Thanks to his training at Indian Community College, Adam Townsend plans to turn his lifelong love of mechanics into a career in aviation maintenance, the Ottumwa Courier’s Brooklyn Draisey reported.
Iowa lawmakers are one step closer to making Area Education Agency reform a reality. Republican House lawmakers passed an amendment to the bill passed by the Iowa Senate Monday as they try to come to an agreement with each other.
After January’s shooting, the Perry Community School District reached out to other schools that dealt with similar tragedies. They found many staff members often decide to leave.
After protests against police brutality in 2020, Iowa lawmakers passed the Back the Blue Act. A portion of that bill requires police to enforce all laws in the state at all times, but some legislators say that’s not happening everywhere.
The need for O- and O+ blood donations is well needed. Impact Life held a blood drive at Ottumwa High School, and we got to learn more about the need for donors.
Ottumwa Schools celebrates their new sportsplex groundbreaking. It will house 2 basketball courts, 3 volleyball courts, a Ottumwa Sports Hall of Fame, and the largest video board in all of Iowa High Schools.
An anonymous vigilante has been posing as a minor on dating sites and baiting child predators. He meets them, films their interaction, and encourages them to not meet with a minor ever again.
43-year-old Michael Lawrence Powell was arrested on Saturday night after potentially firing a gun in the direction of Johnny’s Hall of Fame in Des Moines, KCCI’s Kelby Wingert reported.
A house bill was passed to reform how Area Education Agencies operate. KYOU spoke with a local Chief Administrator and local Superintendent about what these proposed changes mean for their community.
Tyson Foods will continue streamlining its operations by closing a pork plant in Iowa that employs 1,200 people and eliminating the largest employer in the town of Perry.