Category Archives: Local News
Applications being accepted for the Trevor Frederickson Memorial Scholarship
(Atlantic) Applications are now being accepted for the 12th Annual Trevor Frederickson Memorial Scholarship. Applications may be obtained from the Atlantic High School guidance office at 1201 E. 14th ...
Feb 24, 2021
February’s frigid temperatures set a Plethora of Records Statewide
(Des Moines) Fifty daily record temperatures were broken during the frigid cold that gripped the state earlier this month. State Climatologist Justin Glisan says weather stations scattered across the ...
Feb 24, 2021
Ernst Statement on Vilsack Confirmation Vote
(Washington) U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, voted to confirm Tom Vilsack to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and issued the fo...
Feb 23, 2021
City of Audubon to advertise for new Police Chief
(Audubon) The City of Audubon is looking to hire a new Chief of Police. The City Council held a special meeting on Monday night to start the search process. "They instructed to have the position adver...
Feb 23, 2021
Atlantic Police Report
(Atlantic) The Atlantic Police Department reports two arrests. Shane Seagler, 42, of Massena, was arrested February 19th for Driving While License Denied, Suspended or Revoked. He was taken to the Cas...
Feb 23, 2021
Mills County Man jailed on Theft Charges
(Red Oak) A Mills County man is in custody on theft charges in Montgomery County. Red Oak Police arrested 40-year old John Robert Washburn of Hastings on Monday for 3rd-degree theft and 5th-degree the...
Feb 23, 2021
Atlantic Schools Superintendent Steve Barber discusses Snow Days
(Atlantic) The adverse winter weather conditions are extending the school year in many western Iowa School Districts. Atlantic Schools Superintendent Steve Barber explores ways to make up the lost hou...
Feb 23, 2021
Council Bluffs Pair Sentenced to Prison for Methamphetamine Offenses
(Council Bluffs) Two people from Council Bluffs were sentenced to prison for methamphetamine offenses. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa says 33-year-old Casey Gantt was sen...
Feb 23, 2021
Crawford County woman charged with First Degree Murder
(Denison) A Crawford County woman has been charged with First Degree Murder. At approximately 9:15 p.m. on Sunday, February 21, 2021, the Crawford County Sheriff's Office received an anonymous call fr...
Feb 22, 2021
Red Oak Man Sentenced to Prison for Receipt of Child Pornography
(Council Bluffs) A Red Oak man was sentenced to prison for Receipt of Child Pornography. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa says 63-year-old Mark Fredrick Sandell was sentenc...
Feb 22, 2021
