How a central iowa teens body ended up in a pond. Search and rescue crews recovered 17yearold sam kepts body in that pond off highway 141 near granger. Sam was last seen near the area on saturday after leaving a house party. Officials spent hours combing through woods and ditches, and even searched with an airplane before making the devastating discovery. A spokeswoman for the family said mothers shouldnt have to bury children. Sammy was their family, their flesh and blood, you know . Theyre hurting right now. Still no word yet on how this happened. Authorities say, at this point, theyre unsure if the death is suspicious. Its been almost two weeks since authorities found 18yearold moe seds body in the cedar river. Officials discovered the waterloo teen on december 6th. He went missing on october 22nd. There were no signs of trauma, and authorities are still trying to figure out what happened. A late night fire sent one person to the university of the Cedar Rapids Fire Department respon
Groups. Van pelt faces up to 6 years in prison if convicted. 3 a machine shed in rural Plymouth County is in ruins after a fire. Fire crews from 4 Plymouth County departments were called to a farm 8 miles southeast of le mars. When they arrived. Flames more than 20 feet high were coming from the roof. That roof later collapsed. No injuries were reported. The cause of this massive fire is under investigation. 3 3 a Famous Artists work is making its way back to sioux city. But this time in a different way. The Sioux City Art Center is presenting a documentary about american artist and former iowan jackson pollocks mural. The story of a modern masterpiece was funded by the university of iowa and shows the murals travels across the world. Pollocks artwork spent some time in siouxland for nearly a year before leaving for venice italy. Todaythe arts centers director expressed how excited he is to show the documentary. 3 i think it was the most important exhibition we ever were very excited t
Christmas carols and good company. It took over dozens of turkeys to satisfy everyones appetite. More than 1hundred twenty people enjoyed a free meal at the Gospel Mission. 3 were thankful to be adding a meal to the special day here at the Gospel Mission. To those who dont have a place to go, a lot of our guests find their way to a home or friends to a christmas meal. Thanks to what they put out this year. The Gospel Mission serves meals every day of the year for folks who need a helping hand. 3 3 kayla. Not exactly a white christmas, but its still a very nice day. 3 christmas calls for mostly cloudy skies and temperatures near the 30 degree mark. Winter weather advisories are in effect between 6pm Christmas Evening until 6pm saturday evening for northwestern portions of siouxland, as they expect 36 of snow. Rain snow mix will move into the area this afternoon and will morning and continue through saturday evening. Sunday will have partly cloudy and blustery conditions with h temperatu
It means a lot, means a lot. Great program in an effortrto provide these dodo with a safe environment, the department of corrections started a new project, called hounds of hope. A team effort with noahs hope Animal Rescue of sioux city and partners for patriots. I mean these guys are very very passionate about training these dogs. I mean they love these dogs just like we do. These guys are doing outstanding with him just outstandingngyou know. Thth programamruns sev days a week, where 12 inmatep are signed to work from 6 to 11 in the morning, then at 12 30 to 4 30 in the afternoon, and last shift at 5 30 to about 9 30 in the evening. And theyre teaming up with partners for patriots, a Nonprofit Organization that trains service dogs for disabled veterans. Inmates tell me, the program is a winwin for them. It helps us with our attitudes. Encourages us to change our ways because if we can work with ououattitudes in here. Out there we can control them better with human beings hard time an
Investigators are still trying to determine the cause. A task complicated by the extensive damage. 3 3 a native of northeast nebraska is one of the victims of a Suicide Attack in afghanistan. 45 year old joseph lemm. Whod been a new York City Police detective. Died when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive laden motorcycle into a patrol in afghanistan. This video shows lemm when hee returned home in 2103 from his first tour in afghanistan. Surprising his teenage daughter brooke. His son ryan and fiancee christine. His mother. Shirley lemm of wisner. Tells the omaha worldherald that after graduating from beemer in 1989. Lemm joined the air force. Then eventually became a new York City Police officer. After the september 11th terrorist attacks. Lemm joined the air force reserves. He was serving his second deployment to afghanistan. 3 3 a high speed chase crossed the border from nebraska into iowa this morning. Just after 11am. Police in dakota county, nebraska began chasing a u v. That c