At least three area school district Boards of Education will hold their regular, separate, monthly meetings, Monday evening. In Anita, the CAM School Board will gather at 6:30-p.m. in the High School Media Center. During their session, the Board will discuss and/or take action on: IASB Standards for School Boards; Open enrollment applications; Any resignations or contracts to come before them; a Resolution to submit a PPEL (Physical Plant and Equipment Levy) to the voters; A Resolution authorizing a Lease-Purchase agreement for two buses; Snow removal bids, and other, administrative matters.

The Audubon School Board meets at 7-p.m. in their Boardroom at the High School. During the session, they’re expected to take action on: An SBRC (School Budget Review Committee) request/Goal to foster financial sustainability; Approve Mid-year graduates; District Needs Assessment, which includes goals for High Quality Programs and an updated facilities plan; and personnel matters.

And in Elk Horn, the Exira-EHK School Board will meet in the Conference Room at the High School, beginning at 7-p.m. New business includes approving the Certified Annual Report (CAR), as well as other reports, and approval of: the Shelby County Hazard Plan; A contract with the Clarinda School District; an Early Retirement package for Certified Staff, and an Administrative Contract.

Prior to adjournment, the Exira-EHK School Board will move to enter into a Closed Session, for the purpose of “Evaluating the professional competency of an individual whose appointment, hiring, performance, or discharge, is being considered,” in order to “Prevent needless and irreparable injury to that individual’s reputation, and that individual requests a closed session.”

ORANGE CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge has ordered a 100-year prison sentence cut in half for a woman who killed a 3-year-old girl in her care, to the surprise of the girl’s family. The Sioux City Journal reports that District Judge Edward Jacobson on Thursday ordered Rochelle Sapp’s two 50-year prison sentenced to be served at the same time. That effectively halves the sentence he handed down in October 2014, when he ordered the 50-year sentences be served one after the other.

Sapp pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment resulting in death in exchange for prosecutors dropping a first-degree murder charge. As part of the deal, she agreed to the back-to-back sentences. But the judge said he reconsidered because Sapp had no prior record and has been a model prisoner.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A former nursing aide at Sunrise Retirement Community in Sioux City has been accused of stealing a credit card from a resident and spending more than $5,000 with it. The Sioux City Journal reports that 35-year-old Olibia Navarrette, who was a certified nursing assistant at the community, is charged with dependent adult abuse, theft, forgery and unauthorized use of a credit card over $1,000.

A rollover accident within the City limits of Atlantic Friday night resulted in one person being sent to the hospital. Atlantic Police said a juvenile was driving the vehicle and had been backing up near the Schildberg Rec Area bike trail construction site, when the teen turned too sharply, causing the vehicle to roll onto its top.

Photo courtesy Cass County Emergency Mgmt Coordinator Mike Kennon.

Four people were in the SUV when the accident happened at around 10:40-p.m., north of 4th and State Streets. One of the individuals suffered from head and leg pain and reportedly had difficulty breathing. They were transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital by Medivac Ambulance.

The names of the individuals who were in the vehicle, have not yet been released.

Data from Realtor-dot-com (www.Realtor.com) finds Iowa’s capital city has a higher percentage of so-called “millennials” buying a home than any other city in the country. In the first six months of this year, 59 percent of the borrowers who took out a loan to buy a home in the Des Moines metro were between the ages of 25 and 34. Iowa State University finance professor Tracy Turner says home ownership rates are rising faster in mid-sized cities like Des Moines where there’s plenty of housing available.

“Is it supply or demand?” Turner asks. “Demand in the sense of: Is there something unique about millennials at this point in time in their life that gives them the incentive and the ability to buy? Maybe. Or is it that the housing stock is still recovering and the millennials happen to be here at the right moment to buy when prices are relatively low?” According to the National Association of Realtors, the median age of a first-time home buyer, nationally, was 31 last year and 65 percent of first-time home buyers were married. Turner says people tend to marry earlier in Midwestern cities.

“Married households are far more likely to purchase,” Turner says. “Among first-time home buyers, they will be disproportionately married and what often happens is that young people in less urbanized places, we tend to see them marrying at younger ages. They’re more likely to marry.” The total number of homes sold throughout the state of Iowa is higher so far this year compared to last. And homes that are up for sale are on the market for a shorter period of time.

(Radio Iowa)