Driver, the members of my unit will take over that case and go through the drunk driving process and were able to put that Patrol Officer back on general patrol. Asap supervisor Sergeant Steve ten napel says members of the unit also become good witnesses and experts in drunk driving prosecution. Su since 2014, there have been 10 traffic fatalities in sioux city. A third of those were caused by impaired drivers. Mercy medical centers reality education Alcohol Program or reap partners with the asap unit to prevent those fatalities. Its proven that education is a better deterrant for people that have been convicted of drunk drivinthan trying to scare them and so this was our example of trying to educate these people by providing them with some reality type experiences. And during that time taught more than 2,800 people the dangers of driving impaired. And, keeping the streets safe for others on the road. In sioux city, tiffany lane, ktiv news 4. The criteria to be placed into the reap program depends on each county attorney. Things that are looked at are high blood alcohol level, whether its the first or second offense and whether or not the person was in a car crash. Cording the reap proroam, more than 10,000 people lost their lives because of Impaired Driving in 2013. That was about 31 percent of the traffic deaths that year. Twentysix of them were on christmas day. For those who plan on drinking over the holidays, there are a few safety tips for the roadadhave a designated driver to get you home safe, or if that is unavailable, call a cab. Were not done with the snow just yet. Meteorologist Ben Dorenbach is here to tells us how much more we can expect. Weather adlib while the heaviest snow ended up reported up to 9 inches in places like milford and rock rapids between yesterday and today. We only received a little over 4 inches in sioux city with many others near that same mark, and some could even add an additional coating of the white stuff tonight and tomorrow morning. See graphics. President ial candidate and florida senator, marco rubio is making a Campaign Stop in sioux city tonight. A town hall meetiningets underway soon at the holiday inn on gordon drive. Thats where ktivs tommie clark tommie. The doors open at 6 15 and the event starts at 6 45. Theres a big crowd waiting to get in. The rubibicampaign says the florida senator will outline his vision for a new american century. Rubio has been under heat recently after a super pac supporting jeb bush launched an ad this week attacking rubio. The ad allegedly says rubio has been missing important congressiona l hearings. Other candidates have been attacking rubio saying he doesnt have enough expxpience. Totoght, well see if rubio talks about the allegation and remarks by his fellow president ial hopefuls. And well be here for his town hall and have what else he had to say, at 10. Sheila . Thanks tommie. Democratic president ial candidate hillararclinton plans to stump for support in iowa after the new year. On, monday she will make several stops throughout eastern and central iowa. Tuesday she will be in sioux city for an event at 2 15 p. M. If you wish to attend you can register online. The link is inside this story at ktiv dot com. Candidate ted cruz plans to hit the road in iowa starting on monday. Hes holding a bus tour of 36 counties in six days. On tuesday, january 5th hes making stops in cherokee and sioux. The next day hell be in lyon, osceola, dickinson, emmet, palo alto andndlay. And, on thursday, january 7th hell be in buena vista, pocahontas, humboldt and kossuth counties. Republican pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum has a Campaign Stop planned for tomorrow in holstein, iowa. The president ial candidate will speak at leonard limousin and angus farm atatoon. A light lunch will be served at the meet and greet. Its free and open to the public. At least 15 people left without a place to stay after a fire this morning in sloan, iowa. Smoke filled the air this morning as the sloan, Iowa Fire Department made their way to prairie apartments. Two women jumped from a bobo were transported to Mercy Medical center with nonlife threatening injuries. Sloans fire chief says everyone else made it out with no injuries. Volunteer departments man power is always an issue you never know whose gonna be around when you need the help. If youre available when the pager goes off you come. Initially when sloan pulled up here to this fire we had three people. Once we dealt with injuries we primarily started pulling hoho getting ready waiting for other departments to help us, said sloan fire chief, lee blanchere the church across t t street opened its doors to residents and officers while the red cross and other emergency crews also offered assistance. The building was destroyed and a second ent building had smoke damage. A federal Appeals Court is upholding lengthy prison terms for two sioux city brothers convicted in the Armed Robbery of two drug dealers. The 8th u. S. Circuit court of appeals upheld a life sentence issued to 24 yearold the court also upheld a 30year term for his older brother, levon dean jr. In a separate case, jamal dean Year Prison Sentence after pleading guilty to attempted murder in the april 2013 shooting of a Sioux City Police officer. The brothers traveled together from nebraska to iowa and conspired to rob local drug dealers on two occasions in april 2013. After each attack, the brothers returned to nebraska. A northwest, iowa man who took a pleaeaeal after having sex with a 14 yearold girl was sentenced this week in lyon County District court. Twentyyearold jesse visser from inwood, pleaded guilty to three counts, including thirddegree sexual assault. He received one year in jail and five years probation. But, part of the s sntence could be spent at a Treatment Facility in sioux cici. Visser will also have to register as a sex offender. Three ople from sioux city, iowa, have been arrested in a prostitution sting in sioux falls. Twentyeightyearold amanda meyer was charged twentysixyearold rashad lee charged with pimping. Police found an ad online and agreed to meet two women at a hotel last night. All three drove to sioux falls from sioux city. Twentyt reeyear old Brittany Leners was also charged with prostitution. Her mugshot wasnt available. An iowa woman faces several charges after police say she crashed into another vehicle on purpose. Melissa ebert of cherokee, iowa was charged with attemptetemurder for a headon collision in le mars, iowa in september. Three people ended up with serious injuries. She also faces her second owi offense and a charge of serious injury by motor vehicle. State auditors say City Council Members in the northwest iowa city of hornick failed to review Financial Reports auditor say two city clerks improperly spent 134,000. Auditors uncovered the spending after the current city clerk questioned the finances. The audits have been turned over to prosecutors but no charges have been filed. Still to come. There is plenty of things to see for iowa fans at the rose bowl including a trip to the u in sports. While the heaviest snow ended up missing us just to the east, parts of eastern siouxland still reported up to 9 inches in places like milford and rock rapids between and today. We only received a little over 4 inches in sioux city with many others near r at same mark, and some could even add an additional coating of the white stuff tonight and tomorrow morning. It wont be a full fledged winter storm like the one yesterday, but a couple pick up a quick inch or so by the time this disturbance exits by mid wednesday morning. Cold air will settle in behind it with overnight lows forecast to be in the Single Digits both tomorrow and thursday night, so well ring in the year 2016 on a frigid note the good news though is that highs will warm back into the 20s and 30s this see graphics. A big donation for the food bank of siouxland today. The late Christmas Gift to help those less fortunate put food on its been her fight for twenty years. Something is wrong with our Healthcare System and it needs to be fixed. Then, it was about Health Reform and getting eight million kids covered. Now, its about stopping republicans from repealing obamacare, and taking on Insurance Companies to bring down drug prices. Im not going to let any family be deprived of healthcare. Im not going to let the republicans rip up obamacare and throw it away. The food bank of siouxland got a late Christmas Gift today. Union pacific made a ten thousand dollar donation. A check presentation was held at warehouse this afternoon. The food bank of siouxlands executive director said the donation will go a long way to help the food bank reach its goal. Having a gift of this size is really exciting, because we can acquire 13 pounds of food with one dollar, so a 10,000 donation gives us the power and ability to really feed a lot of people in our community and thats wonderful news. Said linda scheid, executive director of the food bank of siouxland. This year, the food bank of siouxland distributed nearly 2 Million Pounds of food. Iowa will lift its ban on bird exhibitions on friday. It imposed the restrictions in may as bird flu spread through the states turkey and chicken farms. The state Agriculture Department says no new cases of bird flu have been confirmed in iowa since june. This has been a record year for the ethanol industry in iowa. A trade group says the states refineries produced a record of more than 4 billion gallons this year. Iowa has more than 40 ethanol refineries and a dozen biodiesel plants. It produces more than 25 percrct of the nations brads here iowa fans have a lot of things to do before the rose bowl. One stop for many hawkeye fans iowa. Well have a live report from california. And, the morningside men and cliff holiday tournament. Sports rose bowl since 1981, and havent wononn pasadena since 1959. But there is plenty of iowa history around the rose bowl and not just on the field. Sports fource is on the road in california. Brad hanson from our sister station, kwwl is live with more. The uss iowa is a truly remarkable shipand a great way to spend a day ahead of the big rose bowl game later this week. This is a ship that first saw action back in the 1940sstarting in world war two. It saw action not only in the great war, but in the korean war, and once again during the cold war. She earned numerous awards throughout the years, and even had the distinction of carrying fdr across the atlantic. Now its a museum open to the public, and theyre thrilled to have so many iowa fans coming through this week. dave way, uss iowa curator but its just wonderful to have them m n board. We always feel like theyre so her history. The ship is free to iowa residents with an iowa id year round. Theyve also made it free this week for nonresident university of iowa students. The rose bowl kicks off at 410 on friday afternoon. Live in san pedro, california, Brad Hanson Ktiv sports fource. Brad have hawkeye fans taken over la yet . Today was media day for the iowa stanford cardinal. It was the last time the players and coaches met with the press before fridays game. Head coach kirk ferentz says he wants the players to enjoy the fun part of the rose bowl, before two final days of preparation. Well have much more from rose bowl media day, tonight at ten. The mens and womemes basketball teams at morningside and briar cliff will each play two games over the next two days at the briar cliff holiday tournament. The chargers are playing tonight the mustangs had the afternoon games. The secondranked morningside women taking on 1 and 11 waldorf, from forest city, iowa. Mustangs up 20 at the half second half, Lauren Lemkuhl drops in one of morningsides 11 threes he lead is 46. Then,n, allison babaman goes takes the drive thru lane for 2 more the lead is up to fifty. 13 different mustangs scored Erin Schleicher drops in the jumper the only question was, would morningside break the century mark . The answer yes rachelle housh with another bucket. The 8 morningside men also playing ldorf, whos 7 and 4. The mustangs pound it inside early bryce koch scored the first seven points for the stangs and finished with 23 points. But waldorf led at the half. Michael morgan scores down on the block. 3731 at the half. Morningside tries to rally Adebayo Babalola with the strong move to the bucket, but the mustangs made too many mistakes. The bad pass here leads to a turnover and a layup for june prowell had 33 points. Waldorf tops morningside, 80 to 74. Briar cliff women are playing now the bc men play at 730. Then tonight on nene four at ten. The socalled affluenza teen and his mother are still in jail in mexico details on the teen who killed four people and claimed he didnt understand the consequences of his actions because of his affluent upbringing. Tonight snow showers develop. Low 17. Winds nw 510 miles per hour. Wednesday morning snow showers. High 24. Mostly cloudy
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