DES MOINES — A Des Moines man who is already a registered sex offender is facing three felony sexual exploitation of a minor charges in Marshall County over allegations that he sent inappropriate online messages to a State Center Police Department (SCPD) officer posing as an underage girl. ...
Warmer weather, an increase in food availability and longer daytime hours combine to make springtime the main nesting and breeding season for many animals in Central Iowa. Because of this, people may come across baby animals and assume they’ve been abandoned. Marshall County Conservation ...
A comedy, “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress” will have its Marshalltown Community Theatre (MCT) debut on Friday. Performed in the Black Box at the BA Niblock MCSD Orpheum Welcome Center, the play tells the story of five bridesmaids in the South. Director Rick Gooding said some of the ...
Arrest warrants have been issued for a pair of individuals believed to have been unlawfully inside the old downtown hospital building four days after members of the Marshalltown Fire Department (MFD) rescued two people from a container inside the facility. On Sunday evening at about 6:30 ...
TOLEDO — The ongoing saga that is the future of Tama County Public Health and Home Care has taken another turn as the CEO and Executive Director, Stacy Koeppen, resigned late last week. At the April 9 Public Health Board Meeting, Koeppen informed those in attendance. “After a long ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — A woman who stabbed another woman in the neck with a piece of trim that broke off in the victim’s neck was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison on Tuesday. Ashley Thompson, 38, of Tama, received the prison term after a March 31, 2025, guilty plea to one count of assault causing serious bodily injury. At the guilty plea, Thompson admitted that on Jan. 14, 2024, she assaulted a woman on the Meskwaki Settlement. According to a press release, Thompson was in another person’s home along with the victim. An argument between multiple people occurred, ...
