Accidenttl shooting o o an eastern iowa man this morning. According to the Black Hawk County Sheriffs Office the incident happened in Elk Run Heights after 1230 thisorning. They say he dropped a handndun while he was getting out if his car. They believe it then went off when it hit the ground and hit his leg. He was then taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries. CountytySheriffs Office the gun used in the incident was a 38 caliber handgun a smaller pistol like the one you see here. Stay tuned to kwwl online as this story develops. Continuing coverage of the fazzino trial today. As Health Issues are preventing the chairman of the board for fareway stores, richard beckwith, from taking the stand today in the trial of alex fazzino. Fazzino is accused of killing his wife, emily, in their boone home in 2012. Beckwjth couldnt take the stand this morning, but had his testimony tataen earlier, and that was read in court. He testified that although he was largely kept out of the lo
Two gun permits but they were says ni posted again online just days after he was expelled, saying he was flying back to china. Im told ni got both of his gun permits just last month. They were taken away on february third. Weve got you covered live in iowa city, kristin rogers. Kwwl news. The Johnson County Sheriffs Office could not tell us why nis visa was taken away. Light snow is making its way across parts of eastern iowa. Lets go to storm track seven chief meteorologist Mark Schnackenberg now whos tracking it all. From the kkwl stormtrack for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast snow will track southeast across central iowa this evening. The northern side of the snow is in parts of eastern evening, will be southwest of interstate 380. Little to no snow accumulations are expected. Bottom out near 10 below zero we are still tracking snow for sunday. The snow begins before sunrise sunday and continues through the day before tapering off sunday before midnigh
Fog and some flurries today with the next winds will stay light today and we will have president s day. We stay mild our top story this morning. Our top story this morning. Expect more fallout today from the unexpected death of justice scalia. President obama hold off and let the next president name a successor. But were already starting o hear some names of who the nominee might be. Tracie potts is following developments this morning from successor. The white house says that wont happen this week while congress is on break. But with flags at half staff, were already seeing possible candidates mentioned to replace Justice Antonin Scalia every right to do it. Thats his perogative. But we dont have to confirm him and we wont. Of itit term, with more cases to hear and decide between now and july. Without conservative scalia, key cases could end up in a tie. We will see abortion on demand throughout this country. Partial birth abortion. Taxpayer funding. No parental notification. We need a
New this morning. A longtime fued between an iowa police chief and a county sheriff boils over. The police chief is now running for sheriff. And the current sheriff makes a shocking accusation. You knocked up a 15 year old and she had a miscarriage, okay . The police chief says its the voice of the Pocahontas County sheriff he rereorded the call. The two men have apparantly been battling for the past two years. Over which office is supposed to respond to crimes in certai areas. According to the fonda police chief, the allegations are not true. I can promise you 100 there any truth to it. As for the allegations of assault the sheriff hasnt commented followinn the phone call about where he got that idea. Citing the possibility of a lawsuit. According to the des moines register, the sheriff cut emergency dispatch calls to the police chief last month. The mayor of fonda released a statement. Saying all county agencies need to work together. Snow is a problem here, but in the south, they ha
Storm track seven meteorologist good friday morning. It is day across eastern iowa. Areas slight chance for a rain or snow dry for the most part. This morning. Two people are hurt following a fire this morning the fire happening in the 1700 block of jefferson street in waterloo around five this morning we just spoke with firefighters about ten mintues ago. One person got out on their own and had to be taken to the hospital. They told firefighters a second person was upstairs. Firefighters tell us that persons injuries are significant. Well continue to update you as we learn more now onto coverage of the iowa legislature. Today brings a key deadline for lawmakers the first funnel. Bills had to be voted out of a committee by today or they die. This morning, were looking at whats moving forward. And whats not. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live amanda, a bill weve talked about this week didnt state lawmakers were considering making it illegal for iowans use their phones while driving. Unl