2003. Investigators made an extensive search through a rural farm and salvage yard on highway 21near irving after a tip lead them there. Police say the owner of the salvage yard was purks cousin. Police dogs were used to search the scene eventually finding bone and bone fragmentsalong with pieces of womens clothing. But the dna results werent a match to onkonskis. Kwwl spoke with onkonskis father during the time of the search in 2003. Jerry okonski the best thing that can happen is that sh but we dont expect that to happen, we think shes dead. And so the next best thing, you know, knowing that shes dead, is that we can find her body, find her remains and give her a and now sixteen years laterthe family awaking to a new possibility of finding out just what happened to cora purk is serving time in federal prison on unrelated drug and gun charges. He is set to be released from prison in april. Police have not give any indiciation as to whether hes still a suspect in the investigation. If
To marco rubio, powering the 44 year olds comeback from 5th in new 40 tonight here in south carolina, the message is pretty clear. s ted cruz r president ial ted cruz kept his spot in president ial candidate 57 1 10 we put forward detailed, innovative, conservative plans to address the mounting challenges that we face because despite w wat you clinton lost her once big lead in the polls but still won. S Hillary Clinton d president ial candidate1 15 grateful to all of my supporters out there. Some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other. Union leaders Bernie Sanders late surge. Im a windy start to the weekend doubted each other. Union leaderspushed a big Democratic Caucus turnout. Which helped nullify Bernie Sanders late surge. Im steve handelsmann nbc news, columbia, south carolina. A windy start to the weekend lets check in with storm track seven meteorologist kyle kiel for a look at your first 7 weather team. See the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather t
University of iowa president Bruce Harreld continues to be questioned by some. The president hosting a town hall this evening along with a few other university leaders. Community members were encouraged to attend and ask questions as well as share their ideas for but the meeting was interupted multiple times by protestors, kwwls Kristin Rogers was there for all of the action. As you are about to see president Bruce Harreld was twenty minutes or so in to his presentation regarding a vareity of topics such as Student Housing and facutly salaries, when the first protestor interupted. After the ice was broken the interuptions continued to Pour University of iowa meant to focus on improving the school, harreld went through his presentation interupted when talking about having world class people at the school. Harreld i said you, i didnt harreld im not suprised. crowd cheers it was that response that quickly fueled the protesting fire as the woman was quickly defended. The president continue
Now an update to a story fox28 news has been following for weeks. North liberty citizens addressed a potential gun ban tonight the council took a step to resolve the issue. Fox 28 News Reporter dora miller is live right now in North Liberty with the update. The Council Members decided ey would d t create a resolution. Instead in a discussion the city determined the Recreation Center and the library will have to revise their policies banning weapons. We did hear from the blic, but the council did most of the talking tonight. Some Council Members say they want to be sure they are legally allowed to ban weapons, without going against ate codes. Other members on the board argued that everything should be left alone since the waters have been muddied with questions about state codes, determining what is City Property and concealed carry. After california, what were nding is that more and more lawenforcement officials are saying if you have a permit, please carry. As others have best they ca
Saying it was an unfortunate and off the cuff remark, and he does not support gun violence in any way. He went on to say he has used the comment before many apoligized. I spoke with Lisa Gardinier on the phone. She said she believes harrelds comment wasnt made seriously, but said its not something to joke about. cg Kristin Rogers its not just a staff member that was unhappy with the president s comment but students arent happy about it either. cg roseina britton student im studying counceling education and supervison so soon ill be standing in front of students and teaching myself so you know that wasnt very encouraging for me. Others agree. cg olivia ginther student gun violence is a very serious issue and so jokes about it shouldnt nessisarily be taken lightly. The student did tell me they appreciate the president s apology and feel like it was we did reach out to didnt have room in his schedule to meet with us. We were only able to show you snippets of the email conversation between