Inmate Fails To Return From Work Release
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say an inmate has been listed as escaped from the state work release facility in Sioux City.
The Iowa Corrections Department says 21-year-old Vicente Manzo-Hernandez didn’t return as scheduled Sunday from an authorized program meeting.
The department says Manzo-Hernandez was put on work release on Aug. 11 following parole revocation. He’d been given a 10-year sentence in May 2013 after his conviction in Woodbury County on a charge of intimidation with a dangerous weapon.
Cedar Rapids Prepares For Flooding
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) – A city spokeswoman says about half of the homes and businesses in an area of Cedar Rapids expected to see flooding have been evacuated.
The city asked residents and property owners along the rain-swollen Cedar River to leave by 8 p.m. Sunday, two days before the river is expected to crest.
City spokeswoman Gail Loskill (LAHS’-kihl) said Monday that police believe about half of the 3,400 residential and 550 commercial parcels in the zone have been evacuated. Loskill couldn’t say how many people remain.
The National Weather Service says the river is forecast to crest Tuesday at 23 feet, which is about 7 feet into the category of major flooding but still below the 2008 record.
Cedar Rapids is Iowa’s second-largest city, with around 130,000 residents.
Iowa State University President Won’t Fly College Plane
AMES, Iowa (AP) – The president of Iowa State University says he will no longer pilot a university airplane he has used for trips that mixed business and personal time.
President Steven Leath said Monday that he and his wife will also make a donation to the university’s foundation to cover costs associated with an accident in the plane last summer.
The moves come after The Associated Press reported Saturday that Leath suffered a hard landing in the plane last summer on his way home from an 11-day personal trip to North Carolina.
Leath says he reimbursed Iowa State for the cost of that flight as well as three other trips that mixed business and personal work.
Leath says his use of the aircraft was approved by the university’s legal office and its insurer.