Youll hear from them. Up ahead. And. Changes to iowas medicaid system are less than a month away. Well bring you all the details from des moines. These stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Lukas good morning and thanks for joining us. Im lukas voss. It was an emotional scene at the woobury county court house yesterday. As two sioux city teens were sentenced for staging a bank robbery last year crying. I love you 18 year old Angelica Perez and 19 year old heaven zevenbergen were sentenced to 5 years in prison for staging a robbery at the Security National bank located inside the hamilton boulavard hyvee store. Where zenvenbergen worked as a teller. During the robbery perez went up to zevenbergens window and demanded cash. Zevenbergen then pretended to faint to buy some get away. Both were eventually caught and pleaded guilty to 2nd degree theft in connection to the crime. A representative of the bank is saying the incident had a Lasting Impact within one week the bank lost two e
Abcs jon karl is there in clemson, and brings us more. The republican candidates bringing their fight for the gop nomination to the south this morning . Rallying supporters overnight, donald trump said a South Carolina win could clear his path to the republican nomination. Sot trump you vote for trump, we win here, were going to run the table. If we win here after winning so big in new hampshire, all of these characters are going to give it up. Trump once again trained his fire on jeb bush, whos hoping a strong South Carolina showing can save his campaign. Sot trump you have a guy like bush who has this big fund boo . Its terrible, ill be honest the last thing we need is another bush. That i cacatell you, that i can n ll you. cheers . And while ted cruz, winner of the iowa caucus, couldnt repeat that performance in new hampshire, he says he wont be deterred by trumps victory . Sot cruz one of the most important conclusions coming out of these first two states is that the only candidate
Make a bit of sense to me whatsoever. I cant imagine what the motivation whould have been. There are kids in this world who would love to have half of what you have going for them what you have going for you. The judge said that while he considered suspending the two teens prison sentences, he wanted to send a message that this type of crime could result in probation. Both teens were also ordered to pay back the nearly 10 thousand dollars that was stolen, and will have to serve at least half of their 5 year sentences. Jenna a man accused of shooting a Sioux City Police officer before also shooting himself has now been moved from the hospital to the jail. 18yearold Isaiah Mothershed was arrested on sunday after a string of burglaries and Robberies Police believe hes connected to. Police say while mothershed was sitting on the handcuffed on a couch, he was able to get to a hidden gun and shoot at officer ryan moritz. Mothershed was booked on two counts of attempted murder and five counts
Think its in the bigger cities. But the way things are anymore, anything can happen. Brooke buller oneill resident because oneills such a small town you dont hear about these things happening very often, Johnny Engelbart oneill resident i was just wondering who it was and if i knew em. The stabbing is under investigation by the nebraska state patrol, the Oneill Police department and the holt county attorneys office, which has requested an autopsy. Meanwhile, Sioux City Police say no charges are being filed in a stabbing that sest two brothers to the hospital on sunday, because the men are not cooperating with investigators. Police say it appears the men got into an argument and stabbed each other at this home in the 15 Authorities Say their injuries did not appear to be lifethreatening. Their names have not been released. The man who police say shot eight people in kalamazoo, michigan saturday night is due in court this afternoon. Six of those victims died. Two are hospitalized in crit
Reporter you are looking at beautiful scenes from hawaii. And soon, this will be the backdrop for one of the biggest annual pension plan conventions in the country. The National Conference of Public Employee retirement systems. I am going to the hawaii one. Yes, i am. Reporter Richard Cabral is one of the trustees that is being sent to the fiveday Hawaii Convention this may. Hawaii is not the issue. Im going there for the conference, which i find a lot of value in. Reporter but some are taking issue with sending folks to hawaii on the publics dime. To see taxpayer dollars going to a conference, that strikes the public as offensive. Reporter the cost of the trip is not much in the scheme of things, its not good pr, especially when public Pension Funds across the country are under funded by as much as 3 trillion dls. I think that, that rubs people the wrong way. And rightly so. I dont think its right. You know, im here myself trying to see about my retirement and im finding out they are