Police were called to a Sioux City hotel recently because a guest was causing a ruckus over the unacceptably low temperature of the hotel’s pool.
Sioux City Police Sgt. Mike Post said the dispute started when a guest of the Baymont Inn & Suites did not get the refund they thought they deserved.
Here in the Siouxland, we know wind.
It causes tornados, damage from straight-line winds and sometimes blows semi tractor-trailer rigs over while they’re rolling down the highway.
But have you ever heard of a random gust of wind strong enough to blow away a family pet?
That’s what people say happened in suburban Detroit, Mich., where an elderly woman was heartbroken after her tiny Chihuahua, Tinker Bell, was blown away on Saturday.
If only he hadn’t had such memorable hair.
The police log contains quite a bit of criminal mischief, a charge that covers property damage such as graffiti and vandalism, but it seems like few suspects get caught in the act.
Especially not by a police sergeant.
However, court documents allege Zachary Bainbridge, 17, of Merrill, Iowa, is an unlucky kid with an eye-catching head of hair.
The Palo Alto County Sheriff’s office is investigating a disturbing animal cruelty case involving dead sheep.
According to a statement, several lambs were found shot to death near the northern Iowa city of West Bend.
It was an interesting week, crime-wise, for that neck of the woods. Which is odd, because things are usually pretty quiet up there.
People have the craziest things in their cars.
According to court documents, officers made an interesting discovery when they conducted a traffic stop March 26 on a vehicle that had a cracked windshield.
A Sioux City teen suspected of dealing methamphetamine took off from police, court documents state, leading officers on a chase that ended in the bathroom.
According to court documents, Christopher Ristau, 18, attracted the attention of police on March 25 when his vehicle drifted across the center line — in front of a police car — on the 3100 block of Correctionville Road.
A Sioux City man charged with drunk driving had an unsual — and painful — excuse for not completing field sobriety tests.
According to court documents, Alfred James Nelson, 24, was intoxicated when he tried to flee police in his 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee at 1:13 a.m. on April 6.
Firefighters are still investigating the cause of a silo fire that created an impressive smoke plume late Thursday afternoon.
Thick black smoke billowed from the top of the silo, said Journal reporter Michele Linck, (and the smoke was) easily visible from five miles away.
Linck, who was on her way home from work, stopped to take several pictures of the fire.
The sword fight that killed an Indianapolis grandmother trying to intervene has claimed a second victim.
The Indianapolis Star says court documents claim Christopher Rondeau and his uncle drank beer, and the uncle allegedly drank other alcoholic beverages, before they began fighting with a Japanese-style sword and Samurai sword.
In an earlier blog post, I mentioned that firefighters were unsure what federal officials would do about a mile of river pilings scorched during a recent grass fire.
The damaged pilings, on the south side of the Missouri River in Dakota County, Neb., had the potential turn what seemed like a small grassfire into an extremely costly ordeal.
Considering how hard it was for firefighters to get down there to fight the fire, getting heavy equipment in there to replace them would not be a fun time.