STUART – A woman has been charged with arson and attempted murder over the weekend for setting fire to a camper in Stuart. KCCI-TV reports that Candie Kingery is accused of intentionally setting fire to a camper early Sunday morning, knowing it would spread to a nearby home. That structure and the vehicle were destroyed, according to the Stuart Fire Department. The person inside the home was able to escape safely.
IOWA – Several healthcare professionals fired from their jobs were awarded unemployment benefits this year, with many of those claims approved by judges for lack of evidence submitted for their alleged misconduct. Iowa Capital Dispatch reports that among them were a WesleyLife employee that failed to responded to call lights of elderly residents more than a dozen times, and throwing one of those lights onto a resident’s chest in frustration. Another was let go from Terrace Hill Healthcare for complaints about comments made about residents, and another was fired from Covenant Medical Center for filing complaints about supervisors.
DES MOINES – A cool front is expected to slowly traverse through Iowa from northwest to southeast during the day today, according to the National Weather Service. Ahead of the front, temperatures will be hot with heat indices peaking near 100 degrees in parts of southern and western Iowa. Showers and thunderstorms will develop along the front through the day. The main hazards will be hail, gusty winds, and locally heavy rainfall.
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