COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Police are looking for a man who is suspected of stealing more than $1,000 worth of bras from a western Iowa mall.
The man walked into a Victoria’s Secret Store at Mall of the Bluffs in Council Bluffs around 11 a.m. on Wednesday. Police say he took more than 22 bras valued at $1,250.
Authorities have not identified the suspect.
He was described as a black man with a Mohawk, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and aviator style sunglasses.
5 p.m.( AP) — Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says neither politics nor personal connections will play any role in her review of a northwest Missouri teen sexual assault case that has gained worldwide attention.
A Nodaway County judge on Monday appointed Baker to serve as a special prosecutor in the case of a former Maryville resident who says she was 14 in January 2012 when a 17-year-old boy gave her alcohol and had sex with her.
Nodaway County prosecutor Robert Rice initially charged that boy with sexual assault and a second 17-year-old with sexual exploitation of a minor, but he later dropped the felony charges and said the victim had quit cooperating.
Baker eventually will decide whether there’s enough evidence to refile charges in the case.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A northwest Missouri circuit court clerk says Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker has been picked to investigate a Maryville
Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker
teen rape case that has gained national attention for the way it was handled by the local prosecutor.
Daisy Coleman says she was 14 in January 2012 when a 17-year-old boy plied her with alcohol and had sex with her while a second 17-year-old recorded the incident on his cellphone.
Felony charges against both boys were dropped months later after Nodaway County prosecutor Robert Rice says Daisy and her family stopped cooperating with the investigation.
Melinda Coleman, Daisy’s mother, says the family never stopped cooperating but looks forward to answering questions in a new review of the case.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Pentagon’s POW/Missing Personnel Office says the remains of two World War II Marines from Louisiana and Missouri will be buried Friday with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
Staff Sgt. Thomas Meek, 19, of Lisbon, La., and 23-year-old Capt. Henry White, of Kansas City, died when their bomber crashed in what is now Vanuatu during a night training flight on July 21, 1943.
The plane crashed on a coral cliff on Mavea Island. An investigation in 1947 did not recover any remains. One last year found human remains, a captain’s bars and Meek’s military ID tag.
Because no individual identification was possible, the men will be buried in a single casket.
Marcus CrawfordLEAVENWORTH, KS (AP) – A Lansing man was sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison for throwing human waste at two jail guards.
Leavenworth County officials say 50-year-old Marcus Crawford was also sentenced Wednesday to nearly three years for burglary and impersonating an officer.
Crawford was arrested in December 2011.
He tried to enter a Lansing home, claiming he was a police detective with a search warrant. The residents fought back and he fled before being arrested.
While at the jail, Crawford refused meals and covered the windows of his cell with toilet paper. Prosecutors say when two guards tried to enter the cell, Crawford threw a milk carton containing human waste at them.
Ketchikan, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say a Kansas man has died in a commercial diving accident in southeast Alaska.
Alaska State Troopers identified the victim as 32-year-old Levi Adams of Leawood, Kan.
Adams and another unidentified man were diving in a commercial fishery harvest Tuesday morning near the Mountain Point area of Ketchikan. South Tongass Fire Chief Steve Rydeen says the other man surfaced, noting the “air didn’t taste right.” Adams didn’t surface.
He was pulled from the water, and responders attempted CPR. He was taken to Ketchikan Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
John Lewis
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former school board member in southwest Missouri is facing up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.
Former Sarcoxie School Board member John Lewis pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in a plea deal that dropped a second charge of receiving child pornography over the Internet.
The plea deal requires the 67-year-old Lewis to serve no more than 10 years in prison.
He then face a minimum of five years on supervised release.
Lewis, a former associate professor at Missouri Southern State University, also could be fined up to $250,000.
WASHINGTON — The new $100 bill, with an array of high-tech features designed to thwart counterfeiters, will get its coming out party on Tuesday, partial government shutdown or not.
The Federal Reserve, which has not been affected by the shutdown, will have armored trucks rolling from its regional banks around the country headed to banks, savings and loans and other financial institutions with the new C-notes.
The bills took more than a decade to develop and the introduction was plagued by production problems that set back the rollout by 2½ years. But officials say the problems have now been fixed.
Some bank customers could start seeing the new bills by Tuesday afternoon depending on how close their bank is to a regional Fed facility.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials say there should be plenty of good hunting even though there may be fewer ducks in the sky this fall.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated the number of breeding ducks at 45.6 million this year.
That’s down six percent from last year’s record high.
The state Conservation Department says ducks should still be abundant, if weather conditions cause them to migrate at the right time.
Missouri has a tiered hunting season for waterfowl.
In northern Missouri, the youth season begins Oct. 19 and the regular season starts Oct. 26. In the middle part of the state, the youth season starts Oct. 26 and the regular season starts Nov. 2. In southern Missouri, the youth season starts Nov. 23 and the regular season begins Nov. 28.
Charles A. ZidekST. LOUIS (AP) — A suburban St. Louis man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home and attacking her small dog so badly that it had to be euthanized.
Charles A. Zidek, 37, of Ellisville was sentenced Monday. He was found guilty in July of felony animal abuse and burglary.
Prosecutors say Zidek entered the St. Charles home by breaking a basement window about 2 a.m. on Oct. 9, 2011.
He repeatedly threw the woman’s 8-pound Italian greyhound, Vinny, against a bedroom wall. His former girlfriend was not home at the time. She found the dog the next morning.
Zidek’s attorney told the judge that Zidek had problems with alcohol and steroid use.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two artist-created billboards showing a rifleman pointing at an iconic Kansas City sculpture of an American Indian on horseback have been taken down.
The billboards from artist A. Bitterman drew complaints after they went up last week in the Crossroads Arts District near downtown.
They were supposed to remain on display until Oct. 21 but were removed Monday.
Kansas City Indian Center outreach coordinator Moses Brings Plenty had opposed the work as a symbol of racism and hatred. He said he was “very glad” the billboards were gone.
Bitterman rented the billboards and said on his website that “The Scout” sculpture shown on them depicts what whites wanted the American Indian to be. He says his work is “confronting that narrative.”
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Police are looking for a man who is suspected of stealing more than $1,000 worth of bras from a western Iowa mall.
