But also learn from other stem programs in larger urban areas. A lot of sound Decision Making but the bottom line is well get kids trained to work. And to make sure it works in smaller districts, local companies donated 40thousand dollars to go along with the 25thousand dollar state stem grant. Dave franzman kcrg tv9 news. The governors Stem Advisory Council issued 12 grants. The Dubuque School district will use its grant to redesign the pre engineering rooms at senior and hempstead high schools. The rooms will have a special projector with a Wireless Connection to student laptops to project student projects. Two schools nicc and loras college, along with two companies iiw and john deere matched the states 25thousand dollar grant. And north tama School District will use the grant to redesign the traditional kindergarten through 2nd grade classrooms to have an Early Childhood stem focus. Unis Regents Center for early developmenta l education matched the state stem grant for a turning to weather. , meteorologist joe winters is here. Joe, its been another cool, windy day. Any difference tonight . After a string of cloudy and cooler days there is better news ahead. We do however have to wait until the end of the weekend to see most of it. Overnight and friday we see some breaks in the cloud cover developing. A brighter sky with dry weather is certainly a bit of an improvement. Quickly friday night and saturday showers return. Right now is looks like the rain will be ending during the afternoon which will hopefully provide dry weather for the ghosts and goblins trick or treating in your neighborhood. Tonight mostly cloudy low 3036 winds nw 510tomorrow mostly cloudy high 4955 winds s 510 back to you. A car struck and killed a woman today when she was crossing a street in cedar falls. Police say 59 year old terry harp was walking across University Avenue in the 44hundred block about 5 30 this morning. Thats when a car hit her, causing major head and internal injuries. She died at university of iowa hospitals and clinics. Police say the driver is not facing any charges. Prosecutors are charging an arlington man for colliding with a school bus near manchester earlier this month. Those charges against 41 year old monte klink are serious injury by vehicle and second offense owi. The state patrol says klink didnt yield at the intersection of 195th street and 200th avenue, three miles north of manchester. And his suv hit a west Delaware School bus carrying 32 students. The bus rolled over, and all the students had to go to the Manchester Hospital for evaluation before they went home with their parents. There were no life threatening injuries. All four prison Corrections Officers charged with either bringing drugs or cell phones into the anamosa state have now pleaded guilty. Seth vogel entered a written plea yesterday and marques maryland pleaded guilty last week. Both are charged in jones county with possession of a controlled substance. A judge sentenced maryland to two days in jail and a 315 dollar fine. Vogel is expected to get the same sentence. Two other former Correctional Officers already pleaded guilty nine guards have either resigned or been fired. Their opinions following a lawsuit filed against the iowa board of cosmetology. Two des moines women are challenging the states cosmetology licensing requirements. Court documents say they want to open an africanstyle hair braiding business, but cant because they dont have cosmetology licenses. They say they have the skills and dont need to complete the 21hundred hours of training needed to get a license. Cosmetologists that we spoke with in cedar rapids, who are not part of the lawsuit, agree that the 21 hundred hours might be a bit much. But they do think some training ensure customers are protected. The conversation has circled within the industry for a couple of years now. Lawmakers even introduced a bill to exempt africanstyle hair braiding from the definition of cosmetology during the last legislative session. Stylists say they worked hard to get to where theyre at and want to make sure theres some kind of oversight. 22 35 21 we pay a lot of money to go to hair school and you have to have the contact, the human contact to get the feel for it. So you dont just want anybody doing your hair. You dont want to walk in a shop and just like oh you can do my hair but you dont have any training. The Iowa Department of public health, which oversees the board of cosmetology, said in a statement that it cannot comment on pending litigation. But it also encouraged the legislature to look at the issue again in the upcoming session. An unusually high number of small town elections will have no names on the ballots this tuesday. Dubuque county auditor denise dolan says a change in state law means candidates now file their paper work at their county Auditors Office instead of with their city clerk. That caused some candidates to miss the filing deadline. Holy cross, for example, has three vacant city council seats, and no names are on the ballot. But city leaders say at least two people are running as writeins. Dolan says calculating those write in votes will mean more work on election night. And then they start going through the ballots and they have to start keeping track of whos who and how many votes and it always delays us getting the returns out. Dolan plans to urge state lawmakers to change the law back to what it was. She says it makes more sense for candidates to file paperwork with their city clerks. A Clayton County casino agreement signed in 1994 has likely left millions of dollars on the table. Kcrgtv 9s chris earl has a preview of tonights story on the lady luck casino in marquette. Thats where attendance is down sharply and that affects dollars going to charities throughout the county. Chris . An 11year drop of people gambling. In marquette and also a deal from 21 years ago that counts attendance and not revenue. State law requires casinos to give a minimum of 3 to the Nonprofit Corporation that holds a casinos license. Yet the 1994 deal is still in effect until 2019, where the Upper Mississippi Gaming Corporation the license holder for the lady luck only gets 50 cents per person. Instead of the 3 of revenue. For the past year, thats a difference of nearly 700,000 in money that could have gone to law enforcement, Fire Equipment or even schools. 2320 although wed like to be receiving the big dollars and, someday we will, at this time, were just focused on what we can do. Tonight at 10, well look at the decline in revenue for the nonprofit but also this 56 drop in customers since 2004 at the lady luck casino. The landscape for legalized gambling is changing in iowa with more casinos and well look at the competition, for an older boat casino like marquette. Thats at 10. Live in the cedar rapids newsroom, chris earl, kcrgtv 9 news. Trick or treating near Kinnick Stadium in iowa city saturday evening might be a trickier than normal. Thats because the hawkeye Football Game against maryland will be ending about the same time. See how police are increasing efforts to keep people safe. Stay with tv9. Trickortreaters and football fans to be careful this weekend. Thats because trickortreaters will hit the street, around the same time the iowa hawkeye Football Game ends. Saturdays game will be over by six pm, just about when trick or treating begins. Kcrg tv nines Iowa City Bureau chief mark carlson joins us live from Kinnick Stadium tonight. Mark, this is already causing some concern there . Yes, beth, trick or treating starts at dusk in iowa city. And the game is expected to end at dusk. Right about this time actually. To have extra of town around that time. About 65 to 70 thousand game. University heights actually moved their trickortreat date to tomorrow night to avoid announced by the big ten conference until october 19th. Police say they have concerns as alcohol might be a factor for some fans. They say if you live in this area, consider trickor treating somewhere else for the night, and police say parents really have to be on guard. If kids are staying off the roadway and are trick or treating at the houses, thats not where the real risk is, its when you start to get close to the roadway, so we just want to make sure people are understanding that thats what theyre going to be getting into, kids shouldnt be put out there by themselves to be making the decision about when to cross, especially in the are of the stadium. Sticking to the halloween theme, the University Also put out a list of banned costumes at kinnick earlier today. They say dont bring prop weapons, and dont dress like a police officer, referee or a look like a player on the field. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. If you dont want to head out to the game saturday, you can catch it right here on kcrgtv9. Kickoff against maryland is at 2 30. And you can find trick or treat times for towns across eastern iowa by heading to kcrg dot com. Just scroll down on the home page and click on trick or treat times. This was media day for the iowa Womens Basketball team. And they say despite losing a couple of seniors, well look at why theyre gearing up for a year of high expectations. Stay with your 24 hour news better news ahead. We do however have to wait until the end of the weekend to see most of it. Overnight and friday we see some breaks in the cloud cover developing. A brighter sky with dry weather is certainly a bit of an improvement. Quickly friday night and saturday showers return. Right now is looks like the rain will be ending during the afternoon which will hopefully provide dry weather for the ghosts and goblins trick or treating in your neighborhood. Tonight mostly cloudy low 3036 winds nw 510tomorrow mostly cloudy high 4955 winds s 510tomorrow night showers develop low 4248 winds s 515saturday showers high 51 low 45 sunday partly cloudy high 62 low 42 monday mostly sunny high 68 low 44 tuesday mostly sunny high 69 low 48 wednesday partly cloudy high 68 low 50 thursday chance of team. Bluders bunch is pretty excited about this season, and earlier today, the hawkeyes were ranked 23rd in the 1st usa today preseason coaches poll. Despite losing the best scoring trio in the big ten to graduation samantha logic, Melissa Dixon and bethany doolittle, the iowa Womens Basketball team still has high expectations. I can assure its not all doom and gloom around our program. We have great optimism in the gym, and we have a group of women that are excited about proving everyone wrong. I always think thats one of the joys of athletics is going out and proving everyone wrong. Weve heard it a thousand times, what are you going to do about who you lost . Obviously our seniors were incredible, were going to miss them a lot, and weve honored them. But now, its moving on and working with what we have, currently. One benefit the hawkeyes had this offseason was going to italy in august. The team played three games on their 11day trip, and before they left, they held 10 practices. Getting those 10 practices in put us ahead of the curve. It was fun going over there and playing some different competition, and bringing the experience we got from that back. Even with a young roster, the hawkeyes are excited about their depth. We have girls that can play multiple positions, and 3 or 4 people deep at many of them. Different skill sets than what we had last year. Bluders bunch will host upper iowa in an exhibition game on november 8th. In about 40 minutes, the iowa mens Basketball Team will take the court at Carver Hawkeye arena. The hawkeyes will face sioux falls in an exhibition game. A big thing to watch tonight is the bench. Dom uhl is the only player who saw significant playing time off the bench last year. And with 8 new faces on this years team, coach mccaffery has some decisions to make. But thats expected from having so many freshman. I think theyre coming along great and theyre making progress every day, and thats all you can ask for. The young guys have all had great days. Theyve all had great weeks. Some of them have had bad days. Its typical for young guys. So what were trying to do is develop a little more consistency, and then figure out which ones have separated themselves to the point where theyll become 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in that range. We havent gotten there yet. Trt 35 oc havent gotten there yet35. Iowa state Senior ForwardGeorges Niang was named a si. Com preseason firstteam allamerican. Its his 2nd preseason allamerican honor this fall. The cyclones have an exhibition game on friday, november 6th versus grand valley state. Joining niang on that list was linnmar grad marcus paige. He and the North Carolina tar heels are ranked number one in the country. Football news, iowa state has added former Washington State head coach paul wulff to the staff. But according to reports, hes only a volunteer assistant. The iowa Football Team hosts maryland on saturday at Kinnick Stadium. Masters and british open champion zach johnson will be the honorary captain. You can watch that game right here on kcrgtv9 starting at 2 30. I hope he brings the claret jug with him. Thanks, josh. Now heres a look at todays top web stories on kcrg dot com. Stay with your 24hour several organizations are working together to make sure the homeless in the cedar rapids area are safe and warm this winter. Tonight on tv nine news at ten, hear why places like the willis dady Emergency Shelter are making this push. And now to First Alert Storm Team meteorologis t joe winters for your final forecast. After a string of cloudy and cooler days there is better news ahead. We do however have to wait until the end of the weekend to see most of it. Overnight and friday we see some breaks in the cloud cover developing. A brighter sky with dry weather is certainly a bit of an improvement. Quickly friday night and saturday showers return. Right now is looks like the rain will be ending during the afternoon which will hopefully provide dry weather for the ghosts and goblins trick or treating in your neighborhood. Tonight mostly cloudy low 3036 winds nw 510tomorrow mostly cloudy high 4955 winds s 510 thanks for joining us for kcrgtv9 news at 6. We hope youll be with us again so what kind of cruise is this youre going on . Its called the born again boat ride. Christian quarterly gave it their highest rating five thorny crowns