Hiring more troopers is now. 267 is low, i would like to see a lot more, but every director of a state police would like to see more officers. Van berkum says the patrol is planning an advertisement blitz to attract candidates to a Law Enforcement academy next year. Where he hopes to see a graduating class of up to 25 new troopers something he hopes to start doing annually. Our goal is every year, and hopefully do it in the springtime, graduating, thats when high schools are getting out, that way people will know that Law Enforcement is holding an academy, so they can prepare their resumes knowing that we are going to have an academy. Right now there are also more drivers on iowas roads than ever before. Data from the Iowa Department of transportatio n shows the number of licensed drivers in iowa increased by 466thousand in the past ten years, to more than 2point2 million drivers. Conrad says its obvious commute making the need to hire more troopers, especially here in eastern iowa, mo
Leftover clouds will break away through the morning, leading to a mostly sunny and pleasant day. Highs should end up generally in the lower 70s. Quiet weather continues into tomorrow with clouds increasing later in the day. Itll be about five degrees warmer, though. Showers and a few thunderstorm s arrive tomorrow night into friday, winding down late friday evening into friday night. The weekend looks like another winner with sunshine and highs in the 70s. Seasonable 70s continue straight into next week. Today turning mostly sunny. Pleasant. Wind ne 510. High 72 alo 71 dbq 71 iow 73 tonight mostly clear. Wind e 510. Low 56 alo 55 dbq 54 iow 56 infamous nsa leaker edward him and allow his safe return to the states. Hes lived in russia since 2013. Snowden gave an interview shortly before the film about him hit theaters. Andrew spencer has the latest. President barack obama doesnt seem to be when asked if theres a chance the president would pardon the nsa whistleblower, White House Press
Details on exactly what prompted the domestic disturbance call. Police say a 25yearold woman was in the apartment with bivins. Police believe bivins stabbed her multiple times. She underwent surgery and is expected to live. One resident of a neighboring apartment heard the story later from the womans mother. The father of her children, they were having problems she said that he was going to harm her and i sat out with the mom because the police wouldnt let her go and see her. Other neighbos stayed at this apartment with the woman in the past, but wasnt currently living here. A nextdoor neighbor who knew both said bivins was a frequent visitor and would watch the children the couple shared. And while he said the two argued, he said he never saw any physical violence. If they ever had a disagreement or argument, someone would yield, theyd cut it off and one party would leave the other there was never a point where he was just it was just a few words and then theyd separate mcgowan and ar
Justin. Leftover clouds will break away through the morning, leading to a mostly sunny and pleasant day. Highs should end up generally in the lower 70s. Quiet weather continues into tomorrow with clouds increasing later in the day. Itll be about five degrees warmer, though. Showers and a few thunderstorm s arrive tomorrow night into friday, winding down late friday evening into friday night. The weekend looks like another winner with sunshine and highs in the 70s. Seasonable 70s continue straight into next week. Today turning mostly sunny. Pleasant. Wind ne 510. High 72 alo 71 dbq 71 iow 73 tonight mostly clear. Wind e 510. Low 56 alo 55 dbq 54 iow 56 thanks justin a tv9 followup members of the local Deaf Community are demanding theatre cedar rapids postpone a play and recast it with a deaf actor. Others say the theatre should cancel the play, tribes, all together. People from the Deaf Community held a forum yesterday, talking about the role in the play. The play follows a boy who is t
Stories taking place this week. Among them, taking a turn for the best. A local College Student who has a lot to celebrate after a childhood full of struggles. Plus, Northern Virginia has a secret and we are in on it. We are going to take a tour inside of a fake city had a most people will never get a chance to see. And then we are going show you a little bit of dancing. A different side of d. C. s mayor. We begin with a new twist in the battle over the name of the washingtons football team. Dan snider is forming a foundation to benefit native americans. In a letter to the fans snider says he traveled to the 26 reservations to learn more about the needs. Communities. Zachary kiesch went out to find out if it is enough. Reporter in your community is there any question whether or not the redskins will change its name . I dont think struck any other name other than washington redskins. Reporter many fans support redskins owner Daniel Snyders refuse actual change his teams name. Which now