by Matt Kelley | Jun 30, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News
A bank robbery suspect is dead after exchanging gunfire with police in southeast Iowa Wednesday. Police responded to the robbery at the Fort Madison Bank and Trust west-end branch shortly after 10 a.m. and saw a man running from the bank with cash in hand. A news...
by Matt Kelley | Jun 30, 2016 | News, Weather
The National Weather Service is sending a team into southwest Iowa this morning to look for any damage to trees, crops and buildings from last night’s two possible tornadoes. Meteorologist Van DeWald, in the weather service’s Omaha office, says the severe...
by Dar Danielson | Jun 30, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News
The Iowa Court of Appeals says a lawsuit in Council Bluffs over a property registration fee should be given class action status. Carla Limmer filed suit against the city of Council Bluffs in January of 2015, saying the property registration fee of 15 dollars for each...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jun 30, 2016 | News, Politics & Government, Religion
An 80-hour Bible-reading marathon begins at 8 a.m. today outside every county courthouse in the state. Karen Brownlee has been organizing the volunteer readers who will be on the Des Moines County Courthouse lawn in Burlington. “We have two-hour teams that come...
by Dar Danielson | Jun 29, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News
The Iowa Court of Appeals has declined to act on a request to extend the statute of limitations in an alleged sex abuse case. The case involves a female identified as Jane Doe who alleged she had been sexually abused by her high school track coach in Keokuk beginning...
