A business owner in Des Moines shot and killed a burglary suspect this morning. Des Moines Police Sergeant Paul Parizek says it happened at 7:15, as the owner of Kraft 5 Star Muffler arrived at his store on the city’s south side. “There was a burglar inside his business, in the process of stealing quite […]Powered by WPeMatico
Last month’s oil spill from a string of derailed tanker cars in northwest Iowa may not have been as bad as first thought. Clean-up is still underway near Doon where flooding evidently led to the derailment of 32 tanker cars on June 22nd. Officials with BNSF Railway now say it appears ten cars leaked oil […]Powered by WPeMatico
More details are being released about a three-vehicle crash on Monday night in Webster County near Badger that killed a Humboldt man and seriously injured a Fort Dodge woman. Reportedly, a 2006 Land Rover driven by 24-year-old Aisha Ismail of Fort Dodge was traveling westbound on Webster County Road C-56 when she started to pass […]Powered by WPeMatico
The Highway Patrol says two pedestrians were killed in separate accidents on Iowa’s roads on Tuesday. The first incident happened around 5 a.m. on Interstate 380 in Buchanan County. Troopers say 21-year-old Angelica Soto of Cedar Rapids was walking along the highway and, according to witnesses, walked into traffic. Soto was hit by a car […]Powered by WPeMatico
While tornadoes can strike during any month of the year, Iowa is now out of the “peak” season for tornadoes and the numbers are well below the norm, according to meteorologist Craig Cogil at the National Weather Service. “So far this year across Iowa, we’ve seen 15 tornadoes,” Cogil says. “Typically by this point in […]Powered by WPeMatico
Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to give a speech at a business in Cedar Rapids this afternoon and headline a fundraiser for Republican Congressman Rod Blum. Governor Kim Reynolds plans to greet Pence at the Cedar Rapids airport in the middle of the afternoon. Pence will go to Rockwell Collins, the largest employer in Cedar […]Powered by WPeMatico
The University of Iowa announced plans Tuesday to close several centers on campus in response to legislative budget cuts. Interim Provost Sue Curry says school president Bruce Harreld made the decision based on input of vice presidents and deans. “We’re doing this in response to back-to-back budget cuts by the legislature and we had to […]Powered by WPeMatico
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Representatives of Iowa’s Asian community will have a special role in the statehouse ceremony honoring former Iowa Governor Robert D. Ray, who died Sunday at the age of 89. Iowans are being invited to line up Thursday afternoon to pay their respects to Governor Ray on Thursday evening at the capitol. David Oman, who served […]Powered by WPeMatico
