The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast w/Jim Field.
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Later this (Friday) morning, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley will present retired Iowa State Patrol Trooper Mark Domino with the State and Local Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery by Attorney General Eric Holder. The event will take place at 10:30-a.m., during the DPS Promotional Ceremony being held at the State Historical Building.
On October 30th, 2012, the Maynard Savings Bank was robbed by two heavily armed men. Following the robbery, the subjects fired shots at numerous law enforcement officers, disabling several emergency vehicles and wounding an officer. Trooper Domino located the suspect vehicle and began a solo pursuit, during which he was fired upon multiple times. A gun battle ensued and Trooper Domino was shot in the right bicep.
The Trooper continued the pursuit despite his injury, and returned fire. The suspects crashed into a ditch and fled on foot to a heavily wooded area. Officers from local, county, state and federal agencies were able to locate the subjects and take them into custody without further incident or injury.
The Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery Act of 2008 established the Congressional Badge of Bravery to honor exceptional acts of bravery in the line of duty by federal, state, county, local and tribal law enforcement officers. For more information about the Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery, visit
https://badgeofbravery.ncjrs.gov/index.aspx.
The 7:06-a.m. report w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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The Hard Rock Casino in Sioux City agreed to a five-thousand dollar fine Thursday, from the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission for its second gambling violation in as many months. Iowa Racing and Gaming administrator, Brian Ohorilko, says the violation involved a person who had agreed to a self ban. “An individual that had signed up on the statewide list in 2007, that individual was able to obtain a player’s club card at the Hard Rock facility, so that was the triggering factor for the violation,” Ohorilko explained.
The fine was based on the casino’s history of violations. “The violation was one that was self-reported by Hard Rock. It is their second violation of this nature within the past 365 days, which past precedent called for a five-thousand dollar fine. That’s what the parties agreed to, and the commission did approve that stipulation,” Ohorilko says. The violation comes just one month after the casino was fined three-thousand dollars at the commission’s March meeting.
“The first incident occurred a few months prior to this, and the parties — Hard Rock and commission staff — entered into a stipulated agreement at that time,” Ohorilko says. The casino has only been open since August of last year. Ohorilko says management has been doing some retraining of staff following the violations.
“They’ve implemented additional procedures and controls to help prevent this,” Ohorilko says. “They do have a number of new employees at the new facility, however it doesn’t change our expectations and Hard Rock management recognizes that and has indicated that they are going to try to address it.”
The person in the first violation was able to gamble and was not caught until he tried to cash in the jackpot and his name turned up on the banned list.
(Radio Iowa)
The Freese-Notis forecast for the KJAN listening area and weather info. for Atlantic.
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Girls Golf:
Atlantic 180, Lewis Central 196 (Medalist: Erin Olsen, Atlantic 40: Runner-up: Brooke Newell, Atlantic – 42)
Boyer Valley 221, Exira/EHK 253, Glidden-Ralston 296 (Medalist: Jessica Wood, E/EHK 51)
IKM-Manning 240, Missouri Valley No Team Score (Medalist: Sierra Ford, MV 48)
Boys Golf:
Denison 152, Atlantic 162 (Medalist: Parker Eller, Denison 38; Runner-up: Ben Renaud, Atlantic 38)
Clarinda 154, Griswold 168 (Medalist: Benton Bielfeldt, Clarinda 35)
Boyer Valley 180, Exira/EHK 187, Gliden-Ralston 190 (Medalist: Kyle Behrendt, BV 42)
IKM-Manning 173, Missouri Valley 183 (Medalist: Zach Dreier, IKM-M 38)
Girls Tennis:
Kuemper Catholic 8, Atlantic 1
Denison 7, Bishop Heelen Catholic 2
Shenandoah 8, Abraham Lincoln 1
Red Oak 9, Southwest Valley 0
Glenwood 9, Sioux City West 0
Harlan 9, Audubon 0
Boys Tennis:
Atlantic 5, Kuemper Catholic 4
Harlan 6, Audubon 3
Abraham Lincoln 9, Shenandoah 0
Red Oak 8, Southwest Valley 1
Thomas Jefferson 5, St. Albert 4
Girls Soccer:
Glenwood 10, Harlan 0
Denison 1, Creston 0
Boys Soccer:
Creston 2, Denison 1
Shenandoah Fillies Golf Invitational
Medalist: Sabrina Hernandez, Southwest Iowa 89; Runner-up: Madison Hance, Creston 90
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U-S Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says he cannot comment on the lawsuit alleging boards of supervisors in three northwest Iowa counties failure to manage ag drainage districts has contaminated central Iowa’s drinking water supply. “But it is appropriate for me to talk about conservation and the role of USDA in all of this and I think what might surprise…many Iowans is how much conservation is actually taking place today in Iowa,” Vilsack says.
Since January of 2011, the U-S-D-A has awarded over two-point-two BILLION dollars to Iowa farmers to help finance conservation projects to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus run-off into rivers and streams. “The reality is that this is a very complicated situation,” Vilsack says. “It’s going to take time, but I am absolutely convinced that people are committed to better soil health and better water quality.”
Vilsack suggests the federal government is doing its part to stimulate conservation measures on Iowa farmland, but the state government could and should be “more aggressive” in its support of water quality initiatives. Vilsack sugests something similar to the “Vision Iowa” program he iniatated 15 years ago when he was governor .
“Let me just make a suggestion to our friends in the legislature and the governor: we did a great thing with Vision Iowa. We took gaming revenues and we put them on the table and we said to communities across the state: ‘What would you do if you had this money available to spur economic opportunity, tourism attractions, whatever?’ And people responded and we saw the landscape of this state change,” Vilsack says.
“I think it’s time that we do that with water. There’s no reason why we can’t do something similar and then that could leverage significantly greater sums from the federal government.”
Vilsack points to the Republican governor of Michigan, who has committed 45 million dollars in state money for a single water conservation project. Vilsack made his comments during taping of the “Iowa Press” program that airs tonight (Friday) on Iowa Public Television.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Google Inc. wants to expand its Council Bluffs data center spending an additional $1 billion and doubling the size of its staff to 70. The California company is asking the state for an additional $19.8 million in tax refunds bringing its total tax incentives to more than $36 million. The company received nearly $17 million in tax incentives to build the first phase of its data center in exchange for a promise to employ 35 people. Google’s total investment in Iowa will come to around $2 billion.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority is to consider the project expansion, today (Friday). Microsoft is spending about $2 billion to build two data centers in West Des Moines and Facebook has invested about $1 billion in two Altoona data centers.
Atlantic Fire and Rescue personnel, along with crews from Audubon, Exira and Harlan responded to an incident at a grain bin northeast of Audubon Thursday afternoon. According to officials, the accident happened just before 1-p.m. There’s very little in the line of information available early this (Friday) morning, but on the Harlan Fire Department’s Facebook page, officials said “Unfortunately the outcome wasn’t as good as we had hoped.”
Atlantic, Exira and Harlan crews provided mutual aid to the Audubon Fire Department in handling the incident, with Atlantic providing its aerial truck. We hope to have more information later this morning, on KJAN and on the web at kjan.com.