VICTOR – Two men face felony charges after being arrested Monday for allegedly stealing over $10,000 worth of soybeans from a farm in Iowa County. Christopher W. Brennan, 30, of Montezuma and his father Ricky W. Brennan, 57, of Deep River were charged with five counts of third-degree burglary and one count of second-degree theft [...]
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UPDATE: Eastern Iowa authorities have captured a prisoner who may have used jail renovations to hide his escape. Authorities say 25-year-old Jeremy Mask, of Traer, was captured just before 9:30 a.m. Friday south of La Porte City. He’d escaped a little before 4 p.m. Thursday from Black Hawk County Jail in Waterloo. Officers from several [...]
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MARENGO — As a veterinarian, Kenneth “Doc” Fettkether of Marengo would tend to farmer Stanley Kovar’s animals near Victor. They became friends because of that, but have grown much closer in the last couple of years for another reason. These men are veterans of war — Doc (right) in the Korean War and Stanley (left) [...]
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Investigators believe that a Davenport couple found dead near an eastern Iowa town’s cemetery committed suicide. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that 38-year-old Matthew VanWaus and his wife, 31-year-old Leah VanWaus, both had self-inflicted gunshot wounds. The couple’s bodies were found near the Victor cemetery on Friday after family members found their cars parked nearby. [...]
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GUERNSEY – A fire completely destroyed an unoccupied barn off of Hwy 21 in Poweshiek County Thursday evening. According to firefighters on scene, the call came in at about 6:15 p.m. for the fire at 4531 Hwy 21 in Guernsey. When firefighters arrived, the barn was completely engulfed in flames. Deep River Fire, Brooklyn [...]
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UPDATE: Kristen McAdam said Monday her life was forever changed May 29, 2010 when her husband, Jeffrey McAdam, was murdered at an Interstate 80 rest stop near Victor. “It turned it upside down and tore apart what I knew and loved to be normal,” Kristen McAdam said. Peter Riggs took a man away from a [...]
continue »VICTOR – One person died Sunday and two others were injured in a two-car crash on Interstate 80 in Iowa County. The Iowa State Patrol said a car driven by David Walker, 42, of Marshalltown, was westbound on I-80 east of Victor around 3:15 p.m. when it crossed the median and struck an eastbound SUV [...]
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The state asked the court Monday to reconsider suppressing a Nebraska man’s statements to an investigator after he was arrested for the slaying of a maintenance worker at an I-80 rest stop near Victor last year. Sixth Judicial District Judge Nancy Baumgartner granted the defense’s motion last month to suppress statements made by Peter Riggs, [...]
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The trial for a Nebraska man accused of killing an Interstate 80 maintenance worker a year ago this month will be continued to October 17, a judge ruled Monday. Peter Riggs, 32, of Columbus, Neb., charged with first-degree murder, is accused of shooting and killing Jeffrey McAdam, 46, of Victor, on May 29 in the [...]
continue »A Nebraska man accused of killing an I-80 maintenance worker last year can’t get a fair trial in the small county because of media reports about his confession to the crime, his attorney told the court Friday. Johnson County Chief Public Defender Peter Persaud asked for a change of venue for the first-degree murder trial [...]
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