by Dar Danielson | Apr 30, 2015 | Crime & Courts, News
An eastern Iowa couple is facing multiple sex charges involving a minor. Twenty-year-old Michael Darling and 27-year-old Jennifer Darling of Marion are charged with sexual exploitation of a child, enticement of a minor and receipt of child pornography. The charges...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Apr 30, 2015 | Crime & Courts, Education, News
A central Iowa school district will be replacing a teacher and coach who was hired just a few weeks ago. The Lynnville-Sully School Board on April 6 approved hiring 32-year-old Chad Osler of Manchester to become a junior high social studies teacher, the head varsity...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 30, 2015 | Human Interest, News, Weather
Pella’s annual Tulip Time festival draws thousands of visitors to the south-central Iowa community every spring, but this year, the colorful flowers are blooming a bit early. Festival chairwoman Susan Canfield says she’s not too concerned. “There are over...
by O. Kay Henderson | Apr 30, 2015 | News, Politics & Government
The former legislator who was acquitted on sex abuse charges last week says he believes his late wife, who suffered from dementia, would be alive today if she hadn’t been placed in a nursing home. Henry Rayhons of Garner is visiting friends at the statehouse...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Apr 30, 2015 | Crime & Courts, News
A local political candidate is among nearly a dozen people charged with prostitution in Waterloo following a sting operation at a local hotel. In all, 11 people were taken into custody Tuesday on prostitution charges. Waterloo police say three women, seven men, and a...