Van Buren County News

In separate incidents, Van Buren County sheriff's deputies arrested two pilots of watercraft this weekend, charging each of them with operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Leaza gave birth to this baby heifer on the morning scads of dairy convention-goers were set to converge on L & L Ayrshires in Stockport for a tour.

Van Buren County residents are invited to help in the fight against cancer on Saturday.

The annual Bentonsport Spring Fest is this weekend. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday.

Johnston High School government and economics teacher Ben Knight is the 2009 recipient of the James Madison Fellowship for Iowa.

Gov. Chet Culver has announced 34 communities will receive more than $12 million in Community Development Block Grant funds through the Community Facilities and Services Fund and the Water/Sewer Fund.

Authorities believe a rural Birmingham man's death to asphyxiation was an accident.

The Guttenberg mayor and city council fired police chief George Morteo for "unacceptable performance." The city council voted 4 to 1 in favor of the resolution to fire the chief.

A local man is charged with two drug-related felonies. Van Buren County authorities arrested 55-year-old Vernon Bedford of Cantril, Iowa, on Saturday.

At one time, most Ottumwa High School students took a "Freshman Skills" class. It included information about credit card debt and other life skills kids would end up needing, especially in a depressed economy.

John Gaines/The Hawk Eye Bob Norman, art conservator from Pittsburg in Van Buren County, left, does some touch-up work on the painting of Augustus Caesar Dodge in the Grand Gallery at the Des Moines County ...

Southeast Iowa law enforcement agencies are looking for answers after more than a dozen businesses reported burglaries on Friday morning.

The Van Buren County Sheriff's Office is conducting a joint investigation with several southeastern Iowa law enforcement agencies in reference to recent burglaries that have occurred along Highway 2 in southern ...

Van Buren County Players are "deep into the stitches" as they rehearse for the February performance of "Quilters," a musical about the struggles of pioneer women of the Western movement.

The Harmony School Board unanimously voted Dec. 10 to consider the termination of Hundeby's contract after placing him on administrative leave in early November.

Two prominent veterans of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources plan to retire Thursday.

Weekend storms in the nation's northern half knocked out power to thousands of customers Sunday and created nightmarish conditions for holiday travelers coast to coast on the first official day of winter.

Farmland values in Iowa have risen about 14 percent in the last year, according to Iowa State University's annual farmland value survey.

An Ottumwa man charged with kidnapping an elementary school student from a bus stop in 2005 has pleaded guilty.

More than three years later, the man accused of kidnapping an Ottumwa elementary student, is now behind bars.