Category Archives: Local News

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(Council Bluffs) The Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office reports two arrests. Victoria Anne Griffen, 24, was arrested on Saturday after a Deputy observed a Chevrolet Equinox in the center of the med...

(Page Co.) The Page County Sheriff's Office arrested Timothy Jay Blank, 55,on a Page County Warrant for Criminal Mischief 4th Degree. Blank was arrested in Coin after a short foot pursuit on Sunday. B...