ADAIR COUNTY, IA (IRN) – One person has died as the result of what has been determined to be an EF2 tornado in Adair County early this morning. Raccoon Valley Radio reports authorities responded to a residence southeast of Adair shortly before 2:00 a.m., and found 74-year-old Linda Lee Brownlee deceased, and 78-year-old Harold Brownlee with serious injuries. Harold was flown by air ambulance to a Des Moines hospital. The residence was destroyed. Debris from the farmstead landed on Interstate 80 at mile marker 77, and a semi was reported in the ditch at that location. No tornado watch or warning was in effect.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Family members are reeling after a former Des Moines resident was the victim of a heinous crime in Illinois. KCCI-TV reports Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, 19, was strangled in April and her unborn child cut from her womb while living in Chicago. The infant remains hospitalized in an intensive care unit. A 46-year-old woman and her 24-year-old daughter are charged with killing Ochoa-Lopez. Her father, Des Moines resident Arnulfo Ochoa, said his pain and sorrow is sometimes too much to bear. He says, “she always had a smile on her face. That’s the way I want to remember her.”
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Across the country Tuesday, crowds gathered to protest new laws aimed at restricting abortion, including a near-total ban in Alabama. The Des Moines Register reports at the Statehouse in Des Moines, about 200 people huddled in the rotunda to protest Iowa’s own fetal heartbeat law, which was enacted in 2018 and struck down by a state court in January.
MOLINE, IL (IRN) – A 14-year-old and 21-year-old face multiple charges after a high-speed chase in a stolen car that started in Davenport and ended in Moline, Illinois yesterday. WQAD-TV reports the 14-year-old was driving.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A southwest Iowa man has filed a free speech lawsuit against a sheriff’s deputy, his supervisor and the county after he was charged with harassment for writing a social media post that profanely criticized the deputy. KGAN-TV reports Jon Richard Goldsmith from Red Oak became angered after attending a festival in Corning and watching an Adams County sheriff’s deputy search a car and have a confrontation with another person.