teachers, to their cars after school was dismissed. a message over the intercom at the school also advised everyone to stay in their homes for night as the manhunt continues. the knox county sheriff says authorities are looking for a native american male, wearing blue jeans and a blue hoooded sweatshirt. he is also said to have a tattoo on his adam's apple. knox county sheriff's officials and the nebraska state patrol are both involved in the search at this time. a former high school band director accused of sending innapropriate texts to a student has pleaded not guilty. 34-year-old lucas sursely, former band director at north high school in sioux city, has pleaded not guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor. according to court documents, sursely admitted to police he sent pictures of himself wearing underwear to a 15-year-old student and asked her a sexual question. sursley resigned shortly after an investigation into those claims started. if convicted, he could face up to five years in prison. (matt)

today after a small plane crashed near pender, nebraska, killing the pilot. (sheila) the plane took off from colombia, missouri and was headed for sioux city. ktiv's tommie clark was on scene today and spoke with investigators. tommie what's the latest? matt and sheila, sunday night, airport officials diverted the flight because of bad weather and investigators searched until the plane was found. now, the national transportation safety board is leading the investigation into what caused the crash.

this, it's tough," said wayne municipal airport caretaker, jim hoffman. plane remains hitting together in the wind. "this is where the plane crashed and now an investigation is underway, led by the national transportation safety board." lead investigator, craig hatch, says it's a "man-machine" type of investigation. "the aircraft that's the machine, maintenance, how it was operating what was working what wasn't working and then the environment, radar environment, air traffic control, obviously the weather. so we kind of put that all together to eventually come up with the probable cause," said national transportation safety board lead air safety investigator, craig hatch. then they will start looking at the qualifications and training of the pilot. "i have not heard of any problems. he was in fact talking to air traffic control. i've been in contact with our air traffic control specialist, who's actually located in d.c., he's digging up those tapes and those recordings and i'll get those when i get back to the office," said national transportation safety board lead air safety investigator, craig hatch. tuesday they documented the on-site examination.

the scenario...it could take up to a year to find the cause of the crash. near pender, nebraska...tom mie clark...ktiv news 4. >> the wreckage should be removed from the scene in a few days. it depends when the on- site investigation is complete, which hatch hopes will be by tomorrow morning. matt and sheila? thanks tommie. after the plane investigation is complete, investigators will come out with safety recommendati ons. those guidelines will be for the maker of the plane, the federal aviation administration and other pilots. they will cover what can prevent another accident like this from happening. "the tip is flight plan. look for weather, if it's a long duration of flight look at your fuel management and certainly if you're talking to air traffic control they can help you out if you do run into a problem," said national transportation safety board lead air safety investigator, craig hatch. hatch says a preliminary report of the investigation findings will be issued in about a week. a gas leak closed a busy downtown intersection for about an hour this afternoon. investigators say construction

were working in the alley on nebraska street, between 5th and 6th streets, hit a gas line. area businesses were evacuated, and streets around the leak were closed off to traffic. utility crews fixed the leak, and the intersection was re-opened at about 2:20, thia afternoon. no one was hurt. the temperatures were in the 30s today so it felt a little warmer. chief meteorologis t ron demers is here to tell us what the rest of the week has in store. weather ad-lib a stronger south wind combined with a little better clearing today to get many of us back into the 30s for our highs. temperatures won't drop much tonight as a disturbance moves into siouxland and gives us a slight chance of light freezing rain, sleet, or snow toward wednesday morning. a mix could linger early tomorrow with some light snow possible wednesday

only a dusting expected. (matt) presidential hopeful hillary clinton made her way to sioux city this afternoon to gain voters support ahead of the nation's first caucus in iowa. (sheila) ktiv's tiffany lane is at the orpheum theatre where she spoke to voters. tiffany? matt and sheila, her stop was part of her two- day campaign swing across the state and it was called the "fighting for us town hall." as you can see it has cleared out, but earlier there were about 450 people here in the lobby of the orpheum. clinton brought up many domestic issues facing the country today. but one of her main focuses was the economy. she said the country needs to build an economy that she believes focuses on everyone. some of the ways she said that could be done would be through new jobs and creating

e and manufacturur g jobs. "instead of giving tax breaks to companies to export our jobs, i want the ones who will bring jobs back and create jobs here to get the tax breaks and that's what i will fight for." as part of her economic goals, clinton said as president, she would raise minimum wage, raise taxes on the wealthy and have equal pay for women. clinton also talked about defending the affordable care act and how she would make it work better. to completether trip to iowa, clinton is currently headed to council bluffs. in sioux city with live link 4 and chief photographer jordan ogren, tiffany lane, ktiv news 4. presidential candidate ted cruz says president obama's new executive orders on gun sales aren't "worth the paper they're printed on." the texas republican told iowa voters at his first campaign stop today in onawa that he would overturn obaba executive orders.. including those on guns.. saying his pen "has

it was the latest stop on cruz's six-day, 28 stop bus tour of iowa.. where he leads the republican presidential pack in recent polling. he also stopped in cherokee and will be in sioux center tonight at 6:30. ktiv's robert lowe is in sioux center and will have more on cruz's campaign tonight on news 4 at 10. two siouxland lawmakers weigh in this year's legislative session that gets underway in less than a week. when the gavel falls monday morning the house will have at least one new member. state representativ e chuck holz of le mars. he replaced chuck soderberg. holz, who is a republican, says he believes the biggest issue facing the state will be money. "there's going to be a lot of need and i don't know how much revenue there's going to be," said chuck holz, republican state representative from le mars. "i think the state revenue is probably not going to be down. but it's sure not going to be up as much as what we'd like." state representativ e chris hall of sioux city says he has some key areas where he would like to see action. they include clean water, anti-bullying legislation and bringing back economic dollars to sioux city. but, the

concerns. "we have a lot of new players, there's a new speaker of the house, a new appropriations chair," said chris hall, state representative from sioux city. "and i think that it may have an impact on negotiaiaons." last year, lawmakers completed action on a seven-point-three billion dollar budget for the 2016 fiscal year. included in there was the first increase in the state gas tax in 26 years. still to come... find out what challenges farmers are facing today and what they think needs to be done to solve

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to get many of us back into the 3030for our highs. temperatures won't drop much tonight as a disturbance moves into siouxland and gives us a slight chance of light freezing rain, sleet, or snow toward wednesday morning. a mix could linger early tomorrow with some light snow possible wednesday afternoon with only a dusting expected. another chance of a mix will be with us thursday before better chances of snow come our way thursday night into friday with light accumulations possible. this system moves out for the weekend allowing very cold air to move in for the weekend. highs by sunday may not even get out of the single digits with slight warming early next week.

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the latest gizmos and gadgets for the 2016 farming season. it also serves as a reminder of the challenges farmers face today. ktiv's michelle e hoening traveled to vermillion, south dakota to talk with farmers and those in the industry about the issue.

farming as a career means the average age of today's farmer continues to rise. "the average age of the us farmer is 59 years old now, so in the next few years it's going to get worse," said david fick, dave's repair david fick, farmer and equipment sales representative from dave's repair, says the way to fight the rising average age of a farmer and lack of labor force is with better and more efficient equipment. "some people ask you know, why does this stuff have to be so big and so large and so expensive. it's because we don't have the people any more we can't do it the way it use to be, " said fick. and although commodity prices are low and the need for young farmers continues to rise, carr says from his 75 years of experience, farming is an up and down cycle. "it's a way of life and it'll continue to be a way of life. one way or another it will go on," said loren carr, farmer. >>

through thursday at the dakota dome in vermillion, south dakota. admission is free to the public. (sheila) brad's here -- high school basketball is back. after the break -- almost everyone is in action tonight. ktiv's mark freund is live in crofton, nebraska, with more the crofton and ponca girls met in the stata tournament last year and they square offffgain tonight. i'll have a preview -- in just a minute. and, sioux city native adam woodbury will get a special honor tonight when the hawkeyes take on nebraska.

nebraska have been as dominant as crofton over the last few years. the warriors are 7-2 this season and ranked second in class c2. crofton is home tonight for a tough matchup with ponca. sports fource is "on the road" in crofton, nebraska. ktiv's mark freund is live with more. nebraska's class c-2 has been dominated by crofton over the last 5 years. the warriors finished as the state runners-up in 2011 - and haven't lost a state title since. ponca comes to town tonight - as crofton continues its quest for a fifth straight state championship. the indians had just 7 losses last seaean - but three of thehe came to crofton. that includes a 58-27 victory in the statee

down in lincoln. this is the only scheduled meeting between the two teams this year - and the warriors know that ponca is going to give them their best shot. "they got a lot of kids returning from last year and a lot of familiar faces", said head coach aaron losing. "i'm sure we'll get a good effort tonight and we'll have to lace up our shoes and be ready to go." "they know that w wbeat them last year in a really important time at the state tournament," said senior brenna allen. "they always bring their "a" game and they're a very tough team, very aggressive and very scrappy and it will be a good match for us tonight." "with the history of last year i'm sure both sides will be excited and ready to play hard tonight," adding coach losing." so far, so good for crofton tonight - it's in the first ququter. we'll have all that action at 10 on the return of sportsfource extra.

wayne state's maggie schulte is the northern sun's south division, women's basketball p pyer of the week. the sophomore from wynot, nebraska, averaged 19 points and 5 rebounds in home wins over southwest minnesota state and sioux falls. in the two games, schulte made six three pointers. wayne state, 7-6 overall -- and 4-4 in the conference, has road games on friday and saturday. there are some great advantages for basketball players staying in college for four years. first and foremost -- you hopefully get your degree. a big plus for the seniors at ioio -- you get your ownwn bobbleheadadight. adad woodbury, a senior center from sioux city east has his bobblehead game, tonight against nebraska. the first 15-hundred fans will get this likeness of number-34. of course, the 19th- ranked hawkeyes first goal is to beat the huskers and get to 3-0 in the big ten. but having your own bobblehead is nice. "i don't get one obviously because i don't have a ticket but i'm sure my parents are going to wait in line with everybody else and try to snag one or two of them" said woodbury. "they're more excited about it than me. it would be cool to have a bobblehead but i'm all about

iowa's 11-3, while nebraska is 8-7. tipoff is at 8 o'clock on the big ten network. iowa cornerback desmond king will pass on the nfl draft and return to play for his senior season with the hawkeyes. the daily iowan reports king's decision to return has to do with unfinished business, after the hawkeyes lost their last two games of the season. king was a consensus all-american and won the jim thorpe award as the nation's top defensive back. he led the big ten with eight

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