AMES, Iowa (AP) – Next week’s season opener between Iowa State and Northern Iowa won’t be televised. Iowa State says Thursday that the only option for watching the Sept. 3 game outside of Jack Trice Stadium will be on the school’s website. The game will mark the sixth time Iowa State has shown games through an exclusive webcast. But the Cyclones say they’ll attempt to show the feed in high-definition through its new scoreboard, which is set to debut during the game.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – David Freese had a go-ahead two-run single in the fifth and Matt Holliday hit a three-run homer, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to an 8-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday night. The Cardinals ended a three-game losing streak and moved within 9 1/2 games of idle Milwaukee in the NL Central. Pittsburgh lost for the sixth time in nine games. Freese blooped a bases-loaded hit down the right-field line with one out to put St. Louis in front to stay, 5-4. Allen Craig began the inning with a single. Pittsburgh starter Charlie Morton (9-7) then walked Albert Pujols and Lance Berkman. Holliday hit a three-run homer in the eighth off reliever Tony Watson.
St. Louis starter Edwin Jackson (10-9) allowed one earned run and struck out two in six innings.
SMU wants to join an automatic qualifying BCS conference and believes the Big 12 would be the best fit. SMU athletic director Steve Orsini says he’s had informal talks
with Big 12 officials for some time to inform them of the school’s improvements and growth. He says it’s been SMU’s goal to join a BCS conference since it wasn’t included in the Southwest Conference’s merger with the Big 8. With Texas A&M looking to leave the Big 12 for the SEC, he felt it was time to promote SMU, currently in Conference USA, as a possible replacement. The Big 12’s BCS status is the biggest draw for the Mustangs, but Orsini says getting to rekindle regional rivalries from the Southwest Conference also makes the Big 12 an attractive option.
Council Bluffs St. Albert 19, Council Bluffs Lewis Central 14
Bedford 34, Leon Central Decatur 14
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – A Council Bluffs police officer who was fired for allegedly slapping a 10-year-old child who ran away from home is getting his job back. The city’s Civil Service Commission on Wednesday reinstated Bo Wake. He can return to the force in early September after serving a 90-day suspension without pay from the firing date. According to the complaint, Wake responded to a call about a runaway child in April. After the child was found and taken home, Wake allegedly slapped the child. Wake was fired in June.
Commission member Tara Slevin says the board believes Wake touched the child, but there wasn’t enough evidence to “show it was a slap.”
Residents of Sioux City are finally seeing some positive signs that the flooding Missouri River is going back down. Woodbury County Emergency Management Director, Gary Brown, says the Missouri dropped below flood stage late Wednesday. “It’s been 81 days since the Missouri River has been below flood stage in Sioux City, Iowa,” Brown said.
The river crested on July 21st, and Brown says it is now almost five feet lower. The receding waters are showing how much work is ahead in the recovery. Brown says they are seeing damage to property in collapsed sidewalks, farm fields damaged, and trees toppled over. “So we’re seeing what we expected we would when the water started going back down,” Brown says.
He says the race is on now to get as much cleaned up as they can before winter sets in. He says they’re starting to clean up some of the mud and muck cleaned up. Brown says they really hope to get a main intersection at Hamilton Boulevard and I-29 re-opened as quickly as they possibly can so businesses in the area can get running again.
While the floodwaters are going down, Brown is warning residents to stay away from flooded areas as they are still dangerous.
(Radio Iowa)
The price for a bushel of corn has dramatically increased in the past year. Chad Hart, an Iowa State University economist, says corn prices are soaring because the demand from the ethanol and livestock industries, plus demand for U.S. corn exports, are larger than yield projections. “Last summer we had corn prices in some cases down around $3.50 a bushel,” Hart says. “Now we’re up in the $6 to $7 range, so we’ve seen nearly a doubling of prices, if you will, over the past 15 months.”
The U.S.D.A. predicts corn prices will remain high over the next year, as flooding and drought hit other parts of the corn belt. Iowa, however, is pegged to produce a record amount of corn — two-point-43 billion bushels — and the value of that crop will be high as purchasers compete for the limited supply.
“China’s been a very early buyer of the corn crop we’re growing now,” Hart says. “…That’s something that’s got the market a little worked up right now.” The grocery bills for consumers are hit by the higher corn prices, as products like meat, milk and eggs get more expensive as farmers spend more to buy the corn they feed their animals.
(Radio Iowa)
GENEVIEVE HANDLOS, 91, of Manning, died Thu., Aug. 25th, at the Atlantic Nursing & Rehab Center. A Mass of Christian Burial service for GENEVIEVE HANDLOS will be held 9:30-a.m. Mon. , Aug. 29th, at the Sacred Heart Church in Manning. Ohde Funeral Home in Manning has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 5-p.m. Sun., Aug. 28th, with a Prayer service to be followed by a Rosary at 6-p.m.
Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery at Manning.
GENEVIEVE HANDLOS is survived by:
3 children – Marilyn Mayer, of Beatrice, NE; Gerald Handlos, of Georgetown, TX; & Marian Lumkin, of Hancock.
Her sister – Dorothy Kerkhoff, of Audubon.
7 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren & 1 great-great grandchild.
View from north side of restaurant, looking west
Dinner time at a popular restaurant in Elk Horn was disrupted this (Thursday) evening, when a car crashed into the building, injuring three people, two women and a man. The accident happened at around 5:40-p.m. Vern Kline owner of the Danish Inn, told KJAN News it was a normal night, when all of the sudden there was a crash.
Kline said he heard a loud noise, and turned to see a red Toyota Solara crashing into the north side of the building. He says three people were knocked to the ground. The car entered past the driver’s side door into the structure.
Kline said there were two people in the vehicle. He said they appeared to be fine, but three patrons in the restaurant were injured. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known, but Kline says they were taken away on stretchers. One of the patrons was nearly directly in front of the vehicle at a table, when it crashed. Two others were seated off to the side. None of the restaurant’s staff were injured.
The restaurant was closed for the rest of the evening, and it was unclear when it would reopen. Kline said he and his staff are still in shock over the event. Additional details on the injured and what caused the crash are currently not available.
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Gilbert Mueller, 94, of Atlantic, died Thursday, August 25th, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs. Memorial services for Gilbert Mueller will be held Tuesday, August 30th at 10:50 am in the First Church of Christ in Atlantic. Hockenberry Family Care in Atlantic has arrangements.
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Burial will be at a later date.
Gilbert Mueller is survived by:
Wife: Millie
1 Daughter: Jo (Hank) Krueger of Griswold
2 Grand children
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