BRIEFLY Iowa landowners hope regulators hear their pipeline concerns

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Iowa landowners hope regulators hear their pipeline concerns

LARRABEE (AP) — The Iowa landowners who oppose a proposed pipeline to carry North Dakota oil to Illinois hope state regulators will consider their concerns about the project.

Rancher Jack Montgomery tells the Sioux City Journal that the pipeline Dakota Access has proposed has started to seem like a done deal.

The Iowa Utilities Board is scheduled to begin pipeline hearings on Nov. 12 after a judge ruled that landowners should take their concerns to regulators before filing a lawsuit.

Don Tormey, who is a spokesman for state regulators, says the board hasn't made any decision on the 348-mile pipeline route across Iowa. He says the fact that Dakota Access has begun stockpiling pipe doesn't mean the pipeline will be approved.

Police investigate if medical issue caused Halloween crash

NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators of a horrific Halloween crash that killed three people including a 10-year-old girl are looking at whether a medical problem may have caused a motorist to smash into a group of New York City trick-ortreaters, police said Sunday.

The car jumped a curb in the Bronx on Saturday evening, leaving behind mangled bodies and bloodied costumes as neighbors ran to help. Police were examining whether the driver may have suffered a medical emergency, such as a seizure.

A black Dodge Charger being driven by a 52-year-old man plowed into the pedestrians on a sidewalk and then smashed through a fence in front of a home, police said. The driver was taken to the hospital in stable condition. No charges had been announced as of Sunday afternoon, police said.

Official: Russian jet broke up at high altitude over Egypt

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The Russian jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from an Egyptian resort city broke up at high altitude, scattering fragments of wreckage over a wide area in the Sinai Peninsula, Russia's top aviation official said Sunday as search teams raced to recover the bodies of the 224 people who died.

Aviation experts joined the searchers in a remote part of the Sinai, seeking any clues to what caused the Metrojet Airbus A321-200 to plummet abruptly from 31,000 feet just 23 minutes after it departed from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh bound for St. Petersburg.