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Ottumwa, IA- A Southeast Iowa man was injured Tuesday in a motorcycle accident that also involved a car. TV Station KTVO reports the accident occurred Just after 11:30 AM Tuesday at the intersection on Boone Avenue and Bruce Street in Ottumwa. According to police, a motorcycle driven by 25-year-old Dalton Hansen of Sigourney was going east on Boone Avenue at a high rate of speed. At the same time, a car driven by 27-year-old Lorena Leyva-Garcia of Ottumwa was going southbound on Bruce Street. Leyva-Garcia stopped, then proceeded into the intersection before the motorcycle collided with the car...

Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s request for a new trial in the killing of college student  Mollie Tibbetts. “In reviewing the evidence and testimony provided at trial, the court finds the verdict was not contrary to the weight of the evidence,” wrote Judge Joel Yates in a filing obtained by The Associated Press. Bahena Rivera, 26, confessed to investigators that he saw Tibbetts, 20, while she was out jogging, approached her, blacked out, and then hid her dead body in a cornfield, prosecutors said. At trial, his defense insisted this was a false confession. Bahena Rivera testified that two u...

View Comments The judge overseeing the case against Cristhian Bahena Rivera voiced skepticism repeatedly Thursday as the former farmhand's defense attorneys tried to prove there are grounds to grant him a new trial.  Bahena was convicted in May of first-degree murder in the 2018 abduction and stabbing of Mollie Tibbetts. In the week before he was scheduled to be sentenced, his attorneys filed motions to delay that hearing and order a new trial, arguing that new evidence had emerged pointing to additional possible suspects. Thursday's hearing, set to hear that evidence, involved multiple wit...

Cristhian Bahena Rivera deserves a new trial in the 2018 killing of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts included testimony from law enforcement agents who were in some instances loathe to the fact that the defense was calling their assessments into question. Bahena Rivera’s attorneys, Chad Frese and Jennifer Frese, recently filed motions for a new trial and to arrest a judgment of conviction against the defendant. Bahena Rivera has yet to be sentenced because his defense team says new tips provided to law enforcement toward the conclusion of his trial warrant a reexamination of the cas...

Xavior Harrelson, 11, disappeared on May 27 in Montezuma, Poweshiek County     Mollie Tibbetts was abducted and killed while out for a run back on July 2018 in the same rural Iowa county    Iowa Investigator Mitch Mortvedt denied any link between the cases and said there is no reason to believe Harrelson may have been sex trafficked Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 27, was found guilty of Tibbetts' murder May 28  Defense attorneys for Bahena Rivera said last week the two cases may be linked  The defense presented new information from two new witnesses and claimed Tibbetts was abducted as par...