Majority Democrats in the Iowa Senate approved a $560 million budget that would fund more prison guards and state troopers and open new prison and residential corrections facilities. Senate File 447, which passed on a 26-23 party-line vote, would boost spending by $36.1 million in justice systems areas of corrections, public safety, public defense, human [...]
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DES MOINES – When Darin Snedden arrived at Post 11 in 1990 there were 43 Iowa State Patrol troopers covering the six-county area. Today, there are no more than 24 troopers assigned to the Post 11, which includes Linn and Johnson counties, according to Snedden, a Mount Vernon resident and president of the Iowa [...]
continue »The Gazette Editorial Board – The modest bump in public safety spending included in Gov. Terry Branstad’s $6.54 billion state budget proposal is a step in the right direction. But while the governor’s budget proposal may be enough to maintain the status quo, it won’t be enough to fund the kind of lean, yet more [...]
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One person has died after a wreck on an ice-covered road Wednesday evening in Allamakee County, authorities said. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a sport-utility vehicle was traveling northbound on County Road X52 north of Highway 76 around 6:25 p.m. when it slid into the east ditch, hit a rock and rolled. The driver was [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – A 17-year-old was arrested after leading an Iowa State Patrol trooper on a short pursuit in northeast Cedar Rapids early Wednesday morning. According to officials, a trooper reported he was in pursuit of a vehicle near Harwood Drive and 42nd Street NE around 11:47 p.m. About a minute later, the teenager crashed [...]
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One man was seriously injured after he lost control of his vehicle and struck a cable barrier on Interstate 380 near Coralville early Friday morning, officials said. According to Iowa State Patrol, David P. Teno II, 34, of Iowa City, was traveling at a high rate of speed on the ramp from the westbound lanes of [...]
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The Keokuk County Attorney’s Office has filed a pair of charges against a 15-year-old driver accused in a fatal vehicle-pedestrian accident in What Cheer in September. Adam Gragg, who turns 16 on Thursday, faces charges of violating the conditions of a minor school license and leaving the scene of an accident. The license violation was [...]
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The new commissioner of the state Department of Public Safety Thursday announced personnel changes that included a change of leadership for the Iowa State Patrol. Brian London, Gov. Terry Branstad’s recent pick as DPS leader, said he was reassigning Col. Patrick Hoye to become head of the Iowa Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau and elevating Dave [...]
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The driver of a car that hit and killed 13-year-old Ian McFate during cross-country practice in Tama on Oct. 1 glanced down momentarily before looking up to see the teen ahead of him, an investigator said Thursday. The eighth grader in the South Tama County Community School District was training with his cross-country team about [...]
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A tight-knit Tama-Toledo community today is mourning the loss of 13-year-old Ian McFate, a “courageous” middle school student who died Tuesday after being hit by a car during cross-country practice. The eighth grader in the South Tama County Community School District was training with his cross-country team about 4:50 p.m. Monday on the Tama-Toledo Recreation [...]
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