ABC News(HOUSTON) -- Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo has a message for survivors of Hurricane Harvey who are sill waiting to be rescued: "hunker down, hold tight."The city's top cop urged patience Monday morning on ABC News' "Good Morning America" as residents of his city continue to battle through a devastating storm that is expected to drop up to 50 inches of rain, with continued life-threatening flood conditions, in the […]
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- Emergency workers begin releasing water into the Buffalo Bayou from two flood-control dams in Houston on Monday, a move that could impact thousands of residents, officials said. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it began to release water from the Addicks and Barker dams early Monday morning to prevent uncontrollable flooding of the Houston-metropolitan area as water levels continued to rise rapidly beneath […]
One analyst predicts gasoline prices in Iowa could rise between 10 and 25-cents a gallon over the next week or two because of Hurricane Harvey. Gail Weinholzer, spokeswoman for AAA-Iowa, says oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico were shut down as a precaution as the massive storm approached and they’ll reopen soon. The problem […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa’s new collective bargaining law that went into effect this year requires teachers and other school employees in 14 school districts and community colleges to hold recertification votes next month. The leader of the state’s largest teacher union is trying to get the word out. Iowa State Education Association president Tammy Wawro has visited all […]Powered by WPeMatico
The state’s seventh dove hunting season opens Friday and an Iowa Department of Natural Resources expert says many hunters have probably already been out scouting. DNR Wildlife research biologist Todd Bogenschutz says the preliminary work is key in dove hunting. “Definitely when you are thinking about dove hunting — doing some pre-season scouting before the […]Powered by WPeMatico
There are now a half dozen candidates seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for congress in Iowa’s third district. Pete D’Allesandro of Des Moines has worked in Iowa political circles for the past couple of decades and, in 2016, he managed Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign in Iowa. D’Allesandro says the “core issue” in 2018 will be […]Powered by WPeMatico
The head of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council says it’s time for a state law governing the retention as well as the release of police video camera footage. Randy Evans, executive director of the council, also is questioning a state board’s decision to meet privately last Friday and withhold information about its deliberations over […]Powered by WPeMatico
Law enforcement agencies in at least three northeast Iowa counties are investigating reports of women being sexually assaulted on rural roads. Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson says three women have reported being assaulted this month in Black Hawk and Linn Counties while driving on sparsely populated roads. Another report came from Tama County. In the […]Powered by WPeMatico
Des Moines police have identified the victim and a person of interest in the latest homicide case. Des Moines police and fire units were called out last Friday afternoon to find two vehicles on fire and a man with severe burns over 90 percent of his body. Twenty-six-year-old Christopher Lenhart died on Sunday. Police determined […]Powered by WPeMatico
