A body was pulled from the Mississippi River near Dubuque on Sunday. Fishermen spotted the body near the Massey Marina and Dubuque County authorities responded and pulled the badly-decomposed body out of the river. That’s about five miles downriver from the Julien Dubuque Bridge. A car was found abandoned on the bridge this past winter. […]Powered by WPeMatico
Jury selection begins today in the double-homicide trial of a Lake Mills man. Thirty-one-year-old Peter Veal was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder after being accused of the early morning November 17th deaths of Mindy Kavars and Caleb Christensen at a residence in northeastern Mason City. Veal pleaded […]Powered by WPeMatico
A man was killed and two children injured in a traffic accident in southern Iowa’s Decatur County. Sixty-nine-year-old James Young of Lamoni was driving a pickup Saturday afternoon when he lost control on a gravel road. The vehicle rolled in a ditch and struck a telephone poll. A State Patrol crash report indicates Young was […]Powered by WPeMatico
Governor Kim Reynolds has signed a proclamation urging Iowans to abide by a new state law that penalizes motorists who fail to slow down or pull into another lane when passing a utility maintainence vehicles. “Utility workers already have very dangerous, high-risk jobs,” Reynolds said this morning, “so moving over and slowing down protects not […]Powered by WPeMatico
Final Class 4A 1. Johnston (33-3), LW #1 2. Dowling Catholic (29-7), LW #2 3. Iowa City West (29-8), LW #3 4. Iowa City High (27-10), LW #6 5. Cedar Rapids Prairie (25-12), LW #9 6. Waukee (24-12), LW (X) 7. Southeast Polk (24-12), LW #4 8. Ankeny Centennial (25-13), LW #5 9. Indianola (28-8), […]Powered by WPeMatico
A top leader in the Iowa National Guard is going to retire in September. Guard spokesman, Colonel Greg Hapgood, says Deputy Adjutant General Steven Altman is retiring. “General Altman grew up in Crescent, Iowa and he got his commission as an officer from Creighton University Reserve Officer Training Program, also known as ROTC, in May […]Powered by WPeMatico
The most distinctive feature of the largest planet in our solar system will get its first close-up inspection by a NASA spacecraft later today with instruments onboard built at the University of Iowa. U-I research scientist Bill Kurth says Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is an enormous storm that’s been swirling on the gas giant for […]Powered by WPeMatico
iStock/Thinkstock(CINCINNATI) -- Nine people were shot -- one fatally -- late Saturday night at a private residence near Cincinnati, police told reporters at the scene. Three of those shot were children. The fatality is an adult female.Police were called at 11:20 p.m. about reports of a shooting at a house in Colerain Township, according to Colerain Township Police Officer James Love.Family members tell ABC affiliate WCPO-TV that a "gender reveal" […]
Courtesy Greg Goodman(FRANKLIN, Tenn.) -- A video captured on a GoPro camera shows the moment when a car clips into a cyclist in a hit and run accident that took place along the Natchez Trace Parkway in Tennessee, sending him tumbling to the pavement.Marshall Grant Neely III of Franklin, Tennessee, 58, was arrested and charged following the hit and run incident that occurred on Saturday, according to police, and faces […]
