Iowa's Health and Human Services ruled Monday that the three men crushed in the May 28th collapse of a downtown Davenport building died from asphyxiation, and also that their deaths were accidental.
Forty-two -year-old Branden Colvin Sr., 51-year-old Ryan Hitchcock and 60-year-old Daniel Prien suffered from multiple crush injuries and being crushed to the point that they couldn’t breathe.
An investigation is being conducted to determine the cause of the collapse. Colvin Sr.'s family members have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
South Dakota attorney general Marty Jackley has released the draft proposal of an amendment to repeal the state’s medical marijuana program.
The program was approved by voters back in 2020.
The amendment would make all possession, use, cultivation, and sales of marijuana illegal. If approved, the repeal proposal would need 17-thousand-509 signatures to appear on the 2024 ballot.
The USDA is letting landowners in half of Iowa’s counties use land set aside for conservation purposes for haying and grazing livestock. It’s a big help for livestock farmers in a drought. Iowa landowners have an estimated 1.6 million acres enrolled in the USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program or CRP. In this our 5th year of significant drought, that CRP land becomes inviting for herds. While normally off limits, the USDA is allowing landowners in 46 counties to hay and graze CRP land.
Curt Goettsch is the conservation chief for the USDA’s Farm Service Agency’s Iowa Office. He says landowners should keep an eye out for new drought maps for eligibility.
“We put out a new authorization memo to the entire state on any new counties that have been added every Monday morning. … So you can check with your county every Monday morning throughout August or September to see if you’ve become eligible for emergency haying and grazing.”
Landowners can contact their local USDA Service Center for information on their eligibility.
The Sioux City Neighborhood Network is inviting residents to celebrate National Night Out from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 1.
National Night Out is a local effort to promote neighborhood involvement in crime prevention activities, police-community partnerships, and neighborhood relationships and camaraderie.
For locations and more information find National Night Out Sioux City on Facebook
