FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TO PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS, THURSDAY WAS ABOUT ASSESSING THE DAMAGE FROM STORMS WHICH CROSSED THE STATE ON WEDNESDAY EVENING. JOE SOLDWISCH LIVES NEAR WAVERLY AND TALKED TO OUR TV-9 COVERAGE PARTNERS ABOUT THE EFFECTS HE SEES ON ALL SIDES OF HIS HOME. SOLDWISCH TOLD TV-9 THAT NEIGHBORS ARRIVED TO HELP BEGIN CLEANING UP WEDNESDAY’S DAMAGE ALMOST AS SOON AS THE STORM ENDED.
THE LINN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS A 58-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS STABBED LATE THURSDAY DURING AN ARGUMENT WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND. IT HAPPENED AFTER 9 P.M. IN RURAL MOUNT VERNON. AUTHORITIES WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE AND FOUND KEVIN GOUCHEE WITH A WOUND TO HIS UPPER CHEST. GOUCHEE WAS TREATED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL. CHARINEA TRIGGS WAS ARRESTED DOMESTIC ABUSE AND WILLFUL INJURY CHARGES.
DETAILS OF AN UNRELATED KNIFE INCIDENT IN MARION WERE RELEASED YESTERDAY BY POLICE THERE. 29-YEAR-OLD LOGAN ISSAC WAS ALREADY IN THE LINN COUNTY JAIL AFTER AN ALLEGED KNIFE ATTACK IN JUNE. ISSAC IS NOW ALSO CHARGED FOR KIDNAPPING, SEXUAL ABUSE, AND WILLFUL INJURY AS THE RESULT OF ANOTHER REPORT FROM AN APRIL INCIDENT. MARION POLICE SAY BOTH CASES ORIGINATED AT MOUNDVIEW MANOR SENIOR APARTMENTS.
THE TICKET LOTTERY IS NOW OPEN FOR MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S GAME AT THE FIELD OF DREAMS MOVIE SITE. ENTRIES FOR THE CHANCE TO BUY TICKETS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY. FANS WILL BE NOTIFIED IN EARLY AUGUST IF THEY ARE CHOSEN. THE GAME BETWEEN THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX AND NEW YORK YANKEES IS AUGUST 12TH.
ONE OF THE TWO INMATES CHARGED WITH KILLING TWO WORKERS AT THE ANAMOSA STATE PENITENTIARY THIS SPRING WILL CLAIM SELF DEFENSE. 29-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL DUTCHER WILL USE THAT LINE OF ARGUMENT BEFORE A JUDGE AT A TRIAL BEGINNING ON AUGUST 3RD. DUTCHER AND FELLOW INMATE THOMAS WOODARD WERE ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE WHEN GUARD ROBERT MCFARLAND AND NURSE LORENA SCHULTE WERE KILLED IN MARCH. WOODARD WILL BE TRIED SEPARATELY IN SEPTEMBER.
TWO BLACK HAWK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC STATE REPRESENTATIVES HAVE ENDORSED A THIRD IN HIS BID FOR THE PARTY’S GUBERNATORIAL NOMINATION. LAST MONTH DURING AN EVENT IN WATERLOO, 62ND DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE RAS SMITH ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION TO CHALLENGE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS. THURSDAY, 60TH DISTRICT REP. DAVE WILLIAMS AND 61ST DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE TIMI BROWN-POWERS THREW THEIR SUPPORT BEHIND SMITH. IN A STATEMENT, WILLIAMS LAUDED SMITH’S CONSENSUS-BUILDING SKILLS. SMITH HAS SERVED IN THE STATE HOUSE SINCE HIS FIRST ELECTION IN 2016. BROWN-POWERS TOOK OFFICE AFTER HER 2014 CAMPAIGN; WILLIAMS WON HIS SEAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2018.
THE SILOS AND SMOKESTACKS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA WILL CELEBRATE ITS 25TH BIRTHDAY NEXT MONTH. THIS MORNING, SPOKESWOMAN JORI WADE-BOOTH TALKED TO KXEL ABOUT THE MOST GRATIFYING ASPECT OF SHARING NORTHEAST IOWA’S HISTORY. THE SILOS AND SMOKESTACKS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA OPENED NEW OFFICES AND INTERPRETIVE SPACE ON PARK AVENUE IN DOWNTOWN WATERLOO EARLIER THIS YEAR.
THE BLACK HAWK COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT HAS ANNOUNCED ARRESTS IN TWO SEPARATE BURGLARIES JUST HOURS APART. TWO SUSPECTS WERE PULLED OVER AND TAKEN INTO CUSTODY NEAR A SOUTHEAST BLACK HAWK COUNTY HOME THAT HAS ALLEGEDLY BEEN BURGLARIZED MULTIPLE TIMES. JUSTICE GOODWIN AND MONTANA GUNHUS EACH FACE CHARGES IN THAT CASE, AND GUNHUS IS ALSO CHARGED WITH GUN AND DRIVING VIOLATIONS. THEN AROUND 2 A-M, THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT ARRESTED JEFFREY GODDARD IN WASHBURN. THEY ALLEGE GODDARD WAS ACTING SUSPICIOUSLY NEAR A SELF-STORAGE UNIT WHICH HAD JUST BEEN BURGLARIZED. DEPUTIES ALSO ALLEGEDLY SEIZED METHAMPHETAMINE FROM GODDARD BEFORE HE WAS TAKEN TO BLACK HAWK COUNTY JAIL.
NEW DETAILS WERE REVEALED THURSDAY ABOUT THE TWO PEOPLE WHO DIED IN A PLANE CRASH IN MUSCATINE COUNTY EARLIER THIS WEEK. 68-YEAR-OLD DANIEL SLACK AND 69-YEAR-OLD SHARON SLACK WERE BOTH KILLED WHILE FLYING FROM MICHIGAN TO THEIR HOME IN MISSOURI ON WEDNESDAY. THEIR SMALL AIRCRAFT WENT DOWN IN A CORNFIELD NORTH OF MUSCATINE. THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD SAYS IT IS EXAMINING WHETHER STORMY WEATHER IN THE REGION MAY HAVE BEEN A FACTOR.
FOR 25 YEARS, SILOS AND SMOKESTACKS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA HAS TOLD THE STORY OF NORTHEAST IOWA’S HISTORY. SPOKESWOMAN JORI WADE-BOOTH TALKED ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION’S NEW VISITOR’S GUIDE. HEAR JORI WADE-BOOTH’S FULL KXEL INTERVIEW AT KXEL.COM.
