NEW MARKET – A teenager was killed in a fiery crash in southwest Iowa early Sunday morning. The Iowa State Patrol reports 19-year-old Jase Michael Wilmes of New Market was traveling on a rural road and lost control of a Ford F350. The report details the truck struck multiple trees and vaulted, and then overturned and caught fire. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

IOWA CITY – An Iowa City woman was killed when she was hit by a fire truck Sunday morning. An Iowa State Patrol report indicates a Pierce Fire Engine was leaving a medical call and struck 99-year-old Evelyn Bothmer. The pedestrian was declared dead at the scene. Several Iowa City agencies assisted with the response.

IOWA CITY – A U.S. Senator touring Iowa partially blames the state’s Democratic party for losing its first-in-the-nation status with the Iowa Caucuses. The Des Moines Register reports former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told a crowd in Iowa City that the way the state’s party leaders handled the results of the 2020 caucus was one of the factors in losing the opportunity to select a presidential preference before the other 49 states. Sanders and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were nearly even in the results, but issues with reporting prevented a call from happening soon after the vote count.