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35 Years Later: Arrest Made in Iowa Woman’s Disappearance
Major Breakthrough in Iowa Cold Case: 35 Years Later, Arrest Made. A major step has been taken to solve a decades old cold case right here in Iowa. Barbara Lenz’s Disappearance: What Happened in 1989?. In 1989, an Iowa woman named Barbara Lenz went missing and no one ever...
KAAL-TV
Minnesota apartment owner ordered to repay tenants for “hidden fees” in class action lawsuit
(ABC 6 News) – If you lived at the Gates of Rochester, Heritage Manor, or similar properties between 2019 and early 2022, your former landlords probably owe you money. That’s the subject of a class action suit that wrapped up in late February – where an Olmsted County judge concluded that the owners of those properties, Olympik Village, Eden Park, and more, collected fees they had not discussed in lease agreements.
KSTP
St. Louis Park vehicular homicide case dismissed after defendant’s death
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office dismissed a Dec. 30 vehicular homicide case last week due to the defendant’s death. The attorney’s office dismissed charges against Jeremy Ryan Sherman, 38, who was accused of striking two pedestrians and killing one while driving high on cocaine in St. Louis Park a day before New Year’s Eve.
The Staten Island Advance
NY lawmaker in fiery shouting encounter with Vice President JD Vance
An upstate New York lawmaker had some shouted words for Vice President JD Vance at a conference in Washington, D.C. The tense encounter took place Monday during a Vance address to the Congressional Cities Conference of the National League of Cities held in the nation’s capital. Rochester mayoral candidate...
New York Post
Researchers crack mystery surrounding Gilded Age magnate and family who disappeared on Lake Superior in 1892
It was a real deep mystery. Researchers have finally discovered the final resting spot of the historic Gilded Age ship Western Reserve — closing the book on a caper that has endured for over a century. The historic steamer had reportedly disappeared during a summer cruise in Lake Superior in 1892, resulting in the deaths of owner and millionaire shipping titan Peter G. Minch, his young family, and all but one of the 27 passengers aboard, USA Today reported. This freighter lay undiscovered for 132 years until this past summer when a team with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical...
The US Sun
American Pickers star Mike Wolfe’s Iowa store slammed as shoppers claim antiques cost ‘3 times the normal price’
AMERICAN Pickers star Mike Wolfe’s Iowa antique store has been slammed for its high prices as customers are accusing the owner of charging three times the normal cost. Mike, 60, owns Antique Archaeology in Le Claire, Iowa and Nashville, Tennessee. Customers have slammed the store for their expensive prices...
Daily Iowan
Prison-manufactured items sold across Iowa calls to question ethics of prison labor
Tucked away five miles south of Newton, Iowa, Newton Correctional Facility holds 938 low- and medium-security inmates. The facility is also the site of Homes for Iowa, a nonprofit organization that trains incarcerated individuals in home-building trades such as drywall, electric, plumbing, and framing to build affordable homes for Iowans and to reduce recidivism rates, the rate at which incarcerated individuals re-enter incarceration.
CBS Minnesota
Motorcyclist killed in crash while fleeing Minnesota trooper
A police chase turned deadly late Monday night in Minnesota after a fleeing motorcyclist struck a pickup truck. The Minnesota State Patrol says the fatal crash happened at about 11:18 p.m. in Becker Township, about 20 miles southeast of St. Cloud. A trooper tried to pull over the motorcyclist after spotting a traffic violation on eastbound Highway 10, with the biker then colliding with a Chevy Silverado near 165th Avenue. No information has been released about the victim as of Tuesday afternoon. It's also unclear if the driver of the Silverado, a 75-year-old Minneapolis man, was hurt in the crash. The state patrol is still investigating.