Plane crashes kill six in Iowa over weekend
Six people died in two light plane crashes in Iowa on Sunday. In Marion County a plane north of Knoxville killed pilot Ron Perdock and Carlisle family members David and Karen Lee Walker and Steven Walker. In Jasper County a Des Moines to Fairfield flight crashed east of Newton, killing Edward Liblin and Millard Whitmore. FAA blamed violent air from thunderstorms. turbulence hindered rescue efforts.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Iowa
Marion County
Lee Shives
Ron Perdock
Carlisle
David Walker
Karen Lee
Steven
FAA
Newton, Iowa
Gerald McDonald
Des Moines
McDonald
Fairfield
Jasper County
Pesticide dump probe opens in Iowa after Belmond burial
Iowa DEQ plans tests at Belmond site to locate up to a hundred tons of aldrin buried after the 1966 tornado amid fears of residual danger. Officials stress no reports of trouble yet but seek confirmation on burial method and potential health risks. Phillip Pfeffer, an Algona resident, helped bury the pesticide.
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Des Moines
Department of Environmental Quality
Belmond
Phillip Pfeffer
Algona
Jenkinson
Stokes
Local official recalls buried aldrin in 1966 tornado area
Pfeffer, a former Iowa Department of Agriculture inspector, estimated 30 to 60 tons of aldrin were buried after the 1966 Friday tornado. He helped bury the insecticide under department guidance, aiming to ensure proper disposal amid past practices. The disaster killed six, injured 172, and damaged 120 homes with 85 percent of the business district wrecked.
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Pfeffer
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Iowa Department of Public Health
Two Union County inmates captured after weekend escape
Authorities recaptured two Union County Jail escapees near Diagonal and south of Creston Iowa. Anthony Gentry 39 charged with attempted murder in the state patrolman attack and Donald Saffell 19 from Bushnell Illinois, held on first degree sexual abuse charges, were apprehended within hours of the escape attempts. Guards were overpowered during a rooftop escape. one jailer was not injured.
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Creston
Iowa
Union County
Ringgold County
Anthony T. Gentry
Iowa State Patrol
Gentry
Diagonal
Saffell
Don Loy
Marvin Hulse
Hulse
California murders spark fear in Chino Hills town
Residents stock up on guns, attack dogs, and locks as authorities hunt an escaped mental patient charged with the June 5 slayings of F. Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica, and neighbor Christopher Hughes in Chino Hills. The suspect Kevin Cooper fled from the California Institution for Men and may have headed toward Mexico. a missing Buick station wagon was found but led to no solid lead.
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Chino Hills
F. Douglas
Peggy Ryen
Jessica
Ryen
Christopher Hughes
Des Moines
Iowa
Palmer College
Davenport
Kerri Hudson
San Bernardino County
Chico Rosalés
Cooper
Joshua Ryen
Loma Linda University Hospital
Edward Powell
Long Beach
Ryens
Buick
Mexico
Powell
Terri Stafford
Diane Davis
Los Angeles
Barbara Cash
Hugheses
Dave Jaynes
Ace Hardware
Jaynes
Buck Kedrick
Kedrick
China
Ms. Stafford
ISU student drowns at fraternity party near Polk City
Cleo Green 20 of Des Moines, an Iowa State University sophomore, drowned at Big Creek Lake during a fraternity outing north of Polk City. He tried to swim from a sailboat to shore and vanished, with searchers locating his body about 8 p.m. after a three hour sonar search. Fifty youths were on the lake for the afternoon outing.
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DES Moines
Iowa State University
Big Creek Lake
Polk City
Cleo Green
Polk
Leo Dunn
Dunn
Green
Two Iowans Die in Weekend Traffic Accidents
Bernice Smith, 81, of Bettendorf died Sunday when her car was struck by a pickup at the junction of a Scott County road and Highway 61 near Blue Grass. Roger Drapeaux of Davenport was driving the pickup. Smith died en route to Mercy Hospital in Davenport. Lawrence Niccum, 26, of rural Hampton was killed late Saturday when his car breached barricades and slid into a creek beside a new bridge under construction about one mile north of Hampton.
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Bernice Smith
Bettendorf
Scott County
Highway 61
Blue Grass
Iowa
Sheriff's Department
Franklin
Hampton
Tama Girl Run Over by Horse Cart at Centennial
Angela Bear, 4, attended Green Mountain centennial events when she ran up to a horse-drawn cart carrying children. She stumbled and fell under the wagon’s rear wheels, with the cart passing over her head. She was hospitalized and later moved to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines in critical condition.
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Tama
Green Mountain
Marshall County
Marshall Area Community Hospital
Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines
Gazette News Service expands statewide reporting network
The Gazette divides its political coverage between Judy Daubenmier in Des Moines and Ken Sullivan in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines to report on state leaders budgets and court system changes. The bureau reports will be packaged as Gazette News Service and shared with Spencer Cherokee and Storm Lake and allow local papers access to statewide stories.
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Judy Daubenmier
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Associated Press
The
Gazette
Ken Sullivan
Spencer
Cherokee
Storm Lake
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Fort Des Moines
Mental Health Association of Iowa
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Robert D. Fulton
Robert D. Ray
Terry E. Branstad
Aldrin
Allan Stokes
Iowa Deq
DEQ
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William Jenkinson
North Central
Bay, Ark
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Petersen
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ISU
State Board of Regents
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Iowa Newspaper Association
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