Members of the 2-174th assault helicopter battalion will be having a send off on Friday. There will be 60 members from the National Guard who will be going to Fort Hood, Texas first. After that training they will serve in Afghanistan and Iraq. The soldiers saying goodbye to friends and family will start at 5pm in Boone, IA, on Friday.
Mollie Tibbetts murder on August 21st, 2018 brought national attention. She was a student at University of Iowa. Her body was found in a cornfield and the cause of death was stab wounds. Controversy was made over immigration because the suspect of the murder was confirmed an illegal immigrant to the U.S. The trial of the suspect, Bahena Rivera, was set for April of 2019. This trial became delayed due to the interview of the suspect not being properly reviewed by the prosecution and defense. Currently, Rivera and his attorneys are trying to get the trial delayed longer. The reason for the delay request is that new forensic evidence was released earlier this month that can prove Rivera guilty, though he is pleading not guilty to first degree murder.
Fort Dodge police are still on the lookout for 19-year-old, Damion Lamont Chavez, for first degree murder. Chavez shot and killed 28-year-old, Mohammed Yaqoub, around 8:05pm on Friday. Police have arrested a 16-year-old also involved in the case with first-degree aiding and attempted robbery. First responders responded to the 1400 block of A Street West to find Yaqoub unresponsive and having several GSWs. First responders tried to bring him back, but were unsuccessful.
The teacher that made a comment on Facebook about Greta Thunberg's visit has resigned. The science teacher at Waterloo West High School was placed on leave after posting "Dont have my sniper rifle" on an article about Thunberg. The Waterloo police said last week that law enforcement is still investigating this incident. They said the department would only publicly address the incident if an arrest is made.
Matt Baish is a science teacher at Waterloo West High School. He was suspended for posting a disturbing post on facebook. A few weeks ago a girl from Sudan, Greta Thunberg visited Waterloo high school to talk about climate change. Matt later deleted the comment but, someone had screen shoted it.
In Lee County Iowa, 22-year-old Holly Matthews was driving her jeep eastbound when she stopped to turn. 62-year-old Harry Reynolds was also traveling eastbound on Highway 2 when he swerved to avoid hitting Matthews jeep. While he managed to avoid hitting her driver side he hit the rear end causing him to roll into the ditch. Harry Reynold’s wife, 69-year-old Ronnie Underwood, was airlifted to the University of Iowa medical center. Last known condition of Ronnie was critical Harry and Holly’s condition are still unknown.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — A 17-year-old suspect was taken into Council Bluffs police custody after crossing state lines early Monday morning.
Police said Omaha police officers spotted a black pickup truck, believed to be stolen, entering Council Bluffs on Interstate 480 around 2 a.m. A Council Bluffs police officer spotted the Dodge Ram near 30th Street and 2nd Avenue, but the driver sped off.
About 10 minutes later, police said the pickup truck crashed near 9th Avenue and Harrah's Boulevard. Police said the pickup had collided with a second vehicle at the intersection.
After a short search, police took a teenager into custody. Police have not released his identity.
investigators said the people in the vehicle hit by the pickup truck are OK.
Greta Thunberg came to Iowa recently to speak about global warming. This was a big event that a lot of people would be attending. Prior to Thunberg showing up a teacher posted on fast book that he "didn't bring is sniper rifle." The waterloo-schools teacher was put on leave after the post surfaced. As of yesterday the teacher has officially resigned. He had worked for West High for over 25 years. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/465618-iowa-teacher-resigns-following-sniper-rifle-comment-about-greta
Last Friday night at around 8 pm, Fort Dodge police were called to the west side of the city for reports of a shooting. 28 year old Mohammed Yaqoub from Sioux Falls was shot to death. First responders were unable to revive him. Police say that they have arrested the 16 year old, and still looking for a 19 year old man in connection of the shooting.
Trial in Mollie Tibbetts killing now pushed to February. 25 year-old Cristhain Behena Rivera will face trial beginning February 2, 2020 for the abduction and murder of 20 year-old Mollie Tibbetts. Rivera is charged with 1st degree murder and was supposed to begin trial November 12, 2019 but the trail was pushed back to allow an expert witness more time to review evidence. Rivera is also accused of being in the country illegally as he is a Mexican national. https://kwwl.com/news/2019/10/12/trial-in-mollie-tibbets-killing-now-pushed-to-february/
A nineteen-year-old named Damion Chavez was arrested on Saturday driving a vehicle on Interstate 75, in Georgia. Arrangements have been made to send Damion back to Iowa. Damion is being charged with both robbery and first-degree murder. Damion is being accused of murdering Mohammed Yaqoub who lived in Sioux Falls. Mohammed was twenty-eight-years-old.
Over the weekend a group of juveniles beat a man when him and his girlfriend were coming home from a date. It happened on the skywalk at Fifth and Grand just before 9 pm on saturday. The man was taken to the hospital and he had bruising, sharp red marks, and a swollen left ear, they also found shoe print marks on him. The victims couldnt identify the attackers so the investigation is still in progress. The Des Moines police Sgt. said that violent crime like this is very rare on the sky walk. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/10/14/des-moines-iowa-crime-juveniles-attack-couple-skywalk-date/3974203002/
At 5am Tuesday morning the Marion Fire Department responded to the report of a fire at 2345 5th Avenue #4. As a fire blazed in the aparment the firemen rescued one person. That person was taken to the hospital. The police and fire department say they could see smoke coming from the apartment when they got to the scene. The fire was quickly put out after they arrived. The fire is still under investigation.
An Iowan high school teacher has resigned after saying he didn’t have his sniper rifle when Greta Thunberg was speaking. Matt Baish was a teacher in Waterloo and was put on leave after making that comment. The school made sure that the courses could still be taught at West High School while the teacher was on leave. He made the comment a before Greta came to talk about climate change.
Iowa woman recovered after getting trapped in a burning home in Melcher Dallas, Iowa. Woman is recovering in the Iowa City hospital after she got trapped in her burning home. The fire crew said the house fire happened around noon on Friday. The Crew found Amanda Lewis after they broke the door down to get into her home to get her out. Amanda Lewis was airlifted from her home to the Iowa City hospital. There is nothing left of the house and they don't appear her to be suspicious. There is also a GoFundMe set up for Amanda Lewis and her family. https://whotv.com/2019/10/12/iowa-woman-recovering-after-getting-trapped-in-burning-home/
This article went over the very slow process taking place to bring broadband internet to Iowa. Broadband is classified as 25 megabits per second download, and 3 megabits per second upload. Overall, the studies showing how many people are without broadband vary widely in their results, from 60 to 89% as given numbers. The big cities all seem to have Broadband speed internet, but maps show rural areas have big pockets without high speed internet. The article also throws out a number of 19%. It says that 19% of people have only one choice of Broadband internet provider, which is true in my case as well. Broadband internet is very important in work, school, and farm settings. Homework can not be done as fast, and neither can precision farmwork and many aspects within dairy and grain factories. Many people are disappointed in the progress of a project that started over a decade ago.
On october 13th there was a big car accident. On highway 2 in lee county 1 death and 3 injuries occurred. As a person was trying to turn off the road another car tried to swerve and miss the car and ended up hitting another car. One 69 year old guy was transported by helicopter to the hospital. More news is yet to come on this incident.
One main topic in Waterloo on Oct. 14th 2019 was the mayoral position. They talked about raising the mayor's salary from $87,000 to $102,000. Waterloo's current mayor runs full-time without a city manager or administrator. Discussion centered around delaying the vote to change the government styles of city council and mayor. They talked about giving the mayor an assistant or city administrator to lighten the load for the mayor. They amended the amount received to $94,000 compared to the $102,000 starting January 1st 2020. https://kwwl.com/news/2019/10/14/waterloo-city-council-passes-initial-vote-for-increase-in-compensation-for-mayor/
The organizers of RAGBRAI announced they are starting a new bike ride across Iowa in 2020. It’s scheduled to happen the same week as RAGBRAI. The director of RAGBRAI made this announcement on Tuesday. RAGBRAI means Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. RAGBRAI ended up donating $50,000 to Carson King’s fundraiser for the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital and other charities. The Iowa Ride will begin in western Iowa on July 19 and travel across northern Iowa and finishing at a town along the Mississippi River on July 25. The exact route will be announced on November 2019.
Dylin Roxane Rae Sears was the age of 21 when she lost control of her car on I-80 east. The police believe to think she was attempting to pass another car when she drove into the median and rolled her car. She was not wearing her seat belt and was ejected from the car. She was being med flighted to a hospital in Nebraska when she died. She was originally from La Vista, Nebraska.
After an in-home daycare in Des Moines was told they had to drop their number of children down from 13 to 5 or 6. Officers witnessed 13 children being dropped off even after the warning. They executed a search later that day. During the search warrant, authorities found multiple guns located where children could find them and medication bottles filled with a "green leafy substance" inside the home. A child was also strapped into a swing without supervision behind a closed door. West Des Moines police said the investigation is ongoing.
Police are continuing their investigation on the unregistered Des Moines daycare that had drugs, and over 20 firearms in the house. The Iowa Department of Human Services received anonymous tips on May 28th saying that the owners were not properly taking care of the kids. Parents of kids who went to this day care said that there kids would come home with bumps and bruises, and that the babysitters would often put the kids in one room, and they would go into a different room, and watch tv. On June 12 the police found over 20 handguns, and about 3.4 grams of marijuana, and paraphernalia were also found. The West Des Moines Police department said on Tuesday that they are still investigating, and that no criminal charges have been made yet.
In Iowa City there was a car crash on the 14th of Oct. The one person in the crash was the driver. They driver who the released the name was dead when emergency crew got there. the cause of death is under investigation. https://kwwl.com/news/2019/10/15/fatal-single-vehicle-crash-around-north-first-avenue/
The staff of RAGBRAI have resigned and are starting a new bike ride to start in 2020. The former director of RAGBRAI, T.J. Juskiewicz, Made the announcement on Tuesday. The team resigned because of racist tweets from Carson King. The RAGBRAI team got backlash and will no longer be supporting RAGBRAI. Their new biking tour is called “Iowa’s Ride” and will be held around the same time RAGBRAI normally is next year. https://whotv.com/2019/10/15/ragbrai-staff-resigns-starts-new-bike-ride-across-iowa/
There was a big bearded guy named Blair Davis and he lived in San Diego. He went to the Wheel of Fortune and said he married a horrible wife and had three bad step kids. He also had one awful grandson. This story went viral. Blair Davis wasn't being serious. He went on to say his family is all nice but it's made a good story!
A cold case in Iowa. This case is from about 40 years old. The guy name that was charged for killing a high amount of students. The police arrested him at Dec 19, 39 years ago today. Police say investigators matched a blood sample from the crime scene with a sample taken from Burns.
In West Des Moines on June 7, 2019, police got a call that on illegal in-home daycare was operated with about 18 children a day. Iowa law states that the daycare would be fine if they had 5 or fewer children. Five days after the call police watched the morning drop off of children, 15 kids were dropped off that morning. Later that day they got a warrant to search the house. They found guns in reach of children to play with, the smell of marijuana, pill bottles filled with a green leafy substance, and child in a swing strapped to a closed-door unsupervised. Yesterday October 15, 2019 police talked to the neighbors about the daycare and a number of them said they would see multiple children running around outside unsupervised and some of the children even ran into the neighbor's garages. The investigation is still ongoing. https://www.kcci.com/article/search-warrant-finds-gun-in-reach-of-child-at-day-care/29478664
According to the RAGBRAI website, the director TJ Juskiewicz who has been in charge for the last 16 years has resigned along with the entire staff. In the letter on his website, he states that his constant attempts to communicate with his loyal riders have been blocked by the Des Moines register. He also says that after the embarrassment with the Des Moines register and Carson King, RAGBRAI has received a lot of criticism and would like to clarify that RAGBRAI is separate from the Des Moines registers news division. https://www.kcci.com/article/ragbrai-staff-split-from-dm-register-start-iowa-s-ride/29476940#
There had been an apartment fire in Marion, Cedar Rapids. The Marion Fire Department, Police Department, and State Fire Marshal's office determined what had caused the fire. It was caused by a smoking object which ended up igniting a combustible material on a couch. One person is in the hospital in critical condition, and another person was rescued and flown to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics burn unit. Pets were also saved, and the fire was quickly put out.
Blood fills up and Iowan basement. Nick Lestina and his family of seven were getting ready to put their house on the market until their basement was flooded with animal blood. Their basement was filled with nearly five inches of animal blood, fat and bones as a result of drainage from a meat locker next door. They have lives next to a meat locker for over ten years and never had a problem until recently. The neighbors were dumping hog and cattle remains down a floor drain which is connected to his pipes.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/16/iowa-familys-basement-fills-blood-meat-locker-next-door My story is about a family that came home to find their basement filled with animal blood. The house that the guy and his family were living in were connected to the same drain system as the meat locker next door. Animal blood, fat and remains came through the drain of the home (in the basement). They think this problem is happening now due to a clogged drain. The meat locker is going to help with any repairs on Wednesday.
Seth Rogan tweets a story about a 20-year-old man who used a fake Hawaii ID with the name “McLovin”. Daniel Burleson of Des Moines was in Iowa City at the Airliner Bar was he was arrested. It happen in the early morning hours on Friday, October 11. A criminal complaint said that he had a drink in his hand and he told the police he bought the ID from Amazon. This is a nod to ‘Superbad’ Rogen 2007 hit movie, where they stopped an underage kid using a fake Hawaii ID at a liquor store. He faces multiple charges and Rogan’s tweet is captioned as saying “my work here is done.” The tweet has more than 107,000 retweets and 625,000 likes.
A man named Nick Lestina was trying to sell his house in Bagley Iowa found a big problem when trying to sell it. It was not a lack of buyers it was the fact that his basement was filled with animal blood. The Blood had come from a neighboring meat locker. They had flushed blood down floor drains which are belived to be connected to there house
An iowan man that was recently putting his house onto the market, a family of seven, had lived next to the meat locker that was next door. The blood drained down the pipes in their house that connected to the locker. The owners of the meat locker offered to help clean up and pay for what happened. Most of the things in their basement was destroyed, including a bed for one of the children.
On Oct. 3, a father of five came home to discover five inches of blood, animal fat and water in his basement. Nick Lestina lives next door to next door to Dahl's Custom Meat Locker in Bagley, Iowa, where the source of the blood and animal fats came from. The cause of the backup into Lestina's basement is thought to be a clog in the tile line that the Locker and Lestina share. Nothing can be done about the backup until dryer weather comes. The Iowa department of Public Health has said that the home is now unsuitable to live in until the mess is cleaned up.
Four people including three law enforcement were injured after an attempt to serve an arrest warrant led to gunfire at a central Iowa apartment building. At about 10:43 p.m someone inside the home began firing a handgun at the officers.Two deputies were hit by gunfire. A third was injured with a non-gunshot wound.One of the people in the home was injured by gunfire.
Four people including 3 law enforcement men were injured after they tried to give them a warrant for their arrest. It was gonna be a simple task and then gunshots were fired. Someone inside the house started firing a handgun at the officers and 2 were hit and one was injured and someone inside the house got injured too. They don't know how many people were in the house. But they do know it was one person with a handgun and never mentioned his/her name.
Starbucks is going to stop selling newspapers and also they are going to start removing the products that customers aren't buying anymore. The changes are going to take place in 8,600 Starbucks company's in the United States. Starbucks has been gradually are reduced in selling the not core products in the Starbucks. Many of the Starbucks are going to start doing mobile ordering might do a drive through. They have no idea if this will even work out.
Members of the 2-174th assault helicopter battalion will be having a send off on Friday. There will be 60 members from the National Guard who will be going to Fort Hood, Texas first. After that training they will serve in Afghanistan and Iraq. The soldiers saying goodbye to friends and family will start at 5pm in Boone, IA, on Friday.
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Mollie Tibbetts murder on August 21st, 2018 brought national attention. She was a student at University of Iowa. Her body was found in a cornfield and the cause of death was stab wounds. Controversy was made over immigration because the suspect of the murder was confirmed an illegal immigrant to the U.S. The trial of the suspect, Bahena Rivera, was set for April of 2019. This trial became delayed due to the interview of the suspect not being properly reviewed by the prosecution and defense. Currently, Rivera and his attorneys are trying to get the trial delayed longer. The reason for the delay request is that new forensic evidence was released earlier this month that can prove Rivera guilty, though he is pleading not guilty to first degree murder.
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Fort Dodge police are still on the lookout for 19-year-old, Damion Lamont Chavez, for first degree murder. Chavez shot and killed 28-year-old, Mohammed Yaqoub, around 8:05pm on Friday. Police have arrested a 16-year-old also involved in the case with first-degree aiding and attempted robbery. First responders responded to the 1400 block of A Street West to find Yaqoub unresponsive and having several GSWs. First responders tried to bring him back, but were unsuccessful.
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The teacher that made a comment on Facebook about Greta Thunberg's visit has resigned. The science teacher at Waterloo West High School was placed on leave after posting "Dont have my sniper rifle" on an article about Thunberg. The Waterloo police said last week that law enforcement is still investigating this incident. They said the department would only publicly address the incident if an arrest is made.
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Matt Baish is a science teacher at Waterloo West High School. He was suspended for posting a disturbing post on facebook. A few weeks ago a girl from Sudan, Greta Thunberg visited Waterloo high school to talk about climate change. Matt later deleted the comment but, someone had screen shoted it.
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In Lee County Iowa, 22-year-old Holly Matthews was driving her jeep eastbound when she stopped to turn. 62-year-old Harry Reynolds was also traveling eastbound on Highway 2 when he swerved to avoid hitting Matthews jeep. While he managed to avoid hitting her driver side he hit the rear end causing him to roll into the ditch. Harry Reynold’s wife, 69-year-old Ronnie Underwood, was airlifted to the University of Iowa medical center. Last known condition of Ronnie was critical Harry and Holly’s condition are still unknown.
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ReplyDeleteA 17-year-old suspect was taken into Council Bluffs police custody after crossing state lines early Monday morning.
Police said Omaha police officers spotted a black pickup truck, believed to be stolen, entering Council Bluffs on Interstate 480 around 2 a.m. A Council Bluffs police officer spotted the Dodge Ram near 30th Street and 2nd Avenue, but the driver sped off.
About 10 minutes later, police said the pickup truck crashed near 9th Avenue and Harrah's Boulevard. Police said the pickup had collided with a second vehicle at the intersection.
After a short search, police took a teenager into custody. Police have not released his identity.
investigators said the people in the vehicle hit by the pickup truck are OK.
Both vehicles were towed from the scene.
https://www.kcci.com/article/pursuit-involving-stolen-pickup-truck-crosses-state-lines/29458596
Greta Thunberg came to Iowa recently to speak about global warming. This was a big event that a lot of people would be attending. Prior to Thunberg showing up a teacher posted on fast book that he "didn't bring is sniper rifle." The waterloo-schools teacher was put on leave after the post surfaced. As of yesterday the teacher has officially resigned. He had worked for West High for over 25 years.
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Last Friday night at around 8 pm, Fort Dodge police were called to the west side of the city for reports of a shooting. 28 year old Mohammed Yaqoub from Sioux Falls was shot to death. First responders were unable to revive him. Police say that they have arrested the 16 year old, and still looking for a 19 year old man in connection of the shooting.
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Trial in Mollie Tibbetts killing now pushed to February.
ReplyDelete25 year-old Cristhain Behena Rivera will face trial beginning February 2, 2020 for the abduction and murder of 20 year-old Mollie Tibbetts. Rivera is charged with 1st degree murder and was supposed to begin trial November 12, 2019 but the trail was pushed back to allow an expert witness more time to review evidence. Rivera is also accused of being in the country illegally as he is a Mexican national.
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A nineteen-year-old named Damion Chavez was arrested on Saturday driving a vehicle on Interstate 75, in Georgia. Arrangements have been made to send Damion back to Iowa. Damion is being charged with both robbery and first-degree murder. Damion is being accused of murdering Mohammed Yaqoub who lived in Sioux Falls. Mohammed was twenty-eight-years-old.
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Over the weekend a group of juveniles beat a man when him and his girlfriend were coming home from a date. It happened on the skywalk at Fifth and Grand just before 9 pm on saturday. The man was taken to the hospital and he had bruising, sharp red marks, and a swollen left ear, they also found shoe print marks on him. The victims couldnt identify the attackers so the investigation is still in progress. The Des Moines police Sgt. said that violent crime like this is very rare on the sky walk.
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At 5am Tuesday morning the Marion Fire Department responded to the report of a fire at 2345 5th Avenue #4. As a fire blazed in the aparment the firemen rescued one person. That person was taken to the hospital. The police and fire department say they could see smoke coming from the apartment when they got to the scene. The fire was quickly put out after they arrived. The fire is still under investigation.
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An Iowan high school teacher has resigned after saying he didn’t have his sniper rifle when Greta Thunberg was speaking. Matt Baish was a teacher in Waterloo and was put on leave after making that comment. The school made sure that the courses could still be taught at West High School while the teacher was on leave. He made the comment a before Greta came to talk about climate change.
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Iowa woman recovered after getting trapped in a burning home in Melcher Dallas, Iowa. Woman is recovering in the Iowa City hospital after she got trapped in her burning home. The fire crew said the house fire happened around noon on Friday. The Crew found Amanda Lewis after they broke the door down to get into her home to get her out. Amanda Lewis was airlifted from her home to the Iowa City hospital. There is nothing left of the house and they don't appear her to be suspicious. There is also a GoFundMe set up for Amanda Lewis and her family.
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ReplyDeleteThis article went over the very slow process taking place to bring broadband internet to Iowa. Broadband is classified as 25 megabits per second download, and 3 megabits per second upload. Overall, the studies showing how many people are without broadband vary widely in their results, from 60 to 89% as given numbers. The big cities all seem to have Broadband speed internet, but maps show rural areas have big pockets without high speed internet. The article also throws out a number of 19%. It says that 19% of people have only one choice of Broadband internet provider, which is true in my case as well. Broadband internet is very important in work, school, and farm settings. Homework can not be done as fast, and neither can precision farmwork and many aspects within dairy and grain factories. Many people are disappointed in the progress of a project that started over a decade ago.
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On october 13th there was a big car accident. On highway 2 in lee county 1 death and 3 injuries occurred. As a person was trying to turn off the road another car tried to swerve and miss the car and ended up hitting another car. One 69 year old guy was transported by helicopter to the hospital. More news is yet to come on this incident.
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One main topic in Waterloo on Oct. 14th 2019 was the mayoral position. They talked about raising the mayor's salary from $87,000 to $102,000. Waterloo's current mayor runs full-time without a city manager or administrator. Discussion centered around delaying the vote to change the government styles of city council and mayor. They talked about giving the mayor an assistant or city administrator to lighten the load for the mayor. They amended the amount received to $94,000 compared to the $102,000 starting January 1st 2020.
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https://whotv.com/2019/10/15/ragbrai-staff-resigns-starts-new-bike-ride-across-iowa/
ReplyDeleteThe organizers of RAGBRAI announced they are starting a new bike ride across Iowa in 2020. It’s scheduled to happen the same week as RAGBRAI. The director of RAGBRAI made this announcement on Tuesday. RAGBRAI means Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. RAGBRAI ended up donating $50,000 to Carson King’s fundraiser for the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital and other charities. The Iowa Ride will begin in western Iowa on July 19 and travel across northern Iowa and finishing at a town along the Mississippi River on July 25. The exact route will be announced on November 2019.
Dylin Roxane Rae Sears was the age of 21 when she lost control of her car on I-80 east. The police believe to think she was attempting to pass another car when she drove into the median and rolled her car. She was not wearing her seat belt and was ejected from the car. She was being med flighted to a hospital in Nebraska when she died. She was originally from La Vista, Nebraska.
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After an in-home daycare in Des Moines was told they had to drop their number of children down from 13 to 5 or 6. Officers witnessed 13 children being dropped off even after the warning. They executed a search later that day. During the search warrant, authorities found multiple guns located where children could find them and medication bottles filled with a "green leafy substance" inside the home. A child was also strapped into a swing without supervision behind a closed door. West Des Moines police said the investigation is ongoing.
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DeletePolice are continuing their investigation on the unregistered Des Moines daycare that had drugs, and over 20 firearms in the house. The Iowa Department of Human Services received anonymous tips on May 28th saying that the owners were not properly taking care of the kids. Parents of kids who went to this day care said that there kids would come home with bumps and bruises, and that the babysitters would often put the kids in one room, and they would go into a different room, and watch tv. On June 12 the police found over 20 handguns, and about 3.4 grams of marijuana, and paraphernalia were also found. The West Des Moines Police department said on Tuesday that they are still investigating, and that no criminal charges have been made yet.
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In Iowa City there was a car crash on the 14th of Oct. The one person in the crash was the driver. They driver who the released the name was dead when emergency crew got there. the cause of death is under investigation.
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The staff of RAGBRAI have resigned and are starting a new bike ride to start in 2020. The former director of RAGBRAI, T.J. Juskiewicz, Made the announcement on Tuesday. The team resigned because of racist tweets from Carson King. The RAGBRAI team got backlash and will no longer be supporting RAGBRAI. Their new biking tour is called “Iowa’s Ride” and will be held around the same time RAGBRAI normally is next year.
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There was a big bearded guy named Blair Davis and he lived in San Diego. He went to the Wheel of Fortune and said he married a horrible wife and had three bad step kids. He also had one awful grandson. This story went viral. Blair Davis wasn't being serious. He went on to say his family is all nice but it's made a good story!
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A cold case in Iowa. This case is from about 40 years old. The guy name that was charged for killing a high amount of students. The police arrested him at Dec 19, 39 years ago today. Police say investigators matched a blood sample from the crime scene with a sample taken from Burns.
ReplyDeleteIn West Des Moines on June 7, 2019, police got a call that on illegal in-home daycare was operated with about 18 children a day. Iowa law states that the daycare would be fine if they had 5 or fewer children. Five days after the call police watched the morning drop off of children, 15 kids were dropped off that morning. Later that day they got a warrant to search the house. They found guns in reach of children to play with, the smell of marijuana, pill bottles filled with a green leafy substance, and child in a swing strapped to a closed-door unsupervised. Yesterday October 15, 2019 police talked to the neighbors about the daycare and a number of them said they would see multiple children running around outside unsupervised and some of the children even ran into the neighbor's garages. The investigation is still ongoing.
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According to the RAGBRAI website, the director TJ Juskiewicz who has been in charge for the last 16 years has resigned along with the entire staff. In the letter on his website, he states that his constant attempts to communicate with his loyal riders have been blocked by the Des Moines register. He also says that after the embarrassment with the Des Moines register and Carson King, RAGBRAI has received a lot of criticism and would like to clarify that RAGBRAI is separate from the Des Moines registers news division.
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There had been an apartment fire in Marion, Cedar Rapids. The Marion Fire Department, Police Department, and State Fire Marshal's office determined what had caused the fire. It was caused by a smoking object which ended up igniting a combustible material on a couch. One person is in the hospital in critical condition, and another person was rescued and flown to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics burn unit. Pets were also saved, and the fire was quickly put out.
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Blood fills up and Iowan basement. Nick Lestina and his family of seven were getting ready to put their house on the market until their basement was flooded with animal blood. Their basement was filled with nearly five inches of animal blood, fat and bones as a result of drainage from a meat locker next door. They have lives next to a meat locker for over ten years and never had a problem until recently. The neighbors were dumping hog and cattle remains down a floor drain which is connected to his pipes.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/16/iowa-familys-basement-fills-blood-meat-locker-next-door
ReplyDeleteMy story is about a family that came home to find their basement filled with animal blood. The house that the guy and his family were living in were connected to the same drain system as the meat locker next door. Animal blood, fat and remains came through the drain of the home (in the basement). They think this problem is happening now due to a clogged drain. The meat locker is going to help with any repairs on Wednesday.
Seth Rogan tweets a story about a 20-year-old man who used a fake Hawaii ID with the name “McLovin”. Daniel Burleson of Des Moines was in Iowa City at the Airliner Bar was he was arrested. It happen in the early morning hours on Friday, October 11. A criminal complaint said that he had a drink in his hand and he told the police he bought the ID from Amazon. This is a nod to ‘Superbad’ Rogen 2007 hit movie, where they stopped an underage kid using a fake Hawaii ID at a liquor store. He faces multiple charges and Rogan’s tweet is captioned as saying “my work here is done.” The tweet has more than 107,000 retweets and 625,000 likes.
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A man named Nick Lestina was trying to sell his house in Bagley Iowa found a big problem when trying to sell it. It was not a lack of buyers it was the fact that his basement was filled with animal blood. The Blood had come from a neighboring meat locker. They had flushed blood down floor drains which are belived to be connected to
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iowa-family-s-basement-flooded-animal-blood-neighboring-meat-locker-n1067896
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ReplyDeleteAn iowan man that was recently putting his house onto the market, a family of seven, had lived next to the meat locker that was next door. The blood drained down the pipes in their house that connected to the locker. The owners of the meat locker offered to help clean up and pay for what happened. Most of the things in their basement was destroyed, including a bed for one of the children.
On Oct. 3, a father of five came home to discover five inches of blood, animal fat and water in his basement. Nick Lestina lives next door to next door to Dahl's Custom Meat Locker in Bagley, Iowa, where the source of the blood and animal fats came from. The cause of the backup into Lestina's basement is thought to be a clog in the tile line that the Locker and Lestina share. Nothing can be done about the backup until dryer weather comes. The Iowa department of Public Health has said that the home is now unsuitable to live in until the mess is cleaned up.
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Four people including three law enforcement were injured after an attempt to serve an arrest warrant led to gunfire at a central Iowa apartment building. At about 10:43 p.m someone inside the home began firing a handgun at the officers.Two deputies were hit by gunfire. A third was injured with a non-gunshot wound.One of the people in the home was injured by gunfire.
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Four people including 3 law enforcement men were injured after they tried to give them a warrant for their arrest. It was gonna be a simple task and then gunshots were fired. Someone inside the house started firing a handgun at the officers and 2 were hit and one was injured and someone inside the house got injured too. They don't know how many people were in the house. But they do know it was one person with a handgun and never mentioned his/her name.
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Starbucks is going to stop selling newspapers and also they are going to start removing the products that customers aren't buying anymore. The changes are going to take place in 8,600 Starbucks company's in the United States. Starbucks has been gradually are reduced in selling the not core products in the Starbucks. Many of the Starbucks are going to start doing mobile ordering might do a drive through. They have no idea if this will even work out.
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