Monticello News

PEOSTA, IA- A man working in a trench at a construction site in Peosta was rescued after the trench collapsed, burying him up to his neck.

The Grant Wood Area chapter of the Red Cross is helping three families after an apartment fire in Monticello.

Jacqueline Helen Lambert, 84, of Monticello died Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City.

Orlan Love photos/The Gazette Keith Thompson of Manchester watches Wednesday as workers with B&J Hauling and Excavation of Monticello rebuild a dike along the Maquoketa River.

Hospital officials in Iowa City are declining to release the conditions of two people who fell 25-feet onto cement.

It's politics, not science. That's what one livestock expert says about continued bans on U.S. pork by China, Russian and more than a dozen other countries.

Jones County Sheriff's Deputies tell KCRG-TV9 that a man and his son fell two to three stories down some type of equipment shaft.

A Monticello man and his six-year-old son are in the hospital tonight. This after falling nearly three stories down a shaft.

Jerald Pasker, 32, and his 6-year-old son, Gary Pasker, of Monticello, were injured after falling 25 feet down a shaft onto a concrete floor around 10:30 a.m. Friday at a communications facility owned by Pasker.

Authorities say a Monticello man and his 6-year-old son have been injured in a fall down a 25-foot shaft to a concrete floor.

MONTICELLO, Iowa - A man and his son have been hospitalized after an accident at a small industrial warehouse along U.S. 151 Friday morning.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Valedictorians or top graduating seniors from 120 high schools in northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin were honored recently at the University of Northern Iowa.

Marty Dusanek, 66, of Grand Mound, died Thursday afternoon, April 30, 2009, at Genesis Medical Center, De Witt.

In this “Hi, how are ya? See ya.' Bye” world, we often confuse acquaintance with knowing.

MONTICELLO, Iowa - Country superstars Brooks & Dunn, classic rockers the Steve Miller Band and reigning American Idol David Cook headline this year's Great Jones County Fair.

Volunteers are needed to help rescue a Jones County prairie from invasive species and return it to its natural state.

The Camp Courageous Spring Antique Market Show will be held this Sunday, April 5th at the Berndes Center at the fairgrounds in Monticello.

It's likely to be a wet week, but nothing like the weekend's snowstorm. "It'll kind of be every other day," said Chris Legrow, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Davenport.

Thanks to the generosity of the Monticello Pizza Ranch owners, Brad and Shirley Davis, Camp Courageous will be receiving half of the gross receipts from the Monticello Pizza Ranch on Saturday March 21st.

First off, this is a story you need to see to fully appreciate. ANAMOSA - Three people are being held hostage on a school bus in Anamosa.