A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON IOWA HIGHWAY 3 BETWEEN ALLISON AND SHELL ROCK KILLED ONE PERSON LATE WEDNESDAY. THE IOWA STATE PATROL SAYS A VAN APPROACHING THE HIGHWAY ON RIDGE AVENUE DID NOT STOP AND WAS BROADSIDED BY A WESTBOUND CAR JUST BEFORE 10:30. AUTHORITIES DID NOT IMMEDIATELY REVEAL PARTICULARS OF THE FATALITY INVOLVED.
LINN COUNTY DEPUTIES AND CEDAR RAPIDS POLICE CHASED A CAR REACHING TRIPLE-DIGIT SPEEDS ON HIGHWAY 30 EARLY THIS MORNING. AN INDIANA MAN ALLEGEDLY SPED AWAY FROM AN ATTEMPTED TRAFFIC STOP. LAW ENFORCEMENT CAUGHT UP WITH CARLDALE HUNTER ON FOOT AFTER HE ABANDONED HIS VEHICLE IN A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD JUST OFF OF EDGEWOOD ROAD. HUNTER IS NOW IN CUSTODY ON WEAPONS, DRUG, AND TRAFFIC CHARGES.
WATERLOO POLICE SAY A PIZZA DELIVERY DRIVER WAS ROBBED TUESDAY. AUTHORITIES BELIEVE THE ORDER CALLED IN FROM A WESTSIDE APARTMENT BUILDING WAS A TRAP. ASSAILANTS SWIPED THE FOOD AND CASH AFTER KNOCKING DOWN THE DRIVER. HER INJURIES WERE CHARACTERIZED AS MINOR.
MEAT LOCKERS AND OTHER SMALL SCALE PROCESSORS SAW A WAVE OF INTEREST IN 2020 AS COVID-19 DISRUPTED FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS. THE SURGE HAS COME WITH GROWING PAINS, LIKE A LACK OF AVAILABLE WORKERS. RANDALIA REPUBLICAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE CHAD INGELS SPOKE ABOUT THAT ON KXEL. A BILL INTRODUCED BY INGELS IN THE STATE HOUSE WOULD PROVIDE GRANTS AND LOANS TO HELP SMALL MEAT PROCESSORS GROW. HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEW AT KXEL.COM
IOWA NATIONAL GUARD MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN CORRELL ADDED HIS VOICE TO THOSE ENCOURAGING UNVACCINATED IOWANS TO MAKE TIME TO GET A COVID-19 SHOT. CORRELL SPOKE AT A PRESS CONFERENCE HOSTED BY IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS ON WEDNESDAY. IOWA’S SENIOR NATIONAL GUARD OFFICER PREVIOUSLY HAD A CORONAVIRUS INFECTION AND WAS HOSPITALIZED LATE LAST YEAR. DESPITE BEING IN PEAK CONDITION, CORRELL SAID IT TOOK HIM A WEEK TO RECOVER FROM THE ILLNESS. HE HAS SINCE HAD BOTH ROUNDS OF THE COVID-19 VACCINE THIS SPRING.
AUTHORITIES HAVE IDENTIFIED A MAN WHOSE BODY WAS DISCOVERED NEAR A SUBMERGED VEHICLE AT A DES MOINES BOAT RAMP. POLICE SAY 47-YEAR-OLD JAMIE HURLEY, OF DES MOINES, WAS PULLED FROM THE WATER SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE VEHICLE WAS ALSO RECOVERED, AND POLICE SAY IT HAD BEEN REPORTED STOLEN IN OCTOBER 2018. HURLEY WAS LAST SEEN IN EARLY JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. THE ADDED: IT DID NOT APPEAR THAT HURLEY HAD BEEN IN THE VEHICLE WHEN IT ENTERED THE LAGOON. THE INVESITGATION INTO HURLEY’S DEATH IS ONGOING.
A NEW VALUE-ADDED AG FIRM HAS A MAJOR CLIENT EVEN BEFORE OPENING. SHELL ROCK SOY PROCESSING EXPECTS TO BEGIN SHIPPING SOY OIL LATE NEXT YEAR. YESTERDAY THE COMPANY ANNOUNCED THAT PHILLIPS 66 WILL BUY MUCH OF THE PLANT’S CAPACITY AS SOON AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE. PHILLIPS 66 WILL ALSO HAVE A MINORITY OWNERSHIP STAKE IN THE OPERATION. SHELL ROCK SOY PROCESSING EXPECTS TO MAKE 4 THOUSAND BARRELS OF SOYBEAN OIL DAILY WHEN THE FACILITY COMES ONLINE.
GOOD NEWS FOR NATURE LOVERS AND CAMPERS ON THIS EARTH DAY. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES SAYS PALISADES-KEPLER STATE PARK WILL RE-OPEN TOMORROW. THE AREA ALONG THE CEDAR RIVER IN LINN COUNTY HAS BEEN CLOSED SINCE LAST AUGUST’S DERECHO. THE DNR SAYS PALISADES-KEPLER SUSTAINED THE MOST DAMAGE AMONG SEVERAL STATE PARKS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM WHICH MOVED THROUGH CENTRAL AND EASTERN IOWA. DOWNED TREES HAVE BEEN REMOVED, AND THE CAMPGROUND WILL OPEN THIS WEEKEND. HOWEVER, THE PALISADES-KEPLER LODGE WILL REMAIN CLOSED BECAUSE OF LINGERING ROOF DAMAGE.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS CAN BE TURNED IN FOR PROPER DISPOSAL AT A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT LOCATIONS ON SATURDAY. THE U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION WILL BE COORDINATING ITS 20TH NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG TAKE BACK DAY. SEAN BERRY IS THE ACTING U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA; IN A STATEMENT, HE NOTED THAT MISUSED PRESCRIPTIONS KILL MORE AMERICANS THAN CAR ACCIDENTS EACH YEAR. PARTICULARS ABOUT THE TAKE BACK DAY, INCLUDING DROP OFF LOCATIONS, ARE AVAILABLE AT THE DEA WEBSITE: DEA.GOV.
SMALL MEAT PROCESSORS, LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS, AND THEIR CUSTOMERS HAVE ENCOUNTERED DELAYS BRINGING MEAT FROM FARM-TO-TABLE. FAYETTE COUNTY LEGISLATOR CHAD INGELS DESCRIBES THE PROCESS. INGELS TOLD KXEL LISTENERS THAT A BILL HE HAS INTRODUCED WILL HELP ADD MORE SMALL PROCESSOR CAPACITY. HEAR MORE ABOUT HOUSE FILE 857 DURING NEXT HOUR’S KXEL NEWSCAST.
