Snowowthrought the night we will be seeing temperatures cooling off pretty quickly 3 and that could lead to a few snowflakes mixing in with the rains across nw iowa. Little to no accumulation is e eected as ground temperatures will still l too warm. For thursday and f fday, look for mostly sunny skies but the winds will stay pretty strong, and the temperatures pretty cool. The weekend and mild near 60. 3 3 todays weather to blame for a fire call in morningside earlier this afternoon. Lightning struck the chimney of a home in the 49 hundred block of morningside avenue at around 1 30 this afternoon. Fire crews responded after the homeowner reported smoke in her attic. They found damage to the chimney and some minor scorch marks to the top of the home. A woman and her sosowere home at ththtime. T were not injujud. 3 3 despite the rainy and miserable conditions outside for most of the day. Today is veterans day. Sioux citys Hyvee Grocery stores got the days celebrations started this mornin
Unopposed. And sioux city councilwoman rhonda capron has won a second term as well. She defeats Thomas Venesky 1889 votes to 554. In other races of interest. Charles holz of le mars wins a special election to replace retiring rep. Chuck soderberg in the iowa house. He was running unopposed. Voters in sioux center considering a bond issue to spend 4 Million Dollars to expand highway 75 through town. Voters i ibuenenvista unty considererg extending a 1 local option salele tax. Voters in Crawford County considering a 2. 65 Million Dollar bond issue to build a Dialysis Center in denison. Voters in onawa considering a proposed 7 Hotel Motel Tax. And voters in sheldon considering a proposed increase of their exisisting Hotel Motel Tax to 7 . Finally. The omaha tribe of nebraska considering a proposal to legalize growth, sale and use of marijuana on have full results of these races tonight at ten on our sister station, kmeg 14. 3 two people are dead after a stolen car crashed into another veh
Dot could vote on n at rereest as soon as tomorrow. 3 3 some call it thrill hill. The section of 25th street where two people were killed in an accident last week. Councilwoman rhonda capron says concerned citizens have reached out to her about the dangers of that hill. Capron says the area is a death trap. Have to be. I know thatatwe had a aill like that on 24th street and what we did was make it a green space, so we cut it off. You cant drive over it obviously, so maybe we can do Something Like that to make it safe. Residents in the neighborhood are concerned more lives will be lost. And are they want to see changes made as soon as possible. 33 3 outh sioux city is nearing completion of a bike trail that will circle the city. Work on the final phase of that trail is taking place along highway 77 near the walmart and hyvee stores. This segment. Which is a little more than a mile long. Started at 21st street and will stretch to crystal cove. moffet says this final leg cost 65050thousan
3 we have some breaking news this evening out of cherokee where police are in a standoff with a person whos barricaded themselves in a home on the southwest side of town. The incident began about two this afternoon. And homes in the area of oak knoll drive near the cemetary in cheorkee have been evacuated. Witnesses tell us that the ate patrol and a a swat team are among the Law Enforcement agencies on the scene. We hope to have an update on this incident tonight on siouxland news at ten on our sister station kmeg 14. 3 3 after firing two employees for wrongdoing at the waste Water Treatment plant. The city is taking steps to make sure things are done right from now on. Today members of the city council got a tour of thth wastewewer eatment plant. To get a better idea of how it works. They also learned that new proceedures have been put into place following the firing of two former plant employees. Those workers were accused of failing to follow testing rules and regulations. And fudgi
That decision without the knowledge of the county Attorneys Office or the victims family. Just beating the one year deadline iowa allows judges to change their mind. He says the decision erodes Public Confidence in the judicial system. 3 the man accused of robbing a Near Northside gas station has entered his plea. 21 year old Leander Tyndall of omaha entered his written plea of not guilty to charges of 1st degree robbery, possession of marijuana w intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police say he robbed the kum go store at 14th and pierce early in the morning of november 12th. He was arrested four days later at an apartment in morningside. Tyndall remains in the Woodbury County jail on a 25 thousand dollar bond. A trial date has not yet been set in his case. 3 3 police in denison have arrested a man they say is behind an Armed Robbery there earlier this week. Police say 29 year old manyang thee ong thiong is charged with first degree robbery. Hes the man believed to