Saturday, July 29, 2017

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Wells Fargo has agreed to refund $80 million to customers hit by car loan insurance they didn’t need. The unnecessary cost forced more than 270,000 customers into delinquency on their loans. About 20,000 customers had their vehicles wrongfully repossessed because of the additional cost of insurance. Wells Fargo has its headquarters in Des Moines.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines police are investigating a homicide after a man was shot and killed Friday. KCCI-TV reports police were called to a report of a shooting, and when they arrived, they found a man with several gunshot wounds walking down the street. Witnesses say a man and a woman were walking when a person in a car pulled up and shot the man. Witnesses provided a vehicle description, and two men were apprehended. This is the city’s 19th homicide so far this year, compared with just 13 homicides in all of 2016.

STORY COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A group of 15-25 detasselers were sprayed with chemicals while in a field Friday when they were inadvertently sprayed by a crop duster. WHO-TV reports some of the workers felt nauseous and had headaches. First responders from various agencies worked to decontaminate the workers, and no one was hospitalized.

TRIPOLI, IA (IRN) – The DNR reports heavy rainfall last weekend in northeastern Iowa has caused a breach of a public hunting area dike. Storms dropped up to 15 inches of rain in the Wapsipinicon and Plum Creek watersheds in Chickasaw and Bremer counties. DNR officials say that caused a 60-by-40-foot section of the dike on Martens Lake on the Sweet Marsh Wildlife Management Area to fail. There is no timeline on repairs.

IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – A group of North Liberty middle school students helped install five new bat houses Friday. KCRG-TV reports students at North Central Junior High installed the bat houses at the Turkey Creek Recreation Area. Bruce Loan, a custodian who helped the children build the houses, says they wanted to build and install them because bat habitat is decreasing, and that bats are an important part of the ecosystem.

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