A woman was shot by a Des Moines police officer early this morning has died. The police department’s news release says 29-year-old Tiffany Lynn Potter tried to get away from patrol officers at approximately 2:01 A.M. They say Potter pulled into the driveway of a home and fled the car. She had a gun and […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he hasn’t yet been given a security briefing on the latest flexing of North Korea’s military muscle, but he is following the situation closely. As most Americans celebrated the Fourth of July, North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile. It flew for 39 minutes and — according to the […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Cedar Rapids man says his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter is the victim in a Williamsburg murder case. On Monday, police in Williamsburg charged 29-year-old Cody Stevenson with first-degree murder, only identifying the victim as a child not related to Stevenson. Chris Loffer told KCRG-TV it was his daughter, Bella, who died Monday. Loffer separated from the […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Sioux City man was severely injured in a fireworks accident Monday evening. A Sioux City Fire Rescue spokesman says the man was shooting off fireworks near his home about 8 p.m. when the fireworks exploded, blowing off one of his hands. The victim was transported to a Sioux City hospital. His name and condition […]Powered by WPeMatico
An overnight fire damaged several buildings in Melcher-Dallas, a community that’s about 40 miles southeast of Des Moines. Two businesses appear to be a total loss. “Sinners and Saints” was a bar and “That’s My Bag and More” sold refurbished furniture and clothing. The post office in Melcher-Dallas, a bank and another business were heavily […]Powered by WPeMatico
State lawmakers this year deeply cut the funding to the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Aaron Lehman, president of the Iowa Farmers Union and chair of the Leopold Center’s board of directors, says he’ll work tirelessly to get lawmakers to reverse those funding cuts in next year’s legislative session. “It’ll be […]Powered by WPeMatico
The demand for food assistance has pushed the state’s largest food bank past a “milestone.” “We now average a distribution of one million pounds of food a month, but even a million pounds is not enough,” says Danny Akright of the Food Bank of Iowa. The organization distributes food to about 500 organizations in 55 counties and […]Powered by WPeMatico
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Yosemite National Park has had a dramatic increase this year in visitors, but it's not humans who've converged en masse: Bear encounters at the national park rose 100 percent in early June compared to the same period in 2016.Officials for the 1,1169-square-mile-park, recorded 16 incidents involving bears so far this year -- with half of them occurring in just two weeks, from May 27 to June 9 […]
Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(FLINT, Mich.) -- Lt. Jeff Neville, the police officer stabbed in the neck at a Michigan airport last month, says the maintenance man who jumped in to help him is a "hero."If the man had not have been "walking beside me I wouldn't be here talking to you today. There's no doubt about it," Neville recalled today at a Fourth of July parade in Fenton, Michigan, according to ABC […]
