by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
National, state and local officials today talked about the ongoing effort to shut down the use of illegal drug methamphetamine. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Rachel Brand says they’re introducing a couple of new things as part of today’s “National...
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | News
Communities throughout Iowa are holding public-education events and offering health information tomorrow for “World AIDS Day”. Bryce Sitter, an educator with the Red Cross of Central Iowa, says there are still too many people unconcerned about the risk. A...
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Human Interest
One of Iowa’s most famous felines has gone to that great scratching post in the sky. A cat named Dewey Readmore Books, the library cat at the Spencer Public Library, has died. The 20-year-old Dewey was diagnosed with serious health problems and had to be put to...
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
The Pottowattamie County Sheriff says the body of woman found in a well has been identified — and the woman’s boyfriend has been charged with her murder. Sheriff Jeff Danker says an Oklahoma dentist helped identify the body as that of a missing Red Oak...
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
The former mayor of the northern Iowa town of Swaledale is charged with taking 65-thousand dollars from a Rockwell church. Rockwell police chief Barry Mackey says Susan Lyles has been charged with four counts of first-degree theft. Mackey says according to a complaint...
