COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA (IRN) – A Council Bluffs motorcyclist is in intensive care after one driver hit him and then another ran him over. KETV reports Council Bluffs police are searching for the two drivers who fled the scene on I-29 South on Saturday. The man’s son, who was on another motorcycle at the time, says a car merged from the left lane into the right lane, clipped his father’s front tire, put the bike down and then somebody came up behind him and ran over him. The son says his father’s helmet probably saved his life.

DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – Dubuque police have arrested a man in connection with a homicide after a woman’s body was found inside an apartment early Monday morning. KCRG-TV reports Garry James, 53, faces a first-degree murder charge. Police found the body of Michelle Kinney, 53, with multiple puncture wounds to her body.

SIOUX CITY, IA (IRN) – A man was arrested for embezzling money from a Sioux City bar to buy more than $46,000 worth of meats and cheese. KCAU-TV reports Carlos Barrera, 52, worked at the Ickey Nickel as a head chef when he made those unauthorized purchases at Staber Meats. HIs unauthorized purchases were of large quantities of beef chuck rolls, pork butts and feathered mozzarella cheese.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – RAGBRAI co-founder and longtime Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul has passed away. Kaul started RAGBRAI in 1973 with John Karras, after Karras suggested Kaul ride his bicycle across Iowa and write columns about what he saw. Kaul was also a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. He passed away on Sunday morning–the same day RAGBRAI began this year–after stopping treatment for prostate cancer. Kaul was 83 years old.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has not missed a vote in the United States Senate in 25 years. July 20, 1993 marks the date when his current consecutive voting streak began. The last vote Grassley missed occurred in 1993 when he was in Iowa due to the floods that ravaged the state. To date, Grassley has cast 8,169 consecutive votes and holds the record for longest length of time without missing a vote in the history of the Senate.