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It will be a Western Iowa match-up this afternoon in the quarterfinal round of the Girls Class 1A State Basketball Tournament as Exira-EHK takes on Sidney. The 23-1 Spartans will face the 23-1 Cowgirls at Well Fargo Arena today with a 3:15pm scheduled tip-off and we’ll have it on KJAN.
The Spartans earned their way to a third straight appearance in the state tournament with substate final win over Akron-Westfield. Now the Spartans are looking to have success on the big stage. Two seasons ago they were able to make it to the semifinal round and last season they fell in the opening round to Newell-Fonda. Junior Sophia Peppers said after the substate win that they will be playing with confidence and are looking to succeed at state.
The Sidney Cowgirls are making their first ever state tournament appearance. They knocked off Glidden-Ralston in the substate round and are working behind the same Head Coach that just led them to the state volleyball tournament in Amy McClintock. Maddy Duncan leads Sidney in scoring with 15 points per game and Maryn Phillips has averaged 14. Coach McClintock said her team has a similar style of play to the Spartans.
When asked about handling the pressure defense of the Spartans, Coach McClintock said her team needs to play within themselves and a big part of that will be the coaching staff getting them ready for the moment since they haven’t been there before.
The Spartans have four players that average in double figures in Sophia Peppers with 17, Kealey Nelson 13, Maggie Rasmussen and Mara Burmeister 12. Peppers has had a terrific postseason run scoring a combined 58 points in the last two games alone.
Chris Parks and Mike Smith will have the call of the Spartans and Cowgirls today on KJAN. Pregame at 2:15pm and tip-off at 3:15pm from Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
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Police in Creston are reporting four recent arrests. Sunday evening, 46-year old Marty Frank, of Fort Dodge, was arrested at the Supertel Inn and Conference Center (800 Laurel St.) in Creston, on a charge of Theft 5th. Frank was being held in the Union County Jail on a $300 bond.
Sunday afternoon, 26-year old T’Lee Jones and 21-year old Kami Hilton, both of Creston, were arrested Union County warrants for Violation of Probation on original charges of Possession of a Controlled Substance 1st Offense. Both women were being held in the Ringgold County Jail without bond.
And Friday night, 43-year old Tim Kohl, of Creston, was arrested on a charge of Public Intoxication. Kohl was later released from the Union County Jail on a Promise to Appear in court.
The area’s top news at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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(Updated 7:05 – No injuries)
Rescue crews from Cumberland and Wiota have been dispatched to a non- injury accident north of Cumberland. A motorist saw a vehicle in the east ditch off 690th south of Memphis Road. The call came in just before 7-a.m.
No other details are currently available.
A “nutrient exchange” — similar to the “carbon credits” considered a few years ago at the federal level — would be created in Iowa if legislation being developed by Republicans in the Iowa House becomes law. Republican Representative Chip Baltimore of Boone says it’s about sparking “collaboration” rather than confrontation to clean up the state’s surface water.
“At least in my conversations, there’s broad-based, very generic…interest in a nutrient exchange,” Baltimore says. “We’ve got some pilot projects that are out there that are working their way through, but I think having some formal recognition of the nutrient exchange may help move that process along.”
Here’s how a “nutrient exchange” works: a facility that has to get a state permit because it discharges pollution — places like a water treatment plant or a manufacturing facility — enters into a swap with a farmer. The end result? New financing for on-the-farm improvements to reduce nutrient run-off from cropland. Critics like Jessica Mazour of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement call it “pollution trading.”
“You can make it as complicated as you want, but basically…it does nothing, but just transfers pollution across our state.” States like Connecticut, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio have established “nutrient exchanges.” Supporters say it’s a “market-based” way to address the nutrient and sediment loss from farms.
(Radio Iowa)
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – The second trial is scheduled to begin Monday of a Sioux City man charged with murder. The trial of 48-year-old Elias Wanatee is to be held in in Pottawattamie County District Court in Council Bluffs. A judge had granted Wanatee’s request for a change of venue, citing publicity. Wanatee’s first trial ended in a mistrial in December after jurors couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.
Wanatee is charged with first-degree murder in the Feb. 17, 2016, stabbing death of 50-year-old Vernon Mace in Sioux City. There were no eyewitnesses, and police never found the weapon. Defense attorney Jason Dunn has suggested that Wanatee acted in self-defense.
Iowa’s opioid epidemic and how it is affecting children is the subject of legislation making its way through the Iowa House and Senate. Child welfare experts say Iowa’s child protection laws needs to be updated to address the abuse of legal drugs. Currently, if a baby is born showing signs of exposure to an illegal drug that has to be reported. The policies now focus heavily on methamphetamine, its manufacture, distribution, and use. Janee Harvey at the Department of Human Services
says that approach is outdated.
“These policies are being reformatted and changed to really recognize that there is a very big opioid epidemic,” Harvey says. The bill expands to cover legal drugs including painkillers and alcohol. Harvey says if it’s reported families can get help. “We would be going in to basically knock on the door and assess the family to see what services they need and be creating a corresponding plan of safe care for the caregiver and the child,” Harvey.
The legislation is the work of a task force on drug-endangered kids and also requires notification if an infant shows signs of withdrawal from a legal drug such as painkillers or alcohol.
(Radio Iowa)
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