Winter weather advisories are in effect for lincoln, lyon, osceola, dickinson, emmet, sioux, obrien, clay, palo alto, cherokee, buena vista, pocahontas, sac, calhoun counties this evening through sunday afternoon after quite the frigid morning temperatures did not climb very much for our saturday afternoon. Temperatures will be staying quite steady and really not dropping off this evening due to the cloud cover building in. The clouds are associated with our next weather maker that will come in the form of an upper level low pressure center. This will give us light snow this evening into the overnight hours. The snow will move in from nw to se and will be heavier off to the ne parts of siouxland. That is why the winter weathe advisory is in effect. Snow totals look to range from less than an inch for western parts of the viewing area, to one to two inches for central towns including sioux city, and 25 for the northern and eastern towns. Winds will also pick up which will cause some pat
Friday and saturday before easing back a bit early next week. See graphics. Wx timer 40 the body of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has arrived back home in virginia. Justice antonin scalias body arrived at Dulles Airport late sunday night. And was loaded onto a hearse. Earlier on sunday, a procession of about 20 Police Officers brought the body to an el paso funeral home from the west texas ranch where scalia was found dead on saturday. Officials were awaiting word about whether the medical examiner would perform an autopsy, but it was deemed unnecessary. It is believed the 79year old scalia died of natural causes. Scalia was appointed by president Ronald Reagan in 1986 and has been the Senior Member of the court for several years. Authorities say an Apartment Fire that forced residents to temporarily evacuate saturday, was caused by a child playing with matches. The fire came from an apartment on the fourth floor of castle on the Hill Apartments according to sioux city fire resc
You and gogobless, said clinton. Bria theres 17 days until Iowa Caucuses and the clinton campaigns have been going strong. Reporting live in studio, bria bell abc 9 news. Tim the results of the online iowa straw poll have been released and they may suprise you. Theres a new runnerup to donald trump in the race for iowa. And its rand paul who didnt make the main stage at last nights gop debate. Marco rubio, ted cruz, and ben carson round out the top five. And over on the Hillary Clinton over bernie sanders, but only by one percent. Martin omalley remains in a distant third with 4 percent of the poll. Jenna on the republican side of the race, ted cruz may be facing a lawsuit which aims to derail his campaign. A Texas Attorney has formally filed a lawsuit against cruz, saying he should be disqualified from the president ial race because he isnt a natural born citizen. Cruz was born in canada to an americanborn mother. The issue was brought up by frontrunner donald trump in last nights gop
Northwestern names Franklin and Stokes to lead diversity efforts
Northwestern College has named Rahn Franklin and Dr. Valerie Stokes to new roles leading its diversity efforts.
Franklin, director of multicultural student development, will become director of strategic diversity initiatives. As such, he will assume more responsibilities across the institution in offering guidance and training for curricular and co-curricular areas. He’ll also continue to mentor multicultural students and to direct the Bridge Scholars program, which provides select students with scholarships and the opportunity to further develop their servant leadership skills on campus and in the community.
Stokes, associate professor of social work, will take on an additional role as director of academic diversity initiatives. In that position, she will champion and support diversity initiatives related to faculty, curriculum, scholarship and other academic operations of Northwestern.