(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds is suggesting it was a tip that led state agents to investigate whether there was illegal gambling among male athletes at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.

The state’s investigation of sports wagering led to misdemeanor charges against several athletes at Iowa and Iowa State and the N-C-A-A sanctions that followed have sidelined players. During a news conference in Des Moines yesterday (Wednesday), Reynolds said no one in state government checked in with her about the investigation.

On August 15th of 2019, it became legal in Iowa to place bets on sporting events, although people originally had to go to one of the 19 state-licensed casinos to register. Since 2021, registration can be done online — but you still must be at least 21 to place sports bets. Reynolds says the gambling by Iowa and Iowa State athletes that’s been revealed is a wake up call.

Under current N-C-A-A rules, college athletes of any age cannot bet on any sport in which the N-C-A-A hosts a championship.

(Corning, Iowa) – The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports there were five recent arrests.

Two men from Corning were arrested on separate drug charges:  62-year-old Duane Edmund Higgins was arrested October 6^th, for Possession of a Controlled Substance (Methamphetamine)/1^st Offense. Higgins was transported to the Adams County Jail and held on $1,000 bond. And, 46-year-old Gene Baucom was arrested October 21^st, for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Possession of a Controlled Substance (Marijuana). Baucom was taken to the Adams County Jail and held on $1,300 cash bond.

Others arrested in Adams County include:

34-year-old Matthew Dalyne Gaede, of Wisconsin, who was arrested October 18^th on an active Adams County warrant for Violation of a No Contact Order. Gaede was transported to the Adams County Jail and held without bond.

28-year-old Amanda Ruth Gaede, of Corning, was arrested October 18^th for Aiding and Abetting Violating a No Contact Order. Gaede was transported to the Adams County Jail and held without bond.

And, 36-year-old Kevin James Jungers, of Lenox, was arrested October 23^rd for Driving While Barred. Jungers was transported to the Adams County Jail where he was held on $2,000 cash bond or sees the Magistrate.

“Any potential criminal charges identified above are merely allegations and any defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.”

(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – Police in Council Bluffs, Wednesday evening, said they are attempting to locate a Missing Person. 16-year old Ciara Boyd, a white female, is known to hang out near the American Inn and the Sapp Bros. Travel Center near South 24th Street and I-80 in Council Bluffs.

Ciara Boyd

The teen is 5-feet, 4-inches tall, and weighs about 135-pounds. She has red hair and brown eyes, and is originally from the Kansas City, MO., area.

Ciara was last seen on Oct. 11th in the area of S. 6th Street and 6th Avenue, in Council Bluffs. If you have any information  on her whereabouts, call 911 or Sgt. T. Roberts with the CBPD’s Investigation Division, at 712-890-5212.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds says her husband’s lucky to be getting a break through drug to treat his recently diagnosed lung cancer. “He’s been in treatment for about a month,” Reynolds says. “I’m happy to say that the radiation has really eliminated and kicked the pain that was in the spine and so that has been a true blessing. It’s helped his attitude quite a bit to not be in so much pain. He’s on an oral immune therapy drug for the tumor and hopefully, if this works, he won’t have to do chemo.”

Reynolds issued a written statement last month, announcing that her husband had lung cancer. He went to the doctor because of back pain. “We thought he had a ruptured disc, so it was really was kind of a gut punch,” Reynolds says. “He’s not a smoker, never smoked.” Today (Wednesday) is the first time the governor has talked publicly about the diagnosis. She grew emotional during a news conference as she thanked Iowans for their messages of support.

“Every day we get two or three cards in the mail to say that: ‘We’re praying for you and keeping you in our prayers,”‘ Reynolds said. “It’s just another reflection of Iowans and who we are and it matters and it makes a different, so just a heartfelt thank you for that.” Reynolds says she and her husband are grateful and feel lucky to have the medical team at the John Stoddard Center Center in Des Moines and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics who’ve been working on his case.

“We really are very optimistic and he is a strong dude and we’re really feeling the prayers and we’re ready to move through this,” Reynolds said, with a smile. The type of lung cancer Kevin Reynolds has is not considered curable, but with treatment it can go into remission, according to the governor.

Sheriff’s officials in Union County report the driver of a 2000 Buick Century was injured this (Wednesday) afternoon, when the vehicle/driver failed to negotiate a curve on Highway 34 eastbound. The car entered a ditch and rolled twice before coming to rest. The accident happened at around 1:35-p.m.

The driver, 23-year-old Donovan Joseph Bridges, of Nodaway, was wearing his seat belt. He exited the vehicle after the crash through the broken rear window. He suffered a laceration over his right eye and was transported by ambulance to the Greater Regional Medical Center, in Creston.

The car was a total loss. No citations were issued.

Police in Glenwood report the arrest on Tuesday, of 42-year-old Daniel Thomas, from Glenwood. Thomas was arrested on a Mills County Warrant. His cash-only bond was set at $5,000.

The president of North Iowa Area Community College is announcing his retirement. Steve Schulz is a native of the Franklin County town of Geneva and he’s worked in the public education field for 40 years. Schulz predicts the state’s community colleges will be dealing with lower student counts in the years to come.

Schulz says younger people still need to consider pursuing careers in education.

The presidential search process will involve the formation of a search committee, while the NIACC (NY-ack) Board of Directors is considering engaging with an executive search firm to identify potential candidates. Schulz is retiring in about eight months.

(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds and other state officials held an hour-long briefing this (Wednesday) morning to discuss the work over 100 Iowa Guard soldiers and 31 state law enforcement officers did at the southern border in August. Reynolds says it’s a crisis that the Biden Administration has ignored.  “It is an open border policy…There’s not another country in the world that would allow this to happen,” Reynolds told reporters. “…When you see the number of terrorists that they’ve have apprehended that are crossing our borders — my God! Think of the ones that got by us.” Iowa National Guard Adjutant General Stephen Osborn says his soldiers found their Texas counterparts were exhausted.

“Texas has been kind of fighting this on their own for a long time,” Osborn says. “Our soldiers volunteered because they believe they’re contributing to the security not just of Texas and those border communities, but the United States and that’s what they swear to protect and defend.”

The 109 Iowa National Guard soldiers the governor deployed to Texas were involved in the capture of 17-hundred illegal immigrants and the surrender of 12-hundred others. State troopers patrolling alongside Texas officers focused on smugglers bringing drugs and humans across the border.

(Sac City, Iowa) – Officials with the Sac City Police Department say Officer responded last Sunday (Oct. 22nd) to a call about a man who had been stabbed, and was outside the Sac City Fire Department yelling.

During the investigation, it was alleged that a male subject and his long term girlfriend, 61-year-old Corrina Evens, had gotten into an altercation at 607 Leonard Street in Sac City. The male subject alleged that during the altercation, Corinna threatened to kill him and then stabbed him. The man then left the residence to get help and was later transported to Loring Hospital by private vehicle for treatment.

After an investigation, Corinna Evens was charged and booked into the Sac County Jail for Attempted Murder, a Class B Felony, Willful Injury-Causing Bodily Injury, a Class D Felony, and Domestic Abuse Assault Display or use of a Weapon 1ST Offense, an Aggravated Misdemeanor. She remained in the Sac County Jail on a $55,000 bond, with her preliminary hearing set for November 3rd.

The case is still under investigation.