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Vandals cause neary $1,000 damage to Stanton Softball/Football Field

News

September 2nd, 2013 by Ric Hanson

Vandals caused nearly $1,000 damage to the Stanton Community School District’s softball and football fields over the Labor Day weekend. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says sometime between 9-p.m. Sunday and 7-a.m. Monday, someone damaged the left field fence of the softball field. Five aluminum fence posts were bent over at ground level, causing an estimated $500 damage. A floater-type tire was also picked-up and rolled over some track hurdles, before being left on the football field.

Trash cans located along a walking trail were dumped over, and two picnic tables were rolled onto their tops. Officials say one of the tables had four metal straps bracing it to the concrete pad that was also damaged. In addition, a wooden bench in the gazebo at the south area of the walking trail was damaged by removing it from its base. The damage, including that perpetrated on the City of Stanton picnic tables, was estimated at $475 altogether.

Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to call Montgomery County Crimes Stoppers at 1-800-432-1001.

Reds hit Wainwright hard again, beat Cardinals 7-2

Sports

September 2nd, 2013 by Ric Hanson

CINCINNATI (AP) — Shin-Soo Choo and Joey Votto homered as Cincinnati roughed up Adam Wainwright for the second start in a row Monday, leading Mat Latos and the Reds to a 7-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the opener of a four-game series between the NL Central rivals. Latos (14-5) gave up four hits in his first complete game of the season.

The Cardinals took two of three in St. Louis last week, the only loss coming when the Reds tagged Wainwright (15-9) for nine runs in a career-low two innings. They had his number again on Monday, piling up six runs and 10 hits in six innings.

Cincinnati now trails the Cardinals by 2½ games. St. Louis opened the day tied with Pittsburgh for first place. The Reds maintain a comfortable lead for the final NL wild-card spot.

A-P High School Football Poll 9/2/13

Sports

September 2nd, 2013 by Ric Hanson

The Top Ten teams in the Associated Press Iowa high school football polls of the 2013 season with first-place votes in parentheses and won-loss record, total points and position last week at right:

Class 4-A

  1. Cedar Rapids Xavier (5) 1-0 84 –
  2. West Des Moines Dowling (4) 1-0 81 –
  3. West Des Moines Valley 1-0 55 –
  4. Iowa City West 1-0 51 –
  5. Pleasant Valley 1-0 50 –
  6. Cedar Falls 1-0 47 –
  7. Urbandale 1-0 46 –
  8. Bettendorf 1-0 27 –
  9. Ames 1-0 13 -, (tie) Waukee 0-1 13 –

Others receiving votes: 11, Ankeny Centennial 12. 12, Johnston 7. 13, Cedar Rapids Prairie 3. 14, Marion Linn-Mar 2. 14, Sioux City East 2. 16, Davenport Assumption 1. 16, Iowa City High 1.

Class 3-A

  1. Sioux City Heelan (9) 1-0 90 –
  2. Grinnell 1-0 68 –
  3. Harlan 1-0 65 –
  4. Spencer 1-0 52 –
  5. Decorah 1-0 51 –
  6. Pella 1-0 50 –
  7. Clear Lake 1-0 40 –
  8. Solon 1-0 34 –
  9. DeWitt Central 1-0 13 –
  10. Williamsburg 0-1 9 –

Others receiving votes: 11, Waverly-Shell Rock 7. 11, Humboldt 7. 13, Maquoketa 4. 13, Creston-Orient-Macksburg 4. 15, Washington 1.

Class 2-A

  1. Waukon (3) 1-0 80 –
  2. Kuemper Catholic(1) 1-0 69 –
  3. West Marshall (2) 1-0 68 –
  4. Dyersville Beckman (3) 1-0 66 –
  5. Spirit Lake 1-0 56 –
  6. Boyden-Hull-RV 1-0 47 –
  7. Union 1-0 33 –
  8. Albia 1-0 26 –
  9. Mediapolis 1-0 13 –
  10. New Hampton 1-0 6 -,(tie) Sheldon 1-0 6 -,(tie) Louisa-Muscatine 1-0 6 –

Others receiving votes: 13, Alleman North Polk 5. 14, Garner-Hayfield/Ventura 4. 15, Gilbert 3. 15, Sioux Center 3. 17, O-A/BCIG 2. 18, Wellman Mid-Prairie 1. 18, East Sac County 1.

Class 1-A

  1. Iowa City Regina (7) 1-0 88 –
  2. South Winneshiek (1) 1-0 72 –
  3. Aplington-Parkersburg 1-0 62 –
  4. St. Albert (1) 1-0 60 –
  5. Dike-New Hartford 1-0 59 –
  6. Mount Ayr 1-0 47 –
  7. St. Ansgar 1-0 23 –
  8. Wilton 1-0 18 –
  9. West Branch 1-0 16 –
  10. Maquoketa Valley 1-0 14 –

Others receiving votes: 11, Guttenberg Clayton Ridge 12. 12, Emmetsburg 7. 13, Paullina South O’Brien 6. 14, West Union North Fayette 4. 14, Sigourney-Keota 4. 16, Maple Valley/Anthon/Oto 2. 17, Manson-NW Webster 1.

Class A

  1. West Lyon (4) 1-0 85 –
  2. Wapsie Valley (2) 1-0 77 –
  3. BGM (3) 1-0 76 –
  4. Hinton 1-0 52 –
  5. Logan-Magnolia 1-0 34 –
  6. AGWSR 2-0 31 –
  7. Akron-Westfield 1-0 27 –
  8. Pekin 1-0 19 –
  9. Madrid 1-0 18 –
  10. Mason City Newman 1-0 17 –

Others receiving votes: 11, Lisbon 14. 12, Avoca AHST 13. 13, Lynnville-Sully 10. 14, Montezuma 6. 14, Riverside Highland 6. 16, Martensdale-St. Marys 3. 17, Bedford 2. 17, Algona Garrigan 2. 17, Winthrop East Buchanan 2. 20, Gladbrook-Reinbeck 1.

Class 8-Man

  1. Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton (6) 1-0 85 –
  2. Don Bosco (3) 2-0 83 –
  3. Adair-Casey 2-0 68 –
  4. Newell-Fonda 1-0 41 –
  5. Springville 2-0 39 –
  6. Marcus MMC 1-0 39 –
  7. West Bend-Mallard 2-0 31 –
  8. Glidden-Ralston 1-0 27 –
  9. Janesville 1-0 18 –
  10. River Valley 1-0 17 –

Others receiving votes: 11, West Harrison, Mondamin 10. 11, Easton Valley 10. 13, Riceville 9. 14, Lenox 7. 15, Sidney 5. 16, Coon Rapids-Bayard 4. 17, Harris-Lake Park 1. 17, Lamoni 1.

No details release on boy found dead near Logan

News

September 2nd, 2013 by Ric Hanson

LOGAN, Iowa (AP) — The cause of death of a 5-year-old boy found in a western Iowa ravine has not yet been released. An autopsy on the boy’s body was completed today (Monday), but the Iowa medical examiner’s office is conducting further laboratory tests before a definitive cause is released. Dominic Lloyd Lee Elkins, who was found dead Saturday in rural Harrison County, had lived with a foster family near Logan for nearly three weeks. 17-year-old Cody Metzker-Madsen, who lived in the same foster home for nearly three years, has been charged with first-degree murder in the 5-year-old’s death.

Unusual night game played at Field of Dreams site

Sports

September 2nd, 2013 by Ric Hanson

DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — The Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville has taken on the ghostly feel of the Kevin Costner movie shot at the field 24 years ago for an unusual night game. KWWL-TV in Waterloo reports a team of ghost players emerged from the cornfield to play in the first night game at the field on Sunday. About 100 people attended the game at the field featured in the 1989 movie in which an Iowa farmer builds a baseball field and ghostly players from the 1919 World Series return to play.

The modern day ghost players are a team of former professional and semi-professional baseball players. Some were in the movie. They will take the Field of Dreams field again Sept. 15 and Sept. 29 in day games.

Hair salons offering free cuts for blood donors

News

September 2nd, 2013 by Ric Hanson

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — It used to be that a blood donation was worth a free cookie and a cup of juice but a new effort to attract donors makes a donation of blood or platelets worth a free haircut. The Council Bluffs Nonpareil reports that the American Red Cross and Sports Clips shops in Iowa and Nebraska are offering a free haircut in exchange for a blood donation through September.

Tricia Quinn, CEO of the Red Cross Midwest Blood Services Region says the offer is part of a national promotion. In Nebraska seven Sports Clips shops in the Omaha area and two in Lincoln are participating. In Iowa, two shops in Cedar Rapids are among those participating along with others in Coralville, Dubuque, and North Liberty.

Details are online at www.sportclips.com/redcross .

Corn plants flattened by weekend storm winds

Ag/Outdoor, News, Weather

September 2nd, 2013 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farmers in central Iowa are finding more damage from a weekend storm that passed though Iowa with enough wind to flatten corn plants in some fields and damage trees. KCCI-TV reports farmers in Dallas County say the early Sunday morning storm brought an end to the recent heat wave but also packed strong wind.

Some corn fields in the area are completely flattened with eyewitnesses saying it was the worst crop damage from a storm they’d ever seen. Law enforcement officers reported to the National Weather Service that some trees were knocked over in Adel. No injuries were reported from the storms, which brought a 20-degree drop in high temperatures to Iowa breaking the nearly week-long record setting heat wave.

Sioux City school boss Iowa’s third highest paid

News

September 2nd, 2013 by Ric Hanson

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A new contract giving the Sioux City school superintendent an $8,000 raise has boosted his salary to the third highest in the state. The Sioux City Journal reports Superintendent Paul Gausman will be paid $212,482 in the current school year. That’s behind the Des Moines superintendent’s $260,000 and Cedar Rapids’ at $220,972. The state’s third largest district, Davenport, will pay $195,868. The Sioux City district is the fourth largest in Iowa.

Sioux City school board member Doug Batcheller says the pay raise is meant to keep Gausman. Batcheller says Gausman has been approached four times about jobs elsewhere. Batcheller says an increase in student performance, improved graduation rates and declining dropout rates were key factors in the decision.

Gausman is entering his sixth year in Sioux City.

Backyard and Beyond 09-02-2013

Backyard and Beyond, Podcasts

September 2nd, 2013 by admin

Lavon Eblen talks about the history of Labor Day

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8AM Sportscast 09-02-2013

Podcasts, Sports

September 2nd, 2013 by admin

w/ Chris Parks

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