The senior forward averaged 18 points and 17 rebounds in two wins. Kragt scored 20 points, hauled down 15 rebounds and blocked six shots in a victory over West Lyon. She scored 16 points and had 19 boards in a win over Central Lyon.
Class 1A: Nicole Trenkamp, Preston
January 26, 2011 By
The senior forward scored 15 points and had 15 rebounds in two victories, Trenkamp scored 18 points and had 15 boards in a win over Calamus-Wheatland. She was nine of 10 from the floor. Trenkamp also scored 12 points and hauled down 14 rebounds in a victory over Northeast Goose Lake.
Eastern Iowa man held in shooting of his girlfriend
January 26, 2011 By
An eastern Iowa man is now held on a one-million dollar bond, charged in the shooting death of his girlfriend in Clinton a few days before Christmas. On Tuesday, the murder charges were filed in Clinton County District Court against 32-year-old Jason Dwayne Tate in the death of 24-year-old Kelsey Sue Stahl.
Police were called to her apartment December 21st on a welfare check and found her body in the apartment. Tate was arrested several days later in Chicago on a charge of a felon in possession of a gun and has been held in the Clinton County jail since that time. In the murder charge affidavit, it is stated that Tate indicated to an acquaintance that he had been in Stahl’s apartment on December 19th and told conflicting versions of how Stahl was shot.
When he was arrested in Chicago on the Iowa warrant of possessing a gun as a felon, according to court documents, he made statements indicating he had shot Stahl and that he didn’t mean to do it and tried to dump her in the garbage but she was too heavy.
By Dave Vickers, KROS, Clinton
Southwest Iowa man sentenced to 50 years for attempted murder
January 26, 2011 By
A southwest Iowa teen, accused in the attempted murder last year of two men in Adams County, was sentenced this week to 50 years in prison. A judge handed down the sentence Monday in Adams County District Court, against 17-year-old Daniel Beardsley.
Beardsley was convicted in connection with the May 17th, 2010, shooting of Brooks resident Matthew Herring and Adams County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Swanson. His sentence included 25-years on each count, with both terms to be served consecutively. Beardsley will also serve two-year consecutive terms on four aggravated misdemeanors charges in connection with shots fired the same day at another four other law enforcement officers, and a 10-year sentence for 2nd degree robbery, in connection with the theft of a vehicle from the Clarinda Academy.
The terms will be served concurrent to the murder sentences. Beardsley will be eligible for parole in about 35 years. He currently resides at the State Correctional Facility at Oakdale. The incident which lead to his arrest began, after Beardsley, who was riding in the rear of a Clarinda Academy vehicle, assaulted a fellow academy student, and the vehicle’s driver.
Following the assault, he stole the vehicle and drove it to Brooks, where he shot Herring twice in the arm and once in the torso, after he arrived home early from work. When Deputy Swanson arrived on the scene, he suffered minor injuries as both he and his patrol car where fired upon. Beardsley peacefully surrendered to authorities after a three-hour standoff.
By Ric Hanson, KJAN, Atlantic
Work moving along on Iowa Transportation Museum
January 26, 2011 By
Work is well underway on the renovation of the site of the future Iowa Transportation Museum in Grinnell. Museum director Chuck Brook says people might not be able to see it from the outside, but workers are hard at it inside the old Spaulding manufacturing company building.
He says there’s a backhoe and skidloader inside the building right now and a lot of activity. Brook says the first work involves shoring up the foundation of the structure. Brook says they are digging in under the old foundation to firm it up as the original foundation was only about two feet down.
Workers are putting concrete under the old foundation, which he says is a slow process. The building will house the administration of the museum that includes a conference facility on the top floor, displays for the “Transportation Heroes” on the main floor, and the offices and mechanical facilities in the basement. Once the foundation work is completed, they’ll work on the interior structure of the building.
Brook says they have steel beams in to replace the old wooden beams and wooden flood. He says people remember how the old building with the wooden floor would shake when they danced, but it won’t shake once the structure work is done. Once the administration building is completed, the next phase is building a glass atrium that will connect the building to the longer building to the south.
The first phase administration building is scheduled to be completed in November of this year and then the second phase will rehabilitate the south building. The updated south building will house the bulk of the museum’s exhibits. The project is expected to cost $4.2-million to complete.
Find out more about the museum on-line at:www.iowatransportationmuseum.com.
By Chris Johnson, KGRN, Grinnell
Iowa veterinarian helps fight rabies in Afghanistan
January 26, 2011 By
A veterinarian from eastern Iowa is part of an effort to reduce rabies deaths among children in Afghanistan. Army Major Loren Adams, of New Liberty, is serving with the Iowa National Guard’s 734th Agribusiness Development Team in east-central Afghanistan’s Kunar Province.
Adams is working with local veterinarians to trap and vaccinate dogs against rabies. Speaking by cell phone from Afghanistan, Adams says many kids are bitten while playing with rabid dogs, but parents often don’t realize what’s happened until the children get sick.
“And that’s when the parents go looking for health care and at that point, there’s nothing that can be done,” he says. “There’s a great lack of health care in these undeveloped countries.” Adams says the Afghan government is also working on a similar rabies eradication program. He says public health experts recommend vaccinating at least 70% of the dogs in a community to control the spread of the disease.
The World Health Organization reports more than 55,000 people die of rabies each year worldwide, with most of those deaths in developing countries.
DOT director doesn’t expect gas tax increase to be consider this year
January 26, 2011 By
Iowa Department of Transportation Director Nancy Richardson doubts the legislature will consider raising the gasoline tax to fund road repairs this session. “I (told) folks during the summer I didn’t expect there would be a serious debate of a gas tax increase this session for a couple of reasons,” Richardson said.
For one, she says, an influx of new legislators will need time to study the issue. Secondly, Richardson says the DOT will have updated information next year about the need for road and bridge repair. The last study of Iowa’s transportation infrastructure concluded that addressing the most critical needs would require more than $250 million a year.
Richardson says a new five year study is underway, and it may show an even greater need. “With the bad weather that we’ve had, both summer and winter, for the last three or four years, the gap may even be wider,” Richardson said. “Our roads have taken a beating with every severe winter and every floody summer.” Many lawmakers have predicted that a gas tax hike is inevitable.
Richardson says next year looks better for a serious discussion of such a proposal. Iowa’s motor fuel tax, which has remained unchanged since 1989, raises about one-point-two billion dollars a year.
