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Glisan: There Are Some Benefits With This Heat
(Des Moines) Temperatures are forecast to reach 90 degrees today, which is 18-degrees above normal. State Climatologist Justin Glisan says there are some benefits that might come with this unseasonal ...
Tom Robinson Sep 29, 2023

Creston Police Report
(Creston) Creston Police arrested 30-year-old Davia Douchell Morrison of Watervliet, New York, at 116 East Adams Street. Police charged Morrison with Trespassing 1st offense, disorderly conduct, and i...
Tom Robinson Sep 29, 2023
Council Bluffs Police Investigate Identity Theft
(Council Bluffs) On Monday, September 25th, 2023, the Council Bluffs Police Department (CBPD) began receiving reports that residents in the Council Bluffs area were being targeted by a group of suspec...
Tom Robinson Sep 29, 2023

Firefighters Dispatched to Fire at Bungee in Red Oak
(Red Oak) On Thursday, at 2:54 p.m., the Red Oak Fire Department was dispatched to 2049 Fernwood Ave for a reported fire in the outside stacks. Red Oak Fire Chief John Bruce says arriving firefighters...
Tom Robinson Sep 29, 2023
Juvenile Charged with Threat of Terrorism
(Stuart) A juvenile has been charged with Threat of Terrorism in Guthrie County. The Stuart Police Department says on Thursday morning, at approximately 10:54 a.m. , Stuart Police and Guthrie County D...
Mandy Billings Sep 28, 2023

MAHLE in Atlantic Announces Relocation of Large Majority of its Bearing Manufacturing Lines
(Atlantic) Officials announced today that it is anticipated that by April 2025, MAHLE plans to relocate a large majority of its bearing manufacturing lines in Atlantic, Iowa to other MAHLE Engine Comp...
Mandy Billings Sep 28, 2023

Dry Conditions Raise Harvest Safety Risk
(Ames, IA) -- Grain entrapment cases rose 45-percent last year across the US, according to a Purdue University study. Kristina Tebockhorst, I-S-U Extension Field Ag Engineer. She's reminding Iowa farm...
Mandy Billings Sep 28, 2023

Only Grocery Store In Woodward Closing Down
(Woodward) The only grocery store in Woodward, Iowa, is closing its doors. The owners, A.J. and his wife, Varsha, decided about a year ago to retire, hoping for someone to buy the store. They talked t...
Tom Robinson Sep 28, 2023
Iowa Year End Balance $1.83 Billion
(Des Moines) The State of Iowa will end the current fiscal year with a surplus of one-point-83 billion dollars in the General Fund. Governor Kim Reynolds says there's also 902 million in reserves and ...
Tom Robinson Sep 28, 2023

Motorcyclist Killed In Des Moines Yesterday
(Des Moines) Des Moines Police say a motorcyclist was killed when he crashed into a car on University Avenue. The incident happened yesterday. Officers say a 61-year-old male was heading eastbound nea...
Tom Robinson Sep 28, 2023







