BURLINGTON, IA (IRN) – During a deadly officer-involved shooting in Burlington Wednesday, bullets flew everywhere, including into a home where a nine-year-old girl was asleep. WQAD-TV reports a stray bullet flew into the girls home, just inches from where she was sleeping. Another bullet hit a neighboring house. The Seventh Day Adventist Church nearby was hit multiple times. Police tried to stop the driver of a pickup after responding to a call of gunfire. But that attempted traffic stop turned into a chase, and then a shootout.
MUSCATINE COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A Muscatine man is dead, and two others are injured after a crash involving a semi in Muscatine County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a semi driven by Jordan Sexton, 25, of Muscatine, crashed into a county maintenance vehicle that was halfway on the road. The crash caused one of the semi’s fuel tanks to rupture and catch fire as it went into a ditch. In the crash, the semi’s trailer unhitched and struck a worker placing signs for road maintenance.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND (IRN) – About 40 Iowa National Guard members last year were bused about 23 miles from an airplane refueling stop in Scotland to room overnight at President Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort. It’s one of at least four separate military stays at the resort that are being investigated by the House Oversight Committee to determine whether Trump improperly gained from U.S. military lodging at his properties.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – An Iowa appeals court has rejected a Des Moines attorney’s challenge to Gov. Kim Reynold’s use of a businessman’s private airplane. KGAN-TV reports Reynolds and her family took the flight to the Liberty Bowl in Tennessee in December 2017. The jet was owned by Reynolds’s campaign contributor David North, CEO of a company that has a contract with the state. The court dismissed the complaint, ruling the flights were allowable under Iowa’s gift law.
ALTOONA, IA (IRN) – A property tax error has caused an $894,000 hole in the Bondurant-Farrar School District’s budget. The Facebook data centers in Altoona are supposed to be tax-exempt, but the Polk County assessor’s office said it was not aware of the exemption.