Mar. 8—Alcohol and speed are being examined as factors in a one-vehicle crash Sunday night in Weld County that sent two male occupants of a pickup to a Greeley hospital, according to the Colorado State Police. A 23-year-old male driver from Eaton and a 21-year-old male passenger from Gill were ejected from the vehicle following the crash about 11:25 p.m. Sunday on Weld County Road 55 about ...

Mar. 8—ALBANY — If the coronavirus pandemic had taken place when her children were in elementary school, County Health Commissioner Dr. Elizabeth Whalen would likely not have been able to do the job she's doing today. "It's not lost on me when we talk about the populations that have been affected by the pandemic, that women have been affected in a way that is disproportionate to the effect on ...

Mar. 8—TROY — Multiple fundraising campaigns have been launched to assist residents, including the woman who was rescued from a fourth-floor window by firefighters, who lost everything in a devastating fire Saturday that destroyed much of the historic four-story building at 451 Broadway. The future of the building that long housed the iconic Hill's Stationery on the first floor is still ...

Mar. 8—The Davenport Assumption boys' basketball team was humming along pretty well in late December and early January. It won at The Pit against North Scott before the holiday break. It conquered Class 4A state-ranked Dubuque Hempstead to start 2021. It knocked off one of the Mississippi Athletic Conference preseason favorites in Davenport North by 14 points soon after. Then in mid-January, ...

Mar. 8—The Rock Island County Health Department reported a COVID-19-related death for the first time since Feb. 23 — a span of 14 days. Monday's death is just the third linked to the virus in Rock Island County since Feb. 12. There have been 305 COVID-19-related deaths in the county since the start of the pandemic. The Iowa Department of Public Health did not report a death Monday in Scott ...

Mar. 8—Class 3A state quarterfinal Who: No. 4 Dallas Center-Grimes (20-3) vs. No. 5 Assumption (18-6) When: Tuesday, 4 p.m. Where: Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines Twitter: @mattcoss78 Online: https://www.ihssn.com/2021-basketball-schedule At stake: Winner advances to the semifinals at 2 p.m. Thursday against top-seeded Ballard or eighth-seeded Clear Lake. DC-Grimes' key players: Cole Glasgow, ...

Mar. 8—ALBANY — Ten additional state-run mass vaccination sites will open across the state in the coming weeks, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday, leveraging the newly approved Johnson and Johnson vaccine that requires one dosage and doesn't need hyper-cold storage. Cuomo announced the new sites from the Javits Center in Manhattan, which he said will put more needles in arms over the ...

Mar. 8—A new Interstate 80 bridge over the Mississippi River, further improvements to the Interstate 74 corridor and a continued push for a decades-long effort to bring passenger rail service from Chicago to the Quad-Cities are among a host of projects Quad-Cities officials hope to tackle over the next three decades. The Bi-State Regional Commission — the Quad Cities' metropolitan planning ...