Ottumwa News

Local kids in first and second grade attending the summer day camp held by the Wapello County 4H Extension Office learned all about "Fun-damental Science" on Thursday.

"Living Well with Parkinson's Disease" will be presented from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Great Prairie Education Center in Ottumwa.

If you are a blues fan, you might want to consider a road trip this weekend. The Southeast Iowa Blues Society will hold their first ever Blue Ribbon Blues Festival at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Fairfield on Saturday, August 2. The festival will feature performances by four blues band, including headliner the Ghost Town Blues Band.

After a month where crews were unable to complete any work on the Market Street Bridge, the city of Ottumwa says it will likely be another month before work will start again.

SunnyBrook Home Care Center will host a community blood drive from 1-4 p.m. Aug. 5 in its conference room.

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A new community garden in Ottumwa is not only providing vegetables for the community but new friendships as well.

Scheetz holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Iowa State University. She also has a master's degree in marriage and family therapy from Mount Mercy University.

'Bill Gode had been doing what I'm doing for decades,' local attorney and community volunteer Dusti Relph says.

Cardinal Schools are far enough away from town that it required its own siren in order to be effective.

A cold front extended from the central Plains to the upper Midwest on Friday, while monsoonal thunderstorms affected the Southwest.

For those who attend St. James Catholic Church, there has been a new face by the altar in July.

View this charming two bedroom home with a beautiful 3-Seasons room overlooking the back yard.

A jury convicted an Iowa man Thursday of killing his pregnant wife in 2012, rejecting his claims of innocence after the third trial in the case.

Ottumwa police are asking for the public's help to determine whether a rental vehicle occupied by a man arrested for public intoxication was involved in an accident that might have injured someone.

The public is invited to attend an informational meeting about upcoming new construction work on Quincy Avenue in Ottumwa.

Ottumwa School District is the first district in Iowa to be named a District of Character by the national organization Character Counts.

An Iowa man killed his pregnant wife so that he could be with another woman that he had zealously pursued for months, a prosecutor said Wednesday as he sought a murder conviction for a third time in the case.

The Iowa State Medical Examiner's Office says the death of a man who was found Monday at a rural residence just outside of Ottumwa will be ruled a homicide.

Fifty two golfters took part in the Ray Carter Memorial Cancer tournament meet at Cedar Creek Golf Course on June 24 in Ottumwa.