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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System has sued a New York-based auditing firm, alleging that the company failed to detect a theft scheme that cost the pension fund millions of dollars. The Des Moines Register reports the federal lawsuit was filed in New York last week against Deloitte & Touche. The lawsuit says the auditing firm issued unqualified or “clean” audit reports that the fund relied on in purchasing fraudulent securities.
A Deloitte spokesman says the lawsuit has no merit and that its employees didn’t audit the financial statements of the entities at which the fraud allegedly occurred. The lawsuit follows the criminal case against two executives of Westridge Capital Management and a registered broker-dealer, WG Trading Co.
One of the two awaits sentencing. The other awaits trial.
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State junior forward Chelsea Poppens has been recognized as an honorable mention All-American by The Associated Press.
Poppens, an Aplington, Iowa native, was the only Big 12 player to average a double-double this season. She averaged a career-best 14.2 points and 10.6 rebounds en route to being named one of three unanimous selections to the All-Big 12 first team. Poppens’ 317 rebounds make her just the second Cyclone to grab over 300 in a season. Former Cyclone All-American Angie Welle accomplished the feat in 2001 and 2002.
Poppens led the Big 12 in offensive rebounds, grabbing 4.4 per game, and shot 49.8 percent from the field. She improved from the free-throw line as a junior, shooting 71.3 percent from the charity stripe after entering the season as a 64.1 percent shooter.
Hawkeye 10 North Division Meet @ Harlan
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LOUIS McCALL, 96, of Bridgewater, died Wed., March 28th, at the Good Samaritan Society in Fontanelle. LOUIS McCALL has donated his body to science. Services will be held at a later date. Steen Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Cable television provider Mediacom says customers whose televisions are not yet digital ready have been given a two-week extension before analog reception is fully eliminated. The company still has 48 cable channels located between 23 and 78 operating on older television sets. A phase-out of analog reception began two weeks. The upgrade to all-digital channels will be complete on April 10th.
For the past six years, customers have received both analog and digital signals through a Mediacom cable connection, but now most analog stations are being eliminated to make room for more high-definition channels and faster broadband Internet speeds.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a Nebraska man who supplied crack cocaine that was sold in northwest Iowa has been given 15 years in federal prison. Federal prosecutors say 32-year-old Tuwane English had pleaded guilty in Sioux City to conspiring to distribute crack cocaine. English would sell crack in Omaha, Neb., to people who would sell it in the Sioux City area. English, of Omaha, must serve eight years of supervised release when he leaves prison. He was sentenced on Monday. He’d already been convicted of conspiracy to distribute narcotics in Nebraska.
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WARREN T. CHAFFEY, 86, of Lancaster, CA (& formerly of Harlan), died Feb. 9th, in Lancaster, CA. A Memorial Mass for WARREN CHAFFEY will be held 11-a.m. Friday, March 30th, at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan. Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.
Memorials may be directed to the Harlan Golden K Club in Warren’s name.
Warren T. Chaffey is survived by:
His daughters – Dale Avery, of Quartz Hill, CA, & Valerie Fontaine, of Los Angeles, CA.
His son – David (Laurie) Chaffey, of Palmdale, CA.
His sister – Lettie Wing, of Walnut Creek, CA.
7 grandchildren & 1 great-grandchild.
RUTH POULIN HAIG, 74, of Atlantic, died Tue., March 27th, at the Atlantic Nursing & Rehab Center. Funeral services for RUTH POULIN HAIG will be held 2:30-p.m. Sat., March 31st, at the Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic.
Burial will be in the Gus Cemetery (formerly the Maple Grove Cemetery), northeast of Clarinda.