AHS grad killed in crash

It was a total shock to Mayor Lynn Kueck when he got the phone call notifying him that one of his former Algona High School students had been killed in a car wreck near Burlington Dec. 12.
According to Iowa State Patrol reports, Christopher Richards, an elementary principal at Black Hawk Elementary School in Burlington, was killed in a two-vehicle accident early last Thursday.
Read more in the Dec. 19 Advance. The obituary is posted online.