School board agreed to spend about three Million Dollars to make changes and improvements to the property where the new Bryant Elementary School will be built. These are concepts of what the new school will look like. The district has already purchased 8 homes that will be torn down to make room for the new school. More than a million will be reimbursed by the state. They also agreed to spend 660thousand dollars to install a georthermal heating system. Which requires a well to be built. 3 this has been a long journey, ive been working on the bryant project since i came to the district in 2008, and bryant has been a challenge mostly because its very difficult to find land where we are going to build the Replacement School for bryant. The new school is expected to open in 2019. Students currently attending bryant will be split up between surrounding schools until construction is complete. 3 3 the group dedicated to improving downtown sioux city is taking steps to improve and better prote
At two substations knocked out power to half the town early saturday morning. The towns utility director says as of this morning, only one business was still without power. Crews worked through the Night Saturday to get the electrical system working again and all homes had the e wer back as of two o clock sunday morning. Damage to the substations was significant and Officials Say it could take up to six months to complete the repair work. A norfolk, nebraska man has been sentenced to almost a year in jail for an illicit relationship with an underage girl. 20year old luces rasmussen pleaded guilty in Madison County District Court to cocoributing to the delinquency a minor. He had been charged with two counts of Sexual Assault of a minor. Investigators say that when he was 19, rasmussen engaged in sexual relations multiple times with the girl, who was 13 at the time. She became pregnant and has since had the baby. Rasmussen was sentenced to 364 days in the Madison County jail. Thats one
After some patchy fog and possibly a few slick spots early this morning, well see another day of widespread melting today. Highs will once again reach the 40s with a few 50s southwest and some 30s northeast with a decent amount of sunshine and steady southeasterly winds. More widespread fog and drizzle will develop tonight and continue into wednesday that could make visibilities a bit low for you holiday travelers. See graphics. Wx timer 40 the National Institute on alcohol abuse and addiction says alcohol contributeteto more than 200 didiases and injuryrelated conditions. That includes alcohol dependence and even cancer. That dependence is high among native americans. And yesterday, native Community Members and law enforcers met to brainstorm what can be done to keep their Families Together by fighting alcoholism. Ktivs tiffanny lane a aended the meetetg and has the details. Americans make up nearly half of the public intoxication arrests i isioux city. Whitesesame in second with almo
By a prosecution expert. His trial is scheduled to begin on january 26th. Minneapolis police say at least five people were shot near protests in the wake of the shooting death of 24yearold jamar clark. Reports came in just before Eleven Oclock last night of a shooting near the fourth precinct, were protests are in their tenth day. Right now, it is not clear on the exact number of people shot as some shooting victims found their own way to a hospital. Police say five people are being treated at local hospitals for what are believed to be nonlife threatening injuries. The president of france met with president barack obama, at the white house, today. Francois hollandes trip is part of a diplomatic push to get the International Community to bolster the campaign against the islamic state. The president acknowledge d that isis poses a serious threat to the united states, and the citizens of the world. He called for the terror groups destruction, and called on france to help. It cannot be to
Turkey claiming it shot down that warplane after repeated warnings saying that the plane was violating its airspace. Lets get right to nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel in istanbul this morning. Richard, what are you hearing about this . Reporter good momoing, savannah, turkrk says it acted legitimately when a then unidentified aircraft violated its airspace, did not heed warnings. The kremlin, h hever, is disputing that claim and calls this incident they serious. Russias Defense Ministry says its jet which turned into a fireball when it was shot down this morning was i iide syrian airspace, its location confirmed by its instruments. The jets two pilots appear to have ejected bailing out before the plane impacted. Helicopters could be seen searching for the pilots. Russiaialamed ground fire whwhh attacked the jet on a mission in syria near the turkish border, but turkey said two of its u. S. Made f16s like these shot down a jet after it illegally entered turkish airspace.