Muscatine County News

An Iowa man is dead after an accident Tuesday afternoon in Muscatine County. Police say just before 2:30, 57-year-old Gary Lenz was driving on Highway 22 near Nichols, when he lost control of his tanker truck, flipped, and went in the ditch.

In the May 12 Omaha World Herald, a reporter broke the news that MidAmerican Energy had allowed its options on land in Fremont County to expire.

THURMAN, Iowa - MidAmerican Energy has allowed an option on land southwest of town to expire, making it unlikely the utility will build a power plant - nuclear or otherwise - in Fremont County.

The Iowa Department of Resources estimates Iowa's bobcat population has surged to around three thousand cats and continues to grow by about eight percent each year.

"Just before noon today, one of the generating units at Fair Station developed a tube leak in the boiler causing a large amount of steam to be released in the plant.

A $240 million jury verdict in Davenport Wednesday may be symbolic, but it is a measure of the jurors' outrage over how Henry's Turkey Service mistreated 32 mentally challenged workers in Iowa for many years.

People who fell victim to the flooding have been alerted to get rid of anything that cannot be properly cleaned as hazardous mold will affect flood-stricken material.

Whether the May 7 vote on the $43.5 million justice center bond passes or fails, county officials will have to decide what to do about an aging lock system at the Johnson County Jail.

Police said an Iowa City man accused of shaking his baby during a physical argument with the child's mother called her from jail, despite a court order to have no contact with the woman.

As near as we can tell, just about every home in the City of West Liberty was affected by the recent heavy rains and flooding.

Memorial services are pending, details of the visitation and funeral services will be announced in the near future.