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Suspect in Glenwood Homicide Dies
(Glenwood) The Iowa DCI says on August 6, 2025, Dennis Burnell was transported to the Kansas University Medical Center Burn Unit and treated for extensive burn injuries. On August 8, 2025, law enforce...
Mandy Billings Aug 08, 2025

Grant Petty of Atlantic FFA Wins Grand Champion Market Hog at Iowa State Fair
(Atlantic) - It was a banner day for Atlantic FFA member Grant Petty at the Iowa State Fair. Petty, the son of Darrin and Melanie Petty, exhibited the Grand Champion Market Hog in Friday's FFA Pig Sho...
Tom Robinson Aug 08, 2025

Death Investigation in Council Bluffs
(Council Bluffs) Council Bluffs Police and Council Bluffs Fire & Rescue responded to 1629 Avenue B at 7:31 Friday morning for a man down. Officers and medics found the male to be deceased. Detecti...
Mandy Billings Aug 08, 2025

Busy Agenda for Exira City Council This Week
(Exira, IA) -- Exira's City Council met this past Wednesday and among the items on the agenda was to approve the submitting an application for the Housing Trust Fund. City Clerk Meg Andersen In additi...
Chris Varney Aug 08, 2025

Iowa Attorney General's Office Concludes Officers Acted with Legal Justification in Dubuque County Shooting
(Dubuque Co) The Iowa Attorney General's Office has ruled the July 1, 2025, fatal shooting of James Young Sherrill by Dubuque County Sheriff's Office, Dubuque, and Monticello police officers was legal...
Mandy Billings Aug 08, 2025

Water Summary Update: Iowa is drought free due to above-average rainfall in July
(Des Moines) Drought conditions improved statewide due to above-normal precipitation totals in July, according to the latest Water Summary Update. With more than double the expected precipitation, las...
Mandy Billings Aug 08, 2025

Reminder: AtlanticFest is Saturday
(Atlantic) AtlanticFest will be held Saturday in downtown Atlantic, rain or shine. AtlanticFest is an annual festival that serves as a fundraiser for the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce. Funds from ...
Mandy Billings Aug 08, 2025

Creston Police Report
(Creston) The Creston Police Department arrested 39-year-old James Alan Davis on Thursday on two Union County warrants; one for Harassment 1st Degree, another for six counts of Stalking, five counts o...
Mandy Billings Aug 08, 2025

Fatal Head-On Collision in Pocahontas County
(Pocahontas Co) One person was killed and another was injured in a head-on collision in Pocahontas County Thursday afternoon. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened on Highway 4 near 600th S...
Mandy Billings Aug 08, 2025

Heat Advisory in Effect Today
(Area) A Heat Advisory is in effect from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. today for all of southwest Iowa. The National Weather Service says heat index values up to 105 are expected. Hot temperatures and high humidi...
Mandy Billings Aug 08, 2025







