111819 504 The life and work of Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady will be commemorated at a public service on the Drake University campus Wednesday morning. Cady died suddenly last Friday. Cady's family says the 66-year-old chief justice died following a heart attack at his family home in Fort Dodge. Judge Duane Hoffmeyer is the chief of the third judicial district in Iowa and hears cases at the Woodbury County Courthouse. Hoffmeyer says he was shocked when he found out about Cady’s

111819 404 Hundreds of containers, many carrying hazardous materials, have floated into Missouri since flooding in the upper Missouri River basin during the spring. A Missouri Department of Natural Resources officials says the agency collected more than 740 containers this year. Many are believed to be from Nebraska and Iowa. The containers range from small buckets to 500,000-gallon tanks. Many contain diesel fuel, pesticides or ammonia. Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady will be

111810 304 Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady died suddenly last Friday. Cady's family announced the death of the 66-year-old chief justice following a heart attack at his family home in Fort Dodge. Duane Hoffmeyer is the chief of the third judicial district in Iowa and hears cases at the Woodbury County Courthouse. Hoffmeyer says he was shocked when he found out about Cady’s death. “We were just, all of the chief judges were in Des Moines on Wednesday, at a judicial council meeting,

111819 noon The Sioux City Council will be asked today to approve a resolution that a maximum of $1 million in funds be committed to the Badgerow Building and another $1.6 million to two other projects in the city's Historic Fourth Street District. The council will consider adopting an amendment to the Combined Central Sioux City -- CBD Urban Renewal Area Plan. In October the council approved a measure to allow the city to purchase the historic Badgerow Building for $750,000 from Cedar Rapids

Eight months after flooding began along the lower Missouri River, the amount of water being released from dams upriver will start to be reduced later this month. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the amount of water being released from the Gavins Point Dam on the Nebraska-South Dakota border will start to gradually be reduced on Nov. 23 as part of its plan to cut releases for winter. The river has remained high ever since the spring flooding because the amount of rain and melting snow

The Democratic presidential candidates continue to visit Siouxland in advance of the Feb 3 rd , 2020 Caucuses. Today, one of the leading candidate’s wives came to Sioux City. This morning at the Sioux City Public Library about 50 potential caucus-goers gathered to meet Dr. Jill Biden. Biden has been traversing the country talking about her husband former Vice President Joe Biden’s qualifications. Biden said her husband would be a commander-in-chief voters could trust. “A leader who brings people

Authorities say one person has died in an industrial accident at a biofuels plant in central Iowa. Television station KCCI reports that the Nevada Public Safety Department confirmed the death occurred Thursday afternoon at Verbio North America's Biorefinery in Nevada, which is about 40 miles north of Des Moines. Officials say the person died at the scene but did not give details of the nature of the accident. The victim’s name has not been released pending notification of family members. An

A district court judge has rejected a request by former Gov. Terry Branstad’s lawyers to set aside a jury verdict that concluded Branstad discriminated against a former state official because he’s gay. The ruling rejects dozens of arguments, including challenges to legal rulings during trial and jury instructions. Branstad’s attorneys asked the judge to set aside the July 15 jury verdict of $1.5 million awarded to former Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey. Jurors concluded

A winter weather advisory was expected to end for parts of Siouxland at noon. A wintry mix of sleet, rain and freezing rain created slick conditions for some parts of the tri-state area. A semi rollover on Interstate 29 near Sergeant Bluff his morning backed up traffic in the southbound lane. DOT traffic cameras show the road is open now. A few schools closed down today including Whiting and the Omaha Nation Public Schools in Ponca. UnityPoint Health and Sanford Health have abruptly halted plans

111219 504 Former Vice President Joe Biden has been pushed out first place in the presidential race in Iowa by South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. According to the new Monmouth University Poll out today, Mayor Pete leads the Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa, ahead of the state’s first in the nation caucuses in February. Twenty-two percent of respondents in the poll put Buttigieg in the lead for the first time in Iowa. Joe Biden came in second with 19 %, which was a big drop since