The body of a missing Iowa State University student was recovered after crews resumed a search Monday morning…this following a boating accident that involved four other students Sunday morning. ISU says the students were practicing at Little Wall Lake when their boat capsized. Three of the five students were rescued from the water and treated and later released from Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames. A dive team recovered the body of one student on Sunday. The five were members of the ISU Crew Club.
The Newton Police Department has released the identity of a man whose body was found in a creek Sunday morning. Shortly before 10 a.m., authorities received reports of a person laying in a creek. Officers arrived at the 1400 block of South Fourth Avenue and found a man dead on the bank of the creek. He’s been identified the body as 47-year-old Gregory Zwick of Newton. Police say there are no apparent signs of foul play and the cause of death is not yet known. Investigation continues.
The Iowa Department of Revenue has extended the filing and payment deadline for 2020 individual income tax returns and first quarter 2021 estimated individual income tax payments from the April 30, 2021 statutory deadline by a month, to June 1, 2021. Director of Revenue Kraig Paulsen said the state’s economy is showing good strength and the filing extension is an appropriate step to help Iowans whose lives have been disrupted by the pandemic. The Order does not include business filers and other tax types for individuals. The extension is similar to one put in place by the federal government. Because Iowa is a state that automatically conforms with the Internal Revenue Code, certain unemployment compensation will not be included in Iowa income. Based on the federal legislation, the first $10,200 of unemployment compensation income is excluded from taxation for qualifying taxpayers.
We now know the identity of a Waterloo man who was discovered dead in his apartment last week…20-year-old Jaedon Evans, formerly of Cedar Falls and Iowa City, was found dead in his apartment at the Lofts at Grand Crossing apartment building at 21 W. Jefferson St. on Thursday after officers were called to check on his welfare. An autopsy conducted this past weekend didn’t find any signs of trauma, and the Iowa Medical Examiner’s Office in Ankeny did not determine a cause of death. Findings are pending the results of toxicology tests, which are not expected for some weeks.
A Creston police officer has been charged with domestic assault and placed on administrative leave. 48-year-old Eric Shawler faces one count of domestic assault causing injury. Officers were called to investigate an incomplete 911 call Sunday. Responding officers found a woman with visible injuries. Arrest records show Shawler assaulted a woman by kicking her and slamming her head against a dining room table. Shawler denied the accusations, but investigators say they found inconsistencies in his story. Shawler was released from the Adams County Jail on a $2,000 cash bond prior to a court appearance Tuesday.
Iowa State head men’s basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger has added longtime UNI assistant Kyle Green to his staff. Last summer, Green was named the top assistant coach in the Missouri Valley Conference in a poll of league coaches. Green just completed his 17th season an assistant coach at UNI. He was promoted to associate head coach prior to the 2017-18 season. Green’s children, A.J. and Emerson Green, plan to remain enrolled at UNI where they are members of the men’s and women’s basketball programs.
Des Moines Public Schools will join several other districts in forming a new athletic conference. School officials announced Monday that East, Hoover, Lincoln, North and Roosevelt will be competing in a new athletic conference starting in the 2022-23 school year. The Des Moines metro schools will be joining Fort Dodge, Marshalltown, Mason City and Ottumwa in leaving the Central Iowa Metropolitan League. Ames school officials are still considering the plan. The districts plan to form their own high school sports conference because they feel that suburban schools hold an unfair advantage in sports.
