The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa school nurse has been given 180 days in jail for having sex with a 16-year-old student. Linn County District Court records say 47-year-old Angela Beik, of Marion, was sentenced Tuesday in Cedar Rapids. She also was ordered to pay a $625 fine, restitution of nearly $910 and register as a sex offender. She’d entered an Alford plea to a charge of sexual exploitation by a school employee. In an Alford plea, a person doesn’t admit guilt but acknowledges there is enough evidence for a likely conviction.
Beik was the school nurse at Linn-Mar High School in Marion and also employed at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids. Police began an investigation of Beik in March 2018. They’d learned that state officials were checking a report that Beik told fellow St. Luke’s nurses that she’d had consensual sex with the boy. They reported the conversation to officials.
CLASS 3A
Substate 1 @ Sioux City, North: Bishop Heelan Catholic vs. Sergeant Bluff-Luton 7:00pm
Substate 8 @ Harlan: Harlan vs. ADM 7:00pm
CLASS 4A
Substate 8 @ Johnston: Johnston vs. Indianola 7:00pm
(Radio Iowa) — Southwest Iowa communities hit by this spring’s floods still face a critical housing shortage. Mills County public information officer Sheri Bowen says the situation is “very challenging” in her county and widespread in the Missouri River basin. Bowen says officials are looking into options to address the dire need for post-flood housing. “We have a housing coordinator who is working very hard to identify any housing opportunities locally,” Bowen says. “She is keeping a list of those and is actively beating the streets trying to locate additional housing in our community.” While most residents impacted by the flooding have a temporary form of shelter, Bowen says they lack a long-term housing option — which will make a bad situation worse once the weather turns colder.
“Trailers through FEMA have been an option as well, but placement on those has been challenging,” Bowen says. “They’re placing as many as they could in the Glenwood community. The remainder right now are going to Red Oak and Shenandoah — which isn’t really palpable for folks who might work in the (Omaha) metro area.” About 60 residents, including those living in Pacific Junction, have been identified for a home buyout program. Those residents need to fill out a “statement of voluntary transaction” form. “The county is working with identifying the local planning agency that’s going to help them put in their application,” Bowen says. “One of the steps that it requires is for homeowners to sign off on a validation that they are interested. It gives us releases to do more assessments on their properties. So, this is a step in the application process.” In most cases, Bowen says those properties are beyond repair.
“A lot of these properties are what I would call red-carded, which means that they really should not be rebuilt,” Bowen says. “That’s probably a large number of those properties. The remainder have been severely damaged. All of them had a minimum of ten feet of water in them for an extended period of time.” Bowen says many residents are still having issues regarding rental assistance, and have been referred to case managers.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police say an officer used pepper spray on a 9-year-old and his 8-year-old brother who were carrying butcher knives on the north side of Des Moines. Police Sgt. Rod Santizo says someone who saw the boys and the knives at a convenience store called police just before noon Tuesday. The boys ran when the first officer on the scene approached them. They soon turned around, and one began arguing with the officer.
Santizo says the officer used the pepper spray when he saw the knives. The boys were soon taken into custody and their eyes flushed with water. They were taken to a hospital as well. Santizo says the boys stole a couple of drinks from the store but didn’t use the knives to do so. They told officers they were carrying the knives for protection. The names of those involved haven’t been released.
CLASS 3A
Substate 1: Sioux City/Bishop Heelan Catholic vs. Sgt. Bluff-Luton @ Sioux City-North
Substate 2: Ballard vs. Boone
Substate 3: Cedar Rapid-Xavier vs. Charles City
Substate 4: Central DeWitt vs. Dubuque Wahlert
Substate 5: Davenport-Assumption vs. Fairfield
Substate 6: Marion vs. Solon
Substate 7: Alleman/North Polk vs. Centerville
Substate 8: Harlan vs. ADM/Adel @ Harlan
CLASS 4A
Substate 1: #3 Waukee at #1 Urbandale
Substate 2: #3 Ankeny vs. #1 Des Moines, Roosevelt, at Southeast Polk
Substate 3: #2 Southeast Polk at #1 Ankeny Centennial
Substate 4: #3 Davenport, Central at #1 Epworth, Western Dubuque
Substate 5: #3 Prairie, Cedar Rapids at #1 Iowa City, West
Substate 6: #3 Pleasant Valley at #1 Linn-Mar, Marion
Substate 7: #4 Valley, West Des Moines at #1 Dowling Catholic, West Des Moines
Substate 8: #4 Indianola at #1 Johnston
CLASS 3A Consolation
11-a.m. – Dodger Field: Mt. Vernon (27-12) vs. Treynor (30-4)
CLASS 3A Semifinals
11:30-a.m. – Iowa Central Field: Davenport Assumption (39-2) vs. Columbus Catholic (36-4)
1:30-p.m. – Iowa Central Field: Louisa-Muscatine (34-4) vs. West Liberty (29-5)
CLASS 4A Consolations
11:30-a.m. – Veteran’s Field: Denison-Schleswig (26-14) vs. Independence (30-12)
1:00-p.m. – Dodger Field: Oskaloosa (25-15) vs. Dallas Center-Grimes (25-15)
CLASS 4A Semifinals
3:30-p.m. – Iowa Central Field: Carlisle (36-3) vs. West Delaware (31-10)
5:30-p.m. – Iowa Central Field: North Scott (26-14) vs. Charles City (36-3)
CLASS 5A consolations
1:30-p.m. – Veteran’s Field: Ottumwa (33-8) vs. Indianola (33-5)
3:00-p.m. – Dodger Field: Ft. Dodge (34-7) vs. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (37-3)
CLASS 5A Semifinals
7:00-p.m. Kruger Seeds Field: Waukee (39-3) vs. Johnston (35-8)
7:30-p.m. Iowa Central Field: West Des Moines Valley (30-10) vs. Iowa City (35-7)
CLASS 1A Semifinals
11:00-a.m. Kruger Seeds Field: Collins-Maxwell (26-1) vs. Newell-Fonda (38-5)
1:30-p.m. Kruger Seeds Field: Lisbon (33-6) vs. Clarksville (32-1)
CLASS 2A Semifinals
3:00-p.m. Kruger Seeds Field: North Linn (40-4) vs. Mount Ayr (26-2)
5:00-p.m. Kruger Seeds Field: East Marshall (32-4) vs. Alta-Aurelia (21-9)
CLASS 1A
Substate 7 @ Creston: Martensdale-St. Marys 4 , St. Albert, Council Bluffs 3
Substate 8 @ Dowling Catholic, WDM: Coon Rapids-Bayard 9 , Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 1
CLASS 2A
Substate 7 @ Ankeny Centennial: Van Meter 5 , Ogden 3
Substate 8 @ Harlan: Underwood 4 , Hinton 3
Today: Partly to Mostly sunny. High 82. SW @ 5-10.
Tonight: Fair to partly cloudy. Low 58. S @ 5.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 85. SW @ 5-10.
Friday/Saturday: P/Cldy w/isolated thundershowers. Highs near 87.
Yesterday’s High in Atlantic was 80. Our Low this morning 52. Last year on this date our High was 86 and the Low was 55. The record High in Atlantic on this date was 110 in 1901. The Record Low was 42 in 1905.
Red Oak Police arrested a woman at around 1:40-a.m., today (Wednesday). 36-year old Rachel Hope Shum McAlpin, of Red Oak, was arrested for Violation of a Custodial Order, a serious misdemeanor. She was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $1,000 bond.