CLEAR LAKE, IA (IRN) – Police officers rescued a woman who’d fallen through ice on a pond while trying to retrieve her dog, according to KCRG-TV. The Clear Lake Fire Department says the 28-year-old woman went onto Fieldstone Pond to get her dog a little after 3:30 p.m. Saturday. She then broke through the thin ice into the icy water. Officers pulled her out. It’s unclear whether her dog also fell in.
ANKENY, IA (IRN) – A vehicle left the southbound I-35 roadway in Ankeny and struck a bridge, according to KCCI-TV. The 41-year-old driver was killed.
BLACK HAWK COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A nearly hour-long car chase across multiple counties ended in an arrest of a man from the Black Hawk County town of Raymond. KWWL-TV reports the chase exceeded 100 mph before the man was stopped with spike strips. Police say he was wanted on a Black Hawk County warrant.
CEDAR FALLS, WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – The worst city in the United States to be an African American is Waterloo-Cedar Falls. U.S.A Today reports no U.S. metro area has larger social and economic disparities along racial lines than Waterloo-Cedar Falls. Black metro area residents earn just 46.8 percent of what white area residents earn, and are far more likely to be unemployed than white workers in the city. Most of the worst cities are in the Midwest.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines Police are investigating a shooting at a south-side bar that happened just before closing time Saturday. Police were called to the Extra Innings bar, and when they arrived they found two people shot. A police spokesman says, “it’s your typical bar story–someone becomes offended because he thinks somebody insulted his girlfriend, and he starts a fight…and someone fires 10 rounds–bars and guns don’t mix.”
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