Author Archives: Tom Robinson

(Red Oak) Red Oak Firefighters responded to a semi-trailer fire at the Red Oak Landfill. Red Oak Fire Chief John Bruce says the call went out at 11:00 a.m. on Friday to a garbage hauler on fire near a...

(Des Moines, IA) -- A federal judge has dismissed a Marshalltown woman's lawsuit against that city's police department. That means Holli Lillibridge has lost in civil and criminal court. She accused p...

(Creston) Creston Police arrested 49-year-old Connie Ann Hallberg of Lorimor on a charge of failure to appear. Police transported Hallberg to the Union County Jail and held her on a $300 cash bond. Po...

(Atlantic) Christmas in Atlantic is officially underway following the Annual Grand Lighting Ceremony on Thursday at the Historic Rock Island Depot in Downtown Atlantic. The event kicked off at 5 PM wi...

(Atlantic) Atlantic City Councilman Jim Behrens is donating the $500.00 Fox Engineering reward to the Atlantic Fire Department. Fox Engineering sponsored the Iowa League of Cities Annual Conference an...

(Creston) Creston Police are investigating a break-in at 508 Vine Street. According to Police, the resident reported perpetrators stole a BB gun and a cleaning kit worth an estimated $70.00.

(Des Moines, IA). -- Former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad will be "ambassador-in-residence" at Drake University, meeting with students and planning to host a yearly conference about U-S and China relat...

(Atlantic) The Atlantic City Council approved the sale of City-owned real estate at the Wednesday council meeting. The Council approved the request following a public hearing to sell the property at 9...

(Moline, IL) -- Ten-thousand John Deere union workers have voted to return to the job after a strike lasting five weeks. After they had rejected two previous offers from the company, John Deere made w...

(Atlantic) The Atlantic Boys' basketball team started practice this past Monday under new Head Coach Derek Hall, who takes over the program following Jeff Ebling, who accepted the Head Boys' Basketbal...