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Social Security Ending Paper Check Payments
(Washington, DC) - Changes are coming for Social Security beneficiaries who receive paper checks. The Social Security Administration announced that starting on September 30th it would no longer issue ...
Mandy Billings Aug 10, 2025

Step Count Health Benefits Study
(Undated) -- New research suggests you can take fewer daily steps and still reap health rewards. According to a study published in The Lancet Public Health last month, seven-thousand steps a day, whic...
Mandy Billings Aug 10, 2025
Return Of Student Loan Payments Drives Up U.S. Debt
(New York, NY) -- More Americans are falling behind on their bills because of student-loan payments. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit report release...
Mandy Billings Aug 10, 2025

Homeowners And Homebuyers Price Standoff
(Undated) - More homeowners are starting to pull their properties off the market as would-be buyers push back on higher home costs. According to Realtor.com, the rate of delisted homes increased by 47...
Mandy Billings Aug 10, 2025

One Dead, Two Injured in Boone County Crash
(Boone Co) One person was killed and two others were injured in a two-vehicle accident in Boone County Saturday afternoon. The Iowa State Patrol says 55-year-old Bobby John Rodriguez, of Waukee, was d...
Mandy Billings Aug 10, 2025

Glen Smith of Atlantic Nominated for a Key USDA Leadership Position
(Des Moines) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, appearing at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, announced President Trump's nominations of Key USDA Leadership. The Hon. Glen R. Smith of Atlan...
Tom Robinson Aug 09, 2025

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







