Disturbance call monday. Inside the home, they found 72yearold gary breckenridges body. No one else was inside the home. The state medical Examiners Office is conducting an autopsy. A correctional officer at anamosa state penitentiary is recovering after an inmate assaulted him. The department of corrections identified the inmate as taylor denney. The unidentified officer went to the Jones Regional Medical Center for treatment, but hes expected to make a full recovery. Denney, who is 23, is serving a 15year sentence for arson and escape. Security staff immediately restrained denney and put him into a segregation unit. Police in keokuk are working with police in hamilton, illinois to see if home invasions in the two cities are related. Police say they found 32 year old ian keefe in a home in keokuk shot three time early block of belknap boulevard. Police say two masked suspects were driving away from the home in a car. A similar robbery happened across the river half an hour earlier. No
Medicaid system. K12 Education Funding as their top priority. You might remember that last year, lawmakers went several weeks past their deadline on coming to an agreement on that issue. And it finally ended with governor branstad vetoing the 55. 7 Million Dollar agreement the legislature finally came to. Representative dave jacoby says democrats and republicans will need to sort of re learn w to Work Together on the issue. Weve dug quite a deep hole with what the governor has done to education ithe last fouor five years. So now we have to make an incremental improvement. And incremental to me means at leaea 3 percent allowable growth. Jacoby also wants to see the state create more incentives for teacher Leadership Programs and other lawmakers we spoke with say improving iowas Water Quality, helping small and upstart businesses get off the ground, and Domestic Violence prevention are on the agenda. In des moines, brady smith, kcrg tv9 news. With just weeks left until the iowa caucuses,
Hahaha were thrilled because for a ile it looked like the west side wasnt going to get any protection. And the Czech Village area where pam lewis will never forget floodwaters drowning out her store. Store. I think once youve been thrhrgh a bad flood, you just never get over it like in oklahoma and texas the way theyre experiencing that. Theyre lowlying structures. Structures. We dont really see it but in 2014 we had some high waters, and we put these cone sections up and we put these sandbags around them,. Instead of relying on manual labor the city wants this system to maximize efficiency. Efficiency. We want to continue that momentum. Davis says this portion will cost around 12 Million Dollars. He says this project will continue until november 2017. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids, steffi lee, cbs 2 cbs 2 news ten at 10 continues corridors top stories. Stories. The cedar rapids its belt and making cuts to services. Services. Library supporters were hoping voters would approve
Winds nw 2030 alo 0 dbq 4 iow 5 in a tv9 followup this morning. Dubuque police says they now consider an ongoing Death Investigation suspicious. Officers responded to 2944 jackson street after a disturbance call monday. Inside the home, they found 72yearold gary breckenridges body. No one else was inside the home. The state medical Examiners Office is conducting an autopsy. A correctional officer at anamosa state penitentiary is recovering after an inmate assaulted him. The department of corrections identified the inmate as taylor denney. The unidentified correctional officer went to the Jones Regional Medical Center for treatment, but hes expected to make a full recovery. Denney, who is 23, is serving a 15year sentence for arson and escape. Security staff immediately restrained denney and put him into a segregation unit. Police in keokuk are working with police in hamilton, illinois to see if home invasions in the two cities are related. Police say they found 32 year home in keokuk sh
W7iowas lawmakers are a c des moines this morning for the start of the legislative session. Representatives and senators want to follow up on some things from last year, while keeping their eye on new developments this year. Kcrgtv9s brady smith is live in des moines this morning. Brady, what can we expect this session . Most of the lawmakers we spoke with yesterday say theyre keeping an eye on the states move to private management of its medicaid system. But theyre really looking k12 Education Funding as their top priority. You might remember that last year, lawmakers went several weeks past their deadline on coming to an agreement on that issue. And it finally ended with governor branstad d toing the 55. 7 Million Dollar agreement the legislature finally came to. Representative dave jacoby says democrats and republicans will ned to sort of re learn how to Work Together on the issue. Weve dug quite a deep hole four or five years. So now we have to make an incremental improvement. And