Emotions boiled over at the sentencing hearing for a Sioux City teenager who was charged with sexually abusing a three-year-old girl he was babysitting in June of last year. Amari Dean, who was 17 when the abuse occurred, was given a deferred judgment and probation. That did not sit well with about two dozen others in […]Powered by WPeMatico
The two major party candidates for state ag secretary say it may be time to discuss requiring that businesses use the federal E-Verify system to check if prospective workers are citizens or legal residents. The man accused of murdering Mollie Tibbetts was working at a dairy farm near Brooklyn under a different name, according to […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa State University police say they took one man into custody after a report of men with guns near an apartment complex last night. ISU police issued an alert around 10 last night of two armed men near a building in Fredrickson Court, with one of them possibly having a rifle. They issued another alert […]Powered by WPeMatico
A young man is in custody after a deadly shooting in southeast Iowa Thursday night. Ottumwa Police were called just before 10 p.m. to a home on the city’s south side at 137 North Ward Street where the caller said one person had been shot and the suspect left in a car. Officers arrived to […]Powered by WPeMatico
The owner of a martial arts training studio in southwest Iowa says he’s seeing renewed interest from women who want to learn how to defend themselves following Mollie Tibbetts’ murder. Jim Sutton, who runs Kung Fu Damsels in Council Bluffs, says many women rely on familiar stand-bys like pepper spray, stun guns and even metal […]Powered by WPeMatico
Governor Kim Reynolds says she is open to discussing creation of a state-level system to confirm people applying for work in Iowa are U.S. citizens or have some sort of legal residency status. “I know there are some states that have done that and it’s been challenged (in court) and they’ve been successful,” Reynolds says. […]Powered by WPeMatico
Allegations of unwanted sexual advances have led to the suspension of a Catholic priest in southern Iowa. Catholic Diocese of Des Moines Bishop Richard Pates says he took the action immediately after hearing the allegations on Wednesday and he notified police in Chariton. A statement from the Diocese identifies the suspended priest as Francis Aning […]Powered by WPeMatico
A spokesman for the Iowa Department of Transportation says the man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts of Brooklyn did not use any official Iowa Driver’s License or ID to get a job. The owner of the farm where Cristhian Rivera worked said he showed them an ID when applying for his job. Rivera is in […]Powered by WPeMatico
A former University of Iowa wrestler is sentenced to prison for hacking the school’s computer system. Twenty-three-year-old Trevor Graves pleaded guilty to unauthorized access and damaging the U-I network in 2015. Graves admitted to using what’s called a key logger to get passwords from professors so he could log onto the system and delete or […]Powered by WPeMatico
