West Burlington News

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Firefighters from West Burlington, Danville, and Yarmouth, respond to a massive lightning strike to Mediacom's North Gear Avenue facility's adjacent tower that resulted in a fire that knocked out service to most of the area Thursday morning.

Summer, when counted from Memorial Day to Labor Day, is 99 days. The shelf life of a pint of donated blood, by comparison, is 42 days.

A Keokuk man West Burlington police say shopped around at area stores for items used in cooking meth, has been formally charged in Des Moines County district court.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Burlington/West Burlington Optimist Club member Marilyn Demijan, Burlington, takes down one of 54 flags she had help put up at 5:15 a.m. on Memorial Day, Monday May 28, 2012 in her neighborhood.

WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa - A West Burlington motorcycle dealership has sustained $230,000 in fire damage.

Three grief-support programs have been scheduled next week to help those affected by the May 20 boating accident on the Mississippi River.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Burlington's Shawn Mears is all smiles after winning the Snake Alley Criterium's Cat 5 and Citizens Mediapolis to Burlington Road Race, Friday May 25, 2012 along Main Street in downtown Burlington.

High winds turned what started out as a Dumpster fire into a fully engulfed structure blaze, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to a West Burlington motorcycle dealership Thursday morning.

A two-vehicle crash Monday morning sent a West Burlington woman to the hospital.

Alcoholics Anonymous - local chapters are: * Burlington: Meetings are at noon Monday through Saturday; at 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 8 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday through Sunday.

Brenna Norman/The Hawk Eye West Burlington High School senior Whitney Woolside hugs Drake Woodsmall before they enter the gymnasium for their graduation ceremony Sunday in West Burlington.

Anthony Joseph Connelly reportedly wanted to harm himself but failed when West Burlington police officers prevented him from doing so.

When one has to go, one has to go. What would have been a simple ticket for urinating in public instead landed a West Burlington man in jail on drug charges.

Coy Allen Stark wasn't intending to start a home improvement project when he visited the local Menards store.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Brittny Martin, center, with co-workers from Two Rivers Bank and Trust in Burlington, participates in a walk Wednesday in support of Iowa's Healthiest State and the Blue Zones Project.

One of the three people accused of taking part in the armed robbery of a West Burlington convenience store in March, got off with a misdemeanor as opposed to the felony he originally was charged with.

Brenna Norman/The Hawk Eye Fifth-grade girls from area elementary schools begin their mile run Monday at the RecPlex in West Burlington.

A Burlington woman waiting to be tried on a robbery charge was sentenced Monday in a separate case where she and another woman went around to area stores in what authorities described as a shoplifting spree.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Steven Ketterer of Keokuk holds his 4-and-a-half-month old daughter, Delaney, Tuesday while his wife, Jessie, watches and her sister, Jordyn Lantz, and his mother, Libby, take photographs prior to the start of Southeastern Community College's GED graduation ceremony at the West Burlington campus.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Randy Terry, an employee at KPI Concepts Inc., works on a Target store checkstand Wednesday at 1415 W. Mount Pleasant St.