Gazette Daily News Briefing, March 20

This is John McGlothlen with The Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Monday, March 20th.

According to the National Weather Service, it will be partly sunny today in the Cedar Rapids area, with a high near 50. Winds from the southwest, 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Then tonight it will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 36.

For the fourth time since 2015, Iowa is in the NCAA women’s basketball Sweet 16. Caitlin Clark posted 22 points and 12 rebounds, and had a hand in 33 of Iowa’s 35 second-half points. Iowa fought past Georgia, 74-66, in a second-round game before a sellout crowd Sunday afternoon at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Iowa advances to face No. 13 Duke or No. 21 Colorado in a regional semifinal Friday at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.

The remains of a 19-year-old sailor, who died aboard the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor, are being returned to his hometown of Monticello for burial Saturday. Seaman 1st Class Donald A. Stott joined the Navy at age 17 after his dad agreed and signed the enlistment papers. He had been aboard the Oklahoma for a year and a day when Japanese planes and submarines attacked the harbor in Hawaii on a Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941. The Oklahoma capsized, and Stott and 428 of his shipmates died. The “day of infamy” attack killed 2,403 U.S. personnel, including 68 civilians, and destroyed or damaged 19 Navy ships, including eight battleships.

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