Author Archives: Tom Robinson
Griswold School Board Discuss Teacher Shortage and Incentives
(Griswold) Currently, all schools struggle with staff shortages, and the Griswold School District is no exception. The school board discussed the issue at last week's meeting. Griswold Schools Superin...
Dec 26, 2021
Ernst Nominates Iowa Students for America's Service Academies
(Red Oak) Iowa U.S. Senator Joni Ernst, a combat veteran and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee nominated Iowa students from across the state to the United States Service Academies. "As a...
Dec 26, 2021
Southwest Iowa Man dies in crash on I-80 ramp in Omaha
(Omaha, AP) A 54-year-old southwest Iowa man has died in a Christmas Eve accident after his motorcycle crashed in Omaha. Police say Jamie Richardson of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was exiting onto Interstat...
Dec 25, 2021
Red Oak Police Report Two Arrests
(Red Oak) Red Oak Police arrested 35-year old Torrance Fitzgerald Hillard early this morning for 5th-degree criminal mischief. Officers transported Hillard to the Montgomery County Jail and held him o...
Dec 25, 2021
Griswold School Board agrees to join Natural Gas Risk Pool
(Griswold) The Griswold School Board voted to join approximately 70 other schools in a Natural Gas Insurance Pool. Griswold Shared Superintendent Dave Henrichs says members of the Risk Pool would pay ...
Dec 25, 2021
Southwest Iowa man who argued self-defense guilty in brother's death
(Creston, AP) A Southwest Iowa man has been convicted of killing his brother whose body was found this summer in a rural field more than a week after he was reported missing. The Des Moines Register r...
Dec 24, 2021
Woodbury County Man dies in Pottawattamie County Crash
(Minden) A Sioux City man died when his semi left the roadway on the eastbound Interstate 80 exit off-ramp to Interstate 880. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened at 3:36 p.m. on Thursday....
Dec 24, 2021
Dense Fog Advisory
(Des Moines) The National Weather Service in Des Moines issued a Dense Fog Advisory for southwest and west-central Iowa until noon today. Forecasters say visibilities may be reduced to one-quarter of ...
Dec 24, 2021
Iowa High School Girls Athletic Union's fifth Basketball Rankings Released
Class 1A School Record LW 1 Newell-Fonda 8-1 1 2 Bishop Garrigan 7-3 2 3 Exira-EHK 6-0 3 4 Springville 11-0 4 5 North Linn 9-1 5 6 MMCRU 6-0 6 7 Burlington Notre Dame 8-0 7 8 North Mahaska 8-1 8 9 Sto...
Dec 23, 2021
Update: Atlantic man dies in a rollover accident north of Atlantic
(Atlantic) An Atlantic man died in a single-vehicle accident north of Atlantic this morning. The Iowa State Patrol identified the driver as 20-year-old Avery Carl Andersen. The accident occurred at ap...
Dec 23, 2021
