DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A construction worker has died after a fall from a scaffolding Thursday morning. It happened on Interstate 80 in Polk County. The construction worker fell about 30 feet from a scaffolding while working on the river bridge. Arriving deputies found a 56-year-old worker was unresponsive and had suffered a head injury. He was transported to a local hospital where he died upon arrival.

IOWA (IRN) – With 97% of precincts reporting in the Iowa Caucuses, Pete Buttiege and Bernie Sanders are tied for first place with 26% of the vote. Elizabeth Warren is in third at 18.2%, Joe Biden in fourth at 15.8%, and Amy Klobuchar fifth at 12.2%.

OGALLALA, NE (IRN) – A Kansas man charged with the Nebraska collision deaths of four Iowa motorcyclists has taken a plea deal. Jeser Cisneros-Hernandez, of Liberal, Kansas, pleaded no contest Tuesday in Ogallala to reckless and willful vehicular homicide. Cisneros-Hernandez’s vehicle hit two motorcycles carrying two people each on July 1, 2017, near Ogallala.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A Des Moines man remains hospitalized after being shot blocks away from the Iowa State Capitol. The Des Moines Register reports police were called about to the QuikTrip on East Grand Ave. on a call of a man with a gunshot wound to the stomach. The man lives near the convenience store and was walking in an alley when someone shot him.

WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – A robbery at Maple Lanes Bowling Alley in Waterloo turned into arson, after at least three people set fire to the building. KGAN-TV reports in doing so, they robbed the city of an iconic bowling alley.