Authorities in east central Iowa are looking for a person involved in a deadly shooting overnight in Marshalltown.  Police say the incident happened a little after 3-a.m. Monday, at the Casey’s General Store on N. 3rd Avenue, in Marshalltown. KCCI reports Officers found a man with a gunshot wound at the store. The man died from his injury. His identity was being withheld pending family notification.

Surveillance still frame image of the shooting suspect (2/15/21)

Marshalltown police said the suspect is possibly a Latino man with an accent and is described as being short in stature, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black sweatpants. Anyone with information is asked call the Marshalltown Police Department at 641-754.5725. Additionally, tips can be submitted by calling 641-753-1234, or via text messaging by texting the word “marshall” followed by the tip to CRIMES (274637), or online at www.marshallcountycs.com. All tips are completely anonymous and could earn a reward of up to $1,000 if the tip results in an arrest.

(Radio Iowa) – If you’ve always wanted to learn another language but haven’t gotten around to it — an I-S-U study shows it could provide an important benefit. An analysis by John Grundy finds a benefit linked to holding off Alzheimer’s disease. “People who are bilingual tend to be able to stave off symptoms of dementia by about four to six years later than comparable monolinguals. And that’s after controlling for things like socioeconomic status, education, and other things,” according to Gundy. John Grundy is an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State and says learning another language gives your brain different options when it faces a roadblock.

“The idea here is that learning two languages over the course of your lifespan really rewires the brain in a way that is protective as the brain starts to deteriorate in older age,” Gundy says. He says additional language learning gives the brain more knowledge to deal with things in another way. “It’s essentially exercising your brain. It’s not just bilingualism that does this. There are lots of experiences like higher-order education — and really anything that sort of challenges your brain over an extended period of time — really helps with protecting yourself against the symptoms that accrue with the neuropathology of for example Alzheimer’s Disease,” Gundy explains. So how old is too old to start learning another language and benefiting from it?

“I get asked this a lot and the answer which is great for everyone is that it is never really too late,” Gunday says. “So the more you immerse yourself in it and the more you challenge yourself — the better it will be. Of course, if you do it for a long period of time, generally the better the outcome. But it is never too late.” Gundy says whether it is a new language you learn or something else the key is to keep the mind active.

“Challenge your brain. Start learning a new language, start writing with your left hand, start taking different pathways home. It’s anything that if you can really challenge yourself and get a similar outcome with a different path,” he says. Grundy says the study did not substantially show that bilingualism deters Alzheimer’s disease incidence rates — it’s a form of cognitive reserve helping to fight off the initial symptoms of dementia until later in life.

(Radio Iowa) – State Senator James Carlin, a Republican from Sioux City, will announce this (Monday) morning (8-a.m.) that he plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Chuck Grassley. Carlin told the conservative Iowa Standard website he’s very concerned about the direction of the country. Carlin aired similar sentiments during a speech in the Iowa Senate on January 28th.

Iowa Senator Jim Carlin

“I think we have cause for concern,” Carlin said. “Are we free today? What have our legislators done on national and state levels?” Carlin didn’t use the phrase “cancel culture” in that late January speech, but Carlin argued freedom of speech is under attack.

“If you don’t think so, ask President Trump,” Carlin said. “The moment he lost the election, they took away his free speech on every media platform, immediately.” Twitter and Facebook banned Trump after congress certified the Electoral College results on January 6th. Carlin did not directly mention Grassley’s vote in the Senate to certify that Joe Biden won the Electoral College, but Carlin did question the outcome.

“Many of us believe, and I am one of those people, that our last election was the result of widespread fraud that never got a fair hearing,” Carlin said. “Representative government never got a fair hearing.” Carlin, who is 58, has been a trial lawyer in Iowa for 23 years and a member of the state senate since winning a special election in late 2017. Grassley, who is 87, has not announced yet whether he’ll seek an eighth term in the U.S. Senate.

A spokesman for Grassley’s campaign says the 2020 campaign just ended and Grassley is focused on serving Iowans and holding government accountable, as he’s always done.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst are among the 43 Republicans who voted to acquit President Trump of inciting the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Both senators issued written statements Saturday night. Grassley said the acquittal does not excuse Trump’s conduct on and around January 6th, but Grassley said the House managers did not prove Trump committed incitement to insurrection.

Ernst said congress should not be in the business of using impeachment as a political tool to enact partisan revenge. In addition, both Ernst and Grassley said the Senate did not have the authority to try a private citizen like Trump.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Bitter cold temperatures and dangerous wind chill levels are expected across much of the central United States at the start of the week. The National Weather Service has issued wind chill warnings for Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri at least through Monday because a blast of arctic air will dominate the weather in the region. Several inches of snow is also expected to fall across much of Kansas and Missouri Monday.

Forecasters warn that wind chill levels could fall below -40 degrees in parts of Nebraska and Iowa on Monday morning, creating concerns about frostbite and hypothermia for anyone out in the cold for long periods. Many school districts on Sunday announced they had cancelled classes for Monday.