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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Firefighters and others have been searching for a man who was reported to have fallen into the Mississippi River in Davenport. Searchers combed the area near the Lake Davenport Sailing Club, where the man was working on a boat Saturday morning. Divers from the Big River Rescue and Recovery Dive Team joined the effort. The man’s name hasn’t been released.

Members of the CAM School District’s Board of Education will meet 6:30-p.m. today in the CAM High School Media Center. During their regular session, the Board will Discuss and/or act on: Approving salaries for classified staff for 2018-19, and Teacher Leadership position; the 2018-19 school calendar; contracts and/or resignations; a memorandum of understanding with Iowa Western Community College; approval of a sharing agreement with Atlantic School District, and other administrative matter.

Area law enforcement agencies and officials with the Governors Traffic Safety Bureau say that beginning today (May 21st) and until June 3rd, State and local law enforcement agencies across the United States will be stepping up enforcement with the Click It or Ticket campaign. This concentrated effort will be on the lookout for motorists who aren’t wearing their seat belts. Click It or Ticket is not just about writing traffic tickets; it’s about saving lives. In 2016, the last year in which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has information, there were 10,428 unbuckled passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in the United States. That number is more than the population of Grimes, IA and of 99.5 percent of Iowa’s towns and cities.

According to NHTSA 48 percent of the passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2016 were unrestrained. Almost twice as many males were killed in crashes and they had a lower seat belt use rate. It is even worse at night when 56 percent of the fatalities were unrestrained.

Patrick Hoye, Bureau Chief, Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau said, “If you have a friend or family member who does not buckle up when they drive, please encourage them to make it a habit. It is such a simple thing to do and it very well could save their life”.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau remind you that seat belts save lives, and everyone – front seat and back, child and adult – needs to remember to buckle up – every trip, every time!

A Davenport shooting victim has died. Davenport Police say 16-year-old Jovontia Jones died at University Hospitals in Iowa City. Officers were called to a report of shots fired in the central city Saturday night. They found shell casings and were investigating when a shooting victim, a young man, showed up in a private vehicle for treatment of life-threatening injuries at a Davenport hospital. He was transferred to Iowa City and police learned of his death on Sunday.

(Radio Iowa)

The Iowa Economic Development Authority and Iowa Workforce Development have announced a plan where they will team up for a survey of the labor market in all 99 counties. Workforce Development’s Ryan Murphy oversees the labor market information division, and says it will be a study of what’s called the laborshed area.”I often compare it to a watershed area where you have lakes and streams that flow into a large bodies of water. People are more familiar with that,” Murphy says. “A laborshed area is more like a commuting pattern where we have people traveling in on two-lane highways, and walking to work and the interstate to a central employment area.”

He says it gives counties and idea of the source of workers. “Your employees come from much further away than your county right — it could be the next county over or two counties depending on if you are on an interstate or four-lane highway,” Murphy explains. “And it really shows the quantity, the size of your labor market area, your labor pool. So it better describes the area where your employer or perspective employers could be drawing their employees from.”  While it’s obvious in some counties where the workers are coming from — others aren’t as easy to figure out. “It’s very important for those border communities. We know we are not just getting people in Decorah for work from Winneshiek County. We know that there are people from Minnesota and Wisconsin that are also coming to that area for work. This helps employers identify where there could be pockets of available labor,” Murphy says.

The second phase of the laborshed study involves a phone survey of the potential labor pool. “Asking people about whether they are employed or not employed. Their wages, their benefits currently being offered, their occupations, their industry, their desired ages, their benefits, how far they are commuting,” Murphy explains. “One of the really unique data points that we have with the laborshed survey is where are people looking for jobs if they are looking. If they are likely to change employment or accept new employment — what resources are they using to do that?”  Iowa’s unemployment rate is one of the lowest in the country. Murphy says the survey will hopefully help better match up employers with employees. “The laborshed study doesn’t create new people, so what we’re trying to do is really hone in on where there are pockets of available labor within the existing pool that we have,” according to Murphy.

With all the telemarketing and phone scams going on, it can be hard to get people to participate in the survey. Murphy says they try to let people know that this is a legitimate process. He says they send out news releases in the areas they are working in so people know if they are asked questions about their employment, they can know that it is a legitimate survey from Iowa Workforce Development.  They will begin the laborshed study in July and plan to complete 44 counties in the first year and the remaining 45 in the second year. Murphy says they are using state and federal funds for the survey and it will cost around 950-thousand dollars each year. The data from the surveys will be provided to local economic development organizations and partners for free.

(Radio Iowa)

A traffic stop on a vehicle whose driver failed to obey a stop sign at 170th and Sycamore in Adams County, early this (Monday) morning, resulted in an arrest. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office says Alex Koltoff, of Lenox, was taken into custody at around 12:15-a.m., for OWI/1st offense and issued a citation for Failure to Obey a Stop Sign. Kolthoff was being held in the Adams County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two major provisions of the Republican tax cut bill won’t happen until Iowa meets revenue targets that critics say may take many years. Eliminating so-called “federal deductibility” and raising the state’s standard deduction, along with further dropping tax rates, won’t happen until the state reaches a certain amount of tax revenue and shows significant growth in the previous year. Those changes could happen no sooner than 2023.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A Davenport ministry that had an extended fight with the city over its efforts to feed and assist homeless people has closed because of unexpected bills. The Quad-City Times reports that Timothy’s House of Hope closed Thursday after operating for nearly nine years. Timothy’s is a ministry of Compassion Church. Ministry founder and Pastor Jim Swope says the closure is influenced by about $8,000 in winter utility bills as well as last year’s legal battle.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies and jail officers in Dubuque County will soon begin wearing body cameras when they are on duty. The Telegraph Herald reports the county recently approved purchasing 100 of the cameras for all the sworn officers in the department.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Police say a child has been killed in one of four overnight shootings that left three others wounded. The Courier reports that officers were called to a house around 5:15 a.m. Saturday and found a victim, described as a boy, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died. In two other separate shootings early Saturday, three other people suffered injuries not believed to be life threatening.

The Adams County Sheriff’s Office reports 67-year old Jimmy Lee Hartman, of Corning, was arrested recently for Burglary of a Vehicle after a caller informed Adams County Dispatch on May 16th, that Hartman had allegedly broken into a vehicle and was physically inside the vehicle, moving things from the center console to the seat. He was taken into custody and held in the Adams County Jail on a $2,000 bond.

At least two area school districts will hold their regular monthly School Board meetings, Monday. In Griswold, the Board meeting gets underway at 5:30-p.m. in the Central Office at the Middle School/High School Building. They’ll start off with a 2017-18 Budget Amendment Hearing, which includes a presentation of the proposed amendment. and public comment.

Afterward, the Board will hold a hearing with regard to the Instructional Support Levy (ISL), which includes a presentation of a Resolution of Participation. Old Business includes an update (If available) from KPE Architects and Estes Construction, with regard to the District’s facilities improvements, and action of approving a Technology Plan. New Business includes approving the aforementioned 2017-18 Budget Amendment and ISL Resolution, as well as the following for the 2018-19 School Year: Nutrition prices; Registration Fees; Activity Pass Fee; Fuel Bid Specs; Technology Support Bid Specs and a Boost 4 Families Preschool Tuition Grant.

The Audubon School Board meets 7-p.m. Monday in the High School Board Room. They too, will hold a Public Hearing on an Amended 2017-18 Budget (Which is standard practice), and later on act on approving the amendment, along with:

• Pay increases for Employees not represented by Collective Bargaining;
• School Fees & Lunch Prices for FY 19
• accepting milk and bread bids
• action of the Boiler Room Roof Project

and other administrative matters.