Stories from Thursday, April 11, 2013

Gov. Terry Branstad on Thursday issued a proclamation of disaster emergency in response to severe weather that impacted 10 counties in northwest Iowa. Counties included in the proclamation are Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Plymouth and Sioux. Beginning April 9, damaging winds, heavy rains, thunderstorms and freezing rains caused damage to public and private property, power outages from downed power lines and poles, and a large amount of debris...