The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports a traffic stop at around 10:30-p.m. Sunday, resulted in the arrest of a Villisca man. 31-year old Jerome Powell Burch was charged with Driving While License Suspended, and Interference with Official Acts. Burch was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.
Spencer Lee became the first true freshman to win a national title for the Iowa Hawkeyes since 1993 on Saturday night at the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Cleveland. Lee topped Nick Suriano of Rutgers 5-1 at 125 pounds as the Hawkeyes claimed third place in the team race.
Lee suffered an ACL injury his senior season in high school and began his first season with the Hawkeyes as a redshirt. He says he and the Hawkeyes have lofty goals going forward as they try to reel in Penn State.
The Nittany Lions claimed their seventh team title in the last eight years.
(Learfield Sports)
The Iowa Hawkeye baseball team rallied late to complete a three game sweep of Evansville, Saturday. Kyle Crowl’s RBI single capped a two run eighth inning as the Hawkeyes posted a 4-3 victory.
Iowa improves to 11-6 and returns to action Tuesday by hosting Saint Louis.
(Learfield Sports)
First Daughter Ivanka Trump, a senior advisor to President Trump, is scheduled to visit Iowa today (Monday). Ivanka Trump and Governor Kim Reynolds will visit a center in Waukee where high school students gain professional experience by working on high-tech projects for local businesses. It’s the same center Apple C-E-O Tim Cook visited last August.
Last Friday, Ivanka Trump said in a written statement she and Reynolds “have worked closely on a number of workforce development initiatives.” Trump said her visit to Iowa is meant to “highlight how important” workforce development and the president’s infrastructure plan are to “unleashing the economy and promoting…prosperity.”
Ivanka Trump and Iowa’s governor will host a roundtable discussion today (Monday) with some of the students working on high-tech projects for local Iowa businesses. Educators and state officials will also be part of the discussion.
(Radio Iowa)
Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Barry Brown scored 18 points, and Kansas State ended UMBC’s brief, but historic run in the NCAA Tournament with a 50-43 victory. UMBC had only had two field goals in the final six minutes and shot just 29.8 percent for the game. UMBC garnered national attention for its relatively unknown program when it destroyed the top-ranked Virginia 74-54 in the biggest upset in college basketball history. It was the first time a No. 16 seed had defeated a No. 1 seed.
CHICAGO (AP) — Patrik Berglund scored 3:31 into overtime, and the St. Louis Blues came from behind for a big 5-4 victory over the lowly Chicago Blackhawks. Defensemen Alex Pietrangelo and Vince Dunn each had a goal and three assists for the Blues, who are trying to rally for a playoff wild card in the Western Conference. Alexander Steen had a goal and an assist, and Vladimir Sobotka also scored.
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — The Royals signed right-handed reliever Justin Grimm to a $1.25 million, one-year deal that includes up to $300,000 incentives after he was released by the Chicago Cubs last week. The 29-year-old Grimm was 1-2 with a 5.53 ERA in 50 appearances last season.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA will just need to win one more home game to advance to the Sweet 16 for the third straight year. The third-seeded Bruins host 11th-seeded Creighton on Monday evening in the second round of the women’s NCAA Tournament.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — When considering where to slot Dexter Fowler in the batting order, St. Louis manager Mike Matheny isn’t concerned about last year. There’s additional data to consider. And with a good track record in the past, that could leave him at the leadoff spot for the Cardinals.
UNDATED (AP) — Many of the freshmen who garnered so much of the college basketball world’s attention during the regular season are having an abbreviated postseason. Arizona’s Deandre Ayton, Oklahoma’s Trae Young, Missouri’s Michael Porter Jr. Alabama’s Collin Sexton and Texas’ Mohamed Bamba are all considered potential NBA lottery picks whenever they turn pro. They’re also all out of the NCAA Tournament.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Police in Davenport are investigating after an 80-year-old woman fell victim to a scam artist who claimed he was checking water meters. KCRG-TV reports that Velma Holmes answered a knock on her door Thursday from a man claiming he was with Iowa American Water Co. She took him to the basement to show him her meter. The next day she realized money and valuables worth $20,000 were missing, including her wedding ring.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A member of the Iowa Legislature has reunited with the daughter she released for adoption 47 years ago. On a Saturday morning this year, State Rep. Marti Anderson’s phone rang, and her daughter, Shellie Price Wardlaw, was on the other line. Wardlaw tells the Des Moines Register that she found Anderson after taking a DNA test through Ancestry.com in January, which identified a maternal match. Anderson had taken the same test in December. Anderson says she hopes to make up for lost time.
CORNING, Iowa (AP) — Federal loans will help utilities in Iowa and Missouri upgrade electric lines in rural parts of those states. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced $276 million in loans to help rural utilities improve the efficiency and reliability of their networks.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — If you bought a Powerball ticket in Pennsylvania for Saturday’s drawing, you may be holding a piece of paper worth $457 million. Powerball officials say a single winning ticket was sold in Pennsylvania that matches all of the winning numbers: 22-57-59-60-66 and Powerball 7. The specific location where the winning ticket was sold has not been announced.
WAYNE EUGENE ELSBERRY, 77, of Atlantic, died Sunday, March 18th, at home. Funeral services for WAYNE ELSBERRY will be held 11-a.m. Thursday, March 22nd, at Zion Lutheran Church, in Atlantic. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Visitation with the family will be from 5-until 7-p.m. Wed., March 21st, at the funeral home.
Cremation has taken place, and burial will be in the Atlantic Cemetery at a later date.
WAYNE ELSBERRY is survived by:
His daughters – Peggy Toft & fiance’ Rick Thompson, of Exira; Sandra (Dana) Cooper, of Atlantic, and Julie (Jim) Stubbs, of Des Moines.
His brother – Merle Elsberry.
His sisters – Barbara Kalleson, of Council Bluffs, Marlene (Larry) Schwab, of Atlantic, and Mary (Bud) Lorver, of Council Bluffs.
9 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Police in Davenport are investigating after an 80-year-old woman fell victim to a scam artist who claimed he was checking water meters. KCRG-TV reports that Velma Holmes answered a knock on her door Thursday from a man claiming he was with Iowa American Water Co. She took him to the basement to show him her meter. The next day she realized money and valuables worth $20,000 were missing, including her wedding ring.
Experts encourage residents to make sure a company name is on the car of anyone who comes to the home. Iowa American Water Co. says their employees always carry a company-issued photo identification and will never enter a customer’s home demanding access or a payment to avoid shutting off water.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — If you bought a Powerball ticket in Pennsylvania for Saturday’s drawing, you may be holding a piece of paper worth $457 million.
Powerball officials say a single winning ticket was sold in Pennsylvania that matches all of the winning numbers: 22-57-59-60-66 and Powerball 7. The jackpot from Saturday’s drawing is the eighth-largest ever for the Powerball game.
The specific location where the winning ticket was sold has not been announced.
Powerball is played in 44 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The largest jackpot in Powerball history was $1.6 billion. Three winning tickets were sold in that Jan. 13, 2016, drawing.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A member of the Iowa Legislature has reunited with the daughter she released for adoption 47 years ago. On a Saturday morning this year, State Rep. Marti Anderson’s phone rang, and her daughter, Shellie Price Wardlaw, was on the other line. “I was having breakfast with my dad and my husband and I got a phone call out of the blue,” Anderson said. “And this woman said, ‘This is Shellie Wardlaw, and I think you’re my mother.'”
Wardlaw told the Des Moines Register that she found Anderson after taking a DNA test through Ancestry.com in January, which identified a maternal match. Anderson had taken the same test in December.
“Once I went to my matches and saw there was a maternal match, it just sent a flood of emotions through me, and I just wanted to find out more,” Wardlaw said. Anderson said she’d been waiting for that phone call for four decades. Anderson then met up with her daughter at her home just across town in Des Moines. “I had absolutely no idea where she was, and for her to be here all my life, never to have left, on the other side of town,” said Wardlaw.
Anderson said she was “a 19-year-old single girl” when she was pregnant with Wardlaw. “Nobody was happy or excited for me, not just because she was out of wedlock — which was pretty important back then — but because she was part African-American,” said Anderson. She said her mother kicked her out of the house, and she decided “to release her daughter for adoption so she could have a family.”
Wardlaw said she doesn’t hold any grudges against Anderson.
“It’s kind of hard for me to compartmentalize my emotions right now,” Wardlaw said. “Because I still think that while this was great, the times that she lived in and the pressure that she was under and the racism that was out there makes me angry. I find myself getting angry at society because someone’s color of their skin can make somebody feel less than. And that bothers me.” Wardlaw said she’s reached out to her birth father too. Anderson said she hopes to start making up for lost time.
“I was just getting ready to send her flowers that say, ‘With love and celebration for all the events I missed,'” Anderson said. “I want to send her something today that tells her it was real, and I am here.”
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