by admin | Jun 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
Three-thousand Special Olympics athletes will be in Ames this next week to participate in the first-ever Special Olympics U-S-A National Games. Twenty-one-year-old Matt LaRue of Des Moines will participate in bowling, softball, track and field events and golf. But...
by admin | Jun 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
A southwestern Iowa woman’s in more trouble over accusations she stole money from a former employer. Eighteen additional charges have been filed against a Murray woman who has already been charged with writing checks to her husband from her former employer and...
by admin | Jun 30, 2006 | Human Interest
Organizers say it’s the largest peace-time airlift ever. More than two-hundred planes coming from 28 different states will be landing in Des Moines this Saturday to deliver hundreds of athletes to the first-ever Special Olympics U-S-A National Games in Ames....
by admin | Jun 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
D-N-A evidence found in a car led investigators of a cold case to arrest a man this week in the killing of an Iowa native. Fifty-two-year-old William O’Hare was fatally beaten eight years ago at his home in South Dakota. A grand jury that saw the new evidence...
by admin | Jun 30, 2006 | News
A helicopter crashed in Benton County this afternoon, killing one person on a crew that was filming a movie in Iowa. KCRG television chopper pilot Bobby Ratliff flew to the scene soon afterwards to survey the wreckage. “It does look like a serious crash, not a...
