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Ten months after the floods of 99, some local victims say the wait for help has gone on
far too long.
Also, the man accused of taking sexually suggestive pictures of little girls at school received
his sentence.
Plus, it will cost us Hawkeye fans more to watch football and basketball games next year.
And a growing corridor community slams the brakes on being like every other town, all
next on Ten of Ten.
News Channel 2 Ten at Ten starts now.
The floods of 99 were a soggy nightmare for thousands of eastern Iowans washed out of
their homes.
Almost a year later, some are still working to put their lives back together.
Tonight, we will see how.
Good evening everyone and thanks for choosing KGAN News Channel 2.
You probably remember how the Volga and the Turkey rivers raged for days in Clayton County,
destroying dozens of homes in towns like Elkhort, Littleport and Volga.
It is wondered the federal government announced it would spend more than $2 million to buy
43 homes and businesses near the Volga River so residents could then move to higher ground.
Tonight, flood victims gathered in Volga to learn about the buyout program and the option
of moving their homes to higher ground versus selling the home to the government.
KGAN News Channel 2's Jim Grayway has just gotten back from Volga.
He joins us with live news now from our Cedar Rapids newsroom.
And Jim, it's hard to imagine being displaced for almost a year because of these floods.
Well, Brian, the people of Volga never imagined it either until it happened.
It's kind of like a nightmare that never ends, although now the end may be in sight.
Much of Volga remains a ghost town, 10 months after the river gushed out everywhere, devastating
more than 40 homes.
Flood victims like Kathy Haynes still have a hard time facing the destruction that Mother
Nature inflicted.
See, this is where it was up to in here.
Haynes and her neighbors expect to get back the full value of their homes, plus up to
$10,000 in moving expenses.
It's a combination of federal and state money that in many residents' minds has been too
long in coming.
One person will say one thing, another person will say another thing, and then they kind
of get discouraged on not knowing what's going to happen.
To clear up the confusion, state authorities met with flood victims here to show them how
to apply for relief funds.
It was acknowledged that 10 months is a long time for people to go without permanent homes
and blame a shortage of federal money.
The Iowar Chi management division has had to work with a lot of other agencies to try
to gather up enough funding just to do a project like the Volga project.
And still, the money will by no means cover all the damage.
Beyond the fear that half of the washed out families may never return to Volga, the flood
has left other potentially permanent scars on this town.
For example, this bridge, which at one time carried half of the traffic from one side
of the river to the other, may never be repaired.
Several downtown businesses also sit abandoned and hopeless.
The river may be back to normal, but that's about all.
The Volga homeowners learned tonight that they should finally get their money within the
next few months, Brian.
Jim, they get the money, though.
Where are they going to rebuild?
Well, some will rebuild on the same property, but others are preparing to build homes in
a new subdivision the city is building up on a hill.
Imagine that.
All right.
Jim Grayway, live on our Cedar Rapids Newsroom.
We're going to follow that story for you and let you know what happens.
Amy?
Former school volunteer Roland Thompson admitting possessing sexually explicit pictures of little
girls and will pay for it with the next year of his life.
A federal judge today sentenced the husband of a retired Lucas Elementary school teacher
to serve a year and a day in a medical prison in southern Minnesota.
After that, it's three months of home confinement and three years of supervised release.
Before announcing the sentence, the judge heard testimony about Thompson's failing health.
Thompson told reporters after the sentencing that he is truly sorry for what he did at
Lucas Elementary School.
He and his wife face state charges in connection with the incident.
A Mount Vernon teacher accused of sending obscene photos to a student over the Internet
will go on trial this spring.
26-year-old Daniel Kolch, a science teacher at Mount Vernon High School, is accused of
sending the pictures to one of his female students last fall.
Kolch was suspended from his job and is scheduled to stand trial on May 1st in Lynn County District
Court.
A female Cedar Rapids firefighter with a history of controversy has been fired again.
Peggy Clay was fired in 1994 in part for disobeying orders, then appealed to regain her job.
She walked off the job for a time in 1998.
The city considered that unpaid leave and now Clay has been fired again.
The city says in a letter that Clay violated sick leave policy and told her family members
to lie about her whereabouts when she called in.
Clay says she will again appeal to the Cedar Rapids Civil Service Commission.
A cigarette tossed in a trash can caused this morning's fire at a popular Iowa City bar
and restaurant.
The fire at the Sports Column reported around 3.30 this morning.
Investigators say the damage here could have been a lot worse, except a broken water line
in the basement of the building kept the fire under control.
Damage estimated at about $50,000.
Twenty residents were evacuated from upstairs apartments because of this fire, but no one
was hurt.
One firefighter says today's fire is similar to the one that destroyed Mondo's restaurant
a year ago this month, but this time the broken water line made a huge difference.
President Clinton nominates an Iowan to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals.
The stories new at 10 tonight.
Bonnie Campbell of Des Moines was Iowa's Attorney General, a private attorney, and is now Director
of the Violence Against Women office in the U.S. Justice Department.
President Clinton nominated Campbell to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dozens of University of Iowa students raised their voices and they raised their picket
signs today against sweatshop labor.
KGAN News Channel 2's Kevin Carrizo has this story from the pedestrian mall in Iowa City.
These demonstrators want the University of Iowa to take a stand against sweatshop labor.
Our goals are not only to stop this, but to empower the workers in the factories in Salvador,
Honduras, Guatemala, Central America, and so on.
The protesters fear University of Iowa apparel is being made in these countries under sweatshop
conditions.
Some theatrics were even used to help illustrate the point.
It's an issue of the heart really for me.
It can't continue.
The students have marked a date for the University asking that the school change its policy regarding
apparel by no later than March 10th.
That would involve changing the school's association from the Fair Labor Association, which students
say covers up sweatshop abuses, to the Workers' Rights Consortium.
If they do not comply, we'll review it as an organization and decide where to go from
there.
Protesters later took their case to the Athletic Board of Control, which will eventually make
a policy recommendation to the University.
In places like the University of Iowa, there is a lot we can do and joining the Workers'
Rights Consortium I think is really the first step.
A step these protesters hope the University takes soon.
Kevin Carrizzo, KGAN News Channel 2, Iowa City.
The University of Iowa says it will send a representative to the Workers' Rights Consortium
Conference to be held in New York.
That's scheduled for April 7th.
Ticket prices to University of Iowa football and basketball games are going up for some,
but not all, Hawkeye fans.
Details are new at 10 tonight.
The University says the price of season football tickets go up $6 for the general public and
University staff.
However, student season ticket prices and individual game ticket prices remain the same,
except for a $6 increase for the Iowa State game.
Also basketball tickets will increase by a dollar a game.
You can see the impact on season prices on your screen.
Iowa ticket prices, even after the increase, remain in the lower half of ticket prices
at Big Ten schools.
You know, personally I'm trying not to talk about this nice weather, hoping it will hang
around.
I think the more I talk about it, the quicker it will go away.
We'll hold that thought.
Dave, are you talking about it?
He has more on your first look outside.
Well, Brian needs to talk a bit more because we have some cool weather in the forecast
for a while, but then it starts to warm up just a bit.
In fact, it warms up a lot later in our extended outlook.
But we're missing out tonight on rain.
This rain is over Kansas and Missouri, and it is not moving our way because we have cool
high pressure already in place here.
So only one weather system at a time, partly cloudy skies tonight with clouds basically
south of Cedar Rapids, 24 below.
Tomorrow, a mixture of sudden clouds and temperatures running about 47.
Well, that's one of our cooler days.
We'll tell you about warmer days later on.
Powerball fever is building once again because we're all losers.
Well, actually because there was no winner in last night's $107 million drawing, driven
by sales exceeding 500 tickets a minute.
The Powerball jackpot up to $150 million.
Lottery Commissioner Ed Stanek says he is seeing higher per capita sales right now than
ever before because of this.
Saturday's jackpot will be the fifth largest in the world.
And if you're a golf fanatic like Brian, there's some good news tonight.
As long as the weather holds, all Cedar Rapids public golf courses are open for business.
The golf department says today is probably the earliest opening day on record.
These shots are from Twin Pines Golf Course in northeast Cedar Rapids.
You may recall that the Jones Park Golf Course opened during a January thaw because that
course is scheduled to close in the middle of the summer for a complete renovation.
No, because of prior commitments, I was not out this morning.
You were not, but this weekend.
This weekend is a whole different story.
Oh yeah.
That's KGA and Senate 10 for this Thursday night with a lot more ahead.
Charges filed after this week's first greater shooting in Michigan, but not against the
shooter.
And later, why a growing community in the heart of the Cedar Rapids Iowa City corridor
charts its future without fast food and chain stores.
We are Your News Channel 2 with Amy Johnson, Brian Roach, Dave Towns, StormTrack 2 forecast,
and Chris Miller Sports.
How can you get home?
They're not looking for scapegoats, they're looking for justice for a slain girl.
That's how Michigan prosecutors explain their decision to prosecute an adult for this week's
schoolhouse shooting.
The story tops our eye on the world tonight.
A Michigan man can expect to face a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Police say they believe he had the stolen gun that a six-year-old boy used to kill a
classmate.
They say the man lived in the same rooming house where the boy found the loaded gun.
President Clinton says a law to license gun owners the way drivers are licensed is long
overdue.
Pennsylvania police say it appears a black man accused in yesterday's deadly shooting
rampage near Pittsburgh was targeting only whites.
They say they found anti-white and anti-Jewish writings in his apartment, five white men
were shot, two of them died.
Authorities say they plan to bring hate crime charges against the man.
Hundreds of people marched around Justice Department headquarters today demanding a federal
investigation into the death of Amadou Diallo.
New York City police shot the unarmed West African immigrant to death last year, but were
found not guilty of all charges last week.
An environmental warning tonight, the world's coral reefs are dying.
The Center of Marine Conservation today announced a plan to create marine reserves in 20 percent
of the nation's waters.
Pollution, overfishing, coral collecting, damage from ships, and global warming are
blamed for killing reefs around the world.
Our list of low gas prices continues to dwindle as stations raise their prices to meet the
competition.
Since six o'clock tonight, as a matter of fact, we have learned that the price of the
music station in Cedar Falls jumped 15 cents a gallon.
Our last report, the Luena gas station was selling fuel at $1.36 and the Ioco in Volga
charging $1.41 for a gallon of gas.
If you know of a gas price that's equal to or lower than these, email us at gaspricesatkjan.com
or call this number 3959060 extension 415.
Later in this newscast, where people bought gas for 14 cents a gallon today.
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Her bathroom is purple and red.
For Stacey's it's brown and tan and blue.
See?
That's fun.
We compliment each other.
We just compliment each other.
The home fashions have really changed over the last year.
I mean, there's the bright colors for her house.
There's the more muted colors for my house.
These colors are gorgeous.
Even the quality is a lot better.
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Ely is the fastest growing town in Lynn County, but town leaders are saying no thanks to fast
food outlets and chain stores.
As part of our corridor coverage tonight, Wade Wagner reports on Ely's ambitious plan
to restore its main street with the help of some new entrepreneurs.
The colors are different.
Back then all these buildings were just black and white.
Ely is going back to the future restoring main street one building at a time.
That idea got the plans out of the centennial book of what it looked like in 1897 and then
I went ahead and designed it back out again.
Mark and Kathleen Banowitz have sold their five pizza places in Colorado to move back
home and open this cafe.
The biggest reason we moved back here, one, was the school system and two, was the work
ethic of the people in the Midwest.
Instead of just being a bedroom for Cedar Rapids, we want to be our own town.
New Ely entrepreneurs want to work with long time residents like Harger who've started
the restoration process.
In fact, we have a meeting this evening to discuss what type of renovations we want to
do and maintain some of the historical value Ely has had over the years.
I'm not necessarily a history nut, but I am suddenly just completely involved.
This is actually the way it looked in 1897.
Banowitz believes a nostalgic stroll and benches will be back on main street.
He envisions a new ice cream parlor, a barber and a doctor.
Put some character back in.
There's a lot of potential in these small towns in Iowa.
You just have to have people that are willing to sacrifice a little bit of time and money
to bring them back up to par again.
And all of a sudden we're in a position to really get something done and to effect change.
And as new neighborhoods pop up in towns like Ely, these folks are confident the old main
streets will come alive.
Wade Wagner, KGAN News Channel 2, Ely.
A 12 member development committee is working with the Ely City Council to draft a plan
for restoring the rest of main street.
Dave, our weather's looking pretty nice for the weekend, right?
Yeah, it warms up for the weekend and even next week as well.
We'll tell you about the warm up next.
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Hello, I'm Dave Towne.
On live we'll see you at KGAN.com right now and Channel 2 as well.
We're looking at a storm system to our south and southwest spreading clouds our way but
no moisture is moving this way because we have a very dry air mass across Iowa and
a high pressure area that's here kind of blocking the storm system from moving our way.
This is kind of a potent storm.
In fact, in the back side of it there are some snow areas that are falling and some
showers and thunderstorms on the strong side over sections of Oklahoma and Texas right
now.
But for us tomorrow morning we just expect temperatures in the 20s.
Kind of a mixture of sun and clouds.
No big deal tomorrow.
Won't be one of our warmer mornings, won't be one of our cooler ones either.
As we check out our maps here for the next 24 to 48 hours we'll have that area of low
pressure moving away from us.
This little trough of low pressure approaches but a general trend toward warming temperatures
in the forecast through the weekend and into next week.
In fact, temperatures could approach the 60s as we move into early next week.
But those temperatures today only in the 40s but still running about 5 to 10 degrees above
normal.
No precipitation today after lows this morning in the 20s.
Now Weather Watchers said 40s today.
Karen Becker from Fayette with a reading of 44.
Looks like 45 for Bo Hensley at Palo.
Other temperatures in the 40s and 50s today include Beverly Jacobs at Sigourney where
it was 44.
Right now it's 32 in Cedar Rapids.
Skies are partly cloudy.
No rain reported across Iowa at this time but if you are traveling south you'll run
into some there with some heavy rain possible over sections of Missouri and it looks like
we'll stay dry here through the weekend.
Partly cloudy, our forecast for tonight with thicker clouds to the south of Iowa City.
Temperatures in the lower to middle 20s.
Northeast winds at 10 to 15.
Now tomorrow's forecast is partly sunny with readings around 47 to 48.
About 10 degrees above normal again with light winds.
And the outlook in the Weekly Planner says temperatures just start to warm here.
As we check out Saturday at 56, 59 on Sunday, 62 on Monday.
Wet weather system should be in the area by Tuesday and into Wednesday and it may be cold
enough the system may end as snow sometimes Wednesday night or into Thursday.
59 there on Sunday, that's good enough for me to golf.
I was going to say golfing weather.
I have a lot of heavy sweaters.
Ooh, he'll love that.
Coming up next in sports, the Hawkeye women are in the Big Ten Tournament and Chris will
have more on boys high school basketball playoff.
Sports is next.
KGAN News Channel 2 continues with stock market information from your News Channel 2 and Northwest
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Anjali's 20-year relationship with the University of Iowa came to an end officially tonight
as her Hawks lost to Northwestern, which ended their 10-game losing streak.
News Channel 2's Jim Walker has more from Indianapolis.
The Iowa women were looking to avenge a first-round loss last year and a regular season loss this
year to Northwestern.
With Anjali's resignation on Monday, would the Hawks be emotionally ready?
At first it didn't appear so.
Wildcat Dana Leonard would hit a couple of shots for a 10-3 lead.
Leah Magner played well tonight, scoring three of her 16 here, and we were tied at 12.
Northwestern went back up by four late in the first until Carrick and Swigler ran the
floor for two points.
She finished with eight, and Iowa trailed by six at the half.
The second half went back and forth.
Sola native Lindsey Meader would hit a crucial three to tie it at 33.
But the Wildcats would answer, taking a 53-45 lead late in the game.
Freshman Tracy Shrupp would get a much-needed three-point play to make it a five-point game.
Lindsey led the Hawkeyes with 23 tonight.
She hit two big baskets near the end, but Northwestern beats Iowa and ends Anjali's
career as a Hawkeye by the final of 68-59.
They've just never given up.
And if that's a good indication of how to live life, it's going to be all right.
I thought we would play a lot better than we did.
I thought we'd be ready to play.
I'm not really sure why we started out the way we did.
But nothing you can do about it now.
Like Kara said, I don't know why we didn't come out and play from the get-go.
We have to wait until the second half.
And I mean, that's the reason for the outcome of the game.
We got to come out and play 40 minutes.
The last eight days have been brutal for the Iowa women's basketball program.
A week ago tonight, the Hawkeyes lost to Michigan.
On Sunday, they were defeated by defending national champ Purdue.
Angie gave her resignation.
And tonight, for the second year in a row, Iowa lost Northwestern in the first round
of the women's Big Ten basketball tournament.
But there is one positive.
All the players say they will be back for next year.
From Indianapolis, Jim Walker, News Channel 2 Sports.
Jim, thank you.
Anjali, thank you for the memories.
Over in Aims, Cyclones fans have been waiting for this moment, a regular season championship
for the men's team.
55 years ago was the last time ISU won a regular season title.
Now it's time to head to Kansas City, but first things first, they're going to take
care of Baylor Saturday so they can win it outright.
When they do go to Kansas City, they'll be the number one seed, taking on the winner
of the 8-9 game Friday, March 10th at noon.
As for the Iowa State women, another Big 12 championship for Bill Finley squad.
They will also take on the winner of the 8-9 game.
That tip-off is at noon also, but it will be Wednesday, March 8th.
News Channel 2's Andy Garment will be in Kansas City.
Locally, boys, sub-state semis tonight.
Class 4A over at Frary.
We want to give you another score.
Then Iowa loses to Creighton, 66-259.
Now let's head over to Cedar Rapids.
It was Cedar Rapids, Washington, taking on Frary, and David Krueger is going to kick
it out to Devon White, who hits the three, and it's up and good for the Warriors.
It was David Krueger getting physical for a nice two.
David Kummer, that is, the coach's son.
Frary just too much.
Matt Kleff had his stats.
By getting his own rebound and putting it back up, Curry advances, winning by a final
score of 82-255.
Over at Kennedy, Xavier using their rivals, Jim, hosting Vitten Schellsberg.
Class 3A regional final.
We start with Josh Cruden with a nice board, nice dime over to Josh Applegrass, who finishes
plus the foul for the Saints.
Matt Grobschick hitting the floater.
Matt had 27 points, but Vitten Schellsberg outscored the Saints.
Night final score was 82-72.
Busy night in sports.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
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Well finally tonight, a real bargain at the gas pump if you happen to be there at the
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Cars lined up to fill out for an amazing 14 cents a gallon at this Exxon station in Houston.
Apparently, a computer problem at an unstaffed, fully automated station was the reason behind
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Word of mouth spread quickly and for about four hours, people were filling their tanks
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Exxon officials caught the error and corrected it for what should have been a dollar forty-one
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