All three Iowa Civil Rights Commission investigators fired in June for sending hundreds of inappropriate e-mails won’t be collecting unemployment benefits. Wendy Buenger has withdrawn her appeal of a decision denying her benefits, which canceled a hearing scheduled for last week. Buenger, Michele Howard and Tiffanie Drayton were fired in June after an investigation found [...]
continue »Investigators say a 9-year-old boy died on Sunday near New Hartford after losing control of the ATV he was operating. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office says Tate Johnson, 9, of Dike, was on 110th Street, about five miles southeast of New Hartford, when he lost control of the ATV he was riding. Investigators said the [...]
continue »Three Iowa civil rights investigators have been fired after sending hundreds of gossipy emails calling co-workers derogatory nicknames like “Psycho,” ”Monster,” and “Roid Rage,” and forwarding pictures that made fun of fat people, Wal-Mart customers and others, according to public records and interviews. Tiffanie Drayton, Michele Howard and Wendy Buenger repeatedly used mocking nicknames for [...]
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A teenager who died in a rollover crash near Cedar Rapids was legally drunk and was using his cell phone when he lost control of the vehicle, authorities said Tuesday. Drake D. Whitters, 19, of Swisher, was killed when the car he was driving on June 9 went off Walford Road, just west of 34th [...]
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Evelyn Miller has now been gone longer than she was here. “I can’t believe she would have been in the seventh grade,” said her grandmother Linda Christie. Evelyn Miller will always be known as a five-year-old girl. She was last seen alive on July 1, 2005 in her family’s apartment in Floyd. Her mother, Noel [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Police broke their silence Wednesday about the homicide investigation that has kept investigators busy for the past three days, but just barely. Dexter L. Meeks, 22, was shot and killed Sunday evening near the front door of his apartment building, 211 15th St. SE. Neighbors said they heard multiple gunshots before officers [...]
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The man suspected of killing his wife and fleeing to South Dakota earlier this month told investigators he “lost it and blacked out” during an argument in their Greene home. Thomas J. Petersen, 39, of Greene, now faces a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the June 4 stabbing death of his wife, Judy [...]
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Congressional investigators say the Iowa egg farm at the center of a massive salmonella outbreak received hundreds of positive results for salmonella in the two years before its eggs sickened more than 1,500 people. In a letter Tuesday to the company’s owner, the House Energy and Commerce Committee says that investigators have obtained records showing [...]
continue »MARATHON, Florida (AP) – Investigators in the Florida Keys say they lured a suspected marijuana grower into turning himself in by leaving a ransom note in place of six seized pot plants. The sheriff’s office in Monroe County says detectives discovered the plants in a wooded lot and confiscated them. They left a phone number [...]
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