Jesup News

Posted on Nov 20, 2009 by admin . Police in Jesup say someone posing as a Waterloo police officer recently asked a teenage girl for directions to get to a local highway.

"It's been presented as one of the first acts of terrorism against the United States.

Sitting in a University of Iowa Hospitals room, Michelle Kehoe had a question for Division of Criminal Investigations Special Agent Chris Callaway before she would answer any of his questions: "How are my boys?" Kehoe wrote on a piece of paper, unable to verbalize her question.

Jury selection in the Michelle Kehoe murder trial resumed at 1:30 p.m. today. Five new jury members were placed into the panel of 37 to replace five that had been dismissed.

During testimony Friday in the trial of Michelle Kehoe, prosecutors continued to hammer home the point that they think she planned killing her children for about two months.

An emergency worker says he found the body of a slain two-year-old boy in brush near a northeast Iowa pond and an emergency kit the boy's brother used to try to help him.

Jurors this morning heard Sean Kehoe describe to a county sheriff what he saw when he pulled of the duct tape his mother, Michelle Kehoe, had placed over his eyes before cutting his throat.

JESUP Mary E. Ehr, 88 years old of Jesup, IA, died Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at the Cedar Valley Hospice Home in Waterloo following a short illness.

A Special Election for a 1 percent local option sales and services tax in Black Hawk County is being held in conjunction with local Municipal Elections on Tuesday, Nov.

An early morning accident on I-380 sends a semi driver to the hospital. It happened near the Jesup and La Porte City exit near mile marker 55.

There are increasing signs that the corn crop in Iowa, considered the garden spot of the Corn Belt earlier this growing season, may get its share of blemishes.

Each August, the town of Brandon celebrates its community. It's been going on for mor than three decades, but only recently have they celebrated it in Hillbilly fashion.

Overpopulation, poverty and stagnation: The way the classical music industry is described these days you'd think it's a Third World country.

The danger of a fire involving thousands of gallons of burning ethanol is something that's worried Iowa firefighters since the alternative fuel boom began years ago.

The cause of a Sunday night fire that destroyed a family's home has yet to be determined, Independence Fire Chief Doug Cook said Monday morning.

Jesup, Ia. - The Jesup school district has hired a new superintendent. Nathan Marting is superintendent and principal for sixth through 12th grades in the Midland school district east of Cedar Rapids.