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UNI coach wants team to stay hungry

October 26, 2010 By

U.N.I. coach Mark Farley wants the Panthers to remember what got them to this point. U.N.I. overcame a sluggish start to the season and now have sole possession of the Missouri Valley lead with a 3-1 mark heading into this week’s visit to Youngstown State. Farley says the team has to stay hungry and understand how they are positioned and how much football is left to play.

Farley says improved special teams play has been a big factor in their successes. He says the special teams play requires effort and that’s what they have had and that is pleasing to him.

Junior quarterback Terrell Rennie was named the national player of the week after a big game against Illinois State. Farley says Rennie has plenty of help up front. Farley says the offensive line has gotten much better the last two weeks and he says they have gotten better at communicating as the season goes on.

By Elwin Huffman KOEL Oelwein

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Turning on the furnace should not hurt as much in the pocketbook

October 26, 2010 By

Iowans will be switching on their furnaces as temperatures dip into the 20s and 30s the next few nights, the coldest of the season so far. Mark Reinders, a spokesman for MidAmerican Energy, says Iowans’ heating bills for the months ahead should be about the same as last year, as natural gas supplies are stable.

Reinders says, “We are projecting that natural gas prices, which is the huge part of the energy bill for most MidAmerican customers, are going to be very similar to last year’s winter, if not slightly lower, based on the prices that are out there right now and projected for the next couple weeks.” Reinders says MidAmerican, which is Iowa’s largest utility, has a large portion of its winter supply of natural gas locked in.

“Going into the heating season, we try to get about 65% of our projected natural gas needs for all of our customers in either locked-in hedge pricing or underground storage,” Reinders says. As of October first, he says they were again at 65% stockpiled for this season. He says natural gas prices are stable because there have been no major disruptions in the supply system.

“The weather has cooperated,” Reinders says. “There hasn’t been a lot of the natural gas disasters that we have had, especially hurricanes. Hurricanes and bad weather down in the Gulf of Mexico region impacts natural gas supplies. The last couple of years, they have not had a lot of hurricane damage which keeps the supply flowing fairly steadily up here to the Midwest.”

MidAmerican serves about 500,000 natural gas customers in Iowa and Nebraska.

By Jerry Oster, WNAX, Yankton

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Audits says majority of film office credits improperly awarded

October 26, 2010 By

A report released today by the state auditor shows a majority of the tax credits issued under a now defunct film program were improperly approved. Auditor Dave Vaudt says his office reviewed the 22 projects that were issued tax certificates. Vaudt says nearly $32-million of tax credit certificates were issued, but only $6.4 million were properly issued.

Vaudt says the director of the film office at the time did not verify that the requests from the film companies. Vaudt says the department didn’t go through any procedures to verify the validity of the expenditures made by the companies, so things that should not have been part of the tax credits were included. Vaudt says it was a long process as there were 14 different projects that had to be reviewed.

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Police release the name of man shot to death in Boone store

October 26, 2010 By

Boone police have released the identity of the man shot and killed at the Boone Hy-Vee Monday morning. Boone police say the Hy-Vee employee with the knife was 29-year-old Gerald Beals the second of Boone.

He was confronted by officer Rod Thompson, a seven-and-a-half year veteran of the police force. Thompson ordered Beals to put his knife down, but Beals ignored the officer and continued to advance toward Thompson. Thompson used his tazer, but Beals did not stop, and Thompson pulled his gun and fired multiple rounds at Beals.

Beals was pronounced dead at the scene. The State Medical Examiner’s Office in Ankeny is performing an autopsy on Beals.

By Jim Turbes, KWBG, Boone

Filed Under: Crime & Courts

Romney helps Iowa GOP kick-off get-out-the-vote effort

October 26, 2010 By

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney helped the Republicans who’re running for statewide office kick-off a get-out-the-vote tour of the state. 

Romney spoke to a crowd of about 200 this morning in Cedar Rapids. “There’s something very powerful going on in the country,” Romney said. “You recognize that there’s going to be a remarkable rejection of Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the liberal policies you see right here in Iowa.”

Romney, who spoke for a little less than eight minutes, told the crowd liberals are trying to “smother that spirit of America,” and citizens across the country are responding.

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Anamosa man sentenced to 40 years on child porn charge

October 26, 2010 By

An Anamosa man who videotaped himself sexually abusing an 8-year old girl will spend four decades in prison. Thirty-seven-year-old Christopher Heggebo pleaded guilty in July to one count of producing child pornography and one count of possessing child porn.

Heggebo admitted that in January he engaged in sexually explicit conduct with an eight-year-old girl and video-taped the activity at his home. He also admitted possessing pornographic images of a 10-year-old girl on his cell phone. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Linda Reade on Monday sentenced Heggebo to the statutory maximum of 40 years in prison.

Filed Under: Crime & Courts

High wind warning in place for much of the state

October 26, 2010 By

The temperature is dropping and the winds are picking up as much of Iowa is under a High Wind Warning. Meteorologist Rod Donovan at the National Weather Service says the harsh winds will be howling all day and into the evening hours.

He says gusts are already between 25 and 35 miles an hour with the winds increasing this afternoon when gusts may reach 60 miles an hour. A Tornado Watch was issued overnight for parts of eastern Iowa. Donovan says Iowans need to take the proper precautions in this sort of weather.

Motorists in high-profile vehicles should take particular care as the strong winds could push them right off the road. He says any loose items in our yards should also be brought inside or they may be — gone with the wind. Donovan says strong winds are also expected to continue tomorrow, while low temperatures tomorrow night may be the coldest of the season so far — in the upper 20s and lower 30s statewide.

By Pat Powers, KQWC, Webster City

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