Category Archives: Local News

Superintendent to Be Sentenced This Week (Des Moines) Former Des Moines Public Schools superintendent Ian Roberts is scheduled to be sentenced this week. Roberts has pleaded guilty to one count of mak...

(Atlantic) Memorial services were held nationwide today, remembering those who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Leonard Kinney, Commander of American Legion Post #43, served as the emcee a...

(Iowa Capital Dispatch story written by Kadin Luhmann) (Ames) Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Steen, speaking Friday during a campaign stop at Wallaby's restaurant in Ames, addressed an earlie...

(Calamus, Iowa) Two people died in a UTV accident in Clinton County over the weekend. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened at around 3:22 p.m. on Sunday at 2474 158th Avenue. Authorities d...

(Red Oak) The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office arrested an Atlantic, Iowa, man on Sunday. Deputies stopped a car with no plates driven by 24-year-old Brady Lee Fulk on Highway 71 and 205th Street in...

(Red Oak) The Red Oak Police Department reports two arrests on Sunday. Police arrested 37-year-old Jason Rolfe Aherns of Red Oak in the 100 block of East Prospect. Police transported Aherns to the Mon...

(Prairie City) One person suffered serious injuries in a two-vehicle collision in Jasper County. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened on Saturday at around 9:55 p.m. at Highway 163 and Pra...

(Red Oak) A Red Oak man was arrested early Saturday morning, May 23, according to Red Oak Police. Authorities say 30-year-old Daniel John Platt, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at approximately 2:2...

(Lewis) The Iowa Department of Natural Resources recently stocked 1,600 two-inch channel catfish into Cold Springs Lake near Lewis. This is part of the Lake restoration project that began in August of...

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