Gazette Daily News Podcast, Oct. 25

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This is John McGlothlen with The Gazette digital news desk and I'm here with your update for Monday, Oct. 25th.

According to the National Weather Service, we can expect a mostly cloudy day, then it will gradually become sunny, with a high near 52. It will be breezy, with a north wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Then tonight, we’ll have areas of frost after 3 a.m. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 34.

An Iowa City man was killed Friday evening while checking damage to a vehicle he was in that had just struck a deer and become disabled on Interstate 35, according to the Iowa State Patrol. 69-year-old Steven Kohli was a passenger in a Lincoln compact sport utility vehicle being driven by 66-year-old Michael Kohli on southbound Interstate 35. At about 7:25 p.m., an hour after sunset, the vehicle struck a deer and became disabled in the outside lane, near mile marker 45, in the southwest corner of Warren County. According to the crash report, Steven got out to look at the damage and was struck and killed by a pickup truck driven by a 69-year-old Minnesota man, who was trying to drive around on the right side of the SUV because of vehicles in the left lane. No other injuries were reported.

Breanna Oxley announced Saturday she won’t run for a state Senate seat — where she would have faced a fellow Democrat — and instead will run for a Linn County supervisor position coming open. Supervisor Stacey Walker announced earlier this week that he would not be running for re-election in 2022, leaving an open race for the District 1 seat. No one else has yet announced for the seat, which pays $119,198 a year and represents a majority of Cedar Rapids, including downtown and the south side. Oxley, age 30, a social studies teacher at Roosevelt Middle School, is the granddaughter of Jean Oxley, the first woman elected as a Linn County supervisor and the longest-serving member of the board.

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