ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A rare snowstorm on Saturday dropped more than half a foot of snow in northern Illinois, and Chicago ended up with about 2.5 inches -- a record for this late in the season at O'Hare International Airport. A raging blizzard in Montana on Sunday deposited almost 30 inches of snow, with winds exceeding 60 mph. Severe storms from Colorado to Iowa resulted in two reported tornadoes, […]
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- In a little over a month, there have been at least five attacks on houses of worship of three different faiths across the U.S., capped off with the deadly shooting at a California synagogue this weekend.On March 24, a little over a week after the deadly shooting at two mosques in New Zealand, there was a fire at a mosque in Escondido, California.Two days later, the first […]
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, says joining lawsuits against the federal government is part of a system of checks and balances and he’ll ask Republican Governor Kim Reynolds to reject a plan to restrict his authority. “I brought those lawsuits only when I thought the law and the interests of Iowans indicated that […]Powered by WPeMatico
Police are investigating a bizarre weekend shooting in Waterloo. Authorities say a woman was shot and killed as she was driving, and a man in the vehicle was injured. The incident happened on the U.S. Highway 218 expressway near the Cedar River bridge around 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Waterloo police say it appears a single bullet […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowans may be getting more door knocks and phone calls lately from businesses and individuals offering to help out with lawn care, tree trimming and clean-up work. While many of them may be legitimate, Bess Ellenson with the Better Business Bureau says there are plenty of scamers out there looking to take advantage of you […]Powered by WPeMatico
This weekend, the 2019 Iowa Legislative session ended with some bitter rhetorical battles over the conservative agenda enacted by Republicans who hold a majority of seats in the House and Senate. Representative Andy McKean of Anamosa switched from Republican to Democrat last Tuesday. On Saturday, he said the GOP’s changes to the Judicial Nominating Commission […]Powered by WPeMatico
Partisan clashes over a few issues marked the final day of the 2019 Iowa legislative session. There was a 40-7 bipartisan vote in the Senate, however, in favor of expanding Iowa’s medical marijuana program. Senator Tom Greene, a retired pharmacist from Burlington, grew emotional during his remarks on the measure. “I know many patients who […]Powered by WPeMatico
ABC News'(SAN DIEGO) -- At the age of 8, Noya Dahan has already fled rocket attacks in the Gaza Strip, witnessed her home in California vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti and, now, she's survived a shooting at her synagogue that left one beloved member dead and she, her rabbi and her uncle with bullet wounds. The youngest victim of Saturday's shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue near San Diego, Noya […]
WJHL(CLEVELAND, Va.) -- A group of men who became stuck in a cave in Virginia after rain made it difficult to get out have been rescued, officials said Sunday. A group of six initially planned to spend the weekend inside the cave in Cleveland, Virginia, until it began raining late Saturday night, Jess Powers, coordinator for the Russell County Emergency Management, told ABC News. The rain caused the ground inside […]
