Todd Milsap, the son of country music star Ronnie Milsap, died on Saturday, according to Ronnie Milsap’s publicist.
Todd Milsap died on Saturday at the Four Corners Marina on Percy Priest Lake in Antioch. Metro Police said Milsap’s death appears to be medically-related. He was found deceased Saturday morning on his houseboat at 4 Corners Marina by his son, who had not heard from his father in the past 2 days.
On this day in 1992, Johnny Cash was awarded the Grammy Legend Award, “for ongoing contributions and influence in the recording field.” The award was presented by the National Trustees at the 34th annual awards
An Altoona man has started an online petition to ‘reinstate’ Hawkeye radio sportscaster Gary Dolphin immediately. Dolphin was recently suspended after making controversial comments during a basketball game last week.
The petition, which was created by Levi Thompson, Sunday, on change.org, had already garnered more than 12,000 signatures in a span of about six hours. “Gary Dolphin was wrongfully suspended for giving a collegiate athlete a compliment,” Thompson said in his post about the petition. “If you take Gary Dolphin’s comment as being racist, I challenge you to search your own heart and see where you stand.”
Thompson, who manages the Facebook fan page Hawkeye Heaven, set a 15,000 signature goal for the petition. He also listed Iowa Athletic Director Gary Barta’s email and phone number.
We were told about Dolphin’s indefinite suspension, Friday, following an announcement by Hawkeye Sports Properties. It came a few days after Tuesday’s coverage of the Iowa-Maryland men’s basketball game in which Dolphin referred to Maryland player Bruno Fernando, who is black, as “King Kong.”
Following his suspension, Dolphin issued this statement:
“During the broadcast, I used a comparison when trying to describe a talented Maryland basketball player. In no way did I intend to offend or disparage the player. I take full responsibility for my inappropriate word choice and offer a sincere apology to him and anyone else who was offended. I wish the Iowa Hawkeye players, coaches and fans all the very best as they head into the final stretch of the season. I will use this as an opportunity to grow as a person and learn more about unconscious bias.”
For the remainder of the basketball season, Jim Albracht and Bobby Hansen were expected to serve as the radio announcers for Iowa men’s basketball games.
Illinois State Police said it has arrested a 25-year-old man from Cedar Rapids who led authorities on a chase and manhunt Monday morning along I-80 and the Mississippi River. Authorities say Frank M. Scott is facing several criminal and traffic offenses.
It all started Sunday night when police said several departments responded to a report of shots fired near I-80 W between Atkinson and Annawan. Officers said they tried to stop the suspect, but he took off then crashed on I-80 near the Mississippi River exit. He ran from the scene. Residents in the area were encouraged to lock their doors while authorities searched or the suspect.
This investigation is still underway.
Court records show the suspect has a lengthy criminal history. He recently pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon from an incident in October.
At 1:36 am Friday (2/22), firefighters in What Cheer got an alarm from a house fire at 506 South Park Avenue.
“A single occupant. She had woke up to the smell of smoke and exited the building. There was fire in the kitchen area. We made a quick knock-down. We had mutual aid from Sigourney and Keswick (Fire Departments). By 4:00, we were wrapped up and done with that one.”
What Cheer Fire Chief Jeremy Bolinger says there was another fire call later in the morning. This one was at 13957 Highway 22 in Thornburg at 5:42 am.
“The one in Thornburg was a total loss. It was fully engulfed when the page came out.”
Bolinger says the home in Thornburg was being remodeled and no one was home at the time. He says both fires were electrical in nature and no one was injured.
One win away from State. Oskaloosa’s boys’ high school basketball team takes on Fairfield tonight in Mount Pleasant in the Class 3A Substate 5 championship game. The Indians opened the season with a 42-40 win over Fairfield back on November 27th. Oskaloosa Coach Ryan Parker says his team is very different from the one that started the season.
“We really didn’t find ourselves until after Christmas break. We’re a different team since then; I’m a true believer of that. We play a lot harder; we feed the post a lot better; we run our offense through the post. Our size is our strength. We’ll have to be ready on Monday for sure, because they’re not just going to lay down and give us a State tournament run.”
You can hear the Oskaloosa/Fairfield game tonight on KBOE 104.9FM or www.kboeradio.com. Our coverage starts at 6:40pm, with tip-off time at 7:00pm. We’ll also have video of the game on team1sports.com/kboeradio.
Also in Class 3A Substate boys’ basketball Monday night: Pella plays Ballard for the Substate 6 championship at Southeast Polk and Norwalk takes on Gilbert for the Substate 7 title at Dallas Center-Grimes. Both of those games tip off at 7pm.
On this day in 1968, Johnny Cash proposed to tour partner June Carter during a concert in London, Ontario. She said yes. The couple married on March 1, 1968, in Franklin, Kentucky and had one child together, John Carter Cash, born March 3, 1970. Cash and Carter continued to work together and tour for 35 years until Carter’s death in 2003. Cash died four months later.
Vandals in Dunn, North Carolina, last week doused the marble statue of Gen. Lee with a flammable liquid and set it on fire. But if they think they targeted Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, they got the wrong Lee, officials said.
The statue stands outside the Maj. Gen. William C. Lee Airborne Museum, which posted photos of the damage to Facebook, writing that “some jerk punk” had caused the blaze.
“The local fire department put out the flames but the damage is done. It scorched the statue mostly on the left side,” the post added.
The town of Dunn, which is 40 miles south of the capital Raleigh, was the birthplace of World War II hero William C. Lee, and the museum sits in the home the general and his wife owned. Lee, commanding officer of the legendary 101st Airborne Division, died in 1948.
Mark Johnson, the museum’s curator, told CNN affiliate WNCN that the vandals apparently made a mistake. “This is not a Civil War museum and this is not Robert E. Lee,” he said. “This is General William C. Lee from United States Army Airborne from World War II, so I was hurt and surprised that somebody would actually do this.”
The defacement last week comes after much debate in recent years about the proper place of Confederate war memorials and statues today. Significant amounts of ire have been pointed at a Gen. Lee who lived a century earlier.
Following a racially motivated shooting at a Charleston church in 2015 and riots in Charlottesville in 2017, local leaders in many states made decisions to remove or relocate Confederate statues.
In the wake of that violence, Confederate monuments across the country, including some depicting Gen. Robert E. Lee, have been vandalized.
Last August, vandals spray-painted a Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia and toppled a Confederate statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina. And earlier this week, vandals spray painted the Lee statue in Charlottesville, according to WDBJ.
William C. Lee won glory in a different war on a different continent during a different century.
Following World War I, Lee served as a peacetime military observer in Germany, where he saw first-hand how Hitler’s army was pioneering the use of airborne troops, according to the museum.
Lee was invited to the White House to brief Roosevelt, who ordered that Lee begin planning and training US troops to jump from planes with parachutes just as he’d seen German troops doing years earlier.
Lee rose to the rank of two-star general, leading what became the Army’s 101st Airborne. In his first address to his troops, he told them the division had no history, but it had a “rendezvous with destiny.”
The man accused of killing Iowa State student-athlete Celia Barquin Arozamena wants to be tried at a later date.
In court documents filed Thursday, 22-year-old Collin Richards signed a waiver for speedy trial and asked the court to set a trial date in September or October.
He was originally scheduled to go to trial in April.
Richards was arrested back in September of last year and charged with murdering the former champion golfer for Iowa State at the Coldwater Golf Links in Ames.
He was living at a nearby homeless camp at the time of the murder.
The Southern Iowa Speedway will hold its first Caleb Hammond Memorial Race on April 2nd. You’ll remember 11-year-old Caleb was a big racing ran, who died last September from cancer. The Speedway released a statement saying this race will be a fund-raiser for childhood cancer. More details will be released in the coming weeks.
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