Author Archives: Tom Robinson

A Celebration of Life Memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Monday, September 27, 2021, at the First Church of Christ in Atlantic for 93-year old Jettie Gaines of Atlantic. Visitation with the ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Thousands of people lined the procession route along Omaha streets to pay tribute to a local man and Marine who died in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. The body of 23-year-old Cpl...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A state court judge has declined to halt enforcement of an Iowa law that prohibits school boards from enacting mask requirements, saying there is no evidence that any school bo...

(Anita) For the tenth straight week, the total number of COVID patients in Iowa Hospitals has grown. As of Wednesday, September 8, there was a 10-percent increase in COVID Hospitalizations. Eighty per...

(Atlantic) Elite Octane Commodity Manager Adam Stamp toured area corn fields recently and projects a top five in terms of crop size. "I don't know that we'll be number one, but I certainly think we wi...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Hospitals in Iowa's second-largest city are limiting elective procedures because of increased numbers of patients driven partly by a surge in COVID-19 admissions. The Cedar F...

(Atlantic) Atlantic broke a two-game scoring drought in a big way with a 37-13 win over Shenandoah in a non-district football game at Atlantic on Friday. The Trojans, scoreless through the first two g...

(Atlantic) The Cass County Sheriff's Office reports three accidents and one arrest law in its latest report from August 26 through September 8. *On August 26, Cass County Deputies responded to an acci...

(Des Moines, IA). -- Governor Kim Reynolds is responding to President Joe Biden's new COVID-19 mandates announced Thursday. The expansive rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers re...

(Council Bluffs ) In-state and federal courts, judges are being asked to temporarily block the state from enforcing its ban on mask mandates in schools. Fran Parr of Council Bluffs is the mother of tw...