Red Oak Police, Thursday night, arrested a woman from Pottawattamie County. 57-year old Cindy Jo Snipes, of Council Bluffs, was arrested a little before 10-p.m. in the 2300 block of Eastern Avenue, for Disorderly Conduct. Snipes was transported to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center and held on a $300 cash bond.
The first round of the Iowa High School Football Playoffs will be contested tonight. All games are set for 7:00pm kickoffs.
Ankeny @ Valley, West Des Moines
Cedar Rapids, Kennedy @ Iowa City, West
Dowling Catholic, West Des Moines vs Fort Dodge (at Des Moines, East)
Indianola @ Cedar Falls
Pleasant Valley @ Bettendorf-Morningstar-Rivermont
Prairie, Cedar Rapids @ Johnston
Southeast Polk @ Ankeny Centennial
Urbandale @ Waukee
Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City @ Sergeant Bluff-Luton
Carroll @ Lewis Central
Clear Creek-Amana @ Decorah
Epworth, Western Dubuque @ Solon
Harlan @ Oskaloosa
Pella @ Xavier, Cedar Rapids
Spencer @ Norwalk
Waverly-Shell Rock @ North Scott, Eldridge
Algona @ Crestwood, Cresco
Chariton @ West Liberty
Greene County @ Benton Community
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll @ PCM, Monroe
OABCIG @ Southeast Valley
Spirit Lake @ Boyden-Hull/Rock VAlley
Union, La Porte City @ Waukon
West Marshall, State Center @ Williamsburg
Sumner-Fredericksburg @ Van Meter
Mediapolis @ Bellevue
Mount Ayr @ Interstate 35, Truro
Pella Christian @ Wilton
South Hamilton, Jewell @ Dike-New Hartford
Treynor @ West Sioux, Hawarden
West Branch @ Osage
West Lyon, Inwood @ South Central Calhoun
Akron-Westfield @ Westwood, Sloan
Alta/Aurelia @ AHSTW
B-G-M, Brooklyn @ Edgewood-Colesburg
Highland, Riverside @ Durant
Lynnville-Sully @ Hudson
North Tama, Traer @ Newman Catholic, Mason City
Wapsie Valley, Fairbank @ Bishop Garrigan, Algona
West Hancock, Britt @ Hinton
Central City @ Don Bosco, Gilbertville
Lenox @ Fremont-Mills, Tabor
Midland, Wyoming @ Iowa Valley, Marengo
New London @ Gladbrook-Reinbeck
Newell-Fonda @ Southeast Warren, Liberty Center
Northwood-Kensett @ Ar-We-Va, Westside
Rockford @ Turkey Valley, Jackson Junction
Stanton @ Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton
(Radio Iowa) — Senator Chuck Grassley has asked the Justice Department to investigate high-profile attorney Michael Avenatti and a client who made allegations against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanagh.
Grassley says investigators should look into “a potential conspiracy” to make false statements to congress and obstruct his Judiciary Committee’s investigation of Kavanaugh. Grassley says there were “obvious, susequent contradictions” after Avenatti revealed a client’s allegations.
Avenatti tweeted that he’s ready to start the investigation immediately and Avenatti says it will — in his words — “get to the bottom of Judge Kavanaugh’s lies.”
(Radio Iowa Special feature) — This week, Radio Iowa’s Campaign Countdown has been providing snapshots of the statewide candidates Iowans will vote upon November 6th. An incumbent who’s been in the post for seven months faces two challengers in the race to be Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture for the next four years.
Iowa’s long-time State Ag Secretary Bill Northey resigned in March to take a job in the USDA. Governor Reynolds appointed Mike Naig to the post. Naig defeated four competitors at the GOP’s state convention in June to win the Republican nomination for ag secretary. “During this campaign I’ve laid out my vision for the future of agriculture and that is in attracting and inspiring the next generation of Iowans to consider careers in agriculture,” Naig told convention delegates. Naig is a native of the northwest Iowa community of Cylinder.
Tim Gannon, the Democratic Party’s nominee for state ag secretary, is a Mingo native who’s part of his family farming operation in Jasper County. “I’m running because I don’t want to see Iowa become a place where our big cities, our metro areas are doing really well, providing economy opportunity, but all our small towns and rural areas are struggling to keep up,” Gannon said at the Iowa Democratic Party’s state convention in June. Gannon worked for Tom Vilsack in the governor’s office and in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Libertarian Party’s nominee for state ag secretary is Rick Stewart. “We’ve got 82,000 farmers who know who to farm,” Stewart said on The Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair. “What the secretary of agriculture needs to know is how to stop the government from telling the farmers how to do their job.” Stewart is a retired businessman from Cedar Rapids.
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Just eight games into his professional career, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has already earned a reputation for being just as good outside the pocket as inside it. In fact, some of his biggest plays during the Chiefs’ win in Denver a few weeks ago came when Von Miller and Co. forced him to scramble.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska will play a Bethune-Cookman team that has lost its last five games against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents by an average of 32 points and has come no closer than three touchdowns in any of them. The game was scheduled on short notice as a replacement for the canceled opener against Akron. The party line in Lincoln this week is that the Cornhuskers aren’t good enough to go through the motions against any opponent.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Broncos did everything right for one half against Kansas City a few weeks ago. Now coach Vance Joseph and his team want another shot at slowing down the high-flying Chiefs for an entire game. If they pull it off Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium, it just may turn around their season at the midway point.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self faces a potentially bumpy few months as the FBI’s investigation of corruption in college basketball continues to unwind. Self and the school have not been accused of any wrongdoing, though their names have surfaced in testimony, and that alone could be enough to hurt them on the recruiting trail and in the court of public perception.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Top-ranked Kansas will lean on a team full of newcomers when it begins the season against Michigan State on Nov. 6. The team is hardly inexperienced with transfers such as Dedric and K.J. Lawson finally eligible. The Jayhawks have more talent and depth than last year, when they reached the Final Four, and have every intention of going one step farther this season.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — No. 12 Kentucky has star running back Benny Snell Jr. and a stellar defense to thank for its success this season. The Wildcats take their ground-and-pound attack on the road to face an explosive Missouri team.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:35 a.m. CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to make his first visit to Iowa since he acknowledged he’s considering seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. Biden is planning to headline a rally in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday for in support of Democratic candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and Congress. The candidates include Abby Finkenauer, a House candidate who worked for Biden during his unsuccessful 2008 campaign for the presidential nomination.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Native American tribe plans to open a casino on the Iowa-Nebraska border next week, despite a pending legal challenge from both states. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the Prairie Flower casino in Carter Lake will open at noon on Nov. 1. The Ponca Tribe announced the opening in a press release Thursday. The project’s first phase will include 9,500 square feet of space, 200 slot-style games and a full-service bar and snack bar.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa hospital is suing the insurance companies that oversee the Iowa Medicaid program claiming they have cost the small rural hospital thousands of dollars in patient revenue by refusing to fully reimburse the hospital for services provided to Medicaid-covered patients. Virginia Gay Hospital located in Vinton also alleges the ineffective appeals process set up by Amerigroup, UnitedHealthcare and AmeriHealth Caritas was “virtually a sham.”
BAGLEY, Iowa (AP) — A Guthrie County mother charged after her 11-month-old son drowned in a bathtub has pleaded not guilty. Court records show Seaira Briceno entered her pleas earlier this month to child endangerment. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office says Briceno’s baby drowned Aug. 10 when she left him and his 2-year-old brother in the tub at their Bagley home. Briceno told investigators she left the boys for about five minutes, but deputies believe the children were left alone longer.
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A Dubuque man has been given two years of probation for lying to Medicaid about care he provided for his father. The Telegraph Herald reports that 35-year-old Nicholas Brown also was recently sentenced to a two-year prison term, suspended, and told to pay more than $1,000 in damages to the Iowa Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
The fourth time was the charm for the ArWeVa Rockets. After three losses to the CAM Cougars during the regular season the Rockets picked up a win when it mattered most in the Class 1A Region 3 Semifinals in Audubon on Thursday night. The Rockets won 3-1 over the Cougars with set scores of 24-26, 25-18, 25-20, and 25-23.
Emilee Danner lead the way for the Rockets with a stellar night at the net. Danner finished with over 15 kills and multiple successful blocks to lead spark the team.
CAM looked strong early jumping out to an early 10-1 lead in the opening set. The Rockets were able to rally back though with three separate 4-point runs to grab their first lead at 18-17. The Rockets had two set points at 24-22 but the Cougars rallied to win the last four points and take the opener 26-24.
The Rockets would grab early leads though in the next three sets. An early 7-point run in the second set built them an insurmountable lead. The Rockets built a 15-7 lead in the third on their way to a win. Then in the Third the Rockets led 5-2 early. The Cougars would tie the fourth set up on a couple of occasions, including at 20-20. The Rockets had two set points to work with at the end and a return attempt by CAM on the second set point sailed left and the Rockets celebrated.
ArWeVa improved to 17-10 and advanced to the Regional Final in Boone next Tuesday night. The Rockets will face Gladbrook-Reinbeck, another team that avenged three regular season losses to their opponent North Tama in the semifinals with a 3-0 sweep.
CAM’s season ends with a record of 26-10. The Cougars say goodbye to a stellar senior class that made appearances in the Regional Semifinals the past two seasons.
Class 1A
Region 2
(3-0) East Mills 25-25-25, Stanton 23-20-19
(3-0) Fremont-Mills 25-25-25, Boyer Valley 19-13-20
Region 3
(3-0) Gladbrook-Reinbeck 25-25-25, North Tama 18-17-23
(3-1) Ar-We-Va 24-25-25-25, CAM 26-18-20-23 – ON KJAN
Class 2A
Region 3
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, Earlham 20-17-17
(3-0) St. Albert 25-25-25, West Monona 10-20-13
Region 4
(3-0) Tri-Center 25-25-25, AC/GC 17-17-11
(3-1) BCLUW 25-25-17-25, Woodward-Granger 23-23-25-22
Region 5
(3-0) Sidney 25-25-25, Central Decatur 14-10-15
(3-0) Pella Christian 25-25-27, Pleasantville 12-12-25
Officials with the Iowa National Guard report funeral services for 19-year old Pfc. Matthew A. Cox, of Leon, will be held 10-a.m. Friday (Oct. 26th) at First Baptist Church (originally Urbandale), 3020 E. 38th Street, Des Moines.
Cox, a member of the 186th Military Police Company, Iowa Army National Guard based at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa, died while swimming at a Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB) beach on Tuesday, October 16th. Interment with full military honors will be at the Decatur Cemetery, 7th and Water Street, Decatur City, Iowa at 10 a.m., Saturday, October 27th.
PFC. Matthew Cox
Cox was born in Des Moines. Hewas active in the Civil Air Patrol, Des Moines Police Explores and farmed with his grandfather, Fred Cox, on the Cox family farm in Decatur County. He was also a member of the 1st Baptist Church, where he was involved in the children’s ministries.
Cox enlisted in the Iowa Army National Guard on October 11, 2017 as a Military Police Soldier with the 186th MP Co. He deployed to Cuba in support of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) in July, 2018.
His awards include the Army Achievement Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal and the Army Service Ribbon.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Native American tribe plans to open a casino on the Iowa-Nebraska border next week, despite a pending legal challenge from both states. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the Prairie Flower casino in Carter Lake will open at noon on Nov. 1. The Ponca Tribe announced the opening in a press release Thursday.
The project’s first phase will include 9,500 square feet of space, 200 slot-style games and a full-service bar and snack bar. Officials from Iowa state government and Council Bluffs are suing federal officials who approved the project in an effort to stop the casino, which would compete with state-licensed casinos in Council Bluffs.
Nebraska joined the lawsuit because Carter Lake directly borders the state. Nebraska’s constitution bans casino gambling.
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