NEWS

BY DAR DANIELSON You’ll need a jacket if you go out anywhere across the state today to protect yourself from the cool temperatures and in some cases rain. National Weather Service Meteorologist Jim Lee says a…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON At least 15 of the Pizza Hut restaurants in Iowa have been closed, following the announcement in July that up to 300 locations around the country would be closing. The company that…

By ALEX VEIGA AP - Wall Street’s summer-long party fueled by investors’ appetite for some of the world’s best-known technology companies has come to an abrupt, if not entirely unexpected, halt. The sharp sell-off that…

By ANDREW TAYLOR WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday the Senate would vote on a trimmed-down Republican coronavirus relief package, though it has a slim chance of passage in the face…

At Tuesday night’s (9/8) Oskaloosa City Council meeting, the Council is expected to confirm Jeffrey Swanson as the City’s new fire chief.  Swanson spent the last eight years as an associate professor of fire science…

A Wapello County resident has died from coronavirus.  As of late Tuesday morning (9/8), the pandemic total in Iowa from COVID-19 was 1173.  There have also been another 345 positive tests for COVID-19 for a…

A motorcyclist who struck a deer Monday night (9/7) east of Oskaloosa has died from his injuries.  The Mahaska County Sheriff’s Department says 62-year-old Wilber Junior Glasgow was riding westbound on Highway 92 shortly after…

Thomas Rhett continues to test out new music on Instagram. His latest is a song called “That’ll Be Us Someday,” which was inspired by his wife Lauren. “Sorry for the overload of songs, I just…

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are finally cohabitating in the California home they bought back in October. “They are very happy to be settled at last in their family home,” a source tells “Us Weekly.”…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit surged in July to $63.6 billion, the highest level in 12 years, as imports jumped by a record amount. The Commerce Department reported that the…