Telegraph Herald - Dubuque, IA


 
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Iowa briefs
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

1 dead, 6 injured in school SUV crash

HORNICK -- One person is dead and six others are hurt after a minivan and a sport utility vehicle carrying members of the Westwood High School wrestling team collided nearly head-on near Hornick in western Iowa.

The Woodbury County sheriff's office says the driver of the van, 53-year-old Bradley Haburn, of Spencer, was killed in the crash.

The driver of the school district's SUV, 26-year-old Daniel Thompson, of Mapleton, and five passengers, were taken to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. The passengers were all teenagers.

Officials with the sheriff's office say the SUV was taking members of the Westwood wrestling team to an event when the crash happened on Iowa Highway 141 near Hornick.

A hospital spokesman, Mike Krysl, says the injured are in critical or serious condition.

The investigation is continuing.

Man who ran over boy sentenced to prison

FORT DODGE -- A Fort Dodge man convicted of running over a 12-year-old boy because the child is black has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Prosecutors say Mark Hennings ran the child over on June 2, 2007, as the boy walked with friends near the Fort Dodge Public Library.

Court records show that Hennings got out of his pickup truck and threatened the group with a knife. Police said he drove off but returned and ran the child over.

The boy suffered scrapes and an injury to his liver but was released from the hospital two days later.

Hennings was convicted of willful injury causing serious injury and assault in the violation of individual rights with the intent to cause serious injury.

Newton man accused of killing his brother

NEWTON -- A Newton man is dead and police have arrested his brother in the slaying.

Police say they were called to a house in Newton on Friday evening. When they arrived, they found Ray Van Dusseldorp with a gunshot wound.

Police say he was pronounced dead at a Newton hospital.

Police say Keith Van Dusseldorp was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. He was being held in the Jasper County jail.


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