NEWS

By DAVID KOENIG DALLAS (AP) — H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice ran for president as a third-party candidate, has died. He was…

He tried to kill his father.  A man from Agency is in custody after a shooting Monday night (7/9) in Agency.  The Wapello County Sheriff’s Office says it was called around 9:45pm about a man…

The Iowa state softball playoffs begin Monday night (7/8). In Class 1A: Keota is at Sigourney.  We'll have that game on KMZN AM & FM with pregame at 6:45pm and Erick Zamora's play-by-play at 7pm.…

The Iowa Little League Girls Softball State Championships began Saturday (7/6) and are continuing through Thursday (7/11) at Lacey Recreation Complex in Oskaloosa.  Monday night's (7/8) schedule has games at 4, 6 and 8pm.xosotin chelseathông…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and CHRISTOPHER WEBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rattled residents cleaned up and officials assessed damage Monday from two of the biggest earthquakes to shake California in decades as scientists warned that both…

An Ottumwa woman accused of killing her 5-year-old daughter is having her murder trial pushed back. 23-year-old Kelsie Thomas is charged with first degree murder in the death of 5-year-old Cloe Chandler last July.  Thomas…

The Oskaloosa Indians softball team isn't having a long holiday weekend.  The Indians are taking part in the 32nd annual Rick Doran Classic Friday and Saturday (7/5 & 6) at the University of Iowa softball…

Don’t do it in the dark.  Last Saturday (6/29) , four people were hospitalized after their boat crashed into a river bank in Mahaska County around 10:45pm.  Mahaska County Sheriff Russ Van Renterghem says if…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ LOS ANGELES (AP) — The strongest earthquake in 20 years shook a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on the July 4th holiday, rattling nerves…

Wapello County law enforcement is looking for an inmate who was on work release and didn’t come back.  32-year-old Aidan Alan Edward Miller was supposed to return to the Ottumwa Residential Facility on Wednesday (7/3). …