More State and area news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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Jim Field visits with Connie Faga of Audubon about the Shepherd family trip to Exira for next week’s July 4th celebration. The three Shepherd boys are the last of the Lucky 13 survivors from the flood of 1958 in Exira.
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Authorities in Creston report two men were arrested on separate charges, Wednesday. According to the Creston Police Dept., 51-year old Walter Hughes, of Creston, was arrested on charges of OWI 1st Offense & Carrying Weapons. He was released from the Union County Jail on a $3000 bond. And, 58-year old Michael McCutchison, of Waterloo, was arrested in Creston on a Blackhawk County Warrant for Probation Violation. He is being held in the Union County Jail on a $5000 bond or transfer to Blackhawk County.
And, a resident of the 700 block of E. Jefferson Street in Creston, reported to police Wed. afternoon, that sometime between 2:45-and 3:45-p.m., Wednesday, someone keyed his father’s vehicle while it was parked in the driveway at 609 S Stone. An estimated $500 damage was done to the vehicles’ passenger side rear door, front door and front fender.
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A wounded Davenport police officer has returned to work, but only on a restricted basis Police Chief Paul Sikorsky told the Quad-City Times on Wednesday that Officer Ryan Leabo will be doing administrative work at first. Sikorsky says he doesn’t have a timetable for when Leabo will return to his normal duties.
Prosecutors say Brett Dennis Sr. shot Leabo on April 25 after a foot chase and struggle. Dennis had run away when Leabo tried to talk to him and another man. They’d been seen rummaging through a car. One shot hit Leabo in a leg and a second gunshot was stopped by Leabo’s bulletproof vest. Prosecutors say Leabo then shot Dennis in a leg.
Dennis’ trial on attempted murder and other charges is scheduled to begin July 8.
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The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union announced the regional softball pairings Wednesday.
First round games for Class 1-A and 2-A will be held on July 8th. Class 3-A begins July 10th. Classes 4-A and 5-A start on July 11th. Click the links below for the complete pairings.
MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — No criminal charges will be filed over more than $2.1 million in improper payments by the Mason City Community School District. The Cerro Gordo County attorney’s office said in a news release Wednesday that it was determined after consultations with the Iowa attorney general’s office that there was “insufficient evidence to support any criminal charges.”
A state audit that covered July 20009 through August 2017 says more than $1.3 million was salary to 66 mainly administrative employees that exceeded the authorized pay and increases. The improper payments also included other monetary benefits, such as vehicle and cellphone allowances given to some employees. The audit report released in December also said hundreds of thousands more in improper disbursements covered district contributions to retirement and annuity accounts.
Get ready for the heat and humidity later this week into the upcoming weekend!! The National Weather Service in Des Moines says temperatures will warm from upper 80s today (Thursday) into the lower to middle 90s by this weekend. These temperatures combined with tropical humidity levels will result in heat index values rising into the 95°F to 105°F range! The Heat Index Saturday in Atlantic, Council Bluffs and Des Moines will be around 101 degrees, with Sioux City coming in at 104, and Ames at 103! Be HEAT SMART if you have outdoor plans late this week into the weekend.
(Radio Iowa) — Iowa Congresswoman Cindy Axne was among the supporters of a bill providing humanitarian aid to migrants crossing the U-S southern border.
The U-S House approved the four-point-five-BILLION dollar ($4.5) emergency aid bill 230-195 Tuesday. House Democrats pushed the bill in response to concern over the treatment of children separated from parents at the border as part of the detention of immigrants coming into the country illegally. Axne says the bill addresses the humanitarian crisis at the border.
“I think that we can all agree that we want families and children to be treated appropriately,” Axne says. “So, this is a lot of assistance through refugees at the state licensed shelters, to help folks expand capacities in the small and medium-scale state licensed facilities to reduce reliance and the influx of shelters for children.”
She says it also helps with legal services, and advocates, and then post-release services. It puts some money toward the Office of Inspector General, and federal field specialists and case management services. The West Des Moines Democrat says the bill included provisions for the U-S Department of Homeland Security to boost border security measures. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection got another one-point-three billion,” she says. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement, over 128 million, and federal emergency management money, as well, to assist with all of the migrants coming in, and giving them the capacity to work with that.”
Axne says funding is also included oversight and migrant safety. The congresswoman hopes Congress moves forward in protecting the border, and keeping the country safe–but in a humane way. “We don’t ever want to see children who are supervising other young children, who don’t get an opportunity for a change of diapers. Children that are denied basic things like brushing their teeth. Certainly, these things need to be addressed,” according to Axne.
Iowa Democrats Abby Finkenauer and Dave Loebsack voted for the bill — while Republican Congressman Steve King voted against the bill.