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IDPH Reports Downward Trend In COVID-19 Hospitalizations
(Des Moines, IA) -- The Iowa Department of Public Health's latest COVID-19 data released shows a downward trend in hospitalizations. There were 626 people in the hospital in the data reported Monday -...
Tom Robinson Oct 12, 2021
Red Oak Man arrested on Weapons Charges
(Red Oak) Red Oak Police arrested 52-year-old Vernon Brinkley Warf of Red Oak for Possession of a Firearm/Ammunition by a domestic abuse offender, a Class D Felony. Officers transported Warf to the Mo...
Tom Robinson Oct 12, 2021
Atlantic Planning and Zoning Commission to Review McDonald's Real Estate Site Plan
(Atlantic) The Atlantic Planning and Zoning Commission will discuss several topics at their meeting later this afternoon. Atlantic City Administrator John Lund says the Commission will review the new ...
Tom Robinson Oct 12, 2021
Cass County Sheriff's Report
(Atlantic) The Cass County Sheriff's Office reports seven arrests and three accidents in its report from September 30 to October 9. On September 30, Cass County Sheriff's Deputies responded to an acci...
Tom Robinson Oct 11, 2021
Red Oak Police Report
(Red Oak) Red Oak Police arrested 18-year old Odin Alexander Vincent Hathaway of Red Oak on Sunday for possession of a controlled substance, marijuana. Police arrested three other juveniles for posses...
Tom Robinson Oct 11, 2021
Four injured in Fremont County Crash
(Hamburg) Four people suffered injuries in a two-vehicle crash in Fremont County. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened at around 1:20 a.m. Sunday on southbound Interstate 29 near the 14.5-...
Tom Robinson Oct 11, 2021
Madison County Crash Claims One Life
(Dallas County) A Madison County man died in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 80 in Dallas County. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened at around 1:17 p.m. on Sunday in the westbound l...
Tom Robinson Oct 11, 2021
High School Athletic Facilities Renovation Project nearing completion
(Atlantic) Atlantic Schools Superintendent Steve Barber says the district is at a substantial completion at the High School athletic facility renovation project. Barber says the architect and engineer...
Tom Robinson Oct 11, 2021
Nation's COVID Related Hospitalization Rates Drop
(Area) According to the Department of Public Health and Human Services, the number of people hospitalized in the nation's hospitals is down 34-percent from the delta-variant peak reached last month. T...
Tom Robinson Oct 11, 2021
Saturday Shooting Leaves Teen Girl In Fort Dodge Wounded
(Fort Dodge, IA) -- A Saturday night shooting leaves a teenage girl in Fort Dodge with a gunshot wound to her chest. Police were called about a loud party just before 11:00 p-m. Officers were told abo...
Tom Robinson Oct 11, 2021