Category: State News

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Des Moines police are investigating an overnight shooting on Army Post Road. Two people were shot outside the Wicked Rabbit Bar and Grille late Sunday night. The southside bar is no stranger to police. In 2018, the city council looked into taking action to revoke the bar’s license after a slew of violence.

COGGON, IA (IRN) – A Linn County Sheriff’s deputy has been shot several times while responding to a robbery in progress call at a Casey’s convenience store in Coggon. The suspect shot the deputy several times. The deputy was airlifted to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and the extent of the deputy’s injuries is not known.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Nearly two-thirds of Iowa voters want someone new to replace Sen. Chuck Grassley according to a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll. The poll said 64% of likely Iowa voters said it’s time for someone else to hold the longtime Iowa Republican’s Senate seat. Grassley is 87-years-old and has held his seat since 1980. He hasn’t yet announced whether he plans to run for re-election in 2022.

BOONE, IA (IRN) – The Boone Police Department is investigating several complaints from residents about a note opposing LGBTQ rights being left on residents’ doors. All of the homes have Pride flags or doormats. Police have identified a suspect and charges are being filed.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Department of Public Health recently added 752 positive coronavirus tests from spring 2020 to its online dashboard, after learning that a private lab failed to report them promptly to the state. The positive tests were from May and June 2020, and most of them came from people in northwest Iowa’s Buena Vista County.

TRAER, IA (IRN) – The State Medical Examiner has released the cause of death for Ryan Cooper in Traer. It was a homicide by gunshot wound.

SIGOURNEY, IA (IRN) – Four people were injured at a family farm near Sigourney. Three of the victims were children ages 14, 11 and 8. One victim was identified as Patrick Otte, 60. The victims were transported to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics with severe burns. The cause of the explosion is unknown.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Nearly two-thirds of Iowa voters want someone new to replace Sen. Chuck Grassley according to a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll. The poll said 64% of likely Iowa voters said it’s time for someone else to hold the longtime Iowa Republican’s Senate seat. Grassley is 87-years-old and has held his seat since 1980. He hasn’t yet announced whether he plans to run for re-election in 2022.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – After a severe threat Thursday, another on Friday, much of Iowa finally saw calm conditions on Saturday. Today there is yet another chance for severe storms.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A man has been arrested in the death of a 15-month-old Des Moines boy. Officers were called to MercyOne Hospital to investigate the death of Tremir Matthews on June 15. The child had been transported by family members to the hospital and had been deceased for some time. Matthews had been left in the care of 28-year-old Brandon Davon Greenup. Greenup was aware that the child was having difficulty breathing, and that later the child was limp and unresponsive, but didn’t seek medical attention for the child.

TRAER, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is looking into a suspicious death near Traer in Tama County. Authorities say the death was violent.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – Multiple people were injured in a late-evening fire on Friday night in Cedar Rapids. Firefighters were sent to a report of a fire at PMX Industries. They arrived to discover a fire in a warehouse at the site, which contained containers of various metal shavings on pallets. Many of the materials, including shavings of zinc, copper, nickel, silicate, manganese, magnesium, and phosphorus, were highly flammable.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A divided Iowa Supreme Court on Friday stopped a lawsuit aimed at reducing the flow of fertilizer and hog farm waste into the state’s river and streams, finding that limiting pollution from farms was a political matter and not one for the courts.

IOWA (IRN) – Des Moines broke a 124-year-old record-high temperature Thursday. Iowa’s capital city hit a high temperature of 101 degrees at the Des Moines International Airport just before 4 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. Des Moines set the previous record high of 94 degrees for June 17 in 1897 and tied it in 1913 and 1933. Records were broken across the state.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A supporter of former President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to felony charges for firing his handgun into a carful of Black girls who were arguing with pro-Trump agitators near the Iowa Capitol last December, injuring one. Michael McKinney, 26, pleaded guilty Wednesday to intimidation with a dangerous weapon and willful injury, charges that each carry up to 10 years in prison.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Groundbreaking south of the East Village Thursday kicked off a multi-million dollar project to transform that section of town. The project will bring new housing, office buildings and retail space to the new Market District. The project has been years in the making and will cost a total of $750 million.

CORALVILLE, IA (IRN) – The new hockey team in Coralville, the Iowa Heartlanders, will be connected with the Minnesota Wild. The Wild announced on Thursday a multi-year affiliation agreement with the Heartlanders beginning with the 2021-22 season.

IOWA (IRN) – One Iowa family missed out on $100,000 after the father found a winning lottery ticket months after it expired. But he’s focusing on what he has, rather than what he lost. Bradly Hanawalt came home in a wheelchair after serving in Afghanistan. Instead of counting his lottery losses, Bradley is counting his blessings, saying, “It’s money I don’t have, but I have everything that I want…I’m blessed to have 6 healthy kids, I’m walking again. We’re all healthy and happy and we’re just loving life.”

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the so-called “Back the Blue” bill into law Thursday morning. Those in support of it say it’s about public safety. Those against it say the bill does the exact opposite. It makes rioting a felony instead of a misdemeanor and increases penalties for blocking streets and highways. The bill also strengthens qualified immunity for law enforcement, making it more difficult to sue them individually for misconduct.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Department of Justice announced a 15-count racketeering indictment Wednesday against six people believed to be involved in the Des Moines-based “street gang” OTB. The Department of Justice alleges that OTB initiates members by having them shoot another person. The group also reportedly recruits juveniles for crimes.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – A 20-year-old college student charged with killing his parents and younger sister in their family home in Cedar Rapids Tuesday told police that a masked male intruder was to blame for the shooting deaths.

FORT DODGE, IA (IRN) – A 65-year-old woman from Fort Dodge was killed Tuesday when the recumbent bike she was riding was hit by a pickup truck. The pickup was driven by an 18-year-old girl.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – A medical emergency caused a driver to crash into a house in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. No one in the house was injured.