by Matt Kelley | Mar 31, 2010 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
A small airplane crashed in rural Polk County this morning as the pilot tried to land at the Ankeny airport. The pilot and a passenger both escaped serious injury. The plane was experiencing engine problems and flipped over when it hit the ground. Elizabeth...
by Matt Kelley | Mar 31, 2010 | Business, Fires/Accidents/Disasters
An Indianola man died Tuesday after he was injured in a workplace accident. Forty-five-year-old Christopher Gehringer was injured Monday at the Anderson Erickson Dairy facility in Des Moines. A.E. Marketing Director Kim Peter declined to provide details, but said the...
by Dar Danielson | Mar 31, 2010 | Business, Education, Human Interest
The president of a north-central Iowa bank says their incentive program to bring people back to the community has paid off — and they will extend it. Hampton State Bank president, Brad Davis, says the program started in the fall of 2005 and is called...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Mar 31, 2010 | Crime & Courts
This summer, the Iowa State Patrol will be three-quarters of a century old. The agency started off in July of 1935 as the Iowa Highway Safety Patrol. Lieutenant Kelly Hindman, of the Fort Dodge post, says Iowans may have noticed a commemorative license plate on...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 31, 2010 | Politics & Government
Governor Chet Culver is praising Democratic legislative leaders for blocking a vote on a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that would ban gay marriage. Culver held a news conference in his statehouse office on Wednesday afternoon, about 24 hours...