Any major travel impacts. Saturday remains dry with low pressure heading back into the state on sunday bringing a shower chance. Have a great night and a happy thanksgiving. Tonight cloudy. Wind nw 515. Low 32 tomorrow cloudy and cool. Wind w 510 high 40 nearly a year ago a hit and run accident in ames killed eastern iowa. Now the city has fired the bus driver who hit the woman and didnt report it. Benjamin clague had been on paid administrative leave since than 28 thousand dollars during that time. Clague also served 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to failure to report an accident. He was driving a cyride bus that struck emmalee jacobs in the morning of december 14th last year. She later died from her injuries. Jacobs was 18 and from urbana. Ames says cyride drivers are city employees. The city says it kept clague on the payroll during the period of time when he had a right to appeal. Athletic administrator has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to get reinstated. Jane meyer a
At a gathering in cedar rapids this is a logical fear of terrorism has created an irrational fear of things we do sunday night Saint Stephens Lutheran Church opened their house of worship to every belief to remember a pain share by all. All. The Inter Religious Council of linn county reached out to their communities to unite as one for a night of reflection. Organizers planned for about 50 people but more than double that filled the church pews. There were christians, jews, muslims, bahai and native tribes. Imam hassan salim says it is important for members of every faith to come together and continue building bridges to create communities built on love not hate. One of the effects of 9 11 has been i think a great deal of fear and somtimes hostility suspicion and even hatred directed to Muslim Americans 9 11. Following the Service Everyone shared food and conversation in the parish hall. Covering the corridor joe huisinga fox 28 news today not all eastern iowans are reflecting back of
Overnight in new york city two giant towers of light illuminated the sky as a killed in the september 11th terrorist attacks 15 years ago. The beams were created from 88 searchlights that were turned on just after sundown last night. They were first put in place six months after the attacks now theyve turned into a yearly tradition. They will stay up until dawn. Americans all over the United States paused to remember the thousands of people who zero each of the nearly 3 thousand victims were remembered individually. Individually. Nats reading of nas names the victims names were read in new york. Crowds paused in shanksville, pennsylvania where where flight 93 crashed into a field. At the pentagon urged all americans to stick together and defeat hatred. E pluribus unum. Out of many, we are one. For we know that our diversity, our patchwork heritage is not a weakness. It is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths. The 15 Year Anniversary was also the start of the nfl seaso
The ancient trees that grow along the Old Valley Pike — along back roads, on carefully manicured lawns, too close to power lines, or even right outside the kitchen window