Voters hit the ballot yesterday. The results from siouxlands elections coming up. An increase in car thefts has sioux city on high alert and a preview of tonights Country Music awards all this morning. Jessica rae northwest iowa voters hit the polls yesterday to elect mayors and City Council Members to represent siouxland sioux city has about 47thousand registered voters. But less than 3 thousand people cast a ballot in this election. Woodbury county auditor pat gill says, those numbers werent suprising because he wasnt expecting a large turnout. But after a day of voting, it was mayor bob scott. Who was elected to another four year term after running un opposed. He collected. Two thousand. And 87 votes. Scott. Says he will not run for reelection. So during his last term. He wants to focus on creating more opportunities for unger generatitis. I think thatst the way were going to attract and keep young people in this community and weve done a bad job of that for about 10 to 12 years aro
Im tim seaman jenna and im Jenna Rehnstrom the man and woman involved in a bad car crash with a stolen car this afternoon. Have died from their injuries. Tim witnesses say the car went airborne on 25th street as it flew over a steep hill. We have more details tonight in our top story. Jenna heres what the car looked like when it finally stopped after hitting a tree. The red nissan altima. That was reported stollen last thursday. Flipped on its top after striking two other cars. The accident happened near the corner of 25th and morgan streets on the northside. The 34yearold driver and his 28 yearold female passager had to be cut out of the car and were rushed to the hospital. Police say witnesses report seeing the car driving very fast down 25th street when it rammed the front of an suv that was backing out of a driveway. Sgt. Scott hattig, scpd says, there was no pursuit we did have witnesses who saw the vehicle come up over the hill they went as far to say that it caught air, was airb
Airlines plane onboard a Spirit Airlines p pne continues to escalade after seven passengers were kicked off the plane over a disagreement about seat assignments. Or was it racial discrimination. Heres abcs Pierre Thomas you are watching a confrontation which ends with a group papaengersall black being removed from this commercial jet. Some those kicked off are crying racism. Wright sot im really humiliated, just for the simple fact that, you know, you hear about this stuff happening in america, you know discriminationissues. But was it really happened is in dispute. Police say they were called after an argument broke out over a double booked seat. Nats an African American male passenger apparently was frustrated. And some witnesses say a white Flight Attendant considered at lelet one in the group a threat. Willie french, passenger the stewardess got a little nervous and they wanted him to leave the plane. But while harsh words clearly were exchanged, other passengers were confused gges
Investigation tas a turn. Sources telling cbs news in chicagag that Joe Gliniewicz was not murdered pfs. It was a suicide. Donald trump on the attack again as he falls out of the number one spot in the nationwide poll. He has run for president twice and quit. Do we have to talk about donald trump . Voters in kentucky elected a republican governor for only the second time in 40 years. Republican matt bevin. Ohio voters striking down an attempt to make marijuana legal. Projecting a ballot measure for medically e medical and recreational. Snow to much of the colorado rockies. Former walmart ceo bill simon had to pop an emergency parachute. An oilil pressure oblem . We looood up. A plane freefalling. Takata slapped with a 70 Million Dollar fine. Thousands of tourists on two indonesian islands and volcanoic ash shut the airport down. Collision between wildlife and an automobile. A moose runs straight into the cars path. All and that matters. Downtown kansas city wawa nearlylyhut down a an e
Venesky 1889 votes to 554. In other races of interest. Charles holz of le mars wins a special election to replace retiring rep. Chuck soderberg in the iowa house. He was running unopposed. Voters in sioux center rejecting a bond issue to spend 4 Million Dollars to expand highway 75 through town. The measure fell 4 short of the 60 needed to pass, though the yes side did receive the most votes. Voters in Buena Vista County approving extending a 1 local option sales tax. Voters in Crawford County overwhelmingly rejecting a 2. 65 Million Dollar bond issue to build a Dialysis Center in denison. Voters in onawa approving a proposed 7 Hotel Motel Tax. And voters in sheldon approving a proposed increase of their exisisting Hotel Motel Tax to 7 . Finally. The omaha tribe of nebraska approves a proposal to legalize growth, sale and tribes lands. 3 two people are dead after a stolen car crashed into another vehicle on sioux citys northside. That accident happened about one this afternoon at 25th