DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An 18-year-old from Illinois is suspected of killing a woman near a Davenport shopping center. Authorities say Craig Coleman Jr. is charged with robbery, intimidation with a dangerous weapon and first-degree murder in the slaying of 19-year-old Destiny Orr-Clark on May 4. Orr-Clark was fatally shot south of Davenport Memorial Park, near Old Town Shopping Center.
Coleman, who lives in Rock Island, Illinois, was arrested Saturday by Rock Island officers.
Jim Field visits with Todd Roecker of the Knights of Columbus Council 1164 about the Lenten fish dinners at Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Parish Center in Atlantic beginning this Friday.
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MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — The former farmhand charged with first-degree murder in the abduction and stabbing death of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa wants to have his trial moved to a more diverse county. The Des Moines Register reports that 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s lawyers filed the motion Friday. They argue the Mexican national should be tried outside Poweshiek County to allow for more minority representation in the jury pool.
Rivera is accused of killing Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student who disappeared while out for a run July 18 in Brooklyn, Iowa. Investigators recovered her body a month later in a cornfield. A medical examiner has said Tibbetts was stabbed to death. Rivera is accused of being in the country illegally. He worked at a dairy farm a few miles from where Tibbetts disappeared.
The Creston Police Department reports three arrests took place this past Saturday. 41-year old Crystal Dawn Huddleson, of Creston, was arrested at her home, Saturday, on a Taylor County warrant for Failure to Appear in court, on an original charge of Probation Violation. Her cash-only bond was set at $5,000. 22-year old Kristina Marie Patterson, of Creston, was Saturday afternoon, on a Union County warrant for Failure to Appear on an original charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance. Her cash or surety bond was set at $1,000.
And, 29-year old Natasha Ann Campbell, of Creston, was arrested Saturday afternoon at the Wal-Mart store in Creston. She was charged with Theft in the 5th Degree, with bond set at $300.
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(UPDATED 11:59-a.m.) DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police say a suspect in a carjacking shot at officers who fired back and fatally wounded him. Police say the carjacking victim called 911 around 3:50 a.m. Monday to report that he’d been shot in a leg when two people stole his sport utility vehicle. Police say the SUV was occupied by two men and a woman when it was spotted around 10 minutes later. It went up a dead-end street and parked in driveway. The three got out and walked away, and the woman and one of the men were soon detained.
(Radio Iowa) — A filmmaking couple from the Quad Cities is planning for the Davenport debut of their newest movie later this month. Kelly Rundle says he and his wife, Tammy, of Fourth Wall Films, are ready to premiere “Sons & Daughters of Thunder,” on what will be the 185th anniversary of what’s known as the Lane Seminary Debates, a turning point in American history. “In 1834 at a seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first public debates about the abolition of slavery took place,” Rundle says. “That’s significant in and of itself but it’s also significant because one of the witnesses of that event was someone who later became quite famous, a woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe.”
Years later, Stowes’ novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is said to have been described by President Abraham Lincoln as the book that started the Civil War. The Rundles’ film is based on a play written by Curtis Heeter and Earlene Hawley of Waverly, Iowa. The film features actors from Los Angeles, Chicago and the Quad Cities. Most of the filming was done in and around the Quad Cities in historic homes, churches and other buildings. Some scenes were also shot in Cincinnati in the Harriet Beecher Stowe House — the last remaining structure on what was the Lane Seminary grounds. “We’re known more for the historical documentary films that we do but this tempted us,” Rundle says. “Although it is a narrative film, it’s a fictional telling of a true story, we felt safe in doing it because it was history.”
The film is scheduled to premiere at the National Geographic Giant Screen Theater at the Putnam Museum in Davenport on March 16th. “Like our other films, we’ll have another number of ways to see the film later,” Rundle says. “There will be other showings. We hope for broadcast. We always release our films on DVD.”
Another screening of the film is planned for March 23rd at the Garfield Theater in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the true story took place.
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in an eastern Iowa fire that injured two people. Firetrucks were sent to the home in Independence around 11:30 p.m. Saturday. The names of the two injured and other details about the fire haven’t been released. Authorities say Shane Heins, of Oelwein, was taken into custody Sunday and charged with arson.
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