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Atlantic School District's Mitigation Strategy for COVID Changes
(Atlantic) The Atlantic School District is changing its COVID mitigation strategy for the 2022-2023 school year. Atlantic Schools Superintendent Steve Barber appearing on 95.7 F.M.'s Trojan Talk radio...
Tom Robinson Jul 15, 2022
Cause of explosion near Battle Creek determined
(Battle Creek, IA) -- We now know what caused an explosion at an Ida County residence on July Sixth. An investigation by the Fire Marshal and the Ida County Sheriff's Department determined that the bl...
Tom Robinson Jul 15, 2022
Audubon County Fair Continues Today
(Audubon) The 2022 county fair season is underway, a chance for 4H Clubs members and FFA chapter members to exhibit their projects. Often the stigma is that 4-H and FFA are just for farm kids. KSOM on...
Tom Robinson Jul 15, 2022
Week Of Heavy Rainfall Improves Iowa Drought Picture
(Des Moines, IA) -- A week of heavy rainfall has improved Iowa's drought picture. The latest Drought Monitor map shows just over 45 percent of the state has some level of drought. That's an improvemen...
Mandy Billings Jul 14, 2022
Tawnia Ganzer Joins Guthrie County State Bank Lending Team
(Guthrie Center) The Guthrie County State Bank announces the addition of Tawnia Ganzer to the agriculture lending team. According to the press release, Ganzer brings more than 20 years of lending expe...
Tom Robinson Jul 14, 2022
College Springs woman arrested for OWI following an accident
(Page Co.) A College Springs woman was arrested for OWI 2nd Offense following an accident on Monday. The Page County Sheriff's Office responded to a motor vehicle accident near the intersection of Mis...
Mandy Billings Jul 14, 2022
Mills County Sheriff's Report
(Mills Co) The Mills County Sheriff's Office arrested Darnell Travon Lee, 34, and Jerome Dupree Matthews, 32, both of Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday at the one mile marker of Highway 34 for Possession ...
Mandy Billings Jul 14, 2022
Car vs Deer accident in Mills County
(Glenwood) A Glenwood woman was injured in a car vs deer accident on Wednesday. The Mills County Sheriff's Office says 41-year-old Kathryn Hartley was driving a 2015 Hyundai westbound on Highway 34, n...
Mandy Billings Jul 14, 2022
Update: Red Oak Fire Department Respond to Chemical Odor at Apartment Building
(Red Oak) Red Oak Fire Chief John Bruce learned a resident at the Southern Iowa Rural Housing Apartments used an insecticide spray within their apartment, causing the chemical smell emanating from ins...
Tom Robinson Jul 14, 2022
Clarinda women arrested on warrants
(Page Co) The Page County Sheriff's Office arrested 49-year-old Brandee Lee Greve, of Clarinda, on Tuesday on a Page County warrant for failure to appear on an original charge of Vicious Animals prohi...
Mandy Billings Jul 14, 2022