AUTOPSY REPORT SHOWS PLANE CRASH VICTIMS HAD HIGH LEVELS OF CARBON MONOXIDE
(Ankeny) — Carbon monoxide poisoning has been ruled as a factor with last weekend’s plane crash that killed four Plymouth County residents.
The State Medical Examiner’s office says that all four victims: 49 year old Ed Anderson, 36 year old Patrick Kellen, 28 year old Tyler Douvia and 15 year old Samantha Clark each had high levels of carbon monoxide in their blood.
The autopsy report also indicated the four died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries in setting of carbon monoxide toxicity. The plane left the Le Mars Municipal Airport a week ago on Friday evening, heading to Osceola for a hunting trip.
The plane was reported missing by the air traffic controller at the Des Moines Airport after it dropped off the radar. Search and rescue teams from numerous sheriff’s, police and fire departments, along with hundreds of volunteers, looked for the plane. It was spotted in a Guthrie County pasture early Saturday morning at about 6:30 a.m.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the airplane crash.
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ONE IN CUSTODY, ONE HURT, AFTER MORNINGSIDE STABBING
ONE PERSON WAS INJURED AND ONE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOLLOWING A STABBING IN MORNINGSIDE FRIDAY NIGHT.
POLICE SAY AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN ROOMMATES LED TO THE STABBING AT 1520 SOUTH ST. AUBIN JUST AFTER 10PM.
21-YEAR-OLD ORACIO ALDERETE-HAMILTON IS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT.
HE IS BEING HELD IN THE WOODBURY COUNTY JAIL ON $2000 BOND.
37-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL ENGELMAN SUSTAINED A SINGLE STAB WOUND TO THE CHEST IN THE INCIDENT.
ENGELMAN’S INJURY WAS NOT CONSIDERED SERIOUS OR LIFE THREATENING.
U.S.S. SIOUX CITY READY FOR COMMISSIONING
A LARGE CONTINGENT OF OFFICIALS AND RESIDENTS FROM SIOUXLAND ARE IN ANNAPOLIS MARYLAND PREPARING FOR SATURDAY’S COMMISSIONING OF THE U.S.S. SIOUX CITY.
THE LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP WILL BE DEDICATED AT THE SHIPYARD OF THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY, THE LARGEST SHIP TO EVER BE COMMISSIONED THERE.
MAYOR BOB SCOTT HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS SINCE NAVY SECRETARY RAY MABUS MADE THE INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE SHIP’S NAME BACK IN 2012:
MARY WINNEFELD, THE SHIP’S SPONSOR AND WIFE OF RETIRED ADMIRAL JAMES WINNEFELD, WILL GIVE THE TIME HONORED NAVY TRADITION’S FIRST ORDER TO “MAN OUR SHIP AND BRING HER TO LIFE”.
SENATOR JONI ERNST OF IOWA WILL DELIVER THE PRINCIPAL ADDRESS OF THE CEREMONIES.
THE COMMISSIONING TAKES PLACE AT 8AM CENTRAL TIME.
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PORK PRODUCERS VISIT JAPAN AND KOREA IN HOPES TO INCREASE TRADE OPPORTUNITIES
(Des Moines) — A delegation of Iowa pork producers and industry officials is now in Korea after spending several days in Japan on what’s being called a “meat mission.” Pat McGonegle (mah-GONE-ah-gul), C-E-O of the Iowa Pork Producers Association, spoke with Iowa reporters from Seoul and says they’ve kept a tight schedule of face-to-face talks with supermarket officials, packers and even an ambassador.
Japan is the top importer of Iowa pork products and South Korea is the number-two importer. McGonegle is among nine Iowans on the trade trip and he says their message is being well received.
That marketplace aggression is expected and it’s healthy, he says.
Lee Schulz, a livestock economist with the Iowa State University Extension, calls South Korea the “star market” for U-S pork, given the direction tariffs have taken trade in many areas of the world.
McGonegle says there’s much support in South Korea for the new trade agreement, while in Japan there’s an urgency for reaching a new accord with the U-S for free trade. At day’s end, he says, “the image, the quality and the reliability of U-S pork helps keep us in first place.”
