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November 28th News

School Board To Meet This Evening

(Le Mars) — The Le Mars Community Board of Education will meet this evening and they will hear a report from Tami Dunn, Dorene Schimek, Lori Carter, and Shane Hessenius regarding co-teaching science and math at the high school. The school
board will discuss the recent state school board convention. The Le Mars Community school board will review the resignation by Katie Pick of her 7th grade volleyball coaching duties. The board will conduct the second reading of Code 504.10R1 as administrative regulations for carrying out Code 504.10 and
consider approval. School superintendent Dr. Todd Wendt will present his recommendations regarding the Auxiliary Services series of the board policy manual for consideration.

 

Sioux City Woman Charged With Arson

(Sioux City) — A Sioux City woman has been charged with arson for allegedly starting a house  fire that left two families homeless.  29 year old Adasa Tafolla is charged with first degree arson, criminal mischief, and assaulting an officer.  Investigators allege Tafolla started the fire in the basement apartment at 417 Main Street at around 2:00 p.m. Friday.  Two juveniles were in the apartment with her, and three other people were home upstairs.  Everyone escaped the fire without injury.  Tafolla is being held in the Woodbury County jail on a $51,000 bond.

 

Police Investigate Stabbing Incident

(Sioux City) — Sioux City Police have a suspect in custody facing charges for a stabbing that took place Saturday afternoon in Cook Park.  Police say two men got into a fight and one man stabbed the other man with a knife.  The victim was taken to Mercy Medical Center.  No names have been released at this time, and the incident remains under investigation.

 

Two Arrested For Theft Of Cash And Credit Card From Vehicle

(Orange City)  — Sioux County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men on Friday morning November 25th.  18 year old Tyrone Steenhoven of Hull and 19 year old Chatzin Renkin of Sioux Center were placed under arrest after a report that on Wednesday, November 23, at 2:23 p.m., someone stole cash and a credit card from a vehicle that was parked at the Cenex
Convenience Store parking lot in Hull. The victim reported that a financial transaction was attempted using the stolen credit card in the early morning hours at a Hull bank ATM.
As a result of the investigation deputies discovered that Steenhoven and Renken entered the victim’s vehicle,
stole the cash and credit card and attempted the bank transaction with the credit card.
Steenhoven and Renken were arrested for theft and trespassing.

 

King Wants To Build A Wall On The U-S/Mexican Border

(Washington) — Republican Congressman Steve King has long been an advocate of building a wall along the southern U.S. border.


That’s because President-elect Donald Trump
made building the wall a cornerstone issue in his campaign. King, as you may recall, ran an earth-moving company before he was elected to congress. On Wednesday, King tweeted a picture of what he described as a “simple, efficient and cost-effect” design for the wall.


King says it won’t take the Republican-led congress long to put the wheels in motion, since there’s already money set aside for a wall in some segments of the border. But King says congress will have to plow more money into the project in January. In 2006, King went on the floor of the U.S. House with a replica of the 12-foot-high border wall he envisioned. This past week, President-elect Trump has suggested he’d agree to a fence rather than a wall in SOME sections of the nearly two-thousand-mile-long border. The federal government has already spent
seven BILLION dollars erecting fencing along more than 600 miles or about one- third of the border.

 

Report Shows Iowa Roads And Highways Are Failing

(Des Moines) — Iowa took a big fall on a report that ranks the 50 states’ highway systems for factors like pavement condition, traffic jams, traffic deaths, deficient bridges and spending per mile. David Hartgen, lead author of the study from the Reason Foundation, says Iowa hasn’t kept up with its highway maintenance and the state’s 95-hundred miles of highways are really showing the wear.


The annual study rates the states in overall highway performance and cost- effectiveness. He says Iowa did poorly in both of those areas, and in many others.


The study finds South Carolina, South Dakota and Kansas have the nation’s most cost-effective state highway systems, while Alaska ranked last, just ahead of New Jersey and Hawaii. Iowa’s fall from 18th to 40th place in one year isn’t a result of the state having “done something wrong,” Hartgen says, but it’s a
matter of choices made by the D-O-T to spend money in some places and not in others.


It’s a common issue in all states, he says, as transportation officials try to balance limited funding for doing much-needed maintenance versus investing in new construction. This is the 22nd Annual Highway Report published by the Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank that has advised four presidential administrations on transportation and infrastructure issues.