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A decade later, Judge Haney finally ‘graduates’ from Drug Court

In 2016, amidst a statewide moratorium on new specialty courts, now retired District Court Judge John Haney decided to push forward and establish one in Marshall County anyway, dubbing it “Enhanced Supervision Court,” also known as Drug Court. Over a decade later, the court has helped ...

Nearly 380 animals rescued in Marshall County livestock neglect investigation

The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) recently rescued a total of 379 animals from a rural Marshalltown property as part of an investigation into allegations of livestock neglect. Last Thursday at approximately 7 a.m., the MCSO received a complaint that a young pony was struggling ...

‘This is how you rebuild rural Iowa’

Chris Jones, an author and former research scientist at the University of Iowa, has been sounding the alarm on Iowa’s water quality issues for about a decade now, and the Democrat who hopes to become the state’s next secretary of agriculture focused primarily on that familiar topic during ...