And welcome three familiar faces back for another term. First the incumbents. Mayor frank cownie. And Council Members Chris Coleman and joe gatto were all reelected. Cownie took 80percent of the vote in his race. Coleman took 73 percent. Gatto ran unopposed. For the first time in more than a decade there will be a new face representing ward two in northeast deses moines. Linda westergaard beat marty mauk by just two hundred votes. Shell replace bob mahaffey who chose not to run for reelection. Westergaard is a realtor and served as president of the Douglas Acres Neighborhood Association for sixteen years. She also founded the Northeast Neighbors and friends group. She says that experience will help her in her new position. One of her Top Priorities is to invest new amenities in neighborhoods that will attract families. Neighborhoods are very important theyre one of my Top Priorities as i enter the next four years, is to keep our neighbors in the neighborhood. We want people to come to
Of evidence that gliniewiczs death was a carefully staged suicide. We have determined this staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal acts that gliniewicz had been committing. Fox lake Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz was under increasing levels of stress from scrutiny into what the investigators found to be criminal activity. Authorities say the officer had been stealing and laundering money from the Police Department that mentored young people hoping to become police officers. As of now. Reports say at least two other people were involved in the criminal activity, even though the investigation is ongoing. The officer was weeks away from retiring before he was killed in early september. Authorities say the 30year veteran of the force was shot twice with his own Service Weapon hundreds of officers, dozens of knine units and a handful of aircraft an Eastern Iowa Police officer is on paid administrative leave after shooting a suspect following a chase. Police say the shootin
Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im elias johnson. Elias new at midday today elias a man is being treated for injuries after being involved in a shootout with Waterloo Police while attempting to escape by car. Police attempted to stop 24year old Brandon Seeley around three tuesday afternoon. Seeley, who had an arrest warrant, drove at one of the officers, thats when the officer fired at seeleys car. A chase then ensued, coming to an end at a garage on hackett road. Seeley was taken to the hospital and remains in custody. No officers were injured during the incident. Elias back in the capital the medicaid debate brought plenty of spectators to the statehouse tuesday. Elias governor branstads plan to privatize iowas Medicaid Program went before a state Legislature Oversight committee. People talked about why they dont think thats a good idea at the public hearing. One of the top concerns voiced is the
Werent looking. The news starts in 30 seconds. Youre watching local 5 news at 10 in hd. We are iowas most Accurate Weather Team and we start with your forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib after those morning clouds fog went away, we had a very nice afternoon with sunshine and highs back in the 70s we can do that again wednesday, but that might be the last of the 70s for some time. Tonight will start off clear and mild, but some clouds may again develop into the Early Morning hours. I expect we will have some clouds around again wednesday morning, but then partly cloudy skies in the afternoon. The winds will stay southerly at 814 overnight, which should help preclude much of the fog. As winds increase wednesday to 1525 mph we should warm up again into the low to mid 70s for most areas. Thursday will be mild, but also bring us a chance for some showers from time to time. The real cool down is set to come in friday and saturday with highs barely reaching the low 50s. We could have s