The City Council has scheduled a vote on whether to pay nearly $479,000 to a man who filed a lawsuit over a sledding accident in Sioux City, Iowa. The Sioux City Journal reports the council is set to vote Monday …
Officials say four workers suffered minor injuries in a flash fire that led to the evacuation of about 350 people at an engine company in West Des Moines, Iowa. Fire crews were called Wednesday morning to Goodrich Engine Components after …
Fire officials say they’ve been working with police and residents to investigate a recent rash of house fires in the eastern Iowa city of Clinton. Battalion Chief Joel Atkinson told television station KWQC “it’s getting fairly busy” for local fire …
Preliminary figures show 359 people died on Iowa’s roadways in 2011, the lowest death toll since 1944. The Gazette says the state transportation department says the numbers might not be finalized until February, but the decrease mirrors a national trend. …
Woodbury County has agreed to pay $45,000 to settle a dispute about overtime pay for four sheriff’s deputies who have canine partners. The Sioux City Journal reports the settlement agreement was approved by a federal judge on Thursday. And the …
Several cities in Nebraska and Iowa made Farmers Insurance’s lists of the safer and most secure places to live in the country. The insurer ranked cities of different sizes based on crime rates, natural disaster risks, environmental hazards, car accidents, …
The National Transportation Safety Board has released new details of a September plane crash near the Le Mars Municipal Airport. A report from the board, cited by the Daily Sentinel, says pilot Robert Tompkins had just taken off from the …
A Black Hawk County jury has awarded $1.7 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by a Hudson woman who was burned in a propane explosion at her home in 2008. Sixty-eight-year-old Donna Figard and her husband, Richard, sued propane …
After five years of litigation, an Iowa insurance agent will pay $835,000 to settle allegations that he filed false federal crop insurance claims. The Justice Department announced Friday the settlement with Russell Hawley of Vail, Iowa, which avoids trial on …
Iowa’s nursing home for veterans has ended a program in which residents transported other residents who use wheelchairs around the campus, following a bloody accident in which an elderly woman fell face-first into concrete and broke her nose, its top …