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Iowa and Iowa State men meet in Ames

December 11, 2009 By

Iowa and Iowa State meet for the 63rd time this evening. The Cyclones are heavy favorites despite a three game losing skid that has seen their record fall to 6-3. They host an Iowa team that is just 3-6 on the season.

Iowa State coach Greg McDermott says he prepares for an opponent by looking at the times where they played the best. He says the Hawkeyes did that against Virginia Tech. He says the Hawkeyes will try to control tempo and will pick their spots to run and otherwise keep it in a quarter court game.

Cyclone forward Craig Brackins says they will need to adjust if they are unable to push the tempo. He says they need to get back to being good at executing the halfcourt offense.

Iowa coach Todd Lickliter will miss his third game after undergoing surgery last weekend. Assistant coach Chad Walthall has taken over and has head coaching experience. He was the head coach at Loras College. Walthall says once the ball goes up you just try to relax and coach.

Aaron Fuller returned from injury in a Tuesday night loss at UNI and if he can avoid foul trouble will give the Hawks a boost on the front line. The home team has won the last six games in the series which Iowa leads 42-20.

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Cyclone women down Iowa

December 11, 2009 By

The Iowa State Cyclones canned 16 three pointers as they rolled past the Iowa Hawkeyes 85-66 in womens college basketball action in Ames. Kelsey Bolte finished with a game-high 26 points and senior point guard Allison Lacey finished with a triple-double with 19 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds.

Coach Bill Fennelly says they had an amazing performance out of the players and one he thinks the fans enjoyed. Fennelly says the experienced players led the way. He says it was the last time they would get to play against Iowa and he wanted them to understand it and enjoy it, and they did.

Iowa State outrebounded the Hawkeyes who also had 19 turnovers to drop to 5-5 on the season.

Iowa coach Lisa Bluder says it came down to missed box outs and too many turnovers as they outshot them in every category, but Iowa State shot the ball 12 more times.

Bluder says dribble penetration led to the Cyclones three point barrage. She says they have to learn to contain a drive, as Iowa State had 21 assists on their 28 field goals.

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New audit raises new questions about Iowa Workforce Development

December 11, 2009 By

A new state audit raises more questions about past management of the Iowa Workforce Development agency.State Auditor Dave Vaudt says a review of the way the agency redesigned the Unemployment Insurance Tax system raises concerns.

For example, one of the Iowa Workforce Development agency administrators involved in the Central Iowa Employment and Training Consortium scandal outsourced some of the work to that agency — known as CIETC.

“There’s actually a finding in our report here where IWD actually contracted with CIETC to get some I.T. done,” Vaudt says. “But it was primarily done to circumvent some of the hiring procedures that needs to take place.”

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Braley: new regulation of Wall Street overdue

December 11, 2009 By

Congressman Bruce Braley says new regulations for Wall Street are long overdue and he supports a bill that the U.S. House has been debating this week, with a final vote expected sometime today.

“This is a fulfillment of a great deal of effort to try to bring common sense reforms that’s going to hold Wall Street and big banks accountable,” Braley says.

Braley, a Democrat from Waterloo, was on the losing side of votes yesterday which weakened the bill.  Moderate Democrats sided with Republicans and voted against broader regulation of complex derivatives trades. Agricultural futures trades are considered derivatives.

Braley says the bill has other key provisions.  For example, it seeks to forbid future federal government bail-outs like the one the Bush Administration and congress enacted in the fall of 2008. And the bill, in its present form, still imposes some restrictions on derivatives to try to prevent the kind of manipulation that helped spark last year’s financial melt-down.

“It’s an important part of continuing to stabilize the U.S. and global economy and allow us to provide more certainty and transparency in our financial markets,” Braley says. “And I think it’s one that the American people have been waiting a long time for us to complete work on.”  A final vote is expected mid-day today.

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Des Moines mayor in Copenhagen for climate talks

December 11, 2009 By

Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie arrives in Copenhagen, Denmark today where he will represent the capital city and local governments throughout the country as world leaders talk about global climate change.

He says at the end of the day it’s local governments that are going to have to implement and share strategies and they’re all working together to try to do different things. Cownie says local officials have already been taking on the issue. “We’re the ones that have been doing something, especially in the United States up ‘till now while they’ve been trying to figure out in Washington what they can do and what the law says they can do,” Cownie says.

Cownie says a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring the federal government to monitor greenhouse gases as a pollutant will probably create positive changes in the law. However, he says an international agreement is important because climate change is a worldwide problem.

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Storm kept Iowa State Patrol busy helping motorists

December 11, 2009 By

Most Iowans heeded warnings to stay off the roads during this week’s blizzard, but statistics from the State Patrol show law officers were still extremely busy helping stranded motorists. Courtney Greene, a spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Public Safety, says the Patrol has six communications centers.

“On a typical day, the communications centers across Iowa average 766 emergency calls,” Greene said. “That number more than doubled over the last few days.” On Tuesday, dispatchers processed 1,625 emergency calls. Then on Wednesday, they took an additional 2,100 calls. Many of those calls came from motorists who were involved in crashes or were stuck in a snow drift.

“So far, preliminary reports indicate that troopers responded to at least 70 motor vehicle accidents and performed at least 175 motorist assists,” Greene said. The increase in calls for help meant a boost in staffing levels, which presents a challenge for the Patrol. Troopers are required to take five days off, without pay, to help trim 10-percent from the Department of Public Safety’s budget.

Greene says around 200 troopers worked around the clock to cleanup accidents, assist motorists and help close dangerous roadways. One trooper’s patrol car was hit by a passing on Interstate-35 near Webster City. The trooper only sustained minor injuries.

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Man charged with hitting wife over snow shoveling

December 11, 2009 By

A western Iowa man is in trouble for allegedly hitting his wife after she refused to help him shovel snow. Police in Council Bluffs say the unidentified 45-year-old man was arrested Wednesday, on a charge of domestic abuse-serious assault, after he allegedly struck his wife in the head with his chest and tried to pull her out of their home in an attempt to get her to help him shovel snow.

The woman complained of pain to her head and leg after the altercation, but she refused medical treatment. The incident occurred at around 12:30 P.M. According to police, the 44-year-old woman said she was in an argument with her husband about her “not doing work and being lazy around the home.” The husband allegedly admitted to arguing with his wife and putting his “hands on her.”

By Ric Hanson, KJAN, Atlantic

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