Police are seeking the public s assistance in finding a 35-year-old man who was reported missing. Author: Katrina Lamansky Updated: 5:28 PM CST January 20, 2021
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. Police are seeking the public s assistance in finding a 35-year-old man who was reported missing.
Ryan Muckelston was at someone s home in Rock Island on 8 1/2 Avenue Monday, January 18 when he left around 2 a.m. and started walking home to East Moline. This area is south of 7th Avenue, in a neighborhood between 24th Street and 30th Street.
Ryan s phone last pinged near the Abbey Station in Rock Island, which is in the 3000 block of 5th Avenue, less than a mile from where he started.
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A 3-year-old girl who survived a two-story, overnight fall died of hypothermia after she was unable to get back inside her home.
Charlotte Charlie Handelman was found unconscious Tuesday morning outside a home in the 1500 block of 14½ Street in Rock Island, Illinois, the Rock Island Police Department said, NBC affiliate KWQC reported. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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Officials believe she fell from her second-story window at some point between Monday night and Tuesday morning, which is when she was found outside by her father, Rock Island County Coroner Brian Gustafson tells PEOPLE.
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With the vast majority of fireworks displays canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, many cooped-up Americans and Quad-City residents took matters into their own hands to keep an old tradition alive over the Independence Day holiday.
Consumer fireworks sales more than doubled over the summer compared to 2019, according to area retailers and CNN.
And this winter more stir-crazy Iowans are ready to light the fuse to 2020 and bid good riddance to a turbulent year with a ceremonial bang. Weâre definitely seeing some more interest than we typically would this time of the year, said Justin Bartlett, managing partner of Crossroads Fireworks in Bettendorf. Summer was a huge increase from the previously year and weâre at least seeing an echo of that at least this winter. . I think people are kind of excited to say goodbye to 2020.
Updated: 6:54 PM CST December 28, 2020
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. Two out of three people involved in a crash in Rock Island early Monday morning were sent to the hospital with critical injuries.
According to the Rock Island Police Department, at about 1:19 a.m. police responded to a single vehicle accident in the area of 44th Street and 4th Avenue.
Preliminary investigation discovered that the sedan was travelling west on 4th avenue with the driver failed to navigate the curve onto 44th Avenue. The car drove off the roadway and proceeded to flip over.
The car had three male occupants, two of which were sent to the hospital with critical injuries. The third only sustained minor injuries and was released.