sunday, Dec. 27th. Visitation will resume 9:30-a.m. Mon. (Dec. 28th), prior to the service.
Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery near Irwin.
PHYLLIS HODNE is survived by:
Her children – Doug (Susan) Hodney, of Torrance, CA., & Carol Hodne, of Coralville (IA).
Audubon Police Chief Matt Starmer reports the arrest on Friday (Dec. 18th), 57-year old Philip Eugene Mathis, of Audubon, on a federal warrant charging him with Possession of Child Pornography and Receipt of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaging in Sexually Explicit Conduct. Mathis was transported to the Audubon County Jail and later transferred into federal custody. The Audubon Police Department was assisted in their investigation by the Department of Homeland Security, the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigations, and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
And, on December 11th, 17-year old Nicholas Wilson, of Audubon, was arrested for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, and Dissemination of Obscene Material. Wilson was transported to the Juvenile Detention Center in Council Bluffs.
Last Monday (Dec. 14th), Audubon Police arrested 50-year old Darrin Paul Asmus, of Audubon, for Criminal Trespassing, Animal Neglect and Resisting Arrest. The Audubon County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the arrest. Asmus was transported to the Audubon County Jail.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Sioux City area gun stores are reporting a sharp increase in sales following a recent spate of home invasions. The Sioux City Journal reports that store owners attribute the rise to a combination of local, national and international events, including the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California. Another factor cited is the public pressure for tougher gun control measures.
Paul Barrett, the owner of Shooter’s Paradise, says he has seen a 30 percent rise in sales in the last month and a half, compared with the same period last year. Barrett says some customers have voiced concerns over a rash of car thefts and burglaries in Sioux City.
Three people were injured, with at least one seriously hurt, during a collision between a car and a pickup late Saturday morning on the west side of Wiota. The crash happened on Highway 83, at around 11:40-a.m., near the intersection with Northwest Drive.
LifeNet prepares to land on Hwy 6.
Photos by KJAN News Director Ric Hanson,
Cass County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Ayers told KJAN News two people were in the white Dodge Ram pickup. One of the occupants suffered what Ayers described as “Walking wounded”-type injuries, while the other was more seriously injured. They were transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. The other victim, a 20-year old male was in a maroon Buick Lesabre with Adair County plates. He was flown by LifeNet helicopter to a hospital in Omaha.
The collision, which was nearly head-on, appeared to happen in the westbound lane of the highway, just across the center line of the road. The accident caused the road to be blocked through 1-p.m. Eastbound traffic was being diverted north at the intersection of Highway 6/71 east of Atlantic.
No other details are currently available early this (Saturday) afternoon. The Iowa State Patrol was in charge of the investigation.
Two people were seriously injured during a two-vehicle crash Saturday morning, in Wiota. A 20-year old male from Adair County was being transported by Lifenet to Omaha following the crash on Highway 83 near the intersection with Northwest Drive at around 11:40 am. The vehicle involved were a maroon Buick lesabre and white Dodge Ram pickup. The driver of the pickup appeared to be an older female. The vehicle collided nearly head on in a portion of the westbound lane. Medivac ambulance, Anita fire and rescue and Wiota first responders were on scene along with the Cass County sheriff’s office and Iowa state patrol. No other details are currently available. Pictures will be posted soon.
ALBERT L. PETERSON, 70, of Urbandale (Formerly of Adair)
died December 18th at Mercy Hospice in Johnston. A Memorial service for ALBERT PETERSON will be held 11-a.m. Sat., Jan. 2nd, at the Canby Friends Church, in Canby. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Adair has the arrangements.
Online condolences may be left at www.hockenberryfamilycare.com
Burial of ashes will be in the Canby Friends Cemetery following the memorial service. Visitation with the family will be held during lunch, following burial, at the Canby Friends Church’ Fellowship Hall.
ALBERT L. PETERSON is survived by:
His son – Curt (Sharlotte) Peterson, of Van Meter.
His daughter – Connie (Dale) Brown, of Redfield.
His brother – Rex (Michaelle) Peterson, of Casey.
His sister – Shirley (Craig) Simmons, of Muse, OK.
and 3 grandchildren.
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