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Firefighters in cedar rapids are trying to figure out what caused a mobile home fire. One person is dead and another was taken to the hospital. The fire was at 3701 16th avenue sw. 72 year old Ronald Jacobs died at the scene. Responders took his wife, 72 year old karen jacobs, to Mercy Medical center before transferring her to another hospital. Smoke and flames had filled the mobile home when firereghters arrived just after 7 30 am yesterday morning. But the fire never got large enough to threaten any nearby mobile homes. One long time resident at the Mobile Home Park says the jacobs couple ha...

Collision sports to provide a licensed athletic trainer to assess concussions and other injuries. The Senate Education Committee Approved the bill on an 86 Party Line Vote yesterday. Democrats approved it while republicans opposed. State senator from maquoketa and former High School Wrestling coach tod bowman spoke in favor of the bill, telling the Des Moines Register quote we are not covering every practice, but this is a step in the right direction where the most vulnerability occurs. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. We saw southern counties but now the anti...

Interviewed by police. Morales Attorney Says after his client was read his miranda rights, he barely nodded his head. Attorney peter tenny claims his client made no verbal statement, and was completely silent. Tenny says that is insufficient to satisfy the burden of a valid, voluntary miranda waiver. An estherville, iowa, man says he wont seek a change of venue in his murder trial. Lee christensen is charged with 1st degree murder in thomas bortvits death back in june. Bortvits family reported him missing on june 6th. The 19yearolds body was found the next day in a rural part of emmet county. ...

Hoping that not only can we maintain where they are at but elevate them to a higher level, ys reynolds. The Governors Office says about 25 percent of the states third graders arart reading at their grade levelel thisisrogram is to help ththe students who are struggling. What we want to encourage them to do is enter their child into the Summer Reading program so we can get them to the level they need to be so we arent passing them on unprepared and setting them up for failure and its about making sure our kids our successful and they can compete, says reynolds. Several School Districts in sioux...

New this morning. A longtime fued between an iowa police chief and a county sheriff boils over. The police chief is now running for sheriff. And the current sheriff makes a shocking accusation. You knocked up a 15 year old and she had a miscarriage, okay . The police chief says its the voice of the Pocahontas County sheriff he rereorded the call. The two men have apparantly been battling for the past two years. Over which office is supposed to respond to crimes in certai areas. According to the fonda police chief, the allegations are not true. I can promise you 100 there any truth to it. As fo...