the federal community development block grant money will help schuyler update its comprehensive plan and will allow clearwater to conduct housing and blight studies. a grant from the nebraska office of highway safety will provide 7,000 addition hours of enforcement targeting impaired drivers through january 3rd. according to administrator fred zwonecheck, 78 alcohol-related fatalities were recorded in nebraska last year. those and more stories can be heard on news talk wjag, lite rock 97.5 and 106 kix. " this year black friday saw a record number of gun sales across the country... ananwith that came the applicicions for concealed carry permits. while there were only about 4 point-7 million permits issued in 2007....according to the crime prevention research center, that number rose to around 12 point 8 million in 20-15 ... and while iowa doesn't require "shoot to qualify" tests... or in-person training to obtain a carry permrm.. experts believe it's key. "we need tbe thouroughly trained if you want to be an asset to this community versus just a potential risk." jessica rae: if you ar

writing schuyler sign up for the national guard in charleston. the sergeant has 14 days left to enjoy his family afterthe big surprise. [ applause ] sonia gutierrez, news 19, wltx. >> sergeant hale said he is so thankful for everybody who made this surprise possible. especially his wife, kathy davis, and his commander. >>> many parents like to dress up with their children for halloween. to surprise his son. >> my name is loren to do. i am in the u.s. army. i can stationed in hawaii and i just did a nine-month tour to korea. by seven by 7-year-old son isaiah thinks i am come to visit sunday on the first. i flew in earlier to surprise him tonight at his school halloween dance.>> reporter: while isaiah did the same thing any 7-year-old was do, he had no idea. separated from his father since last december, his mother said his first thought in the morning is how long it will be until they are reunited. >> he says mommy guess what, 10 more days. nine more days. and he kept going down and down. it was hurtful not to say it's today. i've always wanted to

their teacher, schuyler snakakberg, challenged them to think outside the box and to dream big. so the student's decided to start emailing, calling and approaching candidates on social media. they even drove up to coralville to ask clinton to cce to keota during ananvent last month. she told them she'd come down, and today she "our town only has a 1,000 people, and in my mfmory we've never had a presidential candidate here before and now we've hadadhree, one of them being secretary clinton, and i think it's amazing that we've had this opportunity and it's just pretty great." no surprise much of clinton's speech centered around education as well as her ncerns about student debt for those w w go on to college. tonight at six we'll let you know what these semester. in iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. hillary clinton is holding a town hall meeting in fairfield right now. this is a live look at the event. former iowa governor tovilsack is there with her. later tonight, the former secretary of state will hold what her campaign calls a "thank you" event at a united steelwork

so at the start of the school year their teacher, schuyler snakenberg, told them the class would focus less on tests and quizzes and more on projects and the community. "i decided i was going to challenge my students to come up with something that was going to improve our community our state and our nation and they really latched onto this idea of writing to presidential candidates because we're the first in the nation for the caucus and we have this wonderful opportunity these national and international icons. " "we wanted to like improve our community state and nation by inviting candidates to talk about their plans to improve it, we just really wanted to get the word out about how different candidates are doing differere things." throughout the semester they made phone calls and contacted presidential candidates on social media -- the result -- keota high school, a school of 80... a center r r political activityty "i think we believed in ourselves from the very beginning but we never thought it would be this big or this amazing, this event was more than we could have ever dreamed of

like the hamiltons were the schuyler's robert morris. but it was an isolated life very contrary to the virginia way of life that debris still. sometimes martha did not like her restrictions she wrote to be any with the president was away i never go to any public place where more like a state prisoner. usually she was more philosophical she said she was not dissatisfied with her elevated situation as everybody conspires to make me as contented as possible. in new york on washington's birthday was made the occasion of celebration and every year after that. before the revolution became his birthday was the most important date in the secular calendar secretary of state jefferson later growled birthdays and drawing rooms washington introduce the trappings of the english courts to establish that constitutional monarchy. but in fact, month by month with washington's help was stamping authority from protocol and etiquette and criticism of the executive branch late february the washington's took up residence in a new poll released by congress a l