A JUDGE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS DENIED BOND TO A MURDER SUSPECT IN A SHOOTING WHICH HAPPENED DURING SUMMER PROTESTS. 21-YEAR-OLD PARKER BELZ OF DAVENPORT WILL NOT BE RELEASED AHEAD OF HIS TRIAL. HE IS CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN THE DEATH OF ITALIA MARIE KELLY. SHE HAD JOINED A PROTEST ON MAY 31 OVER THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD AND WAS LEAVING AS THE GATHERING WAS BECOMING UNRULY. KELLY WAS SHOT IN THE BACK. BELZ HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY. HE HAS BEEN HELD WITHOUT BOND SINCE HIS ARREST IN JUNE.
A CEDAR RAPIDS MAN WHO SOLD HEROIN TO A POLICE INFORMANT WILL SPEND MORE THAN THREE YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON. 30 YEAR OLD ORLANDO WASH WAS SENTENCED TO A 41-MONTH PRISON TERM. WASH WAS CAUGHT IN A STING NEAR A TRUCK STOP JUST OFF INTERSTATE 380 DURING LATE 2018. HE PLED GUILTY TO DISTRIBUTION CHARGES EARLIER THIS YEAR. FEDERAL OFFICIALS SAY WASH WAS ALSO IN POSSESSION OF A GUN DURING THE YEARS HE WAS SELLING HEROIN.
DURING A RECENT APPEARANCE ON KXEL LIVE AND LOCAL, FIRST DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL CHALLENGER ASHLEY HINSON TALKED ABOUT FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR EASTERN IOWA AFTER LAST MONTH’S DERECHO AND DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. HINSON IS RUNNING AGAINST FIRST TERM CONGRESSWOMAN ABBY FINKENAUER. THE FULL KXEL LIVE AND LOCAL INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE IN THE PODCAST SECTION AT KXEL.COM.
FOR THE SECOND TIME IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS, WATERLOO POLICE WERE ON THE SCENE OF A PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON. A SMALL CHILD WAS HIT BY A CAR ON WATERLOO’S EAST SIDE, JUST A COUPLE OF BLOCKS FROM SULLIVAN PARK. ONLY MINOR INJURIES WERE REPORTED, ALTHOUGH THE CHILD WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL. PREVIOUSLY ON MONDAY NIGHT, A 27-YEAR-OLD WOMAN SUSTAINED MORE SERIOUS INJURIES FROM A WEST SIDE INCIDENT. THAT HAPPENED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF ANSBOROUGH AVENUE AND SERGEANT ROAD.
ANY HOPES THAT THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MIGHT DEFLATE THE STATE’S BOTTLE BILL HAVE RUN DRY. THE IOWA GROCERY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION CLAIMED THAT RULES ABOUT REDEMPTION CENTERS HAD NOT BEEN UNIFORMLY APPLIED. GROCERY STORES ARE REQUIRED TO ACCEPT CONTAINER RETURNS UNLESS THERE IS AN APPROVED REDEMPTION CENTER WITHIN A REASONABLE DRIVE. IN A TUESDAY DECISION ON THE IGIA PETITION, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES OFFICIALS SAID IT WAS UP TO THE LEGISLATURE TO IMPROVE, CHANGE, OR CLARIFY THE RULES RELATED TO THE CONTAINER REDEMPTION LAW.
ARKANSAS SENATOR TOM COTTON WAS IN IOWA THIS WEEK TO TALK ABOUT THE UPCOMING ELECTION AND THROW HIS SUPPORT BEHIND REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE ASHLEY HINSON. COTTON GAVE HIS IMPRESSION OF FACTIONALISM IN WASHINGTON. COTTON WAS FIRST ELECTED TO THE SENATE IN 2014.
A BENTON COUNTY TEENAGER ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER A TUESDAY NIGHT ACCIDENT. AUTHORITIES SAY 17-YEAR-OLD BRODY BUHR OF NEWHALL WAS INJURED WHILE DRIVING IN A RURAL AREA NORTHWEST OF CEDAR RAPIDS. BUHR’S VEHICLE APPARENTLY WENT ACROSS THE ROADWAY AND ROLLED OVER IN THE OPPOSITE DITCH. A PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INJURED; BUHR AND HIS PASSENGER WERE BOTH WEARING SEAT BELTS.
A STUMBLING BLOCK FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF FEDERAL COVID-19 STIMULUS HAS BEEN WHO WILL RECEIVE SUPPORT. CONGRESS HAS SPARRED OVER WHETHER AND HOW MUCH MONEY SHOULD BE PROVIDED TO HELP STATES DEAL WITH THE BUDGET CHALLENGES CREATED BY THE PANDEMIC. DURING AN APPEARANCE ON KXEL LIVE AND LOCAL, REPUBLICAN FIRST DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE ASHLEY HINSON OFFERED HER OPINION. HINSON WAS IN WATERLOO ON TUESDAY FOR A CAMPAIGN EVENT. THE LINN COUNTY REPUBLICAN IS IN A CLOSE RACE WITH INCUMBENT FIRST DISTRICT CONGRESSWOMAN ABBY FINKENAUER.
THE UNITED STATES HOCKEY LEAGUE SCHEDULE WILL BEGIN JUST DAYS AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. THAT SCHEDULE WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY. THIS SEASON IS STARTING A MONTH LATE DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS. THE WATERLOO BLACK HAWKS’ FIRST GAME IS NOVEMBER 6TH AGAINST THE OMAHA LANCERS. AFTER 20 CONSECUTIVE THANKSGIVING GAMES VERSUS THE CEDAR RAPIDS ROUGHRIDERS, WATERLOO WILL HOST THE DUBUQUE FIGHTING SAINTS THIS THANKSGIVING. THE ROUGHRIDERS ARE IDLE DUE TO BUILDING DAMAGE AT CEDAR RAPIDS ICE ARENA.
