by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 31, 2016 | Human Interest, Military, News
The group Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War is working on a long-term way to remember soldiers who served in the Union Army. Highway 6, which runs from Council Bluffs to Davenport was named the Grand Army of the Republic Highway in 1947, but many of the road...
by Matt Kelley | May 31, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News
Des Moines Police say a weekend traffic crash that killed a teenager involved a drunk driver. The crash happened on Des Moines’ northwest side at 2 a.m. Saturday. Police say a car driven by Rose Dillard of Sacramento, California was turning into a gas station...
by Todd Kimm | May 31, 2016 | Sports
When the new school year begins a new era will be underway for the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference which is adding Nebraska Wesleyan University to a league that was formed in 1922. Nebraska Wesleyan had been part of the Great Plains Conference since it formed...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 31, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News
A court hearing has been set for next week for a Mason City man charged with first-degree kidnapping and attempted murder. Police say 43-year-old Jason Clausen assaulted his girlfriend shortly before 6 o’clock Sunday morning. The woman was taken to Mercy-North Iowa...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 31, 2016 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
Five-thousand pigs died when fire swept through a hog confinement in northwest Iowa Saturday morning. It happened in Sioux County, near Hawarden. Hawarden Fire Chief John Strong describes the scene when his crew arrived. “One end was fully engulfed,”...
