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Waterloo landlords want to know if theyre renting an apartment to someone with a criminal past. The city council is considering eliminating a portion of rental applications where youre required to disclose criminal convictions. Based on that information a landlord can then decide not to rent to them. Landlords of black hawk wants to protect the inexperienced landlords who dont know the rules. And they say some may not be able to preform a Human Rights Commission says its only hurting those who w...

A popular eastern iowa golf clubhouse is no longer standing, after a fire early friday morning. Flames engulfed the amana colonies golf club, around 3 45 am friday. The fire was so hot crews couldnt approach the building at first. The smoke and flames were visible for miles, and it took firefighters about two hours to put the fire out. The building is a complete loss, but no one was injured. Firefighters remained at the scene most of the day. The fire also destroyed dozens of golf carts and othe...

Move on into our workweek, temperatures will slowly warm a few degrees, coming close to 60 degrees. Enjoy your saturday thanks britle a popular eastern iowa golf clubhouse is early friday morning. Colonies golf club, around 3 45 am friday. The fire was so hot crews couldnt approach the building at first. The smoke and flames were visible for miles, and it took firefighters about two hours to put the fire out. The building is a complete loss, but no one was injured. Firefighters remained at the s...

Marcus mcintosh is live there now. Marcus, what can you tell us . Marcus i can tell you where we are and paint the picture of what we know. We are at the intersection of carefree lane and southeast millrose. You can see police are still on the scene. Crime scene investigators still on the scene. They seem to be focusing their attention on that greenish, grayish sedan parked. There are a number of markings in the street. Police were called to the scene about 1 30 this morning with reports of a ma...

Another conservative conference attracted the attention of republican president ial candidates in des moines today. The national reglious liberities conference is taking place right now at the iowa events center. Jodi whitworth joins us live with more on what two candidates had to say this morning. Three president ial candiates spoke at todays religious Freedom Conference mdash; governors bobby jindal and mike hackabee. As well as senator ted cruz. All echoing each other. Saying peoples religiou...

In the trial of a man accused of a heinous crime. Joe lopez is charged with first degree murder and child endangerment causing death. Prosecutors say lopez assaulted his girlfriends daughter in november of 2014. The 1 year fracture and broken ribs. The little girl later died at the hospital. He says she fell from her high chair. But prosecutors say her injuries arent consistent with an accident. In waukee, the first man accused of murder in forty years appeared in court today. Brendan mcguinness...

Starting the deadly fire. Police say on march fifth, yenger got into a fight at a party messer and anderson were having, then was kicked off the property. By 6 30 the following morning, neighbors said the house was up in flames. Anderson and messer, who were sleeping on the second floor, never made it out. Just goes to show when people think they get away with murder, were always there and look at things both messer and andersons family said theyre heartbroken by the news and to hear what actual...

Good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im elias johnson. Elias our top story. The latest on the death of star hawkeye athlete tyler sash. Elias after sashs death in september, his family donated his brain to science. The football star was found inside of his oskaloosa home. His death attributed to an accidental mixture of two painkillers. Researchers looked for signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy or cte. A degenerative brain disease cauased by repeated trauma to th...

With highs falling back into the low 40s. There is still a large snow storm expected to impact iowa late monday through wednesday morning. The energy from this system still has to cross the entire Pacific Ocean so its still too early for reliable snowfall totals, but it is safe to say heavy accumulating snow is a possibility on tuesday. Elias lets get into the top five this morning. Elias to the statehouse. Whe re the back and forth over Education Funding has been sent to a special conference co...

State have already issued tow bans. This is a current look at those bans from the iowa dot. Tow bans are in effect for most of the state north of highway 20. Theres also a tow ban parts of soututrn iowa like mahaska, keokuk, wapello and washington counties. Texas senator ted cruz was the clear winner from last nights iowa republic caucuses capturing more than a quarter of the caucus goers. While cruz took home 27 , donald trump who had been leading in nearly all of the iowa polling for the last ...