that level of caution." dr. gausman added surselys case has been sent to the iowa educational board of examiners office. they deal with teacher certifications. sursely's could face up to five years in prison if convicted. i'm holding the court documents that says what he told police. we have that information inside this story on ktiv dot com. shelia. thanks, for the update sam. this isn't the first incident involving north hihi school and a caca of a sexual nature. thirty-year-old erick deleon received a five-year suspended prison sentence and placed on probation for sexual exploitation by a school employee. the judge found him guilty of having sex with a student. deleon ran a program for at-risk students at north high school. but, the judge determined deleon was also a school district employee. that's because he worked as an

school. the girls mother has filed a federal lawsuit against the sioux city community school district. north high school's previous band director resigned after stealing thousands of dollars of school instruments. in 2013, kevin massey was sentenced to three years of probation and a five-year suspended sentence. he pleaded guilty to theft after prosecutors lowered the charge. plus, he was ordered to pay almomo $20,000 in restitution to thehechool district and three pawn shops. investigators say he stole more than $50,000 in instruments to cover gambling debts. new details are being released following a threat made friday against sheldon high school. the threat was written on a bathroom wall of the school, but officials have not revealed what the threat said. according to the o'brien county attorney, a 14-year-old boy was taken into custody on saturday. the county attorney confirmed he was a student of the high school. a hearing is set to determine whether he should be held in detention or released. the county attorney says that hearing will take

where the state has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the 14-year-old made the threats alleged against him. so, far no charges filed against four students in connection with a school threat in northeast nebraska. the threat, posted on facebook, forced a lockdown and evacuation of newman grove high school yesterday. the school was searched and given the all clear later in the afternoon. the four students were being held at the northeast nebraska juveniele detention center. a south sioux city man has pleaded not guilty to burglary. 20-year-old arturo silvas pleaded not guilty to one he faced charges after police the door at a home on west 2nd street in sioux city and then threatened a man with a gun. federal officials are calling for a two-month delay in iowa's switch to a private medicaid program. governor terry branstad had planned to hand over management of the 4.2 health care program to for-profit insurance companies starting january 1st. our nights will be getting colder!

meteorologist ron demers for the first look at our forecast. weather ad-lib temperatures today may have felt a bit cool, but this is what average feels like (after quite a warm stretch). it was still breezy today but that wind will settle down tonight and temperatures will be colder with lows settling back into the teens. we'll clear out the sky on friday although that sunshine will not help our highs as we only top out in the upper 20s. republican presidential candidate mike huckabee made a stop in siouxland today. this is a live look from the sioux county livestock company in sioux center where the candidate made an appearance. later tonight, huckabee will be in estherville at 7:30 and at in emmetsburg at 8:30. he'll be in laurens, storm lake and sac city tomorrow. huckabee polls at two percent among republican candidates nationally. he also polls at two percent in the iowa gop presidential caucus, placing him in ninth place. we'll hear more from the arkansas governor on news 4 at ten. ben carson stops in siouxland tonight. the republican is scheduled to attend a rally at the spencer airport thursday night at 6:30.

stoney creek inn friday night at 7. democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders will make campaign stops in siouxland next week. on monday, the vermont senator will be speaking at the boys club of sioux city at 7 p.m. on tuesday he will be at buena vista university in storm lake at 10 a.m. the last time sanders campaigned in siouxland was in july. the new star wars movie "the force awakens" opens tonight in siouxland. ktiviv tiffany lane is at the promenade theatre in downtown sioux city where people have been lining up! tiffany? sheila, it's so exciting out here. there are hundreds of people lined up, many in costumes. one of which is rick lacy. how long have you been waiting in line here? now describe your costume to me? how long did it take to bring this together? who are you herereith? how much ahead of time did you get your tickets? well i hope you guys enjoy the movie.

(sheila) tiffany, do you plan on watching the movie? (tiffany) (sheila) tiffany, do you plan on watching

(tiffany) i didn't make e in time to buy tickets for tonight but i am a big star wars fan and will as i can. and after tonight, i even got some great costume ideas. live in downtown sioux city with live link 4, tiffany lane, ktiv news 4.

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window shopping brought back alive in what some would call the spirit of the season. as ktiv's sam curtiss takes us to storm lake, iowa to santa's castle. "this is christmas," said ron stevenson. "this is what it should look like. this is what we should bebeoing every year." "you walk in the door and everything is exciting," sasa ron stevenson. "it's like being at disney only it's christmas and it's snow." "most people have been here before and they like coming back year after year," said ron stevenson. "it's a generational thing for us." "my name is ron stevenson," said ron stevenson. "you're in santa's castle in storm lake, iowa" said ron stevenson. "this is my sixth year as director of santa's castle," said ron stevenson.

here," said ron stevenson. "we don't have any sad kids unitl they see santa sometimes." "i get everything from puppies to kitties to the wiz," said santa. "i just had one child say i want the world to be peaceful and santa. "one wanted a little sister tonight," said santa. "working on the castle itself it's a year round project," said santa. "there's 65 decorated christmas trees [and] there's 70 pieces of animation," said ron stevenson. "but the secret is the animation always stays the same," said ron stevenson. "it's how we redecorate each year." "it's how it's displayed," said ron stevenson. "i keep everything down low to the ground so children ages two, three and four have an eye son view of it." "it's their size," said ron stevenson. "they actually think it's real." "where else can you go see christmas like this?" asked ron stevenson. "not at a shopping mall." " if you wanted to visit santa's

open on the 19ththrom 10 to 2 in the afternoon. plenty of people decorate the chrimas. but in le mars, iowa, probably none are more extravagent than one home along highway three. it's not hard to find if you've never driven by it before. your eyes will practically gravitate toward the display by how large it is. mark and shari frerichs are the two masterminds bebend the aurora of lights and blow-up characters. frerichs says they've been doing this for what he thinks is 24 years now. and the display keeps getting bigger every year. "how many lights, uh, we don't even know for sure," said mark frerichs. "we tried counting but we can't keep track of it. it's just

he says to put it all up it kes about six weeks.s.ainly working on the weekends. and a uple hours here and there at night. but he says it seems never ending as upkeep is constant to replace bulbs. if you've seen it once, you haven't seen it all because it's different each year. there's a lighted path around the outside you can walk to look at it. and surprinsgly, frerichs says setting it up is the hardest part. "taking down is easier because you don't have to worrry about where you're going to put it anymore," said markkfrerichs. "it's already planned out so taking down is easier than putting up." mark says the reason he and his wife continue to do this is because it's their gift to the community. brad's here -- it's been a busy week of coaching changes. dordt college has hired a new football coach, who's hoping to move the program ahead. we go to sioux center to talk with joel pepeer. and, we'll hear from iowa state's naz mitrou- long -- after an injury cut his season

program, dordt college is still looking for their first winning record. the defenders have gone 4 and 18 over the past two seasons -- but made a coaching change on tuesday. joel penner is dordt's new head football coach. penner spent the last four years as the offensive

in ohio. the 37-year-old has 16 years of college experience, including three years at northwestern college. penner says he was looking for 3 things before he took the job -- player abilities -- being able to put together his own staff -- and institutional support. he says he found everything he was looking for. "i feel great about t l three aspects," said penner. "we've gogoa lot of work to do but i feeee like all three of those keyeyomponents are in place. to hhe eleven strong on defense and eleven strong on offense is not enough. and so recruiting for depth, i think, is one of the biggest challenges." dordt's all-time record in eight years is 12 and 66. the defenders have also won just three conference games in their history. the league features powers like morningside and doane, who made the playoffs this season -- plus northwestern, who is a playoff contender most years. renner says it will take everyone's help to compete in the gpac. "there's no way this is a one man job," said penner. "the support that's required is pretty overwhelming to really get something going. i

where they don't just need another hard-working staff. i believe they've had that. there e eded to be an ignition of some e rt and i'm excited about what that looks like." renner is dordt's third head football coach. you can see the entire interview inside this story at ktiv.com. morningside's zac schleuger , is one of 63 national finalists for the cliff harris award. the award goes to the nation's top small college defensive player -- representing almost 500 schools -- and is named for the former dallas cowboys safety. schleger was morningside's leading tackler and the gpac co-defensive player of the year. he had 115 total tackles and returned two interceptions for touchdowns. iowa state's basketball team still hopes to contend for a national title. the fifth-ranked cyclones won't be at full strength after the loss of shooting guard naz mitrou-long. the senior will miss the rest of

recover from surgery on his hips this mitrou-long played in the fifit eight games this season -- all wins -- while averaging 12 points. isu does add marquette transfer deonte burton to the roster when he saturday. mitrou-long will seek a medical redshirt and hopes to get back to 100 percent for next season. "just after playing the iowa game i felt like i had been feeling a little while earlier," said felt like it was time, especially being under that nine game window and having a guy like deonte burton coming back versususni, i just felt l le it was the perfectime to call it for myself." "this is just a decision we felt is in the best interest of him going forward," said isu head coach steve prohm. "he's got all my support and prayers." iowa state plays northern iowa

a look at ticket sales for star wars: the force awakens. the much anticipated movie was expected to bring in giant ticket sales. that story on news 4 at ten. tonight: partly cloudy. low: 16 wind: w 5-15 mph tomorrow: decreasing clouds.

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