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Saturday, April 26, 2014
Atlantic Scores:
Team Standings
1. Clarinda 19
2. CB Abe Lincoln 17
3. Atlantic 16
4. Lewis Central 12
5. Des Moines Lincoln 10
6. Harlan 10
#1 Singles
1st – Abby Bergsten (LC) def Lisa Gearheart (A) 6-0, 6-0
3rd – Kayla Rogers (C) def Maddy Rief (AL) 6-3, 6-2
5th – Haley Johnson (DML) def Taylor Fah (H) 6-1, 6-3
#1 Doubles
1st – Leah Tjepkes/Lexi Allen (A) def Franki Farwell/Katie Pregon (AL) 7-5, 6-2
3rd – Abby Brown/ Emma Pullen (C) def Gracie Benton/Madeline Jannes (DML) 6-3, 6-1
5th – Teresa Arkfeld/Tara Knudsen (H) def Allie Montgomery/Kaylee Reynolds (LC) 6-4, 6-2
#2 Singles
1st – Sarah Cabeen (C) def Cassie Schilling (C) 6-1, 6-2
3rd – Hannah Shea (LC) def Kellie Murtle (DML) 6-3, 6-0
5th – Codi Hitch (A) def Halley Horne (H) 7-5, 6-4
#2 Doubles
1st – Katie Duval/Jess DuVal (H) def Emma Steeve /Ashley Nordhues (C) 6-4, 6-4
3rd – Britteny Johnson/Victoria Holcomb (AL) def Grace Jacob/Jena Brosam (A) 6-1, 6-2
5th – Kalie Webb/Claudia Jannes (DML) def Roslyn Grey/Natalie Keller (LC) 6-2, 6-3
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) – Iowa authorities are tallying up the damage and injuries caused by powerful storms that struck the state. The National Weather Service says the storms damaged a number of Iowa towns as gusts neared 90 mph and hail up to an inch in diameter fell on Sunday.
The service says radar data suggested that a tornado struck the southern Iowa city of Ottumwa. City officials told The Ottumwa Courier that several homes were damaged and some residents were injured near Liberty Elementary School on the southwest side of Ottumwa. Assistant Fire Chief Mike Craff says it’s unclear how many people were hurt.
A storm was blamed for a person’s death in the Keokuk County town of Kinross, but a county dispatcher said Monday morning that she couldn’t provide any information.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was in Iowa Sunday afternoon to deliver her endorsement of U-S Senate candidate Joni Ernst in person. “She’s going to set ’em straight,” Palin said. “She’s a soldier. She’s a hard-working farmer. She’s a pistol-packin’ Harley rider.” Ernst is one of five Republicans vying for the G-O-P’s U.S. Senate nomination and Palin announced a month ago that Ernst was her choice.
Palin told the crowd gathered in West Des Moines Sunday that Ernst would not be “co-opted” by the special interests in D.C. and she urged Ernst supporters to go out and “brag her up.” “Time is short. We don’t need a whole lot of touchy-feely, compassionate, ‘kumbayah’ singing around the campfire when it comes to these campaigns,” Palin said. “We need the fighters. We need you all to fight for the right folks that we need in D.C.”
The newly-decorated Ernst campaign vehicle was parked outside Sunday’s event, featuring the phrase: “honk if you want to make DC squeal.” That continues the theme of a campaign ad in which Ernst talked about castrating pigs as a farm girl. “Coolest campaign bus in the nation. I think it’s gorgeous and it says it all, about castrating those hogs, you know…That ad that she put out, right. That right there,” Palin said, snapping her fingers. “I mean, it got people’s attention because it’s like: ‘Whoa! Nobody’s going to push her around.'”
Ernst thanked Palin for the endorsement, saying she’d be honored to be the first woman Iowa elected to the U.S. congress. Sunday’s event was organized by ShePAC, a political action committee formed in 2012 to help elect conservative Republican women.
(Radio Iowa)
No serious injuries were reported following a two-vehicle accident Sunday night on Interstate 80 in Cass County. According to dispatch reports, the accident, which temporarily blocked most of the westbound lanes, happened at around 11:24-p.m., near the 68.5-mile marker westbound.
The Iowa State Patrol covered the investigation. Additional details are currently not available.
Today (Monday) is Worker’s Memorial Day. Sixty-one Iowans who died while on the job were honored at event Friday in front of the Iowa Worforce Development office in Des Moines. Of the 61 who died in Iowa last year, about half were killed in industrial or farming-related accidents. Iowa AFL-CIO president, Ken Seeger, says there’s a problem in Iowa’s workplaces-a lack of safety inspectors. “Some people don’t want regulations on corporate entities and frankly I think that we need a few more — otherwise we wouldn’t have 61 Iowans dying. We can do better, but some people are choosing not to,” Seeger says.
About half of the deaths happened in industrial or farming-related accidents. Fifteen of the victims suffered heart attacks while at work. “It represents a lot of families who have lost a wage earner, lost a loved one, whose lives have been inalterably changed,” Seeger says. “This is the 21st century, you’d think we could do better. Todd Osborn of Nevada attended the event to honor his brother Justyn Jarnagin, who died over the summer while working at a construction site.
“He’s a really good man, he worked hard, just had a newborn, was full of life and suddenly had it taken away from him. We’re here to honor his memory,” Osborn said. Unions in Waterloo, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids and Sioux City will host memorial events today (Monday) for those who died last year.
(Radio Iowa)
The trial of a Council Bluffs woman accused of beating and burning her stepson is set to begin on Tuesday afternoon. The Daily NonPareil reports 46-year old Rebecca S. Beyer is charged with first-degree kidnapping and willful injury causing serious injury in connection with the alleged abuse of the 20-year-old son of her husband. The victim’s father, 51-year old James W. Beyer, and his stepson, 22-year old Ryan Smith, also face charges in the case.
James Beyer is charged with first-degree kidnapping and willful injury causing serious injury, according to Iowa court records. His trial is scheduled to begin on May 20. Smith is charged with first-degree kidnapping and is set to stand trial on May 13. Both men have pleaded not guilty.
In March 2013, the unidentified victim told workers at the Joshua House, a Council Bluffs men’s shelter, that he had been mistreated by his family. Authorities were contacted, with the man telling Council Bluffs police officers that Rebecca Beyer heated spoons and forks on the stove and burned him with them. He also said he had been physically assaulted by his father and that both his parents had threatened to kill him. All three suspects were arrested last June.
Smith has allegedly head-butted, punched and kicked him in the past, according to court documents. Rebecca Beyer has pleaded not guilty to the accusations. The 20-year-old told detectives his father and stepmother “have abused him for years.”