Saturday, January 8, 2022

ALTOONA, IA (IRN) – The Southeast Polk school board was forced to abruptly end its meeting Thursday evening due to a bomb threat that was made against the school board. Altoona police said the caller said he had placed bombs around the building and was going to shoot anyone who came out.

SIOUX CITY, IA (IRN) – The state of Iowa is suing Sioux City over what it says was the city’s manipulation of wastewater testing results and dangerous pollution of the Missouri River in a scheme that saw the wastewater plant’s former supervisor sentenced to jail.

POLK CITY, IA (IRN) – Roughly 26 years after it was stolen, a shotgun is back in the hands of its rightful owner in Polk City. Keith Lister now has his Remington 870 after it was found in Arkansas. Polk City Police say they received a call from the Mena, Arkansas Police Department saying they had a gun that was stolen from Polk City. The Police Department was notified after a pawn shop put the serial number of the gun through a nationwide reporting system to see if it was stolen.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The wind chill was 5 degrees below zero when Linda Houlton of Des Moines fell trying to get her mail, and for the next 19 minutes, she struggled in vain to get back on her feet and out of the cold.Though the home sits along busy Indianola Avenue, no one stopped to help until mailman Chris Meyer pulled up in a mail truck. Security video from the home shows he lifted Houlton off the ground, carried her to the house and, and then retrieved the mail she had dropped in the fall.