Authorities are crediting a Mason City police dog with finding a 2-year-old boy who wandered with his dog from his family’s rural home and through a wooded are near a creek this week.
The Fayette County Sheriff’s office said it arrested 45-year-old Russell Eugene Sims, of Waucoma, after conducting a search warrant on a rural Waucoma residence.
An Elgin, Iowa man wanted on a Fayette Count arrest warrant for a probation violation was found and taken into custody without incident on Wednesday evening.
The state of Iowa and the Iowa Department of Education is awarding 43 colleges and universities across the state nearly $4.4 million to increase internet connectivity for students during the current school year.
Iowa Workforce Development reports 4,662 Iowans filed initial unemployment claims between October 11 and October 17. That number is up by 470 from the previous reporting period.