Category Archives: Local News
Ames Police Hope Witness(es) To Fatal Friday Shooting Reach Out
(Ames, IA) Ames police are asking the public for help in finding information in a fatal shooting Friday night. Police were called just before midnight to a report of shots fired near a large crowd of ...
Nov 01, 2021
Adams County Republican Senator Tom Shipley seeks Third Term
(Nodaway) Tom Shipley, the Iowa State District 11 Senator, is seeking a third term in office. The Senator from Adams County tells KSOM/KS95 News that he is most proud of Iowa's financial status. The l...
Nov 01, 2021
Rainy Week Helps End Drought In Some Areas
(Johnston, IA) -- Some Iowa communities report breaking rainfall records this past week that have stood for more than a century. State climatologist Justin Glisan says the new U-S Drought Monitor map ...
Oct 31, 2021
Iowa governor signs vaccine mandate exemption bill into law
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed into law a bill that allows Iowa workers to seek medical and religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine mandates and guarantees that those who are ...
Oct 31, 2021
19 states sue Biden administration over COVID vaccine rule
(Columbia, Missouri, AP) Nineteen states are now suing to block President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. One suit filed in Missouri on Friday includes that state as well...
Oct 31, 2021
Atlantic Area Chamber Ambassadors Visit the American Legion Memorial Building
(Atlantic) The Atlantic Chamber Ambassadors met with Lavon Eblen & Steve Livengood on Thursday, October 28th, 2021, to view the newly renovated kitchen and other miscellaneous improvements to the ...
Oct 31, 2021
Today Marks 30th Anniversary of Halloween Ice Storm
(Johnston, IA) -- This weekend weather looks to be about average temperature-wise -- unlike 30 years ago in what became known as the Halloween Ice Storm of 1991. National Weather Service Meteorologist...
Oct 31, 2021
Opening Weekend for Pheasant Hunting
(Area) It's opening weekend for pheasant hunting in Iowa. The DNR projects 55,000 hunters will participate in the first day of the season. "What can they expect? The word has been similar to last year...
Oct 30, 2021
Moore reacts to new legislative district
(Des Moines) State Representative Tom Moore, of Griswold, will have a new district to represent in 2022. Iowa lawmakers are approving the second set of redistricting maps to reset the congressional an...
Oct 30, 2021
State of Iowa versus Alison Dorsey Trial Friday afternoon recap
(Atlantic) The State of Iowa versus Alison Dorsey trial resumed in Cass County District Court Friday afternoon with cross examination by the prosecution of Defense Attorney DeShawne Bird-Sell's first ...
Oct 29, 2021
