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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Cornell gets new basketball coach

by admin on August 26, 2009

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Coming off a season in which it posted a school record for wins the Cornell College basketball program has a new head coach. Chad Murray spent the past eight seasons as an assistant coach, the last five at North Central College in Illinois. The cupboard is not bare.

Murray replaces Mike DeGeorge, who resigned after leading the Rams to a 21-7 mark and a spot in the NCAA division three tournament.

Murray says it’s similar to the situation he’s been in before where they had a good record, but lost their starting back court and he feels that experience will help him this time. Murray says the job is attractive because the college wants to be competitive in athletics.

Murray says that was important in the interview process, to ask a lot of questions and determine the school’s long-term goal for athletics. Cornell will return three starters from last year’s team. 

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Drake opens soccer season at Indiana tournament

by admin 08/26/09 4:21 PM

Coming off its most successful season ever the Drake men’s soccer team opens on Thursday night with a game against seventh rated Indiana. It’s part of the National Soccer Festival in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and will include seven teams ranked in the national polls.
Drake opens the season ranked 21st after a 13-5-1 [...]

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Cedar Rapids school employee charged with theft

by admin 08/26/09 3:41 PM

A Cedar Rapids school employee is charged with taking thousands of dollars in school funds. Cedar Rapids police say 42-year-old Jamie May was charged with first degree theft after an investigation into the possible embezzlement of 250-thousand dollars of school funds during the 2008-2009 school year.
The school district website says May works [...]

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Defense wants to test fairness of trial for Coralville woman

by admin 08/26/09 3:38 PM

The attorney for an eastern Iowa woman who is accused slitting the throats of her two sons, killing one and injuring the other, wants her trial moved out of Buchanan County. Michelle Kehoe of Coralville faces one count of first degree murder and another count of attempted murder for the alleged knife attack last [...]

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Game seeks to get students interested in public health

by admin 08/26/09 3:37 PM

A D-V-D-based game developed by the University Hygienic Laboratory will soon be going out to thousands of schools in Iowa and nationwide. The game, "Did You See That," is designed to get students in middle and high school — and in college — interested in the public health field.
Beth Hochstedler, the lab’s [...]

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State requests its own mental evaluation of Mark Becker in shooting of AP coach

by admin 08/26/09 12:02 PM

The state of Iowa is requesting it’s own mental evaluation of the Parkersburg man accused of killing Aplington-Parkersburg football coach Ed Thomas.
A spokesman for Iowa’s Attorney General said Tuesday he expected the state to request a second review of the mental status of Mark Becker after Becker’s attorney filed paperwork saying [...]

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John & Chet Culver, Tom Harkin express condolences to Kennedys

by admin 08/26/09 11:22 AM

Prominent Iowa Democrats are formally expressing their sympathies to the Kennedy family on the death of Senator Edward Kennedy.
Former U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator John Culver — father of Governor Chet Culver — met Ted Kennedy in 1950, when the two were college freshman at Harvard and the two maintained a friendship [...]

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