Construction Continues For County Projects
(Le Mars) — Although summer is coming to an end, county road construction projects will continue, that according to Plymouth County engineer Tom Rohe. Rohe offered an update of the construction projects to the Plymouth County Board of Supervisors. He says paving is about to begin on three miles between Highway 3 and County road C-38 on county road K-42.
Rohe says, for the most part, construction projects have been on schedule. However, he says there are a few exceptions.
Motorcycle Accident Victim Identified
Sioux City) — SIOUX CITY POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE DRIVER OF A MOTORCYCLE THAT
DIED MONDAY IN A COLLISION WITH A TRUCK.
AUTHORITIES SAY 35 YEAR OLD DONNIE MOHR OF SIOUX CITY WAS THE DRIVER OF THE
MOTORCYCLE THAT STRUCK A TRUCK AT GORDON DRIVE AND DACE.
POLICE SAY MOHR WAS DRIVING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED, RAN A RED LIGHT AND HIT
THE SIDE OF THE TRUCK.
THE IMPACT SENT MOHR THROUGH THE REAR PASSENGER WINDOW OF THE TRUCK INTO ITS
BACK SEAT.
THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK, 31 YEAR OLD LUIS FERNANDEZ OF MIDLAND TEXAS, AND A
FEMALE PASSENGER WERE TRANSPORTED TO MERCY WITH MINOR INJURIES.
THE ACCIDENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
Cedar Falls Teacher Sent To Prison For Stealing Students Medications
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) – A former Cedar Falls high school coach and teacher has
been given 10 days in jail for stealing students’ medications from a locked school
nurse’s office.
Thirty-four-old Douglas Wilkinson was sentenced Monday in Waterloo. The
sentence included one to two years of probation. He’d pleaded guilty to unlawful
possession of prescription drugs and to making a false theft report. He’d been
arrested Feb. 9.
Wilkinson was an English teacher at Cedar Falls High School and a basketball
coach at Holmes Junior High School.
Court records say a security camera caught Wilkinson entering the nurse’s
office at Holmes Junior High on Feb. 5 and stealing the drugs from the medicine
cabinet. He told investigators he was addicted to some prescription medications.
Carroll Students Bully Gay Homecoming Royalty Candidate
CARROLL, Iowa (AP) – The Carroll schools superintendent says administrators are investigating bullying text messages written by students last week about a gay classmate chosen for the homecoming court.
Carroll Community Schools Superintendent Rob Cordes told The Carroll Daily Times Herald (https://bit.ly/2ctWgBs ) that administrators were talking with students included in group text messages and would decide how to respond.
Cordes learned of the messages after they were printed out and left on windshields of the school’s football coach’s car and other players’ vehicles.
Some of those receiving the texts were football players.
Among the texts were comments that the gay student should kill himself.
Cordes says the incident falls within the school’s anti-bullying and anti-harassment policy.
He says some students involved are remorseful and wish they’d acted differently, but “you can’t un-ring the bell.”
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