PERRY — A 17-year-old opened fire at a small-town Iowa high school before classes resumed on the first day after the winter break, killing a sixth-grader and wounding five others Thursday as students barricaded in offices, ducked into classrooms and fled in panic.
The suspect, a student at ...
Marshall County Courthouse
Court
Jan. 5
• Jerome Marquez Lang made an initial appearance on 18 counts of a violation of a no-contact order/contempt of court charge. Patrick Peters will continue as counsel. The contempt hearing is set for 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 29. Bond is set at $1,000 cash. ...
Marshall County Courthouse
Court
Jan. 4
• Nicole Lee Mann made an initial appearance on a theft-fifth degree charge. Jessica Maffitt is appointed as counsel. The pre-trial conference is set for 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 31 in Magistrate Court.
Marshalltown Police Department
Arrests
• On ...
NEW YORK — Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100.
Mitch ...
The first shooting in a school building in 2024 occurred on Thursday in Perry, about 80 miles southwest of Marshalltown. At Perry High School, a sixth-grade student was killed and five people were wounded in a shooting which occurred shortly before the beginning of the school day. The shooter ...
Marshall County Public Health welcomed a new director on Thursday — Sydney Grewell. Former Public Health Director Pat Thompson is there until Feb. 2 to help Grewell become acclimated to the role.
“She is helping me get started on the right foot,” Grewell said.
After 17 years in the ...