Washwhy its going to be shortlived. A lot of people and wildlife were outside today especially around the Jordan Creek Area to bask in the nice weather that broke a record good evening and thanks for joining us, im brooke bouma. And the record we broke . Today was the warmest february 27th on record in iowa. Although the weather was the talk of the day well see cooler temperatures this week. Lets check in with meteorologist Amber Alexander for a first look today couldnt have been nicer for Drake University the school held a groundbreaking ceremony for its first New Academic Building in 20 years. Collierscripps hall is a 15Million Dollar 50thousand square foot facility that will house the universitys school of education and the mathematics and computer science. Drakes dean of the school of education says this represents a seven year project of fundraising, program building, collecting, connecting, and counting on people all over the country. Janet mcmanhill, dean, Drake University schoo
Side tonight. Officers were called to the 27 hundred block of boston avenue just after four this morning. When they arrived, they found a man in his 20s had been stabbed. Following whats believed to be some kind of fight at a party. Police say he was in stable condition when he went to the hospital. No word on any arrests in the case. Polk county says it has a problem on its hands. It needs an extra 7 million more dollars next year to keep its Current Mental Health and Disability Services. And its looking to state lawmakers to help them get this money. Channel 13s Reid Chandler is following this story and joins us in the studio with more. Organizers are asking lawmakers to take action this year to allow counties to levy up to 47 dollars per person in property taxes for local Mental Health and Disability Services. Right now, counties can only levy up to about 30 dollars. And thats been the case since the funding formula was passed in 1996. Thats why organizers with Mental Health and Dis
Local election tonight. The news starts in 30 seconds. Youre watching local are iowas most accurate weatheryour forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib it was nice to see the sunshine today, but we still had to deal with those cold nw winds. Thankfully they will be coming down this evening, but this will also mean a very cold night for all of iowa. Skies will be clear early tonight with a few clouds coming in later. Winds will drop to 510 mph later tonight as temps drop into the 0s and 0s. Clouds will likely be back to greet us for wednesday along with a chance for some light snow. Central and western iowa are most likely to see about 1 of snow after home in the evening. At least the winds will not be blowing this little snow around like monday. More cold air will be with us right into the weekend with the sun returning for saturday, but highs will only be in the teens for central iowa. There will be another system coming through sunday that could bring us several inches of snow, so
Snagging a 100,000 prize after playing the mega crossword instant scratch game. After taxes, the 20yearold des moines man pocketed 70,000. He said that a coworker bought the ticket and gave it to him. Ryan his fortune didnt last long. Five days later, a tip to lottery officials. It wasnt legally purchased and it wasnt legally presented. Ryan he bought the ticket himself at this superquick foods. Underage gambling violation according to iowa law. Lottery security investigated it. We determined that in fact he was the one who purchased the ticket which make the whole prize invalid. Ryan he told investigators a , according to state report, the investigation showed no signs of any office pools for lottery tickets. The suspect admitted he spends a few hundred dollars a week on lottery tickets. The law is in place for a reason. We need to make sure the law is being followed. Ryan super quick foods now facing a one week suspension from selling lottery tickets for failing to i. D. The customer
Us. Im dave price. A shooting in the parking lot of a des moines mcdonalds landed one person behind bars and another in the hospital. 21 year old Antwain Robinson is charged with carrying a weapon and possession of weapon as a felon. Hes being held in the polk county jail on a 10 thousand dollar bond. Robinsons not charged with shooting the man. Witnesses say a vehicle pulled into the mc donalds parking lot on forest avenue around 8 last night someone started shooting and hit a 19 year old man in the leg. Police chased after the vehicle into a nearby alley. Thats where they arrested robinson after they say they found a hand gun inside his car. Authorities say theyre still searching for two other possible suspects. Funeral details havent been announced for a Marshall County 25 year old travis van de walle was riding his snowmobile near legrand friday night. Authorities think he tried to ride up a large snow drift when the snowmobile flipped over and landed on him. His funeral will be he