Tuesday, April 17, 2018

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Seven Iowa Younkers stores will close. The locations include stores in the Des Moines metro at the Merle Hay Mall and Jordan Creek. Stores will also close in Cedar Rapids, Coralville, Dubuque, Mason City and Sioux City. The closures are expected to happen in the next two months.

MARION, IA (IRN) – A man died after his pickup truck rolled on top of him at a Marion Dairy Queen drive thru. KCRG-TV reports Curtis Schantz’s pick up truck broke down while he was waiting in the drive thru. Schantz got out to repair it and the F Series Super Duty truck rolled on top of him. Crews rushed him to the hospital where he died. Schantz was 74.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – An Amber Alert for two young boys who went missing from the Clinton County town of Toronto has been cancelled after the boys were found safe. They were taken by a non-custodial parent who was considered possibly suicidal or homicidal.

CLIVE, IA (IRN) – The man behind Mr. Massage Iowa in Clive is behind bars. KCCI-TV reports Gage Bauer, 26, turned himself in to police Monday for allegedly sexually abusing a 17-year-old client and attempting to sexually abuse another client. He’s in jail.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Andie Dominick, an editorial writer at the Des Moines Register has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. She won for a series of Iowa-focused editorials criticizing policies that restrict access to health care. It’s the Register’s 17th Pulitzer Prize, and its first since 2010. The Pulitzer Prize citation states that Dominick won “for examining in a clear, indignant voice, free of cliché or sentimentality, the damaging consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s administration of Medicaid.”

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