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Police in Red Oak, Friday night, arrested a Stanton man wanted on a Cass County warrant for Theft in the 3rd Degree. 23-year old Austin Cole Blazic was taken into custody at around 9-p.m., and was being held in the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center on a $2,000 cash bond.
Nothing can truly prepare an institution for what happened to Umpqua Community College on Thursday, according to Iowa Western Community College’s top official. President Dan Kinney told the Daily NonPareil the mass shooting – which left nine people dead and seven others wounded – was a tragedy that cannot be prepared for by community colleges or other schools. Iowa Western has conducted training with the Council Bluffs Police Department for an active shooter situation. College employees are also trained in ALICE, a set of procedures for that sort of situation on campus short for:
• Alert others to the danger using plain and specific language.
• Lockdown by barricading the room and preparing to take further action.
• Inform others of the violent intruders’ location and direction.
• Counter using noise, movement, distance and distraction to reduce the ability of the intruder to shoot accurately, but don’t fight the intruder.
• Evacuate when safe to do so to leave the danger zone.
Because the college anticipates “quite a few” retirements, Kinney said he expects additional ALICE training will be held next fall. Iowa Western has a team of staff members who plan for emergency response. Two incidents in recent years have provided an opportunity to check that the college’s procedures work.
In April 2014, a shooting on campus – where a 19-year-old was shot in the upper left arm in what apparently was a Craigslist deal gone wrong – prompted notifications and increased security presence on campus. But Kinney said cameras at the college made the difference for law enforcement. Iowa Western didn’t need to make any real changes after that situation, according to Kinney. The college has more than 600 cameras on its Council Bluffs campus, which includes student dormitories and suite-style apartments. The 2014 shooting took place in a parking lot outside of student housing.
The college’s dorms are secured using identification cards that are coded to building locks. Kinney said entrances are logged within one-tenth of a second by a computer, which only allows authorized card-holders access to facilities. In April 2008, a bomb scare at Iowa Western followed a similar incident at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The threat was made by someone writing a specific threat and time in graffiti in a bathroom stall, outside the watch of Iowa Western’s camera network.
Students were notified of the incident using Reiver Alert, an opt-in system where students can also be told about weather closings and similar messages. Kinney said the college has another system that broadcasts notifications to everyone, with no opt-in requirement, for use in an active shooter or similar emergency situation.
The bomb scare showed Iowa Western that it wasn’t prepared for a couple hundred people who wanted to come to campus when news of the potential threat was released. Kinney said the people who could have made the threat were narrowed down to a handful of individuals. Fortunately, it ended up being a hoax, as did the threat at UNO earlier that spring.
Iowa Western’s annual security report, required by federal transparency legislation, shows the campus had only a handful of violent crimes in the past year. The full security report, as well as information on Iowa Western’s safety procedures and policies, can be found on the college’s website at iwcc.edu/security.
Early this morning: Mostly clear, with a low around 39. East wind 5-10 mph.
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. East northeast wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 41. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. Low around 45. East northeast wind around 5 mph.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 67.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 74.
The Iowa DNR say a Slater man suffered a broken ankle after falling while setting up a tree stand Friday afternoon in Stephens State Forest near Lucas. 42-year old Derek A. Kahler was putting up the tree stand and accidentally cut through the strap holding the stand in place while he was cutting branches shortly before 3 p.m. He fell 16-feet and had not yet attached his safety harness. Kahler was transported by ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines where he was being treated for the non-life threatening injury.
According to Allen Crouse, a recreational safety officer for the Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources, setting up tree stands can be a potentially dangerous situation for hunters. He says “It is important that hunters are wearing proper restraints even when they are setting up their tree stands.”
Crouse said hunters need to check the straps being used to secure tree stands to make sure they are strong enough to hold the hunter and stand in place. He said hunters should also double check straps for any damage that may cause them to break, particularly if the straps have been left outside and could have been weakened by being exposed to the elements over time.
ATLANTA (AP) — Julio Teheran pitched six strong innings, Daniel Castro drove in two runs and the Atlanta Braves beat the NL Central champion St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 on Friday night. St. Louis, which opens the postseason at home next Friday, was coming off a three-game series win at Pittsburgh that secured their third straight division title.
Teheran (11-8) allowed five hits, walked one and struck out six. The right-hander closed his regular season by going 2-1 with a 1.62 ERA in his last six starts. The Cardinals had the bases loaded with no out in the fifth but came up empty when pinch-hitter John Jay grounded into a double play and Tommy Pham struck out.
Jaime Garcia (10-6) gave up six hits and two runs with two walks and five strikeouts in his last start of the regular season.
A senior analyst in the legislative branch of state government is advising against over-reacting, but overall state tax revenues took a nose dive in September. Jeff Robinson, a financial analyst who works in the Legislative Services Agency, says “It’s too early to start looking at things as poor, but the next couple of months will tell us whether this is a new trend or if this was just one month of numerous bad things happening.”
Net state tax receipts in September were almost five percent below the revenue collected in September of last year. “September on the surface was a pretty poor month with declines in all of our major tax revenue sources,” Robinson says.
Consumer spending at the national level is going up, but Iowa sales and use tax collections were down nearly six percent in September. “The expectation for the entire fiscal year is that it will be up five percent, so that’s a major cause of concern,” Robinson says. Personal income tax payments to the state were down almost three percent.
“One month doesn’t necessarily make a trend and a bad September really pulled down the growth for the year,” Robinson says. The current state fiscal year started July 1st. Cash receipts for the state increased a little less than one percent in the first quarter. That’s far below expectations. “Personal income tax at four percent growth…through the first three months is below the 6.8 percent growth that we’re expecting,” Robinson says. “The receipts in September were particularly poor.”
Robinson is keeping an eye on the relationship between state income tax payments and state sales and use tax receipts. The key question? Why is growth in what Iowans are earning — seen in the growth of income tax payments to the state — NOT translating into more spending, which can be tracked by monitoring the taxes Iowans pay when buying goods and services.
(Radio Iowa)
Iowa State opens Big 12 play at home against Kansas today (Saturday). The Cyclones were winless in conference play last season but will have a chance to stop that slide against a winless Jayhawk team. Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads says the Cyclones are an improved team despite a 1-2 record.
ISU lost at Kansas a year ago but Rhoads says revenge is not on their mind. Kansas is 0-3 after a loss to Rutgers. Kick-off from Jack Trice Stadium in Ames begins at 11-a.m.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A former manager at an Iowa-based halal food supplier has been given three years’ probation for conspiring to export misbranded beef products overseas. Fifty-year-old Philip Payne of Ryan, Iowa, was sentenced on Thursday. Prosecutors say that between April 2007 and December 2009, Payne conspired with others at Midamar Corporation to mislead regulators and customers about the source of its beef products and the level of adherence to halal standards.
DAYTON, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man found in a motor home in Webster County. Sheriff James Stubbs says an autopsy report shows 55-year-old Roger Brown died of a gunshot wound. He was found in his home in Dayton on Wednesday.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A Marion man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for wire fraud. Thirty-three-year-old Jeremy Murphy was also ordered to repay more than $187,000 to his former employer’s insurance companies. As part of a plea deal, Murphy admitted that he made fraudulent charges on a company credit card from April 2013 through August 2014.
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A Waterloo man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the death of a 17-year-old girl who was shot in his grandmother’s home. Nineteen-year-old Quaderious Spates pleaded guilty last month to charges of involuntary manslaughter, trafficking stolen weapons and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Authorities say Spates and Jazzmine Rembert were in the basement of the home last October when Rembert was shot in the head.
Class 3-A, District 8
Dallas Center-Grimes 55 Atlantic 0
Harlan 34 Winterset 13
Creston 38 ADM 21
Glenwood 42 Denison 0
Class 2-A, District 8
East Sac County 28 Shenandoah 21
Clarinda 75 West Central Valley 12
Southeast Valley 27 Kuemper Catholic 20
Red Oak 13 Treynor 7
Class 1-A, District 1
A-H-S-T-W 55 Missouri Valley 14
IKM-Manning 33 OA-BCIG 24
Underwood 49 West Monona 0
Class A, District 1
Logan-Magnolia 48 Tri-Center 7
Audubon 60 Riverside 6
Maple Valley 28 Westwood 6
St. Albert 35 Griswold 14
Class A, District 8
Nodaway Valley 60 Clarinda Academy 12
Mount Ayr 41 Bedford 13
Pleasantville 40 Earlham 0
SE Warren 6 Martensdale-St. Marys 13
8-Man, District 1
Exira/EHK 62 Woodbine 0
Boyer Valley 48 River Valley 6
Newell-Fonda 34 Ar-We-Va 18
Kingsley-Pierson 54 West Harrison 6
8-Man, District 7
Glidden-Ralston 55 Adair-Casey 0
Coon Rapids-Bayard 63 Murray 6
Ankeny Christian 62 Guthrie Center 48
East Union 68 Charter Oak-Ute 12
8-Man, District 8
Fremont-Mills 30 Stanton 22
CAM 52 Nishnabotna 41
Lenox 38 East Mills 12
Essex 66 Sidney 54