The senior guard averaged nearly 24 points and 14 rebounds in two wins. Mouw scored 30 points, including 12 of 19 from the field, and grabbed 17 rebounds in a victory over West Lyon. He connected on 59 percent of his shots for the week.
Class 2A: Trey Sathoff, Pekin (Packwood)
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The sophomore guard averaged 25 points and more than ten rebounds in a pair of victories. Sathoff scored 26 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in a win over Lone Tree. He also scored 24 points in a victory over Mediapolis.
Class 3A: Brandon Scherff, Denison-Schleswig
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The senior center averaged 17 points and 14 rebounds in four games. Scherff scored 15 points and grabbed 20 rebounds in a victory over Harlan. He also had a 20 point, 17 rebound effort in a win over Shenandoah.
Class 4A: Gage Heffernan, Dubuque Hempstead
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The junior forward averaged nearly 14 points and more than ten rebounds in three games. Heffernan scored 18 points, including eight of 13 shooting, hauled down 12 rebounds and blocked two shots in a victory over Badger-Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Des Moines PD releases 9-1-1 tape from alleged officer assault
February 9, 2010 By
The Des Moines Police Department has released the 9-1-1 tape of a call that led to the arrest of an officer last Friday for allegedly trying to sexually assault a 22-year-old woman in his patrol car while on duty. Thirty-five year old Maynard Richardson is charged with assault with intent to commit sexual abuse and non-felonious misconduct in office. The female victim of the alleged assault called police about two hours after the incident.
The dispatcher asked the woman what type of report she wanted to make and she said “An officer tried to assault me.” The dispatcher asked if the officer was from Des Moines and she said “yes” and said it was an attempted sexual assault. The female caller is than asked if she can identify the officer.
She responds that it was officer Maynard Richardson. A police department spokesman says Richardson met the victim on another call and later attempted to assault the woman, who was not injured. Police are not saying why the woman went with the officer and what led up to the alleged assault.
Richardson, who has been a patrolman in Des Moines since December of 2008, is on paid administrative leave while the department investigates the charges.
(Photo courtesy of DM PD)
Bill would clear alcohol offenses from record of those under 20
February 9, 2010 By
The Iowa House has passed a bill that would help 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds eventually clear their record of an alcohol-related charge. Representative Nathan Willems, a Democrat from Lisbon, calls the charge of “possession of alcohol under legal age” a “PAULA.”
“So what this bill does is that it requires two years of ‘good behavior’ for an 18-, 19- or 20-year-old who receives a PAULA, at which time they can ask a court to expunge the record of their conviction,” Willems says. The bill sets up the same process for erasing charges against 18-, 19- or 20-year-olds who’ve been guilty of possessing, buying or trying to buy alcohol before they’re legally able to do so at the age of 21.
According to Willems, it makes sense to erase an alcohol charge if the young adult doesn’t have any other run-ins with the law. “We would like these young people to not be hindered in their future endeavors,” Willems says, “applying for future employment or for their applications to graduate school.” The bill passed the House without a dissenting vote. It now goes to the Senate for consideration.
Grassley says jobs bill should include extension of biodiesel credit
February 9, 2010 By
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he will insist that any jobs bill introduced in Congress should include an extension of a $1 per gallon tax credit for biodiesel which was allowed to expire at the end of 2009. “The sooner the tax credit’s restored, the sooner biodiesel related facilities and jobs can be saved from going under,” Grassley said in a conference call with reporters this morning.
Most of Iowa’s 15 biodiesel plants have closed in recent weeks because of the lapsed tax subsidy. The Senate is scheduled to debate a jobs bill this week. Grassley says he’s concerned with other legislative proposals which he believes are “hostile” to small business development and job creation.
“Particularly coming from these looming tax increases and more regulations and mandates like the cap and trade climate bill and health care legislation that’s piling so much on business, particularly small business, that they don’t know what’s coming out of Washington…making them reluctant to expand and hire people,” Grassley said.
Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has been working with Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, on creating bipartisan jobs legislation. “The legislation can not become a spending bill like the stimulus legislation did last year. The public should and will reject that sort of an approach,” Grassley said. “In fact, last year, my phone calls were about 83% against the stimulus bill that I voted against.”
Grassley says he slept in his Capitol Hill office last night so he could be there for the start of business today. A blizzard pounded the Washington D.C. area over the weekend — shutting down the federal government on Monday.
