Saturday, February 8, 2020

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Iowa Democratic Party’s Troy Price answered questions from media outlets Friday afternoon about the failure of the app the party used to report caucus results. Price admitted he never used the app. Campaigns have until noon Monday to file a request for a recount.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – On Thursday around 10 A.M., water started spewing from the ground at Waypoint Services. a nonprofit that provides services for domestic abuse victims, emergency shelter and affordable health care in Cedar Rapids. KGAN-TV reports the water main break caused over $1 million in damage.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – John Deere Dubuque Works announced Friday that it will be laying off 105 employees. The layoffs are in response to market conditions. In Dubuque, John Deere focuses on manufacturing forestry and construction equipment, not tractors.

FAIRFIELD, IA (IRN) – One Iowan had his study abroad trip to China cut short due to the coronavirus. WHO-TV reports Fairfield resident Hunter Manz was supposed to be in Shanghai with the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, until the school decided to bring its students back for safety reasons. Manz decided to put himself in quarantine when he got back. He’s not exhibiting any symptoms.

Friday, February 7, 2020

DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – A Dubuque man has been arrested, accused of sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl from Fayette County. KCRG-TV reports Scott Allan Marcov, 25, was arrested by Dubuque police on February 4, 2020, and charged with sexual abuse by the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office. The assault allegedly occurred several years ago.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Democratic Party says 100% of precincts are reporting results from the Iowa caucuses, and it’s a split decision. Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg holds a slight lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders in state delegate equivalents. Sanders won the popular vote. Sen. Elizabeth Warren comes in at third, former Vice President Joe Biden is fourth, and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is fifth.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The 50-year-old man critically injured when he was hit by a dump truck in downtown Des Moines in January has died, according to WHO-TV. The man was hit while crossing a street. The 71-year-old driver of the truck was initially cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, and now additional charges are expected.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Army National Guard ‘Ironman Battalion’ has received orders for a deployment to the Mideast. The Iron Battalion will deploy 550 soldiers from Charles City, Davenport, Dubuque, Iowa City, Iowa Falls, Oelwein, and Waterloo. The deployment is expected to last around a year. This is the fifth mobilization order for the Iron Battalion since 2000.

BONDURANT, IA (IRN) – The long-rumored Amazon fulfillment center being built in Bondurant under the code-name Project Bluejay has finally been confirmed. The launch of the fulfillment center is anticipated for late 2020. The company says 1,000 full-time jobs will be created.

Thursday, February 6, 2020

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A construction worker has died after a fall from a scaffolding Thursday morning. It happened on Interstate 80 in Polk County. The construction worker fell about 30 feet from a scaffolding while working on the river bridge. Arriving deputies found a 56-year-old worker was unresponsive and had suffered a head injury. He was transported to a local hospital where he died upon arrival.

IOWA (IRN) – With 97% of precincts reporting in the Iowa Caucuses, Pete Buttiege and Bernie Sanders are tied for first place with 26% of the vote. Elizabeth Warren is in third at 18.2%, Joe Biden in fourth at 15.8%, and Amy Klobuchar fifth at 12.2%.

OGALLALA, NE (IRN) – A Kansas man charged with the Nebraska collision deaths of four Iowa motorcyclists has taken a plea deal. Jeser Cisneros-Hernandez, of Liberal, Kansas, pleaded no contest Tuesday in Ogallala to reckless and willful vehicular homicide. Cisneros-Hernandez’s vehicle hit two motorcycles carrying two people each on July 1, 2017, near Ogallala.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A Des Moines man remains hospitalized after being shot blocks away from the Iowa State Capitol. The Des Moines Register reports police were called about to the QuikTrip on East Grand Ave. on a call of a man with a gunshot wound to the stomach. The man lives near the convenience store and was walking in an alley when someone shot him.

WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – A robbery at Maple Lanes Bowling Alley in Waterloo turned into arson, after at least three people set fire to the building. KGAN-TV reports in doing so, they robbed the city of an iconic bowling alley.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – An Iowa nurse accused of taking painkillers from hospital patients’ intravenous lines and injecting herself has pleaded guilty. The Gazette reports that Kelly Postel, 33, of Monticello, obtained an excess amount of fentanyl and morphine from the hospital pharmacy and administered patients’ prescribed amounts and then injected herself while at work with the leftover drugs. Postel also took fentanyl from an intensive care patient by using a syringe to withdraw it from an intravenous line and injected herself while still at work.

IOWA (IRN) – Another round of results has come in for the Iowa Caucuses. With 86% of the precincts reporting, Pete Buttigieg is in first place with 27% of the vote, followed by Bernie Sanders at 24%, Elizabeth Warren at 17%, Joe Biden at 16%, and Amy Klobuchar at 12%.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party says the delay in caucus reporting results was “unacceptable.” Troy Price said Tuesday that the party will conduct a “thorough, transparent and independent examination” of what caused the delays. He apologized for the breakdown in the process but says the results the party will release are accurate.

IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – The state of Iowa has agreed to pay a man $3.5 million to settle his negligence lawsuit against the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics over the deaths of his wife and newborn child. The Gazette reports the woman went to a Des Moines hospital complaining of cramping, vomiting and a headache. She was treated and discharged but admitted the next day for similar complaints. She was flown to the Iowa City hospital where doctors delivered their son. She died, and the boy died a couple of days later.

IOWA (IRN) – Hy-Vee stores across the state are no longer open 24 hours. Most Hy-Vees will now only be open 5:00 a.m., to midnight.