NEWS

William Penn’s Chris Leiba is this week’s Heart of America Conference men’s track athlete of the week. The junior from Olympia, Washington took home three first place finishes at Saturday’s Central Methodist Invitational: he won…

The Oskaloosa girls golf team won a three team meet at Albia Monday (4/8).  The Indians had a 231 score, ten strokes ahead of Chariton with Albia third.  Oskaloosa’s Nikki Parlet was medalist with a…

Jury selection begins Tuesday (4/9) in an Oskaloosa murder trial.  24-year-old Luke Van Hemert is charged with second degree murder in the death of William Penn University basketball player Marquis Todd in March 2018.  Van…

British rock band Traffic will have their studio albums collected together in a limited edition vinyl box set for the first time. The Studio Albums 1967-1974 celebrates the band's original incarnation, and features all six studio albums recorded…

On Saturday (4/6), Oskaloosa hosts the 92nd annual Oskaloosa Relays at Statesmen Community Stadium. Teams from around the area will compete, including Ottumwa, Pella, North Mahaska, Pella Christian, EBF, Grinnell, Newton, Albia, South Tama, Centerville and…

Oskaloosa’s girls’ tennis coach Bryan Kime says he’s excited about the season after his team started off with a 9-0 victory this week over South Tama.  Kime says he has 12 seniors on this year’s…

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — Eight years after an Illinois boy disappeared, his family began to think that their nightmare might be over at last. A young man found wandering the streets of a Kentucky town…

Two Democratic candidates for President will be in the area this weekend.  Former Texas Congressman Robert “Beto” O’Rourke will hold a town hall meeting Friday night (4/5) at 6 at Drake Library in Grinnell.  Then…

AP - In 2011, 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen’s mother picked him up at school in Illinois, took him to the zoo and a water park, and then killed herself at a hotel, leaving a note in…

Hedrick is getting ready for its eighth annual Bras for a Cause event Saturday (4/6).  It’s a fundraiser for Susan G. Komen, the largest breast cancer organization in the US.  Laurie Hornback, who started Bras…