Ottumwa News

This modest ranch home is sure to please. With the possibility of 3 bedrooms, it also features hardwood floors, an eat-in kitchen, living room with picture window, an attached garage, and a fruit cellar for extra storage.

Indian Hills Community College is giving area residents the chance to dispose of their used electronic devices Monday through April 24. A semi-trailer will be parked in the east lot of the Advanced Technology Center on the IHCC Ottumwa campus where old computers, printers, laptops and cell phones can be discarded.

The Ottumwa Police Department said that the investigation into the death one-year old Keenan Rockhold revealed the child died of natural causes.

The number of hog feeding businesses in southeast Iowa could grow quickly if Des Moines County officials approve all the proposed projects.

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."