For a cure. Cure. This is fox 28 news at nine. A former jail administrator is being investigated by the state accused of mishandling. Money. Daron wilkinson left his position at the Cedar County Jail in december 2015 after is being investigated by the state accused of mishandling money. Daron wilkinson left his position at the Cedar County Jail on december 2015 after two years adds administrator. Dora miller has been looking all day and joins us now with what she has found. Reporter the state auditor and the dci said they want to know where 35,000 went and it was not going where it should of. Daron wilkinson was responsible for daily operations. According to a report done by the state auditor Danson Wilkinson was supposed to collect fees from inmates sang at the jail. A concerned raised by the missing. Along with the room and board fees, auditors found discrepancies in multiple different areas. Mary 11 14 05 our report identified a dollars of undeposited collections as well as 7,380 do
To realize the danger. Kelly o shea still has the bag full of treatment as they have tried everything to stop the horrible rash. She and her fianci, curtis prescott, were pulling weeds that an apartment complex the week before an emergency doctor agreed it was probably just poison ivy and a few days later, it exploded. It looks burn. Reporter is the painful story dermatologists have been hearing all summer , red sores, burning blisters and misery as they come into contact with wild parsnip. 85 . Reporter the toxic plants can be found almost anywhere. Bike trails, ditches, homes and nonhazardous flower. It was terrible. The itching was unbelievable. With yardwork underway, they want all of us to be aware. It looks like a pretty yellow flower. So if your kids are out there picking dandelions, they will bring them into the house and not now. You would not want a child to get a. As these plants they wont look the same but they are very dangerous. Dermatologists say if you think your kids,
Right now cedar rapids now right now cedar rapids right right now Cedar Rapids Police are still at 1st avenue and coe road. Cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson has also been at the investigation scene for several hours. She joins us now live, stephanie whats going im live at coe college right now where . . . . . . . . . . . . Cedar Rapids Police are currently investigating a situation at 1st ave. Ne and coe rd. Police tell cbs 2 news the incident started as a traffic stop and police are investigating whether there may have been shots fired. Police were called to several locations near coe college around 1 15 tuesday morning. Our crew at 1st ave. Ne and coe rd says firefighters had to extract a crpd officer from what appeared to be an had crashed. Police tell tell cbs 2 news the traffic stop began around center point rd. And e avenue. When the officer went to talk to the suspect, the suspect attacked the officer; police would not explain how the officer was attacked. After the attack,
Out executive actions he hopes will curb gun violence. In a white house address, president obama says he will tighten existing laws without infringing on the rights of lawabiding citizens. At one point, he was brought to tears as he spoke of the 20 first graders gunned down in their classrooms in newtown, connecticut. And from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun, wipes tearpauses every time i think about those kids it gets me mad. In his plan, the president hopes to expand background checks by having federal agencies treat all gun sales equally. That means weapons sold at gun shows and online, would be subject to the same background checks as all other gun sales. Percent of sales have no checks at all. All. The president also wants to increase funding for Mental Health care and to hire more atf agents, something that would require approval from congress. The National Rifle association has successfully lobbied congres
Response coming up in our next half hour. First, we want to focus on another call to action by the president today, this one targeting Mental Health. Health. The president wants congress to authorize more money to address the issue, in hopes of preventing violent acts. But that request raises new privacy concerns. Concerns. Fox 28 news senior political reporter scott thuman begins tonights Team Coverage. Coverage. We know we cant stop every acof evil in the world, but maybe we can stop one act, one act of violenceand one way, a tearful president obama says hell do that, is by addressing Mental Healthwith 500 Million Dollars to increase access to care and just as importantly some healththproviders, courts and state officials whove been reluctant to share records because of privacy laws, are now free to do so. The goal fill potentially dangerous gaps in the fbis database which could prevent gun sales to those considered a risk. We not be overly broad in our reporting. Ron honberg, from t