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Published April 16, 2021 at 5:05 PM CDT Listen • 45:48 On this episode of River to River, host Ben Kieffer speaks with Kate Payne about two Iowa rivers being named among the nation’s most endangered and explains how agricultural pollution receives much of the blame. Katarina Sostaric joins the program with news from the Iowa Statehouse, a conversation with Iowa environmental health scientist Peter Thorne about his nomination to serve as an EPA advisor, Grant Gerlock describes what's concerning Iowa’s public schools and Kassidy Arena talks about Iowa’s fir...

Man charged with murder caught after mistaken release April 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with murder who was mistakenly released from a New York City jail more than a month ago was taken back into custody Friday. Christopher Buggs, 26, was arrested by members of a U.S. marshals fugitive task force and the New York City Department of Correction, said Peter Thorne, a spokesman for the city Correction Department. Details of the arrest and how authorities found Buggs were not released. He was captured in the Bronx, according to media reports. Buggs is awaiting tri...

Buggs sat in custody for three years at Rikers following his February 2018 second-degree murder arrest in the death of Ernest Brownlee, 55, who was shot in front of a Throop Avenue deli in Bed-Stuy. Court records indicated he was next due for a hearing in June on the murder charges. At the time of his accidentally release, Department of Correction online inmate records also showed Buggs' status as "Released." He had been held in the Otis Bantum facility. It appeared Buggs was released on an unrelated contempt of court finding, with Rikers staff not realizing he should still be locked up for ...

Maxwell Bernstein | April 7, 2021 Climate change will increase the damage from drought, flooding, air pollution, and toxic algae in the Midwest and also, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has found that the number of storms causing $1 billion or more are increasing Peter Thorne, the head of the University of Iowa’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, said in an interview with the Iowa Capital Dispatch.   As the climate changes, Iowans’ health will be affected. Iowans with hay fever will have their symptoms increase and pests such as the Lone star t...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. New York's Rikers Island has blamed four prison staffers for the mistaken release of a convict, and they have been suspended without pay, according to reports. Christopher Buggs, 26, from Brooklyn, was mistakenly released from the Otis Bantum Correctional Center due to a clerical error earlier this week and is reportedly still on the loose. One of the suspended staffers was reportedly an assistant deputy warden, who indicated to the New York Daily News thought that he was being lined up to take the blame f...