by Dar Danielson | Dec 31, 2014 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
Temperatures have dropped to below freezing and that has many people using all kinds of heating sources to try and stay warm. A spokesman for the State Fire Marshal, Ron Humphrey, says before firing up the wood stove or plugging in a space heater, be sure to reduce...
by Matt Kelley | Dec 31, 2014 | Crime & Courts, News
Police are investigating a deadly stabbing this morning in Des Moines. Police say the initial call came just after 3 a.m. and claimed an intruder entered the house and was stabbed. It happened at 1141 Amos Avenue in Des Moines. Responding officers found a 34-year-old...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 31, 2014 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
An administrator from one of the two institutions in Iowa that educates medical doctors says there’s an “extreme shortage” of physicians in the state and the problem could worsen because many Iowa doctors may retire soon. “At least 44 percent...
by Matt Kelley | Dec 31, 2014 | Crime & Courts, News
A report released Tuesday shows 50 law enforcement officers were killed by guns this year across the country. Sergeant Scott Bright, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Public Safety, says none of those incidents occurred in Iowa. “We did not lose any law...
by Dar Danielson | Dec 31, 2014 | Crime & Courts, Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
Iowa’s Attorney General announced seven lawsuits in six counties in cases where construction started without a call to check for underground utility lines. AG spokesman Geoff Greenwood says the complaints involve natural gas lines. “In all of these cases,...
