NEWS

What Cheer is gearing up for the 155th Celebration this coming Friday (7/3) and Saturday (7/4).  Jan Dugger with the What Cheer Area Community Club says the celebration will be at the Keokuk County Fairgrounds. "We…

For the first time in 69 years, there will not be a Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Mount Pleasant.    Terry McWilliams, the Reunion’s C-E-O and administrator, says the health implications of holding the Reunion could…

Apparently Carrie Underwood has a celebrity doppelganger, and she’s perfectly okay with it. Over the weekend, Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon tweeted that she was actually mistaken for the country star, sharing, “To the woman in…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a…

By: Jerry Mackey Oskaloosa, Iowa: The officials of the Southern Iowa Speedway have announced that kids under fifteen will be admitted FREE to the Grandstands on Wednesday, July 1st. In addition, Sprint Car Driver, Jonathan…

A Wapello County resident died from coronavirus over the weekend.  The Iowa Department of Public Health says there were just three deaths reported in the state this weekend for a pandemic total of 704. There…

Pella will have a new police chief next month.  Shane McSheehy was hired last week to succeed Chief Robert Bokinsky, who stepped down earlier this spring.  McSheehy recently retired after nearly 24 years with the…

Garth Brooks’ “Encore Live Presents Garth Brooks: A Drive-In Concert Experience” took place this weekend, and it looks like reaction was a bit mixed. It seems some attendees didn’t quite understand that they’d be watching…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH and FRANCES D'EMILIO AP - Texas and Florida clamped down on bars again Friday in the biggest retreat yet amid a surge across the South and West that sent the number…

The Ottumwa Community School District has chosen a new superintendent.  Mike McGrory, the former associate superintendent of the Muscatine School District, was hired Thursday (6/26) after the Ottumwa School Board interviewed him and one other…