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Caravan Escorting Remains of Native American Children Stops in Sioux City Today

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Officials say no deaths or injuries have been reported from tornadoes that tore through central and eastern Iowa, but many have found damaged buildings, shredded trees and overturned vehicles in the path of the storms. The National Weather Service says law enforcement and trained spotters confirmed tornadoes  yesterday afternoon and night in mostly rural, uninhabited areas. But one that touched down near Lake City in north-central Iowa damaged a home, flipped a truck and trailer and flattened nearby corn crops. 

A caravan of Iowans will stop in Sioux City tonight as it wends its way to South Dakota.  The group is helping to escort the remains of Native American children who died at a boarding school as they are returned to tribal lands in South Dakota. Members of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe are repatriating the remains of 9 children who perished at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.  The caravan is scheduled to stop in Tama and Sioux City today, where Native Iowans plan to meet and pray with tribal members. In Sioux City the group will hold a solemn prayer event at War Eagle Park at 8:00 p.m..

Officials in the northeastern corner of Nebraska are recounting ballots in a local school bond election after a single vote separated those for and against the proposal. The Norfolk Daily News reports that Cedar County election workers tallying the Tuesday vote Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Public Schools bond issue election counted 596 votes in favor of the bond and 595 votes against it. A recount was being conducted Wednesday. The $18.5 bond issue and $6.5 million lease purchase proposal would go toward a $25 million project to replace the district's high school and upgrade the attached elementary school. 

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