Obituaries

DES MOINES (AP) ? The Saturday traffic crash toll has risen to eight with the death of a 62-year-old Des Moines man who?d been driving his motorcycle with his wife.The Des Moines Register reports that Everett Faux died at a Des Moines hospital Monday. He and his wife, Laura, on Saturday were riding back to Des Moines after a vacation in Branson, Mo., when he lost control of his motorcycle on Interstate 35 in ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? A trial has been ordered in a lawsuit that alleges doctors at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics conducted an experimental brain stimulation therapy that left a patient?s face paralyzed and then failed to get her proper treatment.A judge rejected the hospital?s request to dismiss Tamara Stellmach?s medical malpractice lawsuit last week, ordering the case to proceed to a trial scheduled for ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office will participate in the statewide sTEP Wave Enforcement program throughout county roads.Iowa?s ?Drive Sober or Be Pulled Over? enhanced law enforcement presence on roads will run Aug. 26 to Sept. 8.

FORT MADISON ? An escapee from the state prison in Fort Madison led Washington County Sheriff?s deputies on a high-speed chase in excess of 100 mph in a stolen car Friday night which tried to ram a sheriff?s vehicle before wrecking.Washington County Sheriff Jerry Dunbar said after the crash, Richard Campbell, 25, of Keokuk, tried to flee on foot. The sheriff?s department K-9 located Campbell hiding in a creek ...

An Air Force unit that operates one-third of the nation?s land-based nuclear missile force has failed a safety and security inspection, marking the second major setback this year for a force charged with the military?s most sensitive mission, the general in charge of the Air Force?s nuclear force told The Associated Press today.The failure was recorded by the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, ...

DAVENPORT (AP) ? A Davenport-based company is alerting nearly 1,200 former hospital patients about a security lapse that exposed their names and birthdates to identity theft.Genesis Health System has issued the warning. Genesis says a medical transcription firm didn?t establish a firewall to protect online information from May 5 to June 24. The firm is contracted by Cogent Healthcare, which provides physicians ...

SIOUX CITY (AP) ? A former Sioux City high school teacher has been given probation and a suspended prison sentence for stealing band instruments.Forty-year-old Kevin Massey, of Sergeant Bluff, was sentenced on Thursday to three years of probation and five years in prison, suspended. He?d pleaded guilty to theft after prosecutors lowered the charge.Massey has resigned from his job as band director at North High ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) ? A 35-year-old Iowa man has been charged with stealing groceries from a northeast Nebraska mom and her child.A South Sioux City officer says he found grocery bags of pork and bread in the vehicle of Jacob Tuttle when he stopped Tuttle for speeding and a broken brake light last week. The officer matched the vehicle?s description to that provided by a witness to a theft from another ...

Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Andrea Fluharty at 1200 W. Grimes Ave., at 1:26 p.m. Thursday on a warrant for probation violation.

Hayne earns negotiations designation Darin Hayne, an associate of ERA Fairfield Rea Estate, has been awarded the Certified Negotiation Expert designation by the Real Estate Negotiation Institute.The CNE is earned by real estate professionals after successfully completing formal negotiation training. Agents who receive the certification are among 1 percent of all agents nationally.Those completing the curriculu...