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Updated: 3 hours ago
|By KCRG Staff
The proclamation extends the closure of bars, taverns, wineries, breweries, distilleries, nightclubs in Johnson and Story counties for an additional week, until 11:59 p.m. on October 4, 2020. They may continue to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption off-premises. Restaurants in these two counties are still permitted to remain open, but must stop selling and serving alcoholic beverages after 10:00 p.m.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By KCRG Staff
Iowa has hit a new, all-time high for the number of outbreaks at long term care facilities.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By James Barrickman
For the second year in a row, Ottumwa head football coach, Brian Goodvin, will face off against his son, Adam Goodvin, the head football coach at Marshalltown.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By KCRG Staff
A man who received child pornography was sentenced Friday to over six years in federal prison.
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Updated: 9 hours ago
The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 1,086 more COVID-19 cases and four more deaths in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Shelby Slaughter
Davis County Sheriff preps for Bloomfield Pumpkin Bash
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 6:47 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Dozens of students in Iowa schools were quarantined after both staff and students tested positive for the coronavirus.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 4:11 PM CDT
|By KCRG Staff
Attorney General Tom Miller announced a settlement by 48 states and the District of Columbia with C.R. Bard, Inc. and its parent company Becton, Dickinson and Co. requiring payment of $60 million for the deceptive marketing of transvaginal surgical mesh devices.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 4:05 PM CDT
|By KCRG Staff
Vice President of the United States Mike Pence will be speaking at an event dubbed “Faith in Leadership, America’s Need for Revival” at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, October 1.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 3:18 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Iowa regulators have issued their first citation to a meatpacking plant with a large coronavirus outbreak that sickened its workforce. The $957 fine was for a minor record-keeping violation. Inspection records show the outbreak at the Iowa Premium Beef Plant in Tama in April resulted in 338 of the plant’s 850 workers testing positive for the virus. That’s 80 more than the state previously acknowledged.
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Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 10:46 AM CDT
The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 1,341 more COVID-19 cases and six more deaths in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT
|By Jatyra Marsh
Q&A will be held at the Fairfield convention center
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 4:59 PM CDT
|By the Associated Press
A state court judge says he will rule before the end of the day Friday on whether to halt enforcement of a state law that prohibits county election officials from using information readily available in the voter registration database to fill in missing information on a voter’s absentee ballot request form.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 4:53 PM CDT
|By the Associated Press
Police in western Iowa have issued an arrest warrant for a Nebraska man wanted in connection with a scuffle with a police officer last week that led the officer to fire his gun.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 4:01 PM CDT
|By DAVID PITT, Associated Press and KCRG News Staff
Sen. Charles Grassley is continuing to defend his decision to consider a U.S. Supreme Court justice saying he is not a hypocrite for going back on a statement he made to constituents four years ago.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 11:14 AM CDT
|By Anne Hughes
Rick Stewart is running for Senate in Iowa
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 10:46 AM CDT
The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 856 more COVID-19 cases and 8 more deaths in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 7:00 AM CDT
|By Shelby Slaughter
Bloomfield preps for big pumpkin weigh off
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 4:04 PM CDT
|By DAVID PITT, Associated Press
Iowa health officials are working to determine what’s causing a spike in coronavirus cases in the northwest corner of the state where several counties are seeing a surge in new cases.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 2:57 PM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
Law enforcement officials announced the arrest of four individuals in connection to the death and desecration of the body of a Grinnell man on September 16.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 2:52 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The prospect that President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans will fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before the year is out has ignited a call for major changes on the court, including expanding the number of justices.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 2:17 PM CDT
|By James Barrickman
The Wapello County Sheriff's Office announced today the seizure of a large amount of meth after deputies conducted a traffic stop.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 10:41 AM CDT
The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 491 more COVID-19 cases and 19 more deaths in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 7:00 AM CDT
|By Shelby Slaughter
Local tattoo shop covers up tattoos
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 6:00 AM CDT
|By Eric Monaghan
The Global Angel Wings Project paints three wings on the side of a building in the main square of Bloomfield.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 5:40 PM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
Iowa’s longest-serving senator expressed his intent to support his party’s intention to move forward this year to fill the vacant seat left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 5:11 PM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
One of Iowa’s senators issued a statement showing intent to move forward with a Supreme Court appointment if President Donald Trump picks a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 3:59 PM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
The governor of Iowa has designated the third full week in September to honor emergency managers during a busy year for those workers.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 2:52 PM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
A central Iowa man is facing three charges after police said he threatened medical staff after refusing to wear a mask at a local hospital last week.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 10:52 AM CDT
|By Anne Hughes
Mt. Pleasant Police say on Sunday, September 20th around 1:15 p.m. officers responded to the 200 E South Street trailer court for a female who had run into a neighbor’s trailer and then been dragged back out by a male subject.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 10:48 AM CDT
The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 650 more COVID-19 cases and one more death in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2020 at 5:33 PM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
State officials have released their findings from their investigation into an officer-involved shooting in West Des Moines on Friday.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2020 at 12:41 PM CDT
|By LINDSEY BAHR, Associated Press
About three-quarters of the country’s movie theaters are open, but Americans are not going back to the movies in significant numbers in the COVID-era, even with new movies coming into the marketplace.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2020 at 11:13 AM CDT
|By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, Associated Press
A dispute between Iowa’s governor and the state’s largest school district could mean summer school for students and crippling bills for the school system.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2020 at 10:40 AM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
As of Sunday morning, the Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 881 more COVID-19 cases and one more death in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2020 at 11:13 PM CDT
|By KCRG Staff
Mid-American Energy is investigating how the blade of a wind turbine broke off and crashed into a farm field in rural Adair county.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2020 at 7:36 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Republican senators face questions about their own past comments as they weigh what to do about the vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2020 at 7:33 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Democrats raised more than $50 million in the hours after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. The stunning sum demonstrates how the liberal icon’s passing and the contentious Supreme Court nomination fight that lies ahead are already galvanizing the party’s base.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2020 at 6:45 PM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
A new set of polling data released in a tightly-contested U.S. Senate race in Iowa shows the Democratic challenger leading the Republican incumbent in a race that could prove pivotal to control of the chamber in November.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2020 at 11:32 AM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
Iowa’s governor has issued a proclamation to honor the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to her office.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2020 at 10:56 AM CDT
|By KCRG News Staff
The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 901 more COVID-19 cases and 6 more deaths in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 at 5:01 PM CDT
|By Anne Hughes
Ottumwa Police say around 10 a.m. a woman in a truck had issues with her footwear that interfered with her ability to drive and she ended up driving her truck into the store.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 at 4:24 PM CDT
|By KCRG Staff
The umbrella COVID proclamation that has been in place for months has been extended until 11:59 pm. October 18, 2020.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 at 12:56 PM CDT
|By Anne Hughes
police pursuit through three Southeast Iowa counties
Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 at 10:42 AM CDT
The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 1,259 more COVID-19 cases and 10 more death in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT
|By Jatyra Marsh
Greater Ottumwa Partners in Progress work to get sports complex
Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 at 7:00 AM CDT
|By Shelby Slaughter
Former Van Buren County Elementry student honored by school a year after his passing
Updated: Sep. 17, 2020 at 4:27 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The Iowa Supreme Court is refusing to review lower court decisions that invalidated tens of thousands of voters' absentee ballot requests at the urging of President Trump’s reelection campaign.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2020 at 1:41 PM CDT
|By Anne Hughes
Trick-or-Treaters and Homeowners are encouraged to wear face masks and do your best to socially distance themselves during this event.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2020 at 12:17 PM CDT
|By James Barrickman
The Ottumwa Police Department has made an arrest in connection to a string of fires along Ottumwa's south side in late August.