Category Archives: Local News
News from Western Iowa.

Audubon Chamber of Commerce Disbanding: Chamber Bucks Good through December 31, 2025
(Audubon) The Audubon Chamber of Commerce will officially disband on January 1. In a Facebook post, the Chamber announced that Chamber Bucks will be honored through December 31, 2025, but will no long...
Tom Robinson Dec 27, 2024

Christmas Shooting Was Murder-Suicide
(Des Moines) Police are calling a deadly Christmas Day shooting in Des Moines a murder-suicide. Officers responded to a home on Wednesday for a report of shots fired when they found two people with gu...
Tom Robinson Dec 27, 2024
Mills County Crash Claims One Life
(Silver City) One person died in a single-vehicle accident in Mills County. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened around 1:34 p.m. on Thursday at 51374 287th Street north of Silver City. Au...
Tom Robinson Dec 27, 2024

Montgomery County Man Arrested for Assault
(Red Oak) The Red Oak Police Department arrested a man early Friday morning in the 400 block of E. Prospect Street. The man identified as 51-year-old Robert Eugene Kelly of Red Oak, is charged with As...
Tom Robinson Dec 27, 2024

Parents Of Abandoned Baby Charged
(Denver, Colorado) The biological parents of a one-month-old boy found abandoned in a road median in Denver on Christmas morning are under arrest. Sergeant Adam Sherman with the Adams County Sheriff's...
Tom Robinson Dec 26, 2024

Strong As Steele Foundation: Giving Back to the communities and individuals that supported Steele
(Atlantic) In October 2020, Steele McLaren's life changed forever when he suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in a devastating accident. Thanks to an outpouring of support from individuals and bu...
Mandy Billings Dec 26, 2024

Iowa's Third Safe Haven Baby Box Coming Soon To Norwalk
(Des Moines, IA) -- The state of Iowa is expanding its Safe Haven Program with a third baby box. The Norwalk Fire Department is in the process of ordering the baby box and deciding where they want to ...
Mandy Billings Dec 26, 2024

U.S. Whooping Cough Cases Are At Highest Level Since 2014
(Atlanta) Whooping cough cases in the U.S. are at the highest level seen in a decade. Cases have been skyrocketing for months with the CDC warning there's no sign of a slowdown. The federal health age...
Tom Robinson Dec 26, 2024

County attorney's former paralegal wins jobless benefits after arrest on gun charge
(Adair Co) A paralegal who was fired from the Adair County Attorney's Office after her arrest on a felony gun charge is entitled to unemployment benefits, an administrative law judge has ruled. State ...
Iowa Capital Dispatch Dec 26, 2024

106 Mile An Hour Speeder On Christmas Eve in Iowa Has An Icy Excuse
(Black Hawk County, IA) -- Why drive 106 miles an hour in a 65 zone on Christmas Eve? The Iowa State Patrol pulled over a driver in a Ford Explorer on Highway 20 in Black Hawk County for going 40 over...
Mandy Billings Dec 26, 2024







