LINN COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) – One person was seriously injured this weekend after a car crash on Springville Road just south of Bolton Manor Road. Officials responded to the call for a single vehicle accident just before 7:30 Saturday evening in that area. When they arrived, first responders found an SUV in the ditch on its top. The driver of that vehicle was the only occupant and was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the accident. He was taken by helicopter to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries. What caused the crash is still under investigation.
GROTON, Conn. (KCRG) – The U.S. Navy has a new Virginia-Class attack submarine about to hit the water. Saturday people celebrated the commissioning of the USS Iowa at the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut. The USS Iowa is the 24th such submarine in the Navy, with a total of 38 to eventually be in service. Most of them are named for states. This is the fourth ship in the U.S. Navy to be named after Iowa. The most recent was the former USS IOWA (BB-61). That was a battleship that served for three different times in the 40’s, 50’s and 80’s and is now a museum in Los Angeles.
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) – A seven-year-old in Davenport is being treated for non-life threatening injuries after police say a man struck the child with his vehicle while attempting to avoid law enforcement. Damazio Moore, 31, is changed with domestic abuse assault resulting in bodily injury, criminal mischief in the fourth-degree, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious injury, reckless driving, and no insurance involving an accident, according to a media release from the Davenport Police Department. The seven-year-old was taken by Medic EMS to a local hospital for treatment of “serious non-life-threatening injuries.” Friday around 1 p.m., Davenport police, fire, and medic EMS, along with the Scott County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 4300 block of North Division Street for a report of a child being struck by a vehicle, police said. Initial investigation indicated that a domestic disturbance happened between two adults in the parking lot of an apartment complex, police said. While attempting to flee the scene, Moore struck the seven-year-old with his vehicle. Moore fled the scene and was arrested a short while later by Iowa State Patrol, police said. The seven-year-old is a relative of one of the involved adults, police said.
JOHNSTON, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) – Iowa’s workforce may not yet know how President Donald Trump’s global trade war could impact it in the weeks ahead, but another 44 workers found out Friday that they will be out of a job next month. Iowa Workforce Development’s WARN notes that Corteva Agriscience will lay off workers effective May 9. The agricultural chemical and seed company operates laboratory and greenhouse facilities in Johnston. The company is the latest in the agriculture industry to announce cuts since last year that have cost several thousand Iowans their jobs at companies that include John Deere, Kinze Manufacturing, and Tyson Foods. Agriculture has suffered with decreased earnings following record years in 2022 and 2023, higher input costs, elevated borrowing rates, and low commodity prices. WARN includes notices of 931 job cuts from Corteva, Whirlpool, Sodexo, ASM Global, Wells Fargo, and Durham School Services since April 1.
