From the monthly archives:

November 2005

The Morningside football team is two victories away from a national championship. The third rated Mustangs can take another step on Saturday when they visit second ranked St. Francis of Indiana in the NAIA semifinals. Morningside moved to 12-0 on the season with a lopsided victory over Evangel of Missouri in last weekend’s quarterfinal round.

Morningside coach Steve Ryan says his team is feeling very good about the playoffs and the way the season has gone. He says they’re also exited about playing the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year to see where they are at right now.

The Mustangs lost at St. Francis 53-3 in last year’s opening round but Ryan likes their chances much better this time. He says they probably have a much better football team and the team has grown. Ryan says they felt like they limped into the playoffs last year, but this year feel good about the way they’re playing right now. Top ranked Carroll of Montana hosts fourth ranked Sioux Falls in the other semifinal.

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Republican Senator blames Democrats for deaths of children

by admin 11/30/05 6:18 PM

A Republican Senator is accusing Democrats in the Senate who oppose the death penalty of causing the deaths of children who’re the victims of a kidnapping or sexual abuse. Republican Senator Larry McKibben of Marshalltown made his comments this (Wednesday) morning during a statehouse news conference.
McKibben says there’s a “de facto death sentence for children” [...]

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Effort on to find people lost in foreign wars

by admin 11/30/05 5:52 PM

Blood samples are being collected today (Wednesday) in Des Moines from people who may have lost loved ones in the war in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mary Ellen Barber, who works in the international services division in the Central Iowa Chapter of the American Red Cross, says dozens of people who moved to Iowa from [...]

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Farm Bureau discusses education

by admin 11/30/05 5:45 PM

The annual meeting of the Iowa Farm Bureau continues through tomorrow in Des Moines. Today (Wednesday), State Education Department Director Judy Jeffrey spoke about rural schools and education.
Eastern Iowa dairy farmer Craig Lang, who’s president of the Farm Bureau, says that included the prospect of closing small schools with dwindling student bodies. [...]

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Waverly public utility wants to use more renewable energy

by admin 11/30/05 5:42 PM

Waverly Light and Power, the first public power system in the midwest to own and operate a wind turbine, wants to make renewable energy the source for 20 percent of its overall needs by 2020.
General Manager Glenn Cannon says the trustees who voted unanimously at their annual retreat aren’t limiting the effort to [...]

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Denison woman charged with stealing from government

by admin 11/30/05 5:41 PM

Denison police have arrested a woman and charged her with stealing from a government agency. Forty-two-year-old Beth Young of Denison, a former employee of the Region 12 Council of Governments is accused of using a credit card that was issued to the agency and then using the card to purchase more than one thousand dollars [...]

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Chamber of Commerce execs want Vision Iowa revived

by admin 11/30/05 5:37 PM

Executives from the chambers of commerce in Iowa’s 17 largest cities are asking lawmakers to revive a state grant program that helped launch big-scale projects around the state.
The Iowa Chamber Alliance is asking the 2006 legislature to re-start the “Vision Iowa” program that gave state grants to projects like a Mississippi River museum [...]

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