Category Archives: Local News
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Creston Police Report
(Creston) The Creston Police Department arrested 28-year-old Carlos Ivan Cortez for Harassment 1st Degree and Stalking. Cortez was taken to the Union County Jail. He was held on no bond until seen by ...
Mandy Billings Oct 09, 2024
Grand Lodge Celebrates 180 Years
(Atlantic) Members and spouses of Pymosa Lodge No. 271 in Atlantic recently joined Masons from across Iowa at the 180th Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Iowa in Cedar Rapids. The annual comm...
Tom Robinson Oct 09, 2024
Montgomery County Man Jailed on Probation Violation
(Red Oak) Montgomery County Deputies arrested 55-year-old Vernon Brinkley Warf of Red Oak on Tuesday in the 100 Block of E. Prospect Streets in Red Oak on a probation violation. Deputies transported W...
Tom Robinson Oct 09, 2024
Updated: Iowa Supreme Court hears landowner case against Summit pipeline surveys
Story and Photo by Cami Koons - Iowa Capital Dispatch Iowa Supreme Court justices and an uncommonly large audience heard oral arguments Tuesday on the constitutionality of an Iowa law that allows a ca...
Tom Robinson Oct 09, 2024
Guthrie County Public Health Dealing With Several Issues Including Providing Free Flu Shots
(Guthrie Center, IA) -- Jotham Arber, the Guthrie County Director of Public Health, met with the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday concerning a number of topics. Number one, Arber says they need to be p...
Chris Varney Oct 09, 2024
Update: Three Killed in Clinton County Crash Were Children Under Age Five
(Clinton County) The Iowa State Patrol now says the three people killed in a truck versus S-U-V crash on Monday morning in Clinton County were all children under the age of five. The Iowa State Patrol...
Tom Robinson Oct 09, 2024
Trumpeter Swan Contest is Now Open
(Atlantic) The Cass County Conservation Board invites Cass County residents to predict when the first Trumpeter Swan will arrive at the Schildberg Quarry. Trumpeter Swans have visited the Schildberg Q...
Tom Robinson Oct 09, 2024
Audubon County Board of Supervisors Hear Proposal for Commercial Compost Facilities
(Audubon Co) Abe Sandquist told the Audubon County Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning that he is looking to do a couple of commercial compost facilities in the County. Sandquist said they are going ...
Mandy Billings Oct 09, 2024
Pottawattamie County Supervisors to assume responsibilities of the Compensation Board
(Pottawattamie Co) The Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors will assume the responsibilities of the Compensation Board. Compensation Boards annually recommend wages for elected officials Board Ch...
Mandy Billings Oct 08, 2024
Log Splitter and Snowblower Stolen from Atlantic Business
(Atlantic) Cappel's Ace Hardware is working with the Atlantic Police Department to identify a blue Ford long box pickup and three individuals who decided to help themselves to the store's log splitter...
Tom Robinson Oct 08, 2024