Would get another 1 dollar boost each year until the wage reaches 10. 25 an hour in january 2019. Tonight, lee county supervisors, in the southeasternmost tip of iowa, will consider raising the minimum wage. Theyre planning to talk about a request from a group that wants the minimum wage upped. Johnson county was the first in iowa to increase its minimum wage. In may, the minimum wage increased to 9. 15 cents an hour. On january first, it will top out of the wage increase. In total, 5 iowa counties have either approved or are considering raising the wage. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. Its september and its hotter than nashville chicken. Another warm, humid afternoon is ahead with highs well into the 80s. Southern iowa may very well touch 90. With dew points in the 70s, the heat index is this afternoon. As a cold front slowly approaches from the west, some thunderstorm s will begin to form in Northern Iowa late. They become more widespread tonight in
Morning news. First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on another breezy and warm day. Northwest door later today and into the night. Heavy rain is possible out of any storm given the amount of heat present. A few storms northwest of waterloo will carry the risk of a few strong wind gusts as well. Overall, the weather pattern will be very active for the next 36 hours with heavy rain the main risk going into wednesday. Rainfall totals over 2 still appears possible over the northern half of the coming in here on friday. This front will also bring a rain chance with it. This weekend will be great, and the iowa iowa state game will have ideal weather conditions saturday night with a kickoff temperature in the upper 60s. Today a chance of storms in the afternoon. The highest chance is in the northwest. Warm and muggy. Wind sw 1020. High 89 tonight storms become likely. Heavy rain possible. Wind sw 515. Low 70 tomorrow storms likely. Heavy rain is possible, es
This woman, who admitted to having sex with a High School Student in cedar rapids. The Cedar Rapids School district released its investigation into mary beth haglin, who was a substitute teacher at washington high last school year. The district says. Former washington principal Ralph Plagman didnt handle investigati february and april. The School District says that led to resignations by plagman. And washington high activities director mike johnson. The district did not go into detail about those actions. But it says it will make improvements for handling such situations in the future. The man who admitted to killing a minnesota boy 27 years ago wont serve any time for that crime. Danny heinrich admitted to abducting, sexually assaulting and shooting 1989. Heinrich led authorities to jacobs body last week. And he admitted in court to the crimes after pleading guilty to child pornography charges. The plea deal means hell serve 20 years for child porn, but nothing for jacobs murder. A ch
Going to stick around for us today kaj . Plan on another breezy and warm day. Storms will be knocking on the northwest door later today and into the night. Heavy rain is possible out of any storm given the amount of heat present. A few storms northwest of waterloo will carry the risk of a few strong wind gusts as well. Overall, the weather pattern will be very active for the next 36 hours with heavy rain the main risk going into wednesday. Rainfall totals over 2 still appears possible over the northern half of t and off to the east with our next cold front coming in here on friday. This front will also bring a rain chance with it. This weekend will be great, and the iowa iowa state game will have ideal weather conditions saturday night with a kickoff temperature in the upper 60s. Today a chance of storms in the afternoon. The highest chance is in the northwest. Warm and muggy. Wind sw 1020. High 89 tonight stoseme likely. Heavy rainsb. In peciay late in the afternoonrou will hold a sec
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