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BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR A shooting in the early morning hours has left one person dead in Marshalltown. Marshalltown police were called to the Casey’s on North 3rd Avenue just after 3 this morning where they…

Keep the scarves, mittens and sweaters handy.  A Wind Chill Advisory is in effect for the No Coast Network listening area until noon Friday (2/12).  And another Wind Chill Advisory will take effect at midnight…

While it looks a lot like Christmas, Oskaloosa’s Lighted Christmas Parade is ten months away.  Even so, planning has begun for the 2021 parade.  Oskaloosa Main Street Executive Director Jessica Reuter tells the No Coast…

The Iowa Transportation Commission has approved funds for roadway improvements to help a business in Pella.  D-O-T spokesman Craig Markley says the money will benefit Lely (Lee-lee) North America, which designs and manufactures automated systems…

A St. Louis man is accused of stabbing a woman several times in Mahaska County.  The Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office says it got a call around 11:30 Monday night (2/8) from a driver on Highway…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON Governor Kim Reynolds this weekend lifted the restrictions on businesses and limited face covering requirements outlined in her previous pandemic proclamation. The public health measures Reynolds issued three months ago coincided with…

Iowa will receive nearly $4.7 million over five years as part of a multi-state settlement with a firm that worked with opioid manufacturers to promote addictive painkillers, according to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office. Iowa…

BY MATT KELLEY Winter weather advisories are blanketing Iowa for Thursday, including a Blizzard Warning for 25 counties across northern and central Iowa. Meteorologist Cory Martin, at the National Weather Service, says the approaching storm system…

A couple from Illinois is in custody in Wapello County after leading law enforcement on a chase that ended when the suspect’s vehicle hit two vehicles belonging to law enforcement.  Around 9am Tuesday (2/2), Bloomfield…

Three rollover accidents in the same area of Highway 163 early Monday morning (2/1) resulted in the death of an Oskaloosa man and one person being injured…and also led to the highway being shut down…