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NANCY KAY KLEIN, 72, of Harlan died Friday, January 3rd in Harlan. Funeral services for NANCY KAY KLEIN will be held on Tuesday, January 7th at 10:30am at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan. Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.
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Friends may call on Monday, January 6th from 3:00pm-8:00pm at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan with family greeting friends from 5:00pm-7:00pm that evening.
Burial will be in the Jacksonville Cemetery.
Online condolences may be left at www.burmeisterjohannsen.com
NANCY KAY KLEIN is survived by:
Husband: Larry Klein of Harlan
Son: Tracy (Rhonda) Klein of Omaha, NE.
Daughter: Marcy (Eddie) Paden of Syracuse, NE.
Brother: Roger (Joann) Christensen of Harlan.
5 Grandchildren
4 Step-Grandchildren
1 Great-Grandchild
Other relatives and friends.
Skyscan Forecast Saturday, January 04, 2020 Dan Hicks
Today: Partly cloudy. NW shifting to SW @ 10-15. High 39.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. SW @ 10-15. Low 30.
Sunday: Partly cloudy. NW @ 10-20. High 42.
Sunday Night: Increasing clouds. NW @ 5-10. Low 25.
Monday: Partly cloudy to cloudy. High 36.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy to cloudy. High 34.
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Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Caleb McConnell made all eight of his shots from the field and scored a season-high 20 points starting in place of the injured Geo Baker, and Rutgers beat Nebraska 79-62 on Friday night for its fifth straight win. Baker, the Scarlet Knights’ team leader and No. 2 scorer, is out indefinitely with a left thumb injury. McConnell made his first seven shots, including two 3-pointers, and finished with season highs for points, assists and minutes. Haanif Cheatham had 16 points to lead Nebraska, which shot 32 percent.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Running back Maurice Washington is off the Nebraska football team. The athletic department released a two-sentence statement Friday announcing his dismissal. Washington faces child pornography charges in California and was disciplined for unrelated rules violations last season. The charges are related to an incident when he was in high school. Washington is accused of obtaining a video of his former girlfriend performing a sex act, storing it on his cellphone and sending it to the girl in March 2018. Washington is not depicted in the video. He has pleaded not guilty.
CHICAGO (AP) — Alexa Willard scored 21 points, Jasmine Franklin made a game-winning shot in overtime and No. 21 Missouri State beat Loyola-Chicago 74-72 in a Missouri Valley Conference opener for both teams. Missouri State inbounded it with 11.4 seconds left and got it to Franklin in the paint for a contested hook shot just before the final buzzer, Missouri State, which is off to its best start since the 2003-04 team opened 20-1, extended its MVC road winning streak to a school-record 12 games. Abby O’Connor had 17 points and 11 rebounds for Loyola.
(Radio Iowa) — The non-profit group Speech First has filed a lawsuit against Iowa State University saying three policies instituted on campus have had a chilling impact on free speech. The president of the group, Nici Neily says one policy prevents students from writing chalk messages on campus.
“It seems it started with a pro-life group chalking pro-life messages and then a pro-choice group chalked their messages. And then everybody kind of got involved and there were a lots of political things going on,” Neily says. “And then at some point some offensive messages were chalked and the school put in place an interim ban — and then the student government voted on it and made it a permanent ban.”
Neily says the ban prevents communication at a key time when presidential candidates are visiting campus. “A lot of the students I talked to had learned about these events and either attended or organized counter events as a result of this chalking,” she says. “And so I think student’s political and civic participation is really impacted by this in particular.” Neily says the school also banned sending emails in support of candidates.
And she says they created a Campus Climate Reporting System to take reports of things students found offensive. “Turns out that often the speech that ends up being reported is political speech and it is religious speech. And the school has a portal where you can do this anonymously,” she says. Neily says the process used to react to the reports raised concerns with students.
)”The school will collect that information. The team that analyzes it is made up of university administrators, including university police — and then depending on what the report is — they’ll reach out to the reporter and they’ll reach out the person who has been reported on. And if needed — they’ll refer it elsewhere for further investigation,” Neily explains. She says this process has a chilling impact on the students’ rights to free speech.
“I think of it as kind of a Orwellian reporting system,” Neily explains.”Students are making what I think is a very logical decision to just avoid the hassle of going through an investigation altogether. And just avoiding having controversial discussions — because they fear the punishment by process.” Neily says these three things go directly against the idea of what should happen on a campus.
“You know, college campuses are the place where ideas should be vigorously debated. But unfortunately it seems like the window of acceptable discourse is narrow these days that students who express viewpoints outside of that orthodoxy, they face administrative proceedings,” Neily says. “Iowa State is a public university, it is a state actor, they have to uphold the First Amendment, period.”
Neily says Speech First has asked the court to declare that the chalking ban, email prohibition on political speech, and Campus Climate Response System are all unconstitutional, and to enjoin both the chalking ban and prohibition on electronic correspondence in support of candidates and ballot initiatives in advance of the February 3rd Iowa Caucuses. An I-S-U spokesperson says are reviewing the lawsuit and have not comment.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:25 a.m. CST
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A group that insures local governments across Iowa is going to court to try to block the state auditor from reviewing its spending, including travel to out-of-state vacation destinations. The Iowa Communities Assurance Pool, which is owned by cities, counties and other governments, argues in a legal petition that it is not a “governmental subdivision” and that State Auditor Rob Sand has no authority to examine its finances. Sand’s office began reviewing the pool’s spending in October after The Associated Press reported that its directors have routinely held public meetings at vacation resorts in Florida every February and Michigan every August.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Department of Human Services officials say they are temporarily withholding nearly $44 million in payments for this month to one of the management companies overseeing the state’s Medicaid program. Iowa DHS spokesman Matt Highland says in a statement Friday the agency has informed Iowa Total Care of the penalty for several compliance issues. They include unpaid claims, inaccurate claims payments, problems with pricing methods and pharmacy dispensing fees. Highland says the money will released to the company once the problems are resolved. The withheld amount represents about 26% of the nearly $170 million that would be due the company.
LECLAIRE, Iowa (AP) — Emergency crews werer scrambling to clean up following a train derailment in the eastern Iowa city of LeClaire that sent more than a dozen rail cars and tankers off the tracks in the downtown district. The derailment forced police to shut down a nearby highway and send a hazardous materials team to the site. The derailment happened around 11 a.m. Friday along U.S. Highway 67, just a couple of hundred feet from the banks of the Mississippi River. Police closed the highway in both directions and asked people to avoid the area. Scott County Emergency Management planner Brian Payne says the derailment involved a Canadian Pacific train and that no injuries were reported.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court says names of car owners ticketed by automated speed cameras are not public records. The court considered a lawsuit filed by former Ottumwa police sergeant Mark Milligan who was ticketed in 2016 driving a city-owned car. He filed an open records request for names of car owners caught on camera and ticketed and those not ticketed. Officials driving government cars often aren’t ticketed. The city denied his request, but a judge ordered their release. The city appealed. The supreme court concluded Friday that speed camera tickets are city citations not filed in court and therefore aren’t public record.
BOYS BASKETBALL:
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 57, Shenandoah 45
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 53, Harlan 38
Creston 61, Clarinda 53
Denison-Schleswig 74, Red Oak 37
Lewis Central 62, Glenwood 57
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 55, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 52
Western Iowa Conference
Audubon 58, Logan-Magnolia 44
IKM-Manning 66, Missouri Valley 33
Tri-Center 36, Underwood 23
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 57, Woodbine 34
Exira-EHK 56, Ar-We-Va 45
West Harrison 48, Coon Rapids-Bayard 33
Corner Conference
Stanton 60, Griswold 26
Pride of Iowa Conference
Diagonal 61, Lenox 57
Southwest Valley 59, Southeast Warren 43
Other Scores
AC/GC 73, West Central Valley, Stuart 34
ADM 55, North Polk 39
Central Decatur 55, Chariton 52
Newell-Fonda 80, OA-BCIG 60
Panorama 73, Ogden 28
GIRLS BASKETBALL:
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 58, Shenandoah 35
Creston 63, Clarinda 21
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 64, Harlan 39
Glenwood 61, Lewis Central 56
Red Oak 61, Denison-Schleswig 45
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 67, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 39
Western Iowa Conference
IKM-Manning 92, Missouri Valley 37
Logan-Magnolia 57, Audubon 40
Underwood 51, Tri-Center 17
Rolling Valley Conference
Boyer Valley 50, Paton-Churdan 47
CAM 65, Woodbine 36
Coon Rapids-Bayard 48, West Harrison 23
Exira-EHK 47, Ar-We-Va 43
Corner Conference
East Mills 50, Bedford 30
Stanton 55, Griswold 39
Pride of Iowa Conference
Lenox 55, Diagonal 31
Southwest Valley 69, Southeast Warren 50
Other Scores
AC/GC 54, West Central Valley, Stuart 44
Central Decatur 59, Chariton 31
Mount Ayr 68, Worth County, MO 51
Panorama 73, Ogden 28
Westwood 65, Wakefield, Kan. 59
The Audubon boys basketball team used tough defense and quick movement to race past Logan-Magnolia 58-44 on Friday night.
The two teams traded early runs. The Wheelers used an early press to fluster the Panthers and go up 12-2. After a timeout, the Panthers settled in and finished the first quarter on a 12-0 run to lead 14-12. The second quarter went back and forth until Audubon jumped ahead and ended the half with a buzzer beating three from Marcus Olsen. He was also fouled on the play but failed to make the free throw, leaving the halftime score at 31-26 Wheelers.
Audubon pushed the lead out to 14 by the end of the third quarter 44-30. Skyler Schultes then helped seal the win in the fourth quarter with a couple of corner threes. Schultes led Audubon with 18 points and Gavin Smith added 10. The Wheelers improve to 4-4 and will travel to Boyer Valley on Monday.
Logan-Magnolia got a strong performance on the block from Tre Melby. He finished with 20 points and had a number of blocks on the night. Ultimately it was the pressure of the Wheelers that made the difference. The Panthers fall to 4-4 and will host IKM-Manning on Tuesday.
The Logan-Magnolia girls basketball team notched a big road win over the Audubon Wheelers on Friday night 57-40. The battle of two 7-1 teams was tight early on. The Panthers led 19-12 at the end of the first, but the Wheelers clawed back within 3 near the end of the half. A buzzer-beating three by Violet Lapke gave Logan-Magnolia a 26-20 lead at the break.
The Panthers carried that momentum into the second half and outscored the Wheelers 20-9 in the third quarter to seize control of the game, and never let down the rest of the way.
Violet Lapke led all scorers with 22 points and Kylie Morrison finished with 21 to lead the Panthers to the top of the Western Iowa Conference standings. The Panthers will next host IKM-Manning on Tuesday.
Rylie Hartl finished with 15 for Audubon and Aleah Hermensen had 10. The Wheelers fall to 7-2 and will travel to Boyer Valley on Monday.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest on January 1st of a Clarinda man following a single vehicle injury accident that occurred in December of 2019. Dylan Taylor of Clarinda was charged with Driving While Barred-Habitual Offender, an aggravated misdemeanor. He was booked in to the Montgomery County Jail on $2,000 bond.