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The song says some kids just want two front teeth for Christmas, but others are getting a whole new face. Children across the region who are the targets of bullies are going to great lengths to make the taunting stop, including plastic surgery. Dr. Richard Bruneteasu is a plastic surgeon in Omaha/Council Bluffs who says more children from Iowa, Nebraska and beyond are seeking help from his office because they’re bullied.
“When people stand out a bit, they become targets of abuse from time to time,” Dr. Bruneteasu says. “We see kids who come in, maybe they have prominent ears and people make fun of them because of that. We see kids with nasal deformities, they may have an ethnic nose which results in people picking on them.” He says there’s a big difference between wanting surgery and needing it.
“You have to look at each case on an individual basis,” Bruneteasu says. “If it’s just vanity, then maybe it’s something that you can wait until you’re older and a bit more mature, but if it’s something that’s just totally disrupting your life, then I think it’s a reasonable thing to consider.” Bruneteasu says more children are having expensive procedures done to improve their self-image.
“We get the occasional kid who has a pretty significant nasal deformity and is very bothered by it and maybe has been subject to teasing by his peers or maybe physical bullying,” he says. “In those kinds of situations, we consider everybody on a case-by-case basis and in some parts of the country, like New York City, it’s very common. They do a lot of teenage rhinoplasties.”
Bruneteasu says the most common procedure performed on a child is to fix prominent ears and that’s usually done at age five.
(Radio Iowa)
413 AM CST TUE DEC 25 2012 (from the Nat’l. Weather Svc. in Des Moines)
TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. VERY COLD. HIGH AROUND 15. NORTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. VERY COLD. LOW ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. NORTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.
WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. VERY COLD. HIGH 15 TO 20. NORTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. NORTHEAST WIND AROUND 5 MPH.
THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE MID 20S. EAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
THURSDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW THROUGH MIDNIGHT… THEN LIGHT SNOW LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT. NOT AS COLD. LOW 15 TO 20. CHANCE OF SNOW 60 PERCENT.
FRIDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW. HIGH IN THE MID 20S.
FRIDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY. LOW 10 TO 15.
SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH AROUND 20.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The attorneys for two men whose lawsuit against Council Bluffs and two former police officers for wrongful conviction ended in mistrial are asking permission from the judge to talk to jurors. A mistrial was declared Dec. 14 in the lawsuit Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee filed after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The men sought millions of dollars claiming they deserved payment for spending 25 years in prison for a murder courts overturned based on misconduct of prosecutors.
Last week Harrington and McGhee’s attorneys asked Judge Robert Pratt to set aside rules prohibiting jury contact. The attorneys say it would be irresponsible to embark on a new trial without learning more about jurors’ impressions and deliberations. Attorneys for the city and the police officers say they don’t object.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Officials at the Iowa Lottery believe a blizzard just before Christmas boosted scratch-ticket sales. The Iowa Lottery delivered nearly $5.7 million worth of instant tickets to Iowa retailers last week, up from nearly $5 million for the same week last year.
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) — An offspring of the famous Decorah eagles was spotted this weekend back in northeast Iowa. The Raptor Resource Project says a satellite transmitter shows the eagle has flown thousands of miles since leaving its nest 18 months ago. The eagles became famous after Raptor Resource Project staffers streamed the birds’ actions over the Internet.
WALKER, Iowa (AP) — Two women in eastern Iowa have been hospitalized after a Christmas Eve crash. Linn County authorities say the crash happened yesterday morning. Investigators say Patricia Daringer of Cedar Rapids lost control of her Buick, spun across the center line and struck a Cadillac driven by Douglas Chester of Strawberry Point. A female passenger in his car was hospitalized.
ROCK VALLEY, Iowa (AP) — Sioux County authorities say they’ve found no links between a weekend fire that killed 650 hogs near Rock Valley and another mass hog death at a nearby confinement facility. About 500 hogs were found dead last week after investigators say someone tampered with a climate control system.
Hawkeye Aaron White says he got his feet back under him this past weekend as Iowa cruised to a 30-point win over Coppin State. White had struggled a bit offensively in the previous two outings, but White wound up scoring 20 on Saturday, including six dunks. “It was good to get a game in like this right before we start Big Ten,” White says. Three freshmen are consistently part of the Hawkeye’s rotation this season and White – a sophomore — says the team “learned a lot” in their 13-game non-conference schedule.
“We beat some good teams. Iowa State’s a good team. UNI’s a good team and then, again, beat these teams that were on our schedule that you look at and we were supposed to be them,” White says. “…We weren’t perfect, but we had some slips that we came back from.” Iowa opens Big Ten play against Indiana. “You’ve got the previously number one ranked team in the country in Indiana and then you turn right around and a couple of days later you’ve got the number two team in the country,” White says. “…You’re just going to have to amp it up. You’re going to have to stay locked in and really buy into the game plan that our coaches are putting together for us you know. The whole staff has done great getting us prepared for every game this season and I think we’ve done a good job staying locked in, no matter what our opponent is, but it’s just going to be a little different challenge because we’re going again, you know, basically future NBA players…big, strong, experienced guys in the Big Ten.”
The Indiana game tips off at 3 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. They’ll play at Michigan on January 6th. White is from Strongville, Ohio. He played in all 35 of Iowa’s games last year, pulling down 199 rebounds and was named to the Big Ten’s All-Freshman Team.
(Radio Iowa)
The snowstorm at the end of last week wiped out most of the high school contests on Thursday and Friday, but overall the first half of the winter sports season hasn’t had many weather-related interruptions. Bud Legg is the spokesman for the Iowa High School Athletic Association which oversees boys’ sports. “Through Friday we’ll probably have maybe about 120 cancellations of boys’ games and probably for every boys’ game there’s probably a girls’ game that’s been cancelled, and a comparable number of wrestling events,” Legg says. He says it’s the most cancellations they’ve had in the last two years.
“You know last year we had a really, really great year. But three years ago we had over 900 cancellations for the winter, and we’re just talking just boys’ sports at that time,” Legg says. “And of those 900, we had all but about 75 or 80 of them were made up.” The cancellations lead to a lot of calendar checking by the athletic directors at each school. Legg says they have to match schedules for open dates and see if the officials are available, all while checking to be sure there are no conflicts with other school events such as music concerts and plays. The sports teams do not practice on Christmas Eve or Christmas, and then it is up to the coaches how long a break they give before starting up practice again. Legg says the association does not allow any regular games during a school’s Christmas break.
“They’ll have scrimmages…at maybe two or three schools at the same site and get in some scrimmage time. Because the school staff is on vacation, the athletic association for probably going on 30-35 years now, has determined that is not a good time to try and play games,” Legg says. The teams will return from break and begin playing games again in January.
(Radio Iowa)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An assistant coach for the Kansas City Chiefs has received a citation for suspected driving while intoxicated after a one-vehicle crash. Police said Adam Zimmer was alone in his vehicle and unhurt in the accident around 9 p.m. Sunday on a street south of the Country Club Plaza shopping district. He was arrested and given a municipal citation and was released about five hours later on cash bond.The investigation was continuing Monday.
Zimmer is listed on the Chiefs’ website as a defensive assistant and assistant linebackers coach. He’s in his third year with Kansas City. Head coach Romeo Crennel said Monday the Chiefs did not yet have complete information about the arrest. Kansas City is 2-13 heading into next week’s season finale at Denver.
(Released Mon., Dec. 24th 2012)
The Top Ten teams in the Associated Press Iowa high school basketball poll with first-place votes in parentheses and won-loss record, total points and position last week at right:
Class 4A
Record | Pts | Prv | |
1. Iowa City, West (10) | 7-0 | 100 | 1 |
2. Dubuque, Senior | 6-0 | 86 | 2 |
3. North Scott, Eldridge | 9-0 | 79 | 3 |
4. Bettendorf | 7-0 | 64 | 4 |
5. Epworth, Western Dubuque | 6-0 | 48 | 6 |
6. Sioux City, East | 8-0 | 44 | 5 |
7. Urbandale | 7-1 | 41 | 7 |
8. Valley, West Des Moines | 6-2 | 34 | 9 |
9. Ankeny | 5-2 | 31 | 8 |
10. Sioux City, North | 7-0 | 11 | 10 |
Others receiving votes: Pleasant Valley 5. Des Moines, Roosevelt 4. Cedar Falls 2. Johnston 1.
Class 3A
Record | Pts | Prv | |
1. Vinton-Shellsburg (7) | 8-0 | 96 | 1 |
2. Iowa Falls-Alden (1) | 7-0 | 78 | 2 |
3. Creston | 8-0 | 75 | 3 |
4. Grinnell (1) | 5-0 | 68 | 4 |
5. Assumption, Davenport | 4-3 | 59 | 5 |
6. Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City | 5-2 | 42 | 6 |
7. Dallas Center-Grimes (1) | 7-0 | 36 | 8 |
8. MOC-Floyd Valley | 8-1 | 33 | 9 |
9. Spencer | 7-1 | 17 | 10 |
10. Atlantic | 7-1 | 13 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Mount Pleasant 12. Solon 5. Pella 4. Centerville 4. Crestwood, Cresco 4. Carroll 3. Fort Madison 1.
Class 2A
Record | Pts | Prv | ||
1. Nodaway Valley (7) | 7-0 | 91 | 1 | |
2. Western Christian, Hull | (1) | 7-0 | 88 | 2 |
3. West Fork, Sheffield (2) | 8-0 | 82 | 3 | |
4. IKM-Manning | 9-0 | 67 | 4 | |
5. Cascade,Western Dubuque | 8-0 | 57 | T5 | |
6. Sheldon | 10-0 | 41 | 7 | |
7. MFL-Mar-Mac | 6-0 | 40 | 9 | |
8. PCM, Monroe | 9-0 | 38 | 8 | |
9. Des Moines Christian | 7-1 | 19 | T5 | |
10. West Branch | 8-1 | 8 | NR |
Others receiving votes: New Hampton 6. Notre Dame, Burlington 5. Hudson 4. St. Edmond, Fort Dodge 2. Mid-Prairie, Wellman 2.
Class 1A
Record | Pts | Prv | |
1. Danville (9) | 8-0 | 99 | 1 |
2. St. Mary’s, Storm Lake (1) | 7-0 | 91 | 2 |
3. Lone Tree | 9-0 | 68 | 3 |
4. Riverside, Oakland | 8-0 | 55 | 5 |
5. Murray | 8-0 | 53 | 6 |
6. North Tama, Traer | 9-0 | 50 | 7 |
7. Harris-Lake Park | 9-1 | 26 | 4 |
8. Preston | 7-0 | 24 | 10 |
9. Belmond-Klemme | 8-0 | 22 | 8 |
10. Boyden-Hull | 6-2 | 21 | NR |
Others receiving votes: Lawton-Bronson 13. Moulton-Udell 7. Iowa Mennonite, Kalona 7. Dunkerton 7. Ankeny Christian Academy 5. North Linn, Troy Mills 1. West Monona, Onawa 1.
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