@SCPDHq/Twitter(NEW YORK) -- A Long Island mother and her adult son and daughter were arrested and charged in connection with a string of armed robberies over the weekend, including a stick-up that occurred on Saturday, police said.Deborah Salvatore, 55, along with her son Rick Mascia, 25, and daughter Lauren Mascia, 31, were arrested on Saturday night, accused of robbing six businesses -- one of them twice -- over the past […]
@CALFIRE_PIO/Twitter(LOS ANGELES) -- Parts of California will be at an enhanced risk of wildfire ignition this week amid record-breaking heat and gusty winds, meteorologists said.The greatest risk will be in southern parts of the state where temperatures are forecast to hit dangerous triple-digit levels on Monday and Tuesday, meteorologists said.The heat, coupled with gusty winds, will create “the most dangerous fire weather conditions seen in the past few years,” according […]
The Iowa Board of Regents has selected a new president for Iowa State University and she’s already on the Ames campus. Regents President Michael Richards made the official announcement after the board conducted interviews with three finalists for the job today. “Ladies and gentlemen, Doctor Wendy Wintersteen, president of Iowa State University,” Richards said to cheers […]Powered by WPeMatico
Northwest Iowa authorities confirm the three bodies recovered from a submerged car are those of a missing Sioux City family. Officials say 53-year-old Salomon Medina-Zavala, his 43-year-old wife Angelica Gonzalez and their 17-year-old daughter Vanessa Medina-Gonzales were found in the car pulled from the Missouri River. “We just received word from the medical examiner that […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa officials have withdrawn the state’s request for a federal waiver to adjust the federal health care law rules and help as many as 72,000 Iowans buy individual insurance policies for 2018. The U.S. Treasury Department was “several weeks away” from calculating the state’s financial commitment to the plan, plus Governor Kim Reynolds said ObamaCare is too […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Monticello man was killed in a collision in Linn County over the weekend. The accident happened Saturday afternoon at the intersection of Highway 151 and Alderman Road. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office says a van northbound on Alderman Road crossed Highway 151 and struck a motorcycle that was southbound on Highway 151.The driver of […]Powered by WPeMatico
A long-time statehouse insider who helped start one of the state’s largest churches has died. Calvin O. Hultman, known as “Cal” in the capitol, was elected to the legislature in 1972 and he represented the Red Oak area in the Iowa Senate for 18 years. During much of that time, he served as the Republican leader in […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa Department of Transportation officials say adding blue and white lights to a snow plow greatly reduces the chance of a crash between the plow and other motorists on the road. Craig Bargfrede, the DOT’s winter operations administrator, says a pilot project launched two years ago involved adding the blue and white scheme to plows […]Powered by WPeMatico
Class 4A 1. Iowa City West (9-0), LW #1 vs CR Washington 2. Dowling Catholic (8-1), LW #2 @ Urbandale 3. WDM Valley (8-1), LW #3 vs Lewis Central 4. Bettendorf (8-1), LW #4 vs Pleasant Valley 5. Cedar Rapids Prairie (8-1), LW #5 vs #7 Cedar Falls @ Wartburg 6. Johnston (8-1), LW #6 […]Powered by WPeMatico
