Dae’von Bryant

KEOKUK (WGEM) - Main Street is closed from McKinley Avenue to Belknap Boulevard in Keokuk, Iowa, after a three-vehicle crash at the intersection of Main Street and McKinley Avenue in front of Hy-Vee. Police said two people suffered serious injuries and were airlifted to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The Keokuk Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Lee County Emergency Medical Services and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded.

PIKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS (WGEM) - Pike County, Illinois fire chief Jason White says a truck driver is safe after a fire engulfed his trailer loaded with palm oil late Thursday night on Illinois Highway 54 near Summer Hill. He says the trucker had driven a few miles down the road after the fire began, and was unaware of it. Other drivers on the road had tried to warn the truck’s driver.

NOVELTY, Mo. (WGEM) - With heavy rainfall constant in the region, Tri-State area farmers can begin to wonder how standing water could affect their yields this season. Professors at the Lee Greenley Jr. Memorial Research Farm may soon have an answer to how long is too long to save your crops. For the past four years, professors and students have been testing on corn plants, taking perfect crops at varying vegetation stages and flooding their roots for a variation of three days and seven days.