SWISHER – A Swisher teenager died in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 380 over the weekend. The Des Moines Register reports 17-year-old Kaden Blair was a Cedar Rapids Prairie graduate enrolled as a pre-med student at the University of Iowa. Blair was ejected from a vehicle after striking the barrier between lanes on Saturday morning.

FORT DODGE – Twelve people were displaced and six were injured in a Sunday morning fire in Fort Dodge. WHO-13 reports crews responded to a call for trapped occupants on the third floor of a building in town. One person was flown to the University of Iowa Hospital with serious burns, two were transported to a nearby hospital, and three others were treated on site. The fire took several hours to extinguish.

DES MOINES – A longtime pollster renowned for her accuracy until the 2024 election is ending her tenure with the Des Moines Register. According to KCCI-TV, J. Ann Selzer is not renewing her contract and made the announcement in an op-ed. Selzer had predicted statewide elections with accuracy that earned her some of the highest ratings from polling aggregate websites. However, the Iowa Poll had Vice President Kamala Harris leading the now President-elect Donald Trump by three points in a late October poll — Trump won Iowa by 13. Selzer claims she made the choice to step down over a year ago.