by admin | Oct 29, 2004 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
This time of year, Iowa drivers often find themselves dodging deer that dart into their path. South of Des Moines this morning, a larger obstacle appeared on the Interstate, as Highway Patrol spokesman Jim Saunders says a mobile home fell off a tractor-trailer on...
by admin | Oct 29, 2004 | Crime & Courts
The mailbox bomber won’t be free for a long time. Back in early September doctors who’d examined and interviewed Luke Helder said he’s delusional and incompetent to stand trial. Helder’s accused of putting pipe bombs in rural mailboxes across...
by admin | Oct 29, 2004 | Crime & Courts
A no-contest plea from a western Iowa man charged with three deaths. 19-year-old Stephen Halbert was at his familiy home in Carter Lake when police showed up with a warrant in his name. They who were looking for his uncle, who has the same name, but the teenage...
by admin | Oct 29, 2004 | Crime & Courts
The next appearance for Dustin Honken is likely to be in Indiana. A jury in federal court in Sioux City voted unanimously to sentence the convicted drug dealer to capital punishment in the deaths of two children — and the death sentence automatically triggers an...
by admin | Oct 29, 2004 | Politics & Government
Vice President Dick Cheney campaigned in northwest Iowa yesterday with his wife by his side. About 500 people gathered in the Sioux City Convention Center last night to hear Cheney, who criticized democratic presidential candidate John Kerry as incapable of leading...
