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News from Western Iowa.
Iowa's Youth Pheasant Hunting Season opens Saturday
(Area) Pheasant numbers have hunters optimistic for the upcoming season. Youth Hunters will take to the field Saturday and Sunday. Chris Larson, with the Iowa DNR, indicates you can expect to see bird...
Western Iowa Today Oct 23, 2021
Landus Acquires Grain Elevator in Atlantic, Iowa
(Ames, Iowa) Landus, Iowa's largest farmer-owned grain cooperative, announced today the acquisition of a 3.4-million-bushel grain elevator in Atlantic, Iowa. Pipeline Foods most recently operated the ...
Tom Robinson Oct 22, 2021
Red Oak House Fire
(Red Oak) Red Oak Firefighters on Thursday morning battled a house fire. Red Oak Fire Chief John Bruce says the call went out at 9:20 a.m. at 300 Market Street. The first Fire Engine arrived three min...
Tom Robinson Oct 22, 2021
Council Bluffs Police investigating a shooting death; searching for a person of interest
(Council Bluffs) The Council Bluffs Police Department is investigating a shooting death. Council Bluffs Police and EMS were called to 1200 East Washington Street at 3:42 a.m. today (Friday) for a repo...
Mandy Billings Oct 22, 2021
Mills County Sheriff's Report
(Mills Co.) The Mills County Sheriff's Office arrested Devin Michael Ramirez, 24, of Bellevue, Nebraska, on Thursday for Possession of a Controlled Substance. Bond was set at $1,000. The Sheriff's Off...
Mandy Billings Oct 22, 2021
Atlantic Rising Trivia Night a Success
(Atlantic) Atlantic Rising hosted a Trivia Night at the Cass County Community Center Friday, October 15th. Atlantic Rising raised funds for the Christmas Box Program that supplies food boxes to nomina...
Mandy Billings Oct 22, 2021
Creston Police Report
(Creston) The Creston Police Department reports the arrest of 63-year-old Timmie Lee Schultz, of Greenfield, on Friday morning, at 207 E. Montgomery Street. Police charged Schultz with Disorderly Cond...
Tom Robinson Oct 22, 2021
Cass County Sheriff's Report
(Cass Co.) The Cass County Sheriff's Office reports one arrest and an accident. On Wednesday, the Sheriff's Office arrested David Allen Coenen, 36, of Lewis, on a Pottawattamie County warrant for Fail...
Mandy Billings Oct 22, 2021
Freezing Patchy Fog and Freeze Warning
(Area) The National Weather Service advises motorists that patchy fog has developed early this morning and will persist through the morning hours. Visibility is reduced to under one mile and, in a few...
Tom Robinson Oct 22, 2021
Iowans Asked to Watch For Rare Rabbit Disease
(Undated) The Iowa D-N-R is asking everyone to be on the lookout for rabbit hemorrhagic disease. The disease quickly kills domestic and wild rabbits and is confirmed in two states that border Iowa and...
Tom Robinson Oct 22, 2021