EVANSDALE (AP) — A reward has been doubled to $50,000 for information leading to an arrest in the slayings of two Iowa cousins. Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers said Tuesday the increase was possible because of a donation from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Waterloo Police Department ...
ALTOONA (AP) — Authorities in central Iowa say a 19-year-old woman has died after being hit by a pickup truck. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that the incident happened around 9:30 p.m. Friday at an Altoona intersection. The Iowa State Patrol says the truck was northbound and had ...
WATERLOO (AP) — Police in northeastern Iowa say a Waterloo woman wounded in an accidental shooting is expected to recover. The Courier reports that the woman was taken to a hospital following the shooting Thursday night. Police say first responders were called to a home around 10:15 p.m. ...
OSCEOLA (AP) — An Iowa man and wife accused of neglecting and mistreating their adopted children have been given two years of probation. Clark County District Court records say 42-year-old Kelly Fry and her 43-year-old husband, Kenny Fry, on Thursday were granted deferred judgments and were ...
CLINTON (AP) — Authorities in eastern Iowa say a kayaker has been rescued from the Mississippi River at a dam at Clinton. Television station KWQC reports that the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office was called Friday to Lock and Dam 13 for a water rescue. Officials with the Clinton Fire ...
CRESCO (AP) — A northern Iowa man who authorities say had vowed to kill his wife if she ever divorced him has been convicted of shooting her to death. Howard County District Court records say 35-year-old Brian Fullhart was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder. He’ll be sentenced ...
ESTHERVILLE (AP) — City workers and firefighters have rescued a 7-year-old girl whose head became stuck between two rungs of a water tower ladder in northern Iowa. Officials say the girl is autistic and was reported missing a little before 10 a.m. Thursday from her home in Estherville. She ...
COUNCIL BLUFFS (AP) — Authorities say the remains of a western Iowa man who was reported missing in 2009 were found this year inside a closed supermarket where he’d worked. The Council Bluffs Police Department said in a news release Monday that the man’s been identified through DNA ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Some Nebraska and Iowa businesses are still struggling to recover from flooding that damaged their properties or otherwise kept customers away from their doors. The Federal Emergency Management Agency estimated that in Nebraska alone, more than 1,000 businesses were ...
By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES — Democratic leaders in the Iowa Legislature called Monday for government oversight hearings on Gov. Kim Reynolds’ refusal to discuss her reasons for asking the director of the Iowa Department of Human Services to resign. Senate and House ...
DES MOINES (AP) — A group of nurses working at Iowa prisons and other state-run facilities who have sued the state and Gov. Kim Reynolds claim hundreds of state-employed nurses have not been paid overtime for two years. The lawsuit filed in state court on June 28 seeks a court order to force ...
By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES — Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and a staffer discriminated against the state’s then-commissioner of workers’ compensation in 2011 because he’s gay, and the ex-official is entitled to $1.5 million for emotional distress, a jury said ...
DES MOINES (AP) — Midwest farmers and their Republican elected officials rarely miss a chance to shower President Donald Trump with praise when he takes actions they believe help agriculture, but they’re now parsing their words over the administration’s policies dealing with ...
DES MOINES (AP) — Democrats in the early presidential contest states of Iowa and Nevada will be able to cast their votes over the telephone instead of showing up at their states’ traditional neighborhood caucus meetings next February, according to plans unveiled by the state parties. The ...
By SUSAN PAYNE The Daily Nonpareil COUNCIL BLUFFS — Kanesville Riders Honor Guard formed in 2014 under the premise of one mission: To make sure no veteran is buried without honor. Now a 30-member group, the Honor Guard has committed more than 530 military funerals, capable of presenting ...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An Iowa man who eluded authorities for almost eight years after his indictment on federal firearms charges has been apprehended at a remote ranch on a Montana Indian reservation. Michael Duane Strain of Lime Springs, Iowa, made an initial court appearance Friday in ...
ROCK FALLS (AP) — The remains of a missing Illinois man have been found in a northern Iowa campground pond. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that the body of 48-year-old Larry Eugene Howlett, of Sandwich, Illinois, was found Friday evening in the Camp of the Woods pond at Rock ...
IOWA FALLS (AP) — Authorities say a north-central Iowa couple have been killed in a crash at an intersection near Iowa Falls. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that 63-year-old Kevin Barz and his wife, 49-year-old Julia Barz, of Hampton, were pronounced dead at the scene of the Friday ...
IDA GROVE (AP) — A man Iowa authorities say was intoxicated when his vehicle crashed into another, killing three men, now faces felony charges in the case. The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil reports that 21-year-old Ryan Daniel Childers, of Odebolt, was charged last week with three counts of ...
DES MOINES (AP) — Police say a 23-year-old Des Moines woman has been arrested for a fatal hit-and-run crash. The crash happened just before 3 a.m. Thursday at a Des Moines intersection when a sport utility vehicle and car collided. Police say the driver of the car, 19-year-old Kevin Troung, ...