Author: Nick Green

Perry, IOWA – According to the DCI officials, the shots fired incident occurred right before 5 a.m. early  Tuesday morning. It happened in the 1800 block of 5th Street. Perry Police Department officers responded to a shooting call. When the officers arrived on scene, they reportedly found multiple bullet holes in an unoccupied vehicle. According to DCI, the 30-year-old suspect, later identified as Jeremiah Messner, reportedly fired shots into the vehicle. Just 2 hours later, near West 8th Street and Saint Paul Street, law enforcement officers from the Perry Police Department, Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa State Patrol located the…

Harrison County, IOWA – According to the Iowa State Patrol, the crash occurred on Tuesday. It happened on Interstate 29 in Harrison County. Iowa State Patrol officials said a pursuit ended with a car on fire in the ditch and a driver taken directly to jail. The responding troopers said the crash occurred when a driver tried to elude troopers on Interstate 29. ISP said the unidentified driver continued to drive on their flat tires which caused their vehicle to catch fire. The responding troopers helped pull the driver out of the burning vehicle and took them to jail.  The Iowa…

Johnston, IOWA – According to the city officials, today, beginning at 9 a.m., the northbound lane on Merle Hay Road will be closed. City officials have announced that this is the first closure of the NW Johnston Drive and Merle Hay Road reconstruction project. On Friday, at 9 p.m., Merle Hay Road will close both north and sound bound lanes and reopen Monday, May 16, at 5 a.m. The closure is necessary to install sanitary sewer across the roadway. Officials said that this project involves the reconfiguration and reconstruction of Merle Hay Road and NW Johnston Drive intersection from the north…

The young woman says doctors told her that she was suffering from heartburn because she was ‘drinking too much’. Unfortunately, she was later diagnosed with cancer. Doctors later told her that the deadly disease had also spread to her lungs, liver, lymph nodes and bones and that it was incurable. The law student is urging anyone dissatisfied with a doctor to push for answers. She says she’ll always wonder if her disease was caught sooner, whether her prognosis might be different. “No matter what a doctor or any healthcare professional says you know your body better than anybody else. If you think that…

Davenport, IOWA – According to the city officials, the open house forum will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Fairmount Library.  According to the statement, this public engagement process is seeking broad community input on the design and features of the new community center funded through the American Rescue Plan Act. This public input session will include several walk-shops to gather ideas through residents sharing visions, hopes, future use, and plans with staff and the OPN team. Residents are invited to come and go as they please during the two-hour open house.  In addition to the…

Linn County, IOWA – According to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office, the crash occurred around 12:09 p.m. Friday. It happened on Fairchild Rd. Linn County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a single-vehicle crash. The responding deputies reportedly found a Ford Ranger in the east ditch. Investigation at the scene revealed that the 73-year-old driver of the Ford Ranger, later identified as Bruce Klendworth Sr., was traveling northbound when he tried to swerve past freshly dumped gravel in the roadway. The driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the east ditch, hitting a cement culvert in the process. Klendworth…

Muscatine, IOWA – According to the city officials, several streets will receive attention from the Public Works Street Maintenance Division ahead of receiving new asphalt. City officials have announced that the Brandt Construction Company will resume milling and putting down an asphalt overlay as part of the 2021-22 project with four street segments and four alley segments to be completed this spring. The Street Maintenance Division will be repairing soft spots on Robin Road and on East 5th Street. Lane restrictions will be in place starting Monday as work on Robin Road begins while East 5th Street will be closed to…

The young researcher was left sick for days after he drank a shot of bacteria for a vaccine trial. The 26-year-old man, who was part of an 11-day inpatient vaccine trial, said that he faced stomach cramps, a fever of 103F and felt so exhausted. The man said he was infected in a challenge trial, where participants get an experimental vaccine or placebo and before being exposed to the disease they were inoculated against. Per reports, 16 people were involved in the trial. Half of the participants got the vaccine and half got a placebo. The 26-year-old man from Washington D.C., Jake Eberts, was…