Police in Shenandoah say no injuries were reported after an SUV struck a building housing the Page County Veterans Affairs Office. The Page West Building at 615 Northwest Road was hit Tuesday afternoon, when the vehicles’ brakes failed on the vehicle, causing it to crash in a wall of the building, and pushing the wall in.
Additional information is currently not available.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports a man from Nebraska faces charges following a traffic stop Tuesday afternoon. Authorities say 41-year-old Brandon Robert Leonard, of Omaha, was arrested for speeding, failure to have a valid driver’s license and fugitive from justice. He was also arrested on a valid Douglas County, NE. warrant for probation violation on the original charge of possession of a controlled substance. He was being held without bond, in the Montgomery County Jail.
Sheriff’s deputies had stopped Leonard’s vehicle on Highway 34 at Stanton, for traveling 93 mph in a 55 mph zone.
(bearcatsports.com) The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced Monday that Ben McCollum of Northwest Missouri State University has been selected as the 2021 NABC Division II Coach of the Year presented by Wilson.
This is the fourth time in the last five years that McCollum has earned the award with three NCAA Division II championships during that period. The Bearcats topped West Texas A&M 80-54 in the NCAA Division II national championship game on Saturday in Evansville, Ind., finishing the season with a 28-2 won-lost record.
Northwest Missouri also won NCAA titles in 2016-17 and 2018-19 and may have garnered another last season with a 31-1 record before the abrupt end of play due to the pandemic. Over the last three seasons, McCollum’s teams have a 97-3 won-lost record and a 159-8 mark over the last five seasons.
A seven-time MIAA coach of the year, McCollum earned the 2019 John McLendon National Coach of the Year award for all divisions. He will receive his award on Friday, April 2, during the virtual AT&T NABC Guardians of the Game Awards Show, which begins at 6:30 pm (EDT).
McCollum surpassed Cal State Bakersfield’s Pat Douglass for the most NABC Division II Coach of the Year awards with four. Douglass captured his awards in 1993, 1994 and 1997. McCollum has been the NABC Coach of the Year in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
IRVING, Texas – David Carr, the 2021 Big 12 and NCAA champion at 157 pounds, has been named the Big 12 Wrestler of the Year, the conference announced on Tuesday. Carr is the first Iowa State wrestler to win this award since the Big 12 started awarding it in 2016.
The Canton, Ohio, native’s 2021 resume included a perfect 20-0 mark on the year, making him the only undefeated wrestler in the Big 12. He posted five wins by major decision, four by fall and four by technical fall for a bonus-rate of 65% on the season. Carr saw 11 of his wins come over opponents ranked in the top-20 nationally.
In accomplishing all of this, Carr was named a finalist for the Dan Hodge Trophy, presented annually to the nation’s most dominant wrestler.
Carr’s march to becoming the Big 12’s top wrestler culminated with a title performance at the NCAA Championships. The two-time All-American claimed the 157-pound crown with a 4-0 decision over Rider’s Jesse Dellavechia in the finals.
At the NCAA Championships, Carr went 5-0 and didn’t yield a single takedown. He outscored his opponents by a 40-10 margin.
With his championship performance, Carr became ISU’s 300th All-American in program history. He is the school’s 50th wrestler to win an individual NCAA Championship and the 70th overall individual champion in school history. He is Iowa State’s first undefeated champion since 2011 (John Reader).
In Tulsa, Carr successfully defended his Big 12 crown taking out Jared Franek in the Big 12 finals by 8-2 decision. Carr became Iowa State’s 57th wrestler in program history to win two or more conference championships.
The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports four recent arrests.
(Radio Iowa) – The two Iowa State University students who died in a boating accident Sunday morning at Little Wall Lake in Hamilton County have been identified. The students are 20-year-old Yaakov Ben-David, a sophomore accounting major from Washington, D-C, and 19-year-old Derek Nanni, a freshman chemistry major from Normal, Illinois. Both died when the boat they were practicing in with the Crew Club overturned in the lake.
I-S-U says the three students who were rescued will not be identified to protect their privacy. A statement from the school says more information won’t be released until the investigation and the university’s internal review is complete. The statement says that could take several weeks.
(Des Moines, IA) Officials with the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) said Tuesday, “Effective immediately, Iowans with barriers to scheduling a vaccine appointment or who do not have internet access who are 65 and older, or 64 and younger with an underlying health condition as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) here, can call 211 or (800) 244-7431 and a vaccine navigator will assist them with scheduling a vaccine appointment. Translation services are available.
Vaccine navigators are available 7 days a week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. by dialing 211 or (800) 244-7431 and selecting the vaccine prompt number 9.”
The IDPH continues to urge all Iowans to continue practicing the mitigation measures that can slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
(Iowa DNR News) – A new federal law goes into effect on April 1, that requires the operator of a boat with an installed Engine Cut-Off Switch (ECOS) to use the ECOS link while operating on all federally navigable waterways. In Iowa, that means the four flood control reservoirs: Coralville, Rathbun, Red Rock and Saylorville; and the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
The link is usually a coiled bungee cord lanyard clipped onto the operator’s person, personal floatation device or clothing and the other end attached to the cut-off switch, but there are plenty of variations on the market, including electronic wireless devices.
When an operator is wearing a link while underway, the engine will cut-off if the operator is separated from the operating area, an occurrence that can happen if the operator is ejected from the vessel or falls within the vessel. The shutdown of the engine is essential for safety reasons. If the operator is ejected from the vessel, the shutdown may prevent the operator from impacting the vessel’s spinning propeller, and may aid the operator in safely returning to the drifting vessel.
The intent of these new laws is to improve safety for all recreational boaters by reducing the potential for propeller injuries to recreational vessel operators, other users of the nation’s waterways, and marine law enforcement officers responsible for responding to runaway boats. Boats with motors less than 3 horsepower are excluded from the law.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has authority to enforce federal law on the federal reservoirs, the U.S. Coast Guard patrol has the authority to enforce federal law on the border rivers.
(Radio Iowa) – The budgets for Iowa high school sports, music and other activities that have taken a hit during the pandemic may get a boost. Many schools had dramatically fewer ticket sales for games, reduced student fees and cancelled fundraisers. A bill ready for debate in the Iowa Senate would let school boards shift money from a district’s general education budget to cover deficits in extracurricular programs or co-curricular activities like speech competitions. The options would be available for last year — when there were no springtime music concerts or track and golf meets — and for the current school year as well as the next.
Senator Tim Goodwin of Burlington, a former teacher and coach, explains the details.
The proposal has already won unanimous approval in the Iowa House. Representative Ras Smith of Waterloo says school activities outside of the classroom are an important part of a student’s experience.
Some of Iowa’s largest schools lost tens of thousands of dollars in ticket sales as attendance at football and basketball games was often limited to parents and siblings of the players. Governor Reynolds set statewide restrictions on fans in the stands in mid-November as Covid cases surged in Iowa, but lifted those limits in December.
(Radio Iowa) – The statewide bicycle ride that was initially designed to compete with RAGBRAI is finding it can’t compete with COVID-19. Iowa’s Ride is being modified and this year will be Iowa’s Ride Weekender. Organizers had hoped to go from Iowa’s eastern border to the west, the opposite direction of RAGBRAI, but several overnight stops have pulled out due to the pandemic.
A post on the Iowa’s Ride Facebook page says it’ll now just be July 16th through the 18th in Eldora. There will be a designated 40 to 50-mile bike route on Saturday and several riding options on Friday and Sunday. RAGBRAI will start the following weekend and runs July 25th through the 31st, pedaling 454 miles from Le Mars to Clinton.
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