Evansdale News

Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil in Dayton tonight praying for the safe return of Kathlynn Shepard.

Law enforcement agencies are probing whether a central Iowa kidnapping may be linked to the murder of two girls abducted last July from Evansdale.

Trials have been scheduled for the father of one of two slain cousins who went missing in Evansdale.

It's a hard road and the way forward is uncertain, but the Saturday burial of Elizabeth Collins showed support for her family has not faded.

The funeral service will be held Saturday, May 4, at 11 a.m. at Waterloo Memorial.

Each year, the county honors a dispatcher as 'Telecommunicator of the Year', but this year the whole department received the award.

The public is invited to a celebration to mark the reopening of the McFarlane Bridge on the Cedar Valley Nature Trail.

A heavy round of hail fell hard and fast, pummeling downtown Waterloo with quarter sized hail, while other areas saw anything from golf ball to pea sized stones or no hail at all.

Black Hawk County Sheriff's deputies, the Evansdale Police, and Gilbertville Fire Personnel responded to a crash east of Gilbertville Sunday.

A domestic assault trial for the father of 1 of the cousins abducted in Evansdale and later found dead has been delayed.

On Thursday, a special agent working the case received an award in Des Moines. Special Agent Mike Roehrkasse with the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation received the Single Act of Assistance Award.