Category Archives: Local News
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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s Town Hall moved to the Cass County Community Center
(Atlantic) Former Vice President Joe Biden's Town Hall in Atlantic has changed locations. Biden will be at the Cass County Community Center on Sunday, December 22. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. with the Tow...
Mandy Billings Dec 17, 2019
Griswold School Board Meeting Recap
(Griswold) The Griswold School Board will hold a Special Work Session in January to discuss open enrollment. Griswold Superintendent David Henrichs said the board had asked him to try to determine som...
Mandy Billings Dec 17, 2019
Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Report
(Council Bluffs) The Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office reports five arrests. Mark Robert Richardson, 62, was arrested Friday evening after Deputies were dispatched to the area of Pioneer Rail and ...
Mandy Billings Dec 17, 2019
Cass County Supervisors recognize Dr. Swanson for years of volunteer service
(Atlantic) The Cass County Board of Supervisors recognized Dr. Keith Swanson for his many years of volunteer service at their meeting this morning. Board Chairman Steve Baier read the following resolu...
Mandy Billings Dec 17, 2019
Authorities say Iowa man died after Nebraska collision
(Mead, Nebraska, AP) Authorities say an Iowa man was killed when the pickup truck he was riding in went out of control on an icy highway in eastern Nebraska. Authorities say Jose Rodas died Friday aft...
Tom Robinson Dec 17, 2019
Adair County Arrests
(Greenfield) The Adair County Sheriff's Office says four people were arrested last week. *The Iowa State Patrol arrested 22-year old Ty Ron Sears, of Decatur, Nebraska in Stuart on December 13, for OW...
Tom Robinson Dec 17, 2019
Audit questions relocation help for Iowa patrol lieutenant
(Des Moines, AP) The state auditor on Monday criticized $40,000 in relocation benefits that helped a veteran Iowa State Patrol supervisor relocate his family home farther away from his new assignment ...
Tom Robinson Dec 17, 2019
Carroll Man charged with killing rabbit at Des Moines shelter
(Des Moines, AP) Deputies have arrested a Carroll man on charges that he used a stick to kill a rabbit at a Des Moines animal shelter. The Polk County Sheriff's Office on Sunday night charged 64-year-...
Tom Robinson Dec 17, 2019
Sexual arousal study investigated at Iowa home for disabled
(Glenwood) Few details are being released about a federal investigation into allegations that sexual arousal experiments were done on residents at a state-run Iowa institution in Glenwood for developm...
Tom Robinson Dec 17, 2019
Montgomery County Man arrested on Drug-related Charges
(Red Oak) The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office arrested a Red Oak man on drug-related charges. According to the Sheriff's Office, 34-year old Randon Phelps was taken into custody on Monday for Posse...
Tom Robinson Dec 17, 2019