Mount Pleasant News

Kirk McCullough knows rural towns, heavily dependent on manufacturing, are in danger.

We have some new information on a death investigation in Washington County. The Sheriff's office identifies the victim as Ryan Scarff, 37.

A house has completely collapsed after being on fire earlier Friday morning. Firefighters were called at 11 a.m. The house that is described as completely burned is located just outside of Mount Pleasant and is near the border of Delaware and Henry county.

Sheriff's deputies responded to a 911 call from a home in the 2800 block of 330th Street reporting a man dead at that location.

Two of four races in Mount Pleasant on Tuesday resulted in the need for a runoff election, as no candidates for the position of mayor or the council member at-large seat received a majority of the votes.

As Fort Madison voters enter polling booths Tuesday, there will be more than just candidates on the ballot.

Wednesday 5:04 p.m. Henry County Sheriff's Office. Police received a walk-in report of a two-vehicle accident at about 4:15 p.m. at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and 140th Street.

Back in September, the rumor mill was churning out the idea that Penn Centre Theatre could close, leaving Oskaloosa without a movie theater.

Task force finds local support for M.P. facility. MOUNT PLEASANT -- At the beginning of a meeting where a legislative task force was to hear public comments on the merits of the local mental health institute, 53 people had signed up to speak.

The town of Mount Pleasant, Iowa is fighting to keep the Mental Health Institution open.

The barbecue Saturday afternoon could have been a family gathering, with three generations of people comfortably chatting, laughing, and munching buffalo burgers under canvas tents.

Phyllis Peters, the company's communications director, said a shotgun blast Saturday pierced an aerial fiber line at 7:50 p.m. between Knoxville and Oskaloosa and knocked out service for just over three hours.

VIVAN M. JENNINGS, is chairman and executive vice president, Grasshorse Technologies Inc., Mount Pleasant.

By Bobby Wilson It was by happenstance that I first heard Joel Brown perform on the piano.

Sheriff's officials said some time between the evening of Oct. 5 and Tuesday, suspects broke into the fire station through a window.

Sgt. Troy Bailey of the Iowa State Patrol on Wednesday said a trooper attempted to stop a car on Iowa 78 between Olds and Swedesburg shortly after 3 p.m., for speeding.

Mathers, a television icon familiar to many baby boomers through his role as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver on the "Leave It to Beaver" sitcom from the late 1950s and 1960s, was visiting Burlington as part of the "Help is Here Express" bus tour.

An investigation is under way into the death of a Springfield, Ill., woman who was hit by a coal train near Mount Pleasant in southeast Iowa.

With most incumbents deciding not to seek re-election, the Mount Pleasant city races are wide open.

Authorities have identified the victims of a traffic accident in Henry County that left one person dead.