that... comes an increasing number of thefts or fraud during swap encounters. that's why le mars police are taking steps to keep their residents safe for everyone involved. abc 9's bria bell brings us more from lemars... "this is just another piece of added security of keeping aware of your surroundings so that the bad guys aren't coming to your home," said king. in the era of online swap meets and websites like craigslist people are increasingly becoming victims of scams and assualts after meeting in public places even like parkng lots, so... "le mars police department is offering their location as a spot for residents to buy and sell items, also known as a transaction safe place," said bell. "over the years, it's become quite aparent that there's been some violence associated with people that buys stuff off of the internet, such as craigslist and all that and we want to provide a safe place for them to exchange the articles that they're buying," said king. if requested, the department is offering services such as identifing the other parties involved in transactions and verify if items are stolen by checking a serial number. residents in the community say they think it's a good idea and a way to be on the front end of a potential crime. "that's an awesom idea...if those facilities for the department opens...it will reduce and probably deminish to the point of non existance, the

hurt while conducting the transaction. you never know," said navarro. "if it was said, if it was broadcasted on the site, i think it could be a good idea," said ferguson. in lemars, bria bell abc 9 news. tim: a homer man was sentenced today tim: a homer man was sentenced today on vehicular homicide charges. russel roberts junior was arrested after a drunk driving accident that killed a siouxland woman. abc9's jess plue was in dakota county district court today for the verdict.

jess: tim, russel roberts junior was sentenced today after a fatal car accident two years ago when roberts drove tiffany schmitt and two others home from a bar. roberts was found guilty of vehicular homicide in the death of tiffany schmitt... and two counts of driving under the influence resulting in serious bodily harm of two of the other passengers. jess: according to court documents, roberts was intoxicated and speeding which caused him to lose control of the vehicle.. the car crashed and overturned in rural dakota county schmitts family was in the courtroom awaiting roberts sentencing. "he has not appologized accept for today, it was nice to hear but i think it's just the beginning" jess roberts was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prision and his drivers license revoked for 15 years. : i spoke to the family about what they thought of the sentencing and how they're dealing with tiffany's loss..i'll have that for you at 10. reporting live in

tim: police are on the lookout for a suspect invoved in an armed robbery this morning in norfolk. authorties say the man walked into the hampton inn..... taking an undisclosed amount of cash before getting away on foot. the suspect is described as a male, standing about 5 foot 9 inches tall. anyone with information on the armed robery is urged to contact norfolk's police division. schools in norfolk were locked down for part of the day, as a precaution. jenna: a local group of women took advantage of the nice weather outside today, rallying for presidential candidate bernie sanders the woodbury county women for bernie sanders organization set up shop on gordon drive to rally for the vermont senator. one supporter says she wants people to know why she's backing bernie. " i've noticed in the media alot of people have been saying that it's just young males that are supporting bernie sanders and we just want to show that there's alot of people that's diverse, not only race but social economic and gender." says tisha dumkrieger. tisha says

americans can relate to and support jenna: last week we brought you the story of an iowa 11 year old who's campaigning for hillary clinton. tim: yesterday, george got to meet her in person. the two snapped this photo yesterday at the jewish federation event in des moines. appearantly, george asked secretary clinton about her policy. clinton says she was overwhelmed with his political prowess. i was thrilled to meet george because he's kind of a legend in our iowa campaign, he's our youngest most consistent volunteer, hes 11 years old, he comes to our headquarters, makes phone calls, i met him today at an event he asked a very good question about syrian refugees. he's a very impressive young man. tim: the latest quinnipiac university poll shows sanders, once again edging out early frontrunner hillary clinton in iowa... but only by a few points. sanders gets 49 per-cent support in this poll coming four per-cent

former maryland governor martin o'malley has four percent. jenna: it appears tomorrow night's g-o-p debate will be one shy, after donald today he'll be holding a simultaneous debate. be holding a special event at drake university the debate stage, because he quote "doesn't want to answer moderator megyn kelly's questions" no word yet on what that event will exactly entail. though trump saying yesterday wounded soldiers. jenna: g-o-p hopeful ben carson is adding his name to the list of candidates in souxland this weekend. carson is set to be at dordt college on campus center. o'clock. he's one of seven presidential candidate who've announced campaign stops in the area this weekend. for a full list of who's where... head to siouxland- matters-dot-com. tim: and here's a look at the iowa caucus media center. 16-hundred journalists and

are converging in des moines for the big day. getting there days in advance to be prepared for the hectic night. i'll be in des moines reporting live from the headquarters beginning friday. tim: and dont forget, tune in right here on abc9 news at 5, 6 and 10 monday for full caucus coverage. we'll have live reports from several precincts and i'll be in des moines giving live updates from the state's capitol. jenna: a local family is inching toward a bit of normalcy after jenna: waiting more than two years to bring their son home from the hospital after he was born 16 weeks early. earlier this month, jack miltenberger was able to fly from a special hospital in ohio to sioux falls. now, he's waiting to go home to elk point... but he can't do that until a team of in-home nurses are in place to take care of him around the clock. jack's family is working with universal pediatrics to find the right people. heather robinson, r.n., universal pediatrics, says, "you

bathing, brushing teething, things of that nature - diaper changing - but a lot of it, a lot of the speech therapy and physical therapy you learn from speech and physical therapists coming into the home, you would integrate that through play." hear from jack's family about their homes for getting their son home, coming up tonight at 10. that's on your health matters. coming up a college student's dream is one step closer to coming true more on the goal he accomplished... thanks to the help of friends and strangers. after the break... (fred) nice temperatures will be seen in the forecast, with even warmer weather for the weekend. but there could be a snow storm tuesday. see you after the break!

student looking to bring his parents to sioux city for his graduation has met his goal. the go fund me page made to bring morningsider paul johnson's parents to the u-s to see paul receive his diploma has reached it's benchmark of 4 thousand dollars. the money will be used to apply for passports for both of johnson's parents who are currently in nigeria. morningside graduates will be walking for commencement on may 14th. tim/jenna/fred (tim) fred, what's the latest on the storm next week? (fred) it still looks like there is potential for a substantial storm next tuesday,

then. fred hexom fhexom@kcautv.c om (fred) the port neal welding company skycam hd from the ho chunk centre shows partly cloudy skies. 43 was the high today, after a low of 11. highs over western iowa were in the 30s, with le mars and sioux city reaching the lower 40s. eastern nebraska and southeastern south dakota saw mainly 40s, with vermillion's high 39. 42 is our current sioux city temperature. local

chills are in the 20s and 30s. that's the result of winds of 10 to 20 mph from the west. zooming out, we can see low pressure over the northern great lakes, and this system pushed a bit of snow through eastern parts of siouxland today. the stormcast hd shows mostly clear skies tonight, then partly cloudy and quiet conditions through saturday, with warming temperatures. tonight, look for and a low of 27. tomorrow, expect and a high of 35. the 7-day shows 40s

sunday. we have a good chance of snow tuesday. let's talk more about this since it could be a major storm. first, it's still in the chance range--a 50% chance. that's a high chance for 6 days away. the tentative timing is tuesday morning through wednesday morning. heavy ow, high winds, blowing and drifting snow, and low visibility are all possible, but the storm track may change--stay tuned! temperatures will cool following the storm next week. jenna/tim/fred (jenna) thanks, fred. (fred) you bet. still to come... if you are a fan of the hawkeyes,

heard their fight song before. but imagine listening to it for 8 hours straight. a distant town's experience when

for iowa city, has been filling the

for eight hours a the university of has been playing on repeat in an empty building. to know exactly reporter alex story: "the university of iowa fight song... a staple of pep rallies and football games recently on 3rd street in niagara falls. confused? (david giusiana/owner, wine on third) " i'm not really sure. i don't know what really started it." wine on third owner david giusiana says over the past six months, an instrumental version of the fight song has played from a vacant

restaurant every day from 3 to 11 p-m. for the first few weeks, he had no idea what the song was. (david giusiana/owner, wine on third) "our manager, tim mehzir, finally decided to use shazaam and identified that's what song it was so no, no one really paid attention to it." while the noise didn't serve as a nuisance inside the restaurant, giusiana on the patio over the summer. he says people who live above the restaurant have also been bothered by it. (david giusiana/owner, wine "some of our residential tenants upstairs have filed complaints and the police have been say they have location several few months, but say they have not been a representative from smokin joes, which owns the building. even if they did, giusiana says he doesn't think any broken. on third) violated the law in 11, and it's not so again, what violates third street got a reprieve from the music tuesday gazette article on the phenomenon got national attention from the likes of deadspin and sports illustrated. giusiana thought the coverage helped stop the music for good, but wine on third workers say it returned at 6:00. now, giusiana hopes whoever is behind the music finds something else to play. (david giusiana/owner, wine

wouldn't be bad, but i don't know having the same iowa fight song repeated every 50 seconds that that's necessarily a positive thing." speaking of the hawkeyes...iowa heads to maryland tomorrow for the first time ever. hear from the team on playing in a tough road environment. plus... rising concerns over head trauma in football players, after autopsy reports reveal more surrounding the tyler sash.

iowa hawkeye star tyler sash was found dead in his oskaloosa home in september following an accidental mixture of two painkillers, his family donated his brain to researchers at boston university. according a report from the new york times, those researchers confirmed a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or c-t-e. c-t-e, which can only be diagnosed during an autopsy, is a degenerative

caused by repeated head trauma, and has been found in dozens of former nfl players. according to the report, the disease had progressed to a stage rarely seen in somebody sash's age. 23 games for the had five concussions in his high school, one two in the nfl. chris: so far this hawkeyes own top-25 teams, that's the most in the country. thursday night, they'll have a chance to make it six when they travel to number 8 maryland. it will be just the time between the terrapins and the maryland. the two have split four previous 71-55 wiby iowa last season at arena. but playing at the xfinity center has been kind to the terps this year perfect 11-0 this so what changes to find success

adam not a whole lot. the size of the court's still the same, the ball's still the same. it's all about controlling your emotions and finding a way to win. it takes poise. poise under pressure. every big ten place gets loud and you've got to be able to control yourself and control what you do on the court." fran mccaffery--"you know we're used to those kinds of facilities on the road. big crowds, you know, loud. nothing different there." jarrod uthoff--"every road game in the big ten is very tough. no matter what opponent it is. whether they're the first seed or the fourteenth seed, you have to stay confident when the crowd gets into it, the building's shaking, you've got to, you've got to keep a level head." this game, big enough the folks in bristol flexed it from espnu to espn tomorrow night. tip off is set for 6 o clock central time tomorrow, again it can be seen on espn. bria bell--"hey president bev, i had fun learning about

challenge today." jenna rehnstrom--"so we decided we want to issue our own challenge for you." tim seaman--"we've got a spot for you on the anchor desk and we want you to anchor briar cliff charger highlights." chris palmquist--"i think they're trying to get rid of me. bev, can't wait for you to join us for this one." about a month ago we put this challenge out to briar cliff president bev wharton as part of her bcu bucket list and well, she accepted. tonight at ten, bev will join us live in studio a will bring us all the action from the newman flanagan center as her chargers host northwestern in a gpac double-

facebook fan photo of the day. today's picture comes from...jason davis of sioux city the 12th arrowhead ultra 135 in northern minnesota. recognized in the book "the world's toughest endurance challenges" one of the 50 toughest races in the world. if you're like to submit a facebook fan photo, just post it on our ab9 facebook page. jenna/tim/chris/fred: (fred) tonight, look for mostly clear skies

partly cloudy skies and a high of 35. the 7-day shows 40s friday, saturday, and sunday. we have a good chance of snow tuesday. let's talk more about this since it could be a major storm. first, it's still in the chance range--a 50% chance. that's a high chance for 6 days away. the tentative timing is tuesday morning through wednesday morning. heavy snow, high winds, blowing and drifting snow, and low visibility are all possible, but the storm track may change--stay tuned! temperatures will cool following the storm next week.