Lee County News

An inmate at the Lee County jail in Montrose has been accused of damaging the jail's fire sprinkler system, causing more than a dozen inmates to be evacuated.

Patrick Hayes briefly informed the audience this morning at a Keokuk Chamber of Commerce meeting he is interested in bringing his industry, WTF Asia International, to Keokuk.

Banks -- Closed. Valley Bank in Hy-Vee, 3140 Agency St., will be open. Bus lines -- Burlington Urban Service will operate.

Just a week after adopting a new bidding policy for purchases, the Lee County Board of Supervisors may change it.

During its regular meeting last week, the supervisors will discuss their support for a port project in Quincy, Ill.

A 10 percent budget cut at Iowa State Penitentiary could mean a 10 percent loss in corrections staff.

Since no candidate received a simple majority, there will be a runoff election between the top two vote-getters, Betts and Marion, on Dec.

The supervisors met in closed session with County Attorney Mike Short before returning to open session and unanimously allowing Short to close the contract with Quality Investments to purchase the land for $7,500 per acre.

Monday, November 02, 2009 at 12:54 p.m. An Iowa woman was killed in a one car accident on Lee County, Iowa.

Residents here have been warned to boil their drinking water by the Rathbun Rural Water Association.

The figures, according to the Associated Press, far outweigh the number of actual weddings and civil unions tallied by the first census data on same-sex marriages.

When Fort Madison residents go to the polls on Election Day, Nov. 3, and reach the section of the ballot marked mayor, they must choose between a political newcomer and a man hoping for a third term as the city's chief executive officer.

Mary/St. Joseph's McAleer Hall in Fort Madison is for pregnant women, persons living with or providing care for infants less than six months of age, children ages 6 months through age 4, health care workers and emergency services personnel who have direct contact with patients or infectious material.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Sixteen-month-old Natalie Wibbell of Dallas City, Ill., under the watchful eyes of her parents, John and Tiffany, gets a shot from Peggy Moreland of Lomax, Ill., the Lee County Health Department's Maternal Child Health coordinator, Wednesday during a H1N1 vaccination clinic offered by the Lee County Health Department at ...

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 1:48 p.m. FT. MADISON, IOWA -- The following is a news release from the Lee County Iowa Health Department; Due to the very limited amount of H1N1 vaccines/nasal mist received, Lee County Health Department has scheduled two small public health clinics to administer H1N1 vaccines/nasal mist to the following high risk ...

Opportunities as vast as the Mississippi River itself are open to communities on and bordering the Great River Road.

John Raymond Nicol, 57, was booked Wednesday on charges of receipt of precursors and purchase of more than 7,500 milligrams of pseudoephedrine in a 30-day period.

After more than three decades of waiting, the new Argyle sewer system is up and running.

Thrush charged with three counts of arson in Keokuk. An attorney for Travis Lee Thrush, the 21-year-old Keokuk man charged in federal court with three counts of arson in connection with the torching of a church and other structures, wants a judge to disallow the man's statements because police interrogators may have violated his Fifth Amendment ...

Last year, Johnson avoided the big house when he was convicted of breaking into the West Point Public Library.