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• Driving and Ditch Drownings

  Steve Lombardi | October 12, 2009 2:26 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On October 7th 2009 the Plymouth County sheriff’s office said that its deputies found the body of 29 year old Michael Ahlers while investigating a report of a car in the river. It is being...

• Is this an identity theft?

  Steve Lombardi | October 12, 2009 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Do you think identity theft occurs only by random people sifting through your trash looking for personal information they can steal? Many people wonder how far to go in protecting their personal...

• Are all the people who voted for Bush in hiding?

  Steve Lombardi | October 10, 2009 11:29 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I ran this blog with a lot more discussion and received some feedback that made me think it was important to rerun it. I can't believe what I'm seeing. The United States President, Bush giving...

• More Motorists Die on Rural Roads than Highways

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | October 09, 2009 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  More Motorists Die on Rural Roads than Highways South Carolina is leading the nation with 95% of their traffic deaths last year (2008) occurring on rural roads. Montana is close behind with...

• Des Moines Hit and Run Update-Arraignment Rescheduled

  Steve Lombardi | October 09, 2009 3:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  On August 30th, bicyclist Mark Grgurich, 54, was hit by Paul “Jud” McKinney who fled the accident. He was arrested on the charges of leaving the scene of a fatality, concealment of...

• Another train-car fatility in Iowa's Crawford County

  Steve Lombardi | October 09, 2009 10:51 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  Wednesday, September 30th, about noon, Edward R. Stevens, age 76, was driving down a country road south of Ohio 103, in Bloomville, when Stevens was hit by a westbound Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway...

• Muscatine County, Iowa distracted driver heads to the hosptial

  Steve Lombardi | October 08, 2009 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  According to the Iowa State Patrol accident report, on September 17, 2009 in Muscatine County, Rhonda Levsen driving Northbound on Zachary Ave failed to stop at the 171st St. intersection....

• Dangers of bicycle riding to work

  Steve Lombardi | October 08, 2009 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  In an article in Here New Brunswick Urban Voice, called “Overcoming the fear of cycling”, Andrea Laltoo discusses being a bicycling commuter and the dangers often linked to habitual...

• Hit-N-Run in Des Moines ends in peaceful arrest

  Steve Lombardi | October 07, 2009 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Wednesday afternoon on Park Ave. around 5:30, a motorcyclist was killed in a hit and run by a SUV, according to channel 13 news source. After filling up the Ford Explorer SUV at the Casey’s...

• Under-age driver causes accident on country road

  Steve Lombardi | October 07, 2009 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Creston News Advertiser brings forward information from the Iowa State Patrol in the accident which occurred Wednesday morning, September 30th, involving Allison Powell, Mae Powell and Robin...