Laryssa Leone
Weekend Anchor and Reporter at WOI-TV (Des Moines, IA)
Weekend Anchor/reporter WOI Local 5 News•UN0 2021👩🏽🎓 •Opinions are my own• Retweets are not endorsements she/her/hers @weareiowa.com
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1 day ago |
weareiowa.com | Laryssa Leone
DES MOINES, Iowa — A bill expanding the definition of cancer under Iowa's presumptive disability law is finally a law itself after Gov. Kim Reynolds put pen to paper Friday afternoon. It's a victory for first responders and their loved ones, who have worked years to get similar legislation passed. Not all who helped bring the law to fruition were able to celebrate Friday. Longtime firefighter Brian Stoaks lost his battle to pancreatic cancer in 2023.
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2 days ago |
weareiowa.com | Laryssa Leone
DES MOINES, Iowa — The city of Des Moines is ending it's participation in a national initiative to bring more women into the Des Moines Police Department. The 30x30 initiative is lead by a coalition of police leaders whose goal is to ensure women make up 30 percent of police officers by 2030. Only 11% of the total sworn-in Des Moines police officers are women. The department joined the 30x30 program in 2021 to help grow that percentage.
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1 week ago |
weareiowa.com | Laryssa Leone
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines Regional Police Academy sits on 401 E Army Post Road, right next door to a former YMCA building. DMPD's Sgt. Paul Parizek believes the location of the two buildings makes the former YMCA a perfect space for a replacement DMPD training facility. The space has already been rented by the DMPD for training purposes, but now with the Des Moines City Council's approval it will be the new home of the department's training center.
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1 week ago |
weareiowa.com | Laryssa Leone
DES MOINES, Iowa — Editor's Note: The interviews are translated from Kirundi and Swahili to English. Three members of one family are dead after a house fire last week on the southside of Des Moines. Des Moines police officers and fire personnel responded to multiple reports of a house fire near Three Lakes Parkway and Moonlight Drive early last Wednesday. Yotamu Nyedetse is the father of the large family that lived in the home.
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1 week ago |
wbir.com | Laryssa Leone
DES MOINES, Iowa — After over three days and over 850 miles, a distance no family should have away from their child, William Beasley and his wife Teneshi Taggart were reunited with their daughter in the Des Moines metro Wednesday night. Their daughter went missing from her grandmother's home Saturday night and was later found in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
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