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Jon Pardi may not be the musician he is today if it wasn’t for a very special Christmas present he got when he was young. Jon says when he was “real young” he got a…

By RAF CASERT THIMISTER-CLERMONT, Belgium (AP) — As a schoolboy three quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshift American cemetery — filled with bodies, some…

Oskaloosa High’s boys’ basketball team is still looking for its first Little Hawkeye Conference win of the season.  The Indians lost at Dallas Center-Grimes Friday night (12/13) 78-60.  But Oskaloosa played that game without senior…

The Oskaloosa City Council will discuss sanitary sewer rates at a study session Monday (12/16) at 5:15 at City Hall.  Following that, at 6:00, the City Council will hold its regular meeting.  Mayor David Krutzfeldt…

A Knoxville man who was found responsible for his mother's death at a civil trial but acquitted at a murder trial is now suing criminal investigators and his father. Forty-seven-year-old Jason Carter filed a federal lawsuit…

Two men from Newton were arrested Thursday night (12/12) in connection with a stolen vehicle in Jasper County.  Around 6:30pm, an off-duty Newton Police Officer saw a stolen vehicle near Baxter.  That officer had taken…

A suspicious vehicle Oskaloosa Police spotted early Friday morning (12/13) turned out to be a stolen vehicle.  Around 12:18am, an Oskaloosa Police officer investigated a suspicious vehicle in the 900 block of South Market Street. …

By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) — The death toll in the vaping illness outbreak has topped 50, U.S. health officials said Thursday. The 52 deaths in 26 states are among the 2,409 hospitalized cases…

Oskaloosa High’s basketball teams travel to Dallas Center-Grimes Friday night (12/13).  Indians boys’ assistant coach DaJuan Foster says DC-G is a program on the rise. "They've got two great guards.  Cole Glasgow and Luke Rankin…

There’s going to be a Christmas celebration in downtown Oskaloosa Saturday (12/14).  Oskaloosa Main Street Executive Director Emily Brown talks about Merry Little Downtown Christmas. "It starts at 5 and goes until 8.  You can…