Ottumwa News

Each year, the Interact Club completes a local and global project. Their local project was donating 15,000 food items to the Lord's Cupboard in Ottumwa.

An Iowa man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for brutally beating a toddler last year.

An Ottumwa man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the brutal beating of a toddler under his care.

One Dead in I-80 Crash Near Coral Ridge Mall Exit Hughes 4-14-14 Authorities say one person died in a two vehicle crash Sunday on Interstate 80 in Coralville.

County officials are considering five different proposals to build animal feeding operations that could hold up to 2,500 hogs, the Burlington Hawk Eye reported .

The United Way of Wapello County's community garden project has been such a success, they've committed to expanding it even more.

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors - Jefferson County Courthouse, first floor board room, 9 a.m.: meet with county engineer; discuss vacation of Cross Street in Abingdon; consider Leonard's Lanes subdivision; consider resolution approving enterprise zone application; consider housing enterprise zone application for Emily Kelly; consider housing ... (more)

The retrial of a man accused of killing a 17-year-old girl 40 years ago will not be moved from Wapello County in southern Iowa.

Paula Thomas said she purchased the bamboo the day before her husband, Tom, bought her a "Deluxe 7-11-21" instant-scratch ticket at Penn and Jefferson BP, 1147 N. Jefferson St. in Ottumwa.

The Ottumwa Courier reports the Wapello County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday night approved spending $139,000 on repairs and maintenance for the courthouse, built in 1894.

Patrick Michael Ives, 18, of Ottumwa, pleaded guilty and received a deferred judgment for operating while intoxicated, first offense, a serious misdemeanor.

Indianola finished second in field of 14 schools in a trap shooting meet April 5 at the Ottumwa Izaak Walton League.

The Ottumwa City Council approved a contract with Kaboom for new playground equipment at Wildwood Park during Monday night's council meeting.

No Martians are landing, but loads of steel began arriving on Monday for the takeoff of project to expand and revitalize the shuttered ethanol plant here to ready it for something remarkable.

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Another use of the phrase "Cordon Bleu" comes from a distinguished order of sixteenth-century French knights, who apparently wore blue sashes and were therefore popularly referred to as the "Cordon-bleus."

U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez will hold events in Des Moines and Ottumwa this weekend.

The teachers then try to find a resource that best supports the curriculum and look at three or four different publishing companies before narrowing it down.

On April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. T he Ottumwa Police Department, the Southeast Iowa Inter-Agency Drug Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public its eighth opportunity in three years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.

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