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Prosecutor with Auto-Brewery Syndrome departs; open-meetings lawsuit dropped
Palo Alto County’s decision to eliminate the job of a prosecutor whose license was suspended in 2023 has resulted in a severance agreement, a lawsuit alleging open-meetings violations, and a dispute over unemployment benefits. “It’s all kind of a mess and that is all that I am going to say about it,” said County Supervisor […] The post Prosecutor with Auto-Brewery Syndrome departs; open-meetings lawsuit dropped appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.
Lynx finish as co-NCC champs on the pitch
The third-ranked (Class 2A) Webster City boys had their unbeaten soccer season come to an end last Thursday, falling to No. 9 Humboldt, 2-1. With the result, the Lynx and Wildcats finish tied for the regular season North Central Conference title for a second consecutive year. Webster City won the previous meeting, 2-1.
Cram Racing To Remember Brother Who Protected, Served
ALGONA, Iowa — Randy Cram will remember an important member of his race team every night at the track this season. Cram’s brother Kevin, an officer with the Algona Police Department, was killed in the line of duty last September. In his memory, Cram’s Friesen Performance IMCA Northern...
The Wright County Monitor
Christine M. (Schaffer) Thompson, 58, of Goldfield, passed away on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at Mayo Clinic Hospital, St. Mary’s Campus in Rochester, Minnesota. Celebration of Life services will be held at 5:00 PM on Sunday, June 11, 2023 at The Red Shed Event Center, 908 2nd Street North West in Clarion. Dinner will follow the Celebration of Life.
Sentence handed down for storage unit break-ins in Garner
GARNER, Iowa – A man has been sentenced for breaking into several storage units in Hancock County. Derek Eugene Ott, 42 of Fort Dodge, pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree burglary. He was accused of entering K&D Storage on North State Avenue on August 15 and using a bolt cutter to remove the locks on three storage units and damage the lock on a fourth.
An Iowa farm county seeks answers amid cancer rates 50% higher than national average
EMMETSBURG, IOWA –Raised in rural Iowa, 71-year-old Maureen Reeves Horsley once considered her tiny hometown in the northwest part of the state to be a blessed space. She recalls a time when the streams here ran clean and the lake water was clear. The family farm where Horsley grew...
From drought to floods in northern Iowa this spring
HUMBOLDT COUNTY, IOWA — After nearly two years of drought, conditions have taken a sudden swing to the other extreme in parts of northern Iowa. Heavy spring rains have more than wiped out the drought, leaving roads closed in Humboldt County as the Des Moines River overflows its banks. Teodora Mitrov has the latest from […]
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