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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It’s so easy to assume these days that any problems we haven’t already solved must demand some complicated, expensive fix. But once in a while, someone comes up with an idea so simple you wonder how we couldn’t have seen it staring us in the face all along. Take the 9-volt battery, sitting right there [...]
continue »Arrest Made in Bank Robbery Spree Des Moines, IA – On October 26, 2009, Jason Lee Bowers, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Ross A. Walters for his initial appearance in federal court after his arrest for four area bank robberies, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2113(a) and (d), announced United [...]
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