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High school basketball scoreboard Friday 02/02/2018

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February 3rd, 2018 by admin

High school basketball scoreboard for Friday, February 2, 2018

BOYS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Creston 70, Red Oak 33
Denison-Schleswig 70, Clarinda 53
Glenwood 72, Harlan 60
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 71, Shenandoah 35
Lewis Central 61, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 26

Western Iowa Conference

A-H-S-T-W 86, Riverside, Oakland 37
Audubon 59, Griswold 36
IKM-Manning 55, Underwood 51
Treynor 87, Missouri Valley 28
Tri-Center, Neola 73, Logan-Magnolia 66

Rolling Valley Conference

Ar-We-Va, Westside 79, West Harrison, Mondamin 52
Coon Rapids-Bayard 56, Paton-Churdan 52
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 58, Boyer Valley 56

Pride of Iowa Conference

Interstate-35 60, Lenox 36
Martensdale-St. Marys 85, East Union, Afton 43
Mount Ayr 54, Central Decatur 49
Pleasantville 74, Bedford 52
Wayne 71, Southwest Valley 60

Corner Conference

Essex 45, Heartland Christian 43
Fremont-Mills 50, Sidney 49
Stanton 69, Clarinda Academy 40
Woodbine 48, East Mills 35

Other Scores

Bondurant Farrar 67, ADM, Adel 55
Carroll 65, Boone 59
Lamoni 70, Melcher-Dallas 66
Murray 58, Orient-Macksburg 25
Panorama, Panora 81, Ogden 70
PCM, Monroe 70, Greene County 45
Sioux City, East 88, Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 49
Van Meter 70, AC/GC 20
Winterset 62, Carlisle 61
Woodward Academy 54, Madrid 51

Western Valley Conference Tournament
Consolation

Kingsley-Pierson 51, Lawton-Bronson 47
Siouxland Community Christian 51, Ridge View 42
West Monona, Onawa 64, River Valley, Correctionville 44
Westwood, Sloan 54, Woodbury Central, Moville 41

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 62, Atlantic 47
Denison-Schleswig 74, Clarinda 60
Harlan 48, Glenwood 44
Lewis Central 56, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 35
Red Oak 61, Creston 14
Shenandoah 67, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 56

Western Iowa Conference

A-H-S-T-W 59, Riverside, Oakland 35
Griswold 35, Audubon 31
IKM-Manning 65, Underwood 53
Logan-Magnolia 68, Tri-Center 36
Treynor 68, Missouri Valley 17

Rolling Valley Conference

Ar-We-Va 53, West Harrison 35
CAM 33, Glidden-Ralston 30
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 67, Boyer Valley, Dunlap 43
Paton-Churdan 42, Coon Rapids-Bayard 26

Pride of Iowa Conference

Central Decatur 83, Mount Ayr 47
Interstate-35 53, Lenox 38
Martensdale-St. Marys 66, East Union 18
Pleasantville 48, Bedford 28
Southwest Valley 57, Wayne 44

Corner Conference

East Mills 63, South Page 41
Essex 61, Heartland Christian 37
Sidney 55, Fremont Mills 36

Other Scores

ADM, Adel 32, Bondurant Farrar 29
Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson 56, Sioux City, East 42
Des Moines Christian 61, West Central Valley, Stuart 37
Lamoni 40, Melcher-Dallas 22
Murray 68, Orient-Macksburg 26
Panorama, Panora 73, Ogden 35
Van Meter 58, AC/GC 30

 

Skyscan Forecast Saturday 02/03/2018

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February 3rd, 2018 by admin

Skyscan Forecast   Saturday, February 3, 2018  Richard Garuckas

Today: Mostly cloudy. Breezy. High 45. S @ 10-20 with gusts up to 30mph. Winds switching to the WNW in the afternoon.

Tonight: Cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers. Low 11. Windy. N @ 15-25 gusting to 30mph.

Sunday: Slight chance of snow showers in the morning followed by gradual clearing. High 16. NNW @ 10-20 gusting to 25mph.

Sunday Night: Cloudy and cold. Low 6.

Monday: Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow. High 26.

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow. High 21.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny. High 24.

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Audubon runs away from Griswold in boys hoops Friday

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February 2nd, 2018 by admin

The Audubon Wheelers boys basketball team opened up a 12 point lead on the Griswold Tigers in the first quarter and never looked back in a 59-36 win. Tate Killeen led the way for the Wheelers with 17 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 steals.

The Wheelers improve to 10-10 on the season and will head to AHSTW to wind down the regular season on Tuesday.

Griswold was led by 12 points and 12 rebounds from Morgan Mundorf in a nice senior night performance. The Tigers fall to 2-17 on the season and will travel to IKM-Manning on Tuesday.

Griswold girls rally for win over Audubon

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February 2nd, 2018 by admin

The Griswold Tigers girls basketball team rallied in the fourth quarter to pick up a 35-31 win over the Audubon Wheelers on Friday night. The Wheelers controlled the lead for most of the second half but Griswold rallied in the fourth quarter. A Mateya Peters three gave Griswold the lead at 30-29, that was the Tigers first lead since 6-5 at the end of the first quarter.

The Tigers also got 11 points from Brittney Beebe as they improved to 9-11.

Leah Subbert led Audubon with 14 but she fouled out in the last minute of the game. The Wheelers fall to 2-17 with the loss.

Both teams have one final regular season game next Tuesday before the playoffs.

Iowa insurance company to accept new Medicaid patients again

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February 2nd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An insurance company that had stopped accepting new Medicaid patients within Iowa’s privatized health care program will soon resume enrollment. The Iowa Department of Human Services announced Friday that Amerigroup plans to accept new patients beginning in May. Patients will then have a choice between Amerigroup and UnitedHealthcare, the other insurance company providing coverage.

Amerigroup also plans to provide coverage, beginning in March, for about 10,000 patients temporarily enrolled in the state’s old Medicaid reimbursement system. Amerigroup said late last year it didn’t have the capacity to accept new Medicaid patients. The company made the decision public after a third company, AmeriHealth Caritas, said it was leaving Iowa amid a contract dispute.

DHS says it’s responding to complaints over reduced services under the privatized Medicaid system.

Judge dismisses Medicaid lawsuit over disabled patients

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February 2nd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed Iowa’s privatized Medicaid program violated the rights of disabled patients. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger made the decision Friday. She notes the main insurance company referenced in the lawsuit, AmeriHealth Caritas, stopped providing Medicaid coverage in the state late last year.

Disability Rights Iowa filed the lawsuit last year on behalf of six people, claiming the insurance companies running the health care program cut services to people with disabilities. It named Gov. Kim Reynolds and DHS director Jerry Foxhoven.

Jane Hudson, executive director of Disability Rights Iowa, says in a statement the organization is evaluating its next steps. She says the Legislature should take action in the meantime.

Tom Brokaw collection opens to public at University of Iowa

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February 2nd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Longtime NBC journalist Tom Brokaw has donated thousands of documents spanning his career to the University of Iowa, and they’re now available to the public. The collection includes a notebook with interview questions for Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev and press badges from Saudi Arabia and the 1992 Republican National Convention.

Some of the donated photographs show Brokaw standing in front of plumes of smoke in New York on Sept. 11. Graduate Assistant Elizabeth Riordan says the collection shows 50 years of the biggest global news stories as seen through the eyes of one reporter.

Brokaw spent his freshman year at the university, which gave him an honorary doctorate in 2010. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the items were made available to the public on Thursday at the university’s Main Library.

GOP lawmakers may send more bus money to Iowa schools

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February 2nd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

A state report indicates the fleet of yellow buses owned by Iowa’s public schools traveled more than 40 MILLION miles last year. Some geographically large Iowa school districts are spending more than nine-hundred dollars a year for EACH STUDENT who rides the bus to and from school.

“Some of the larger school districts in some of the far-flung areas of the state are very expensive.” That’s House Speaker Linda Upmeyer. Upmeyer and other Republican lawmakers are offering to supplement some school transportation budgets — but in varying degrees. Republicans in the HOUSE are suggesting a 10-million dollar boost for the coming year.

“To the most needy districts across the state who are struggling with transportation, especially in the rural areas.” That’s Republican Representative Walt Rogers of Cedar Falls, chairman of the House Education Committee. A year ago, SENATE Republicans signaled they wanted to immediately send twice as much to schools for transporting kids to and from school. That plan eventually would have committed about 150-million dollars a year in state money to supplement the budgets for busing in sprawling districts with rural zip codes. Senator Amy Sinclair, a Republican from Allerton, says given current state budget realities, she understands why her G-O-P colleagues in the House favor spending less on school transportation.

“I prefer fixing problems rather than putting band-aids on them, but absolutely I’ll work with them to see if we can get something done that will at least alleviate that stress and help every child receive a high-quality education,” Sinclair says. Sinclair says another bill pending in the legislature could help ease school budgets for busing. The bill would let elementary students ride the bus just as long as high school students — a one-way trip of 75 minutes. One district told legislators with students of any age riding the same bus, two bus ROUTES could be eliminated and save the district 100-thousand dollars next year.

(Radio Iowa)

Supreme Court says sending an explicit text is not indecent exposure

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February 2nd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

(This story may not be suitable for younger audiences)

The Iowa Supreme Court has thrown out a Buchanan County man’s indecent exposure conviction that was based on a photo sent via text message. Jose Lopez was arrested in 2014 after he texted a picture of himself with an erection to a woman he wanted to date, but who had gotten a restraining order against him. He was convicted of the charge, but appealed saying his attorney should have challenged the charge based on a lack of evidence.

The Iowa Supreme Court ruling notes there is a difference between receiving an unwelcome sexually explicit image received via text and having someone expose themselves in person. It says the text recipient can immediately close the message and choose not to reopen it or delete it. While the same can’t be done if the exposure happens in person. The ruling says Iowa’s indecent exposure law does not allow an adult to send such a picture to a minor — but it does not make it illegal for an adult to send a picture of their genitals via text to another adult.

The Supreme Court says Lopez’s attorney should have challenged the evidence, and therefore was ineffective and reversed the indecent exposure conviction.

(Radio Iowa)

Iowa Department of Revenue issues new tax scam alert

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February 2nd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES – Another tax scam has surfaced, prompting alerts from the Iowa Department of Revenue (IDR) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Here’s how it works: It begins with cyber criminals stealing personal information, sometimes from computers of tax practitioners. In a new twist, the fraudulent returns in a few cases used the taxpayers’ real bank accounts for the deposit. A woman posing as a debt collection agency official then contacted the taxpayers to say a refund was deposited in error and asked the taxpayers to forward the money to her.

As a reminder, the Iowa Department of Revenue does not make these types of calls. If you feel you have been the victim of identity theft, please report it to us immediately using our web form or if you do not have computer access by calling (515) 281-5986.