Ottumwa School Board appoints Bunt
Sep 10, 2019
The Ottumwa School Board has a new member. Jon Bunt was appointed to the Board Monday (9/9) to replace Bill Allen, who stepped down from the Board last month. Bunt was one of three applicants…
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North Mahaska school bond election Tuesday
Sep 09, 2019
There’s going to be an election Tuesday (9/10) in the North Mahaska School District. Voters will decide on a $12.8 million bond issue to pay for improvements to the school buildings. Those improvements include security…
Ottumwa Police investigate suspicious death
Sep 06, 2019
Ottumwa Police are investigating what they say is a suspicious death. Police were called to a home on North Green Street Thursday afternoon (9/5). After talking to family members, Police executed a search warrant at…
Nordyke to undergo psychiatric exam
Sep 05, 2019
By: Joe Lancello A man from Agency who’s accused of shooting his father has been released from jail without bond—but he has to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. David Nordyke III has been in jail since…
Marshalltown woman dies in crash while fleeing from police
Sep 04, 2019
By: Joe Lancello A woman from Marshalltown was killed Tuesday afternoon (9/3) while she was fleeing a traffic stop in Knoxville. The Iowa State Patrol says 40-year-old Erin Ruth Weers was going north on Highway…
Oskaloosa gets Future Ready Iowa grants
Sep 03, 2019
Two of the first 13 recipients of grants from the Future Ready Iowa Employer Innovation Fund are from Oskaloosa. The Oskaloosa School District, in partnership with several local businesses, will begin a project that intends…
Ritenour Testimony to be Heard at Retrial
Aug 29, 2019
Testimony from Alicia Ritenour’s first trial for murder will be heard in her re-trial next month. Ritenour is accused of killing her 18-month-old daughter Ava in 2014. Last year, a judge ruled that Ritenour had…
Reynolds favors local control of wind turbine locations
Aug 28, 2019
BY O. KAY HENDERSON Former Governor Terry Branstad championed statewide standards that overrode local attempts to restrict where livestock confinements may be built, but his successor says she will not propose statewide standards for placement of…
Hero pilot of Flight 232 crash in Sioux City has died
Aug 27, 2019
Woody Gottburg, KSCJ, Sioux City RADIO IOWA - Captain Al Haynes, the pilot of United Airlines flight 232 — which crashed in Sioux City in 1989, has died at the age of 87. Larry Finley,…
Life sentence given to man who killed former ISU golfer
Aug 26, 2019
By: Grant Gerlock, Iowa Public Radio The man who admitted to stabbing and killing Iowa State University golfer Celia Barquin Arozamena was sentenced to life in prison without parole today. Collin Richards pleaded guilty to the…