by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Crime & Courts
A couple from Hazelton faces nearly 80 burglary charges for a series of break-ins in four Buchanan county communities. Brian Latham and his wife, Tina, are accused of a string of burglaries to schools and businesses in Hazelton, Aurora, Winthrop and Quasqueton. The...
by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Crime & Courts
A judge has overturned a jury’s verdict in the case of a woman from Wapello who was accused of forging nearly 22-thousand dollars in checks. Thirty-nine-year-old Sandra Kemp was accused of forging the checks from her mother-in-law’s account. Her...
by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Crime & Courts
Grisly details have been released in a southern Iowa murder case. Investigators say the body of a 53-year-old Ottumwa man was dismembered, then put in a car which was set on fire last week. 31-year-old Kenny Hemm from Eldon is in jail, charged with the murder of Larry...
by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Crime & Courts
A northeast Iowa teenager was arrested Thursday after authorities say she made a threatening phone call to her school. Police have charged 15-year-old Kara Hutchinson of Manchester with calling West Delaware High School and making a bomb threat. Police say she made...
by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Military
A one-hundred-four-year-old eastern Iowa man will receive France’s highest honor in a ceremony today. The French “Legion of Honor” will be given to Frank Proske of Blue Grass for his service in World War One. Jack Hackett of the Veterans Affairs...