Iowa State opens Big 12 play at home against Kansas today (Saturday). The Cyclones were winless in conference play last season but will have a chance to stop that slide against a winless Jayhawk team. Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads says the Cyclones are an improved team despite a 1-2 record.
ISU lost at Kansas a year ago but Rhoads says revenge is not on their mind. Kansas is 0-3 after a loss to Rutgers. Kick-off from Jack Trice Stadium in Ames begins at 11-a.m.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A former manager at an Iowa-based halal food supplier has been given three years’ probation for conspiring to export misbranded beef products overseas. Fifty-year-old Philip Payne of Ryan, Iowa, was sentenced on Thursday. Prosecutors say that between April 2007 and December 2009, Payne conspired with others at Midamar Corporation to mislead regulators and customers about the source of its beef products and the level of adherence to halal standards.
DAYTON, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man found in a motor home in Webster County. Sheriff James Stubbs says an autopsy report shows 55-year-old Roger Brown died of a gunshot wound. He was found in his home in Dayton on Wednesday.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A Marion man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for wire fraud. Thirty-three-year-old Jeremy Murphy was also ordered to repay more than $187,000 to his former employer’s insurance companies. As part of a plea deal, Murphy admitted that he made fraudulent charges on a company credit card from April 2013 through August 2014.
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A Waterloo man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the death of a 17-year-old girl who was shot in his grandmother’s home. Nineteen-year-old Quaderious Spates pleaded guilty last month to charges of involuntary manslaughter, trafficking stolen weapons and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Authorities say Spates and Jazzmine Rembert were in the basement of the home last October when Rembert was shot in the head.
Class 3-A, District 8
Dallas Center-Grimes 55 Atlantic 0
Harlan 34 Winterset 13
Creston 38 ADM 21
Glenwood 42 Denison 0
Class 2-A, District 8
East Sac County 28 Shenandoah 21
Clarinda 75 West Central Valley 12
Southeast Valley 27 Kuemper Catholic 20
Red Oak 13 Treynor 7
Class 1-A, District 1
A-H-S-T-W 55 Missouri Valley 14
IKM-Manning 33 OA-BCIG 24
Underwood 49 West Monona 0
Class A, District 1
Logan-Magnolia 48 Tri-Center 7
Audubon 60 Riverside 6
Maple Valley 28 Westwood 6
St. Albert 35 Griswold 14
Class A, District 8
Nodaway Valley 60 Clarinda Academy 12
Mount Ayr 41 Bedford 13
Pleasantville 40 Earlham 0
SE Warren 6 Martensdale-St. Marys 13
8-Man, District 1
Exira/EHK 62 Woodbine 0
Boyer Valley 48 River Valley 6
Newell-Fonda 34 Ar-We-Va 18
Kingsley-Pierson 54 West Harrison 6
8-Man, District 7
Glidden-Ralston 55 Adair-Casey 0
Coon Rapids-Bayard 63 Murray 6
Ankeny Christian 62 Guthrie Center 48
East Union 68 Charter Oak-Ute 12
8-Man, District 8
Fremont-Mills 30 Stanton 22
CAM 52 Nishnabotna 41
Lenox 38 East Mills 12
Essex 66 Sidney 54
The office of Senator Chuck Grassley has announced the State’s senior Senator will hold town meetings in Adair County on Friday, October 9th, and in Monona County on Monday, October 12th, as part of his annual 99-county tour. Grassley has held a meeting in each of Iowa’s 99 counties at least once every year since he was first elected to the U.S. Senate.
These town meetings are open to the public. Grassley’s town meeting schedule for Friday, Oct. 9, and Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, is as follows:
Friday, Oct. 9, 2015: 8:30-9:30 a.m….Adair County Town Meeting at The Corner
(284 Public Square) in Greenfield;
Monday, Oct. 12th: 1:15-2:15 p.m….Monona County Town Meeting at the Mapleton Public Library (609 Courtright St.) in Mapleton.
JOHANNE GREEN, 86, of Avoca, died Thu., Oct. 1st, at University Hospital, in Omaha. No services are planned at this time for JOHANNE GREEN. Rieken-Vieth Funeral Home in Oakland is assisting the family.
JOHANNE GREEN is survived by:
Her husband – Harold Green, of Avoca, and her children, Bobette Broadhead and David Green.
Podcasts, Trojan Preview/Who’s Gonna Win?
Chris Parks, Jim Field, Matt Mullenix, and Doug Leonard make their picks on 8 area high school football games.
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Podcasts, Trojan Preview/Who’s Gonna Win?
Chris Parks’ weekly discussion with Atlantic High School Head Football Coach Eric Waldstein as the Trojans prepare for a Week 6 game at Dallas Center-Grimes.
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New leaders were appointed today (Friday) for three of the state’s correctional facilities. The Iowa Board of Corrections today (on Friday) approved the appointment of Sheryl Dahm as Warden of the Clarinda Correctional Facility. She has spent more than two decades counseling prison inmates with substance abuse and mental health issues. The Clarinda facility houses around 800 offenders.
Iowa DOC Director Jerry Bartruff said “Many of those offenders are what we would classify as offenders with special needs…primarily defined as persons with some significant mental health issues or intellectual disabilities.” Dahm fills the vacancy created in Clarinda when Kris Weitzell) was appointed Warden of the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility.
Bartruff recommended William Sperfslage take over as Warden of the Anamosa State Penitentiary, where he got his start 36 years ago. The Anamosa State Pen houses up to 1,000 of the state’s “high risk” offenders, many of whom committed violent crimes. Sperfslage has served as acting warden of the facility for 6 months following the retirement of John Fayram.
Another longtime employee of the Iowa Department of Corrections is now the Warden of the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility. Jay Nelson was appointed to that position today (Friday).Nelson has worked in the office of Offender Services since 2013. Nelson is filling the vacancy created by the retirement of former Mount Pleasant Warden Ron Mullen.
(Radio Iowa)
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be in Iowa next week campaigning at events across the State, and holding community forums about her plans to make health care more affordable, and answer questions on her proposals to create an economy where all Iowans can get ahead and stay ahead. The forums will take place in Davenport, Mount Vernon, and Council Bluffs.
Mrs. Clinton will speak and answer questions at the Westfair Fairgrounds (located at 22984 Highway 6) in Council Bluffs, on Wed., Oct. 7th, beginning at 2:30-p.m. Doors to the event open at 1:30-p.m. 
All of her events are open to the public. You may reserve your place at the following website…. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/events/view/?id=606381.
The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports a Cumberland woman was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison for failing to report funds to the IRS that she embezzled from her employer. 67-year old Kathy Joan Cullen was ordered to serve one year of supervised release following her term of incarceration and was ordered to pay restitution in the amounts of more than 1.38-million dollars ($1,384,374.24 to be exact), to 21st Century Cooperative. Cullen is also required to pay $422,411 to the Internal Revenue Service, and $131,040 to the State of Iowa.
Cullen had previously pleaded guilty to the charge. According to the plea agreement, Cullen embezzled money from her employer, 21st Century Cooperative. Cullen wrote over $1.3 million in checks to herself over a period of six years and deposited the proceeds into a personal bank account. Cullen admitted that she failed to account for the embezzled funds in her 2009 tax return.
The case was investigated by the Cass County, Iowa Sheriff’s Office and the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigations. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
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