Articles Tagged: Iowa State Patrol

One person was injured in an officer-involved shooting on Thanksgiving Day after state troopers responded to a report of gunfire at a home.

Many drivers in Iowa could be in for a $100 surprise come the new year unless they put down their phones, at least one Iowa law enforcement official says.

In August, Gov. Kim Reynolds said the mission will “free up local ICE officials to continue their work outside the office to enforce the law and keep our state safe.”

The Iowa State Patrol, National Weather Service and the Iowa Department of Transportation said in a webinar on Monday that Iowans should start preparing for winter weather and poor driving conditions even before snow hits the ground.

A 30-year-old Marshalltown woman died Saturday after being struck by a vehicle that fled the scene.

The Iowa State Patrol has released the name of a man who was killed Monday in a collision just outside Anamosa.

Iowa’s highways are built to withstand a wide variety of vehicles, from compact cars to eighteen-wheeler semis and large farm equipment. They do have their limits, though, and according to the Iowa State Patrol, that limit is about 80,000 pounds.

As brighter LED headlights become more popular on the roads, two readers of The Gazette wondered whether there are regulations in Iowa for how bright headlights can be, and if so, how those regulations are enforced.

Two people were killed in a head-on crash near Hopkinton Saturday evening.

On July 1, Iowa will join 30 other states in outlawing any phone use while driving that isn’t hands-free. The law was passed earlier this year, and will replace Iowa’s current rules about phone usage while driving, which law enforcement officers say were difficult to enforce, since only texting was banned.

Protesters gathered Wednesday outside the Iowa State Patrol office in Cedar Rapids to hand-deliver a complaint that initially was filed last month about immigration enforcement during an April traffic stop -- and has yet to receive a response from the patrol.

Escucha Mi Voz, a nonprofit organization that works with immigrants in the Iowa City area, filed a formal civil rights complaint Friday against the Iowa State Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after seven Latin American construction workers were stopped while driving home from work last week near Dubuque.

According to a crash report, the driver lost control and rolled over into a ditch.

Drivers in Iowa will be prohibited from operating cell phones and other devices with their hands once Reynolds signs it into law as expected

Law enforcement officials, advocates and grieving families of Iowans killed by distracted drivers packed a Senate committee room Wednesday to again implore lawmakers to ban motorists' handheld use of mobile devices behind the wheel.