by Radio Iowa Contributor | Mar 30, 2017 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
The state fire marshal is being called in to help determine the cause of an explosion last night that injured two people and severely damaged a Waterloo home. Waterloo Fire Rescue Lieutenant Ben Petersen says a woman and her three children all escaped the blast and...
by Matt Kelley | Mar 30, 2017 | Business, News
A western Iowa man who made extra money years ago pumping and hauling liquid manure for area farmers now runs a multi-state agricultural business with 60 employees. Ben Puck, the CEO of Puck Custom Enterprises, is being named the Iowa Small Business Person of the Year...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Mar 30, 2017 | Crime & Courts, News, Politics & Government, Technology
Texting while driving would be treated like driving drunk in a case of vehicular homicide under a bill that’s advanced in the Iowa House. “What this bill makes very clear to the courts is that drunk driving and distracted driving are on the same...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 30, 2017 | News, Politics & Government
The Iowa House and Senate have approved a bill that could make it easier for an all-terrain vehicle to get from point A to point B when there’s a public highway in between. ATVs will not be able to join the cars, pick-ups and semis that drive down any...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 29, 2017 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
Republicans on a House committee have tabled a proposal to ban abortions at about the sixth week of a pregnancy, after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. Instead, Republicans in the Iowa House are pursuing a ban on abortions after the 20th week of a pregnancy, unless...