DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Scores of students at several Des Moines Public Schools walked out of class in protest of election results this morning. KCCI-TV reports many could be seen carrying signs at East, Valley, and Roosevelt high schools, protesting the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. No violence was reported.
IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – Iowa City Police are looking for whoever robbed a pizza delivery man Tuesday night. KCRG-TV reports the man was trying to deliver a pizza to an apartment complex. He says a man approached him holding a small black pistol. He didn’t point the gun at the pizza delivery man, but he told him to not knock on the door and put the pizza down. The delivery man did as he was told and the suspect took the pizza and ran off. No one was hurt.
BLACK HAWK COUNTY, IA (IRN) – Black Hawk County officials agreed to pay $30,000 to a man who scuffled with an off-duty sheriff’s deputy after a traffic dispute. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to pay the money and settle a case filed by Edward Felts. He claimed deputy Richard Hoffman hit and kicked him repeatedly during a February 2015 incident. Felts head-butted the deputy, and then the deputy took him to the ground. A jury earlier found Felts guilty of assault.
DES MOINES, IA (IA) – Republican Donald Trump is president-elect, leading a Republican wave that carried Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, Congressmen Steve King, Rod Blum and David Young back into office. Congressman Dave Loebsack won re-election, remaining Iowa’s sole Democrat in Washington. Republicans also won control of the Iowa House and Senate. Three Iowa Supreme Court Justices won retention in Tuesday’s election.
CEDAR FALLS, IA (IRN) – A man has been charged in a crash that killed a woman this past weekend in Cedar Falls, according to KCRG-TV. Forty-two-year-old Charles Brooks, of Champlin, MN, faces a felony charge of serious injury by a motor vehicle. Brooks was speeding when he collided with a mini-van on a bridge. The crash killed 38-year-old Cynthia Brooks, a passenger in his vehicle. Two other passengers were seriously injured. Brooks tried to jump off the bridge after the crash.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A man who allegedly stabbed another man at the Iowa State Fair in August has been arrested. 21-year-old Craig Hunt of Des Moines has been charged with attempted murder. The victim, who has since recovered, was found near the midway with two stab wounds.
BETTENDORF, IA (IRN) – Renovations have been completed after six months of work on water damage at the Bettendorf Public Library. The Quad-City Times reports the staff unveiled the renovated areas Monday. There’s been construction underway since a burst pipe loosed a torrent of water May 20. Library board President Tom Cruise says not a single shelved book was damaged, thanks to staffers who took quick action to save the collection.