A female justice is likely to join the all-male Iowa Supreme Court. One of the Iowa Supreme Court justices is retiring in September. The Iowa Judicial Nominating Commission has submitted the names of three women to Governor Reynolds for the opening. The commission met this week to interview 21 applicants for the post. Late Wednesday, […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowans are letting the DOT know what they think about a proposal to close down some state rest stops. The leader of the DOT Highway Divisions, Mitch Dillavou, updated the Transportation Commission this morning. “We are getting a lot of comments — and that’s good,” Dillavou says. The DOT released a draft plan last month […]Powered by WPeMatico
A motorcade is planned through Des Moines Thursday afternoon to bear the late Governor Robert Ray past some of the sites that were important in his life. Des Moines Police and Iowa State Troopers will lead the hearse carrying Ray past the governor’s mansion the Rays helped restore, past Roosevelt High School and Drake University […]Powered by WPeMatico
The murder trial of a Knoxville man will be moved out of Marion County. Forty-five-year-old Jason Carter is accused in the fatal shooting of his mother, 68-year-old Shirley Carter, in June of 2015. The case has drawn national news coverage, including a “Dateline NBC” segment earlier this year. On Monday, a judge agreed with a […]Powered by WPeMatico
A big dip in donations over the Fourth of July holiday week has led the Red Cross to declare an “emergency blood shortage.” Laura McGuire is a spokesperson for the Red Cross in Iowa. “What that means is donations are going out to hospital patients at a greater rate than they are coming in,” McGuire […]Powered by WPeMatico
The thought that some of the newness of setting off fireworks might wear off in the second year of their legal use hasn’t seem to be the case in some of the state’s larger cities. A spokesman with the Des Moines police department says calls about fireworks nearly doubled this year — despite a ban […]Powered by WPeMatico
Former Iowa Governor Robert Ray’s family has released the details of events they’ve planned for late this week “to observe and celebrate his life.” Governor Ray died on Sunday at the age of 89. His funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at First Christian Church in Des Moines. It’s the same church where he […]Powered by WPeMatico
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley says he has a “favorable” impression of President Trump’s nominee for the opening on the U.S. Supreme Court. “I’ve been following him on the D.C. Circuit Court and he’s been pretty much a person that believes in the Constitution as basic law and something to protect the people from their government,” Grassley said […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa’s largest zoo is welcoming an exceptionally rare creature, one most Iowans have never heard of or seen. It’s a 650-pound okapi named Kimodo from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. Ryan Bickel, spokesman for the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, describes the unusual animal, which is an endangered cud-chewing mammal. “They’re […]Powered by WPeMatico
