The Oskaloosa City Council will start working on its budget for fiscal year 2020 tonight (1/7). The Council will hold a study session this afternoon at 4:30 to go over funding requests from various groups. …
A former Oskaloosa police officer charged with domestic abuse will face jury later this spring. Janay Pritchett faces three misdemeanor counts, including Display or Use of a Weapon. On Thursday, a judge set Pritchett's trial…
A high-ranking official in the Ottumwa School District is being linked with financial fraud at his former job. An audit has found that the Mason City Community School District shows that more than $2 million…
A Pella company is expanding into Kentucky. Precision Pulley and Idler plans to start a $10.8 million manufacturing and distributing operation in Maysville and will hire 134 full-time employees over the next ten years. The…
Police say tips have picked up on the 1995 disappearance of Iowa news anchor Jodi Huisentruit after she was featured on CBS' "48 Hours" this month. Mason City Police Chief Jeff Brinkley told the Waterloo-Cedar…
Ottumwa residents who want to dispose of their Christmas trees can leave them on the curb for the regular bulky item pickup during the month of January. The first day for pickup will be Thursday,…
The trial for a man accused of robbing a Keokuk County bank is being delayed. 28-year-old Ethan Spray of Ottumwa is accused of robbing the South Ottumwa Savings Bank in Hedrick on August 6. Spray…
A Knoxville man was apparently stabbed to death over the weekend. Police say they found 46-year-old Monte C. Brown bleeding when they were summoned to a downtown address shortly before 9 p.m. Friday (12/21). Police…
State Education Officials say more than 340 Iowa schools have been identified as struggling. The Iowa Department of Education said in a report released Tuesday (12/18) that 34 schools need comprehensive improvement for all students…
Before investigators arrested a farmhand in the death of Mollie Tibbetts, they scrutinized a neighbor seen washing his car hours after she vanished, an acquaintance who erased his cellphone data, a Nebraska man who ditched…