Category Archives: Local News
News from Western Iowa.

Update: North Olive Street is now open
Update at 1:08 p.m. on December 20: Cass County Emergency Management says North Olive Street is now open. Previous Story: (Atlantic) Cass County Emergency Management says Olive Street north of Atlanti...
Mandy Billings Dec 20, 2021 default
Iowa post-Thanksgiving surge spills into Christmas week
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa is going into Christmas week with continued high levels of coronavirus activity and no significant gains in vaccination. The Iowa Department of Public Health said 788 peop...
Mandy Billings Dec 20, 2021

Adair-Guthrie County Emergency Management Director Bob Kempf explains Disaster Assistance Program
(Guthrie Center) Adair and Guthrie County Emergency Management Director Bob Kempf says about 2/3 of Guthrie County received widespread damage from the December 15 tornadoes and derecho. Kempf reminds ...
Tom Robinson Dec 20, 2021
Glenwood Police Report
(Glenwood) The Glenwood Police Department arrested Robert Farley, 26, of Glenwood, on December 19th for Burglary, Willful Injury and Sexual Abuse 2nd Degree. Bond was set at $55,000 cash or surety. Gl...
Mandy Billings Dec 20, 2021
Mills County Sheriff's Report
(Mills Co.) The Mills County Sheriff's Office arrested Damon Lee Carman, 65, of Omaha, Nebraska, on December 16th for three counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance and two counts of Failure to ...
Mandy Billings Dec 20, 2021
Ankeny man arrested for OWI following an accident in Guthrie County
(Guthrie Co.) An Ankeny man was arrested for Operating While Intoxicated following an accident in Guthrie County on Sunday. The Guthrie County Sheriff's Office says 24-year-old Florencio Gregorio had ...
Mandy Billings Dec 20, 2021
Creston Police report six Weekend Arrests
(Creston) Creston Police report six arrests over the weekend. Police arrested 36-year old Michael Scott Walton of Clearfield on Friday at the Creston/Union County Law Enforcement Center. The arrest st...
Tom Robinson Dec 20, 2021
Cedar Rapids Police Officer Hurt When Hit By Fleeing Vehicle
(Cedar Rapids, IA) Authorities in the Cedar Rapids area searched for a suspect who got away after hitting a police officer with his vehicle. The incident started last Friday shortly after 8:30 p-m whe...
Tom Robinson Dec 20, 2021

Council Bluffs Man Sentenced To 30 Years In Federal Prison For Human Trafficking
(Des Moines, IA) -- A Council Bluffs man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on a human trafficking conviction. Seventy-one-year-old Hershel Ratliff was found guilty last July. Council Bl...
Tom Robinson Dec 20, 2021

Pottawattamie County Man arrested on Drug Possession Charges
(Red Oak) The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office arrested a Pottawattamie County man on drug-related charges. Deputies arrested 54-year-old David Michael Benkis of Council Bluffs following a traffic s...
Tom Robinson Dec 19, 2021







