DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a woman in Davenport. Officers dispatched after a 911 call early Friday morning found the wounded woman. Police say she died later at Genesis Medical Center-East. Her name hasn’t been released. Iowa Criminal Investigation Division agents are trying to find out what happened. No arrests have been reported.
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Two men were arrested Thursday night on assault charges, in Creston. According to Creston Police, 21-year old Adam Edward Lee Austin and 23-year old Taran Paul Austin, both of Creston, were arrested at their home at around 9:30-p.m., for Assault. Bonds for both men was set at $300 each.
MIDDLEBURY, Ind. (AP) — A recreational vehicle maker is kicking off a more than $12 million expansion in northern Indiana. The Elkhart Truth reports Forest City, Iowa-based Winnebago Industries held a groundbreaking Thursday in Middlebury on the Winnebago Towable Campus near its current facility. Officials say the expansion could bring up to 125 new jobs to the area by 2019.
Michael Happe, president and CEO of Winnebago Industries, says the company is “confident in the growth in this business. He says it’s a “fantastic opportunity for this business to expand its product line over time and continue to meet rising demand.”
NEW HAMPTON, Iowa (AP) — The mother of a baby whose lifeless body was found in an infant swing has told a northeast Iowa court that she may use as a trial defense diminished responsibility or intoxication.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the attorney for Cheyanne Harris filed the notice Thursday in Black Hawk County District Court. She and the infant’s father, Zachary Koehn, have pleaded not guilty to murder and related charges. She’s also seeking a trial delay.
Koehn has asked that his trial be moved to another county because of pretrial publicity. Authorities have said the body of 4-month-old Sterling Koehn was infested with maggots when found Aug. 30 in the swing by deputies and medics called to his parents’ Alta Vista apartment.
Severe storms crossed Iowa Thursday evening and overnight, with tornado sirens going off in several areas. The National Weather Service says a funnel cloud that nearly reached the ground was reported two-miles west/south of Stuart, at around 5:48-p.m. The twister was confirmed by a trained storm spotter. About 10-minutes earlier, a trained spotter reported a similar situation, with a funnel cloud nearly to the ground two-miles north of Carbon, in Adams County. At around 5:30-p.m. Thursday, a trained storm spotter situated just north of Menlo, saw a funnel cloud to the west/northwest, or about four-miles north/northwest of Casey.
And, at around 4:47-p.m., the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department reported a funnel cloud was seen five-miles west/southwest of Carbon. Other funnel clouds were seen near Grimes, and Sandyville. Tornadoes made it to the ground near Hartford, Prairie City, Swan and near Lake Red Rock. There were no immediate reports of damage. Thunderstorm wind gusts were reported at three locations as well, with the highest gusts recorded at 60-mph.
Some tree damage occurred near Fort Dodge, in association with the winds. Heavy rain was also a factor in many storms. Here in Atlantic, we received 1.5 inches of rain from Thursday afternoon into the late evening hours. Heavy rain was also reported near Collins, in Story County, where the ditches were completely full.
RUBY A. BEEKMAN, 97, of Atlantic, died Friday, May 4th, at the Heritage House in Atlantic. Funeral services for RUBY BEEKMAN will be held 11-a.m. Wed., May 9th, at the Roland Funeral Home, in Atlantic.
Visitation is open at the funeral home on Tuesday, May 8th, from 8-a.m. until 5:30-p.m. Visitation with the family present, is on Wednesday, one-hour prior to the service.; Online condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com
Burial will be in the Atlantic Cemetery.
RUBY BEEKMAN is survived by:
Her daughter – Karen (Ted Helper) Dant, of Walnut.
Her sons – Dennis (Phyllis) Dant, of Claremore, OK., and Ron Dant, of Tulsa, OK.
6 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Iowa baseball coach Rick Heller says they are still waiting to find out how severe the injury to starting pitcher Cole McDonald is but they know he won’t be pitching in this weekend’s series against 17th ranked Oklahoma State. McDonald was lifted in the fourth inning on Sunday’s win against seventh ranked Michigan with elbow discomfort and sophomore Grant Judkins may be the one to replace him in the rotation.
It may be a non-conference series but Heller says with the Hawkeyes being considered a bubble team for the NCAA Tournament it carries added weight.
Heller says it is the Hawkeye’s final chance of the regular season to build their tournament resume.
The series opens with a single game tonight (Friday night).
(Learfield Sports)
The president of Dordt College in Sioux Center announced the Christian-based, four-year school is changing its name to Dordt University. Erik Hoekstra told students, faculty, staff, and alumni that the name will be changed in of May of next year. Hoekstra says the Board of Trustees formally approved of the name change during its recent director meeting. The Dordt College president says the word “university” behind Dordt reflects on the school’s expansion with academic programs and will impact how the school is viewed. “In the Midwest we’ve kind of gotten used to using college and university kind of interchangeably. But around the world, college is more like high school You go there when you are about 16 for a couple of years. In the United States it’s different,” Hoekstra says.
Erik Hoekstra
The Dordt President says the name change should assist with recruiting efforts, especially for international students, but the name change will not change the school’s mission. “When we look at our graduates going out all over the globe and they can come with their resumes, their transcripts, their diplomas saying Dordt University — we thing those doors will become more wide open to them. As well as recruiting international students — which is a big part of our deal already,” Hoekstra says. “It will I think have a bit of stature, but it won’t change our core mission of Christ-centered focus. It won’t change our community focus of focusing in on each and every individual student.”
Hoekstra says the change has been 20 years in the making. “When we first started our first masters degree program 20 years ago we had conversations about it, but at that point it was just very small. Today we are graduating dozens. I think this coming year we will probably graduate 40. Were are starting a new masters program of public administration. We are doing more online programs,” according to Hoekstra.
Hoekstra says the changing the school to a university will allow for additional scholarships, research, and fellowships. Students gathered for the announcement gave a long and loud applause. Dordt College’s student government president, Megan Van Den Berg, a junior from Wisconsin, says she and her fellow students are excited for the name change. Van Den Berg says the name change from Dordt College to Dordt University reflects on the academic excellence and programs being offered by Dordt.
(Radio Iowa)
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