Pretrial conferences and jury trials have been scheduled for a couple facing first-degree murder charges in the death of their four-month-old son.
The trials will be in Chickasaw County.

For more than 40 years, doctors from Fredericksburg Family Health Clinic have had a close working relationship with Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton, but that relationship will change on Jan. 1.

Cheyanne Harris and Zachary Koehn, the parents of a 4-month-old who died of neglect in August, have retained counsel and pleaded not guilty to murder and child endangerment charges.

The line of young people extended halfway around the gymnasium at New Hampton High School Friday morning after a Veterans Day presentation.

Brian Quirk will tell you he was more than a little worried.
“It was 10:30 and I wasn’t sure anyone was coming,” said the New Hampton Fae Stine American Legion Post 38 commander. “But it all turned out pretty nicely.”

The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting on Thursday in reaction to a state auditor’s report issued last Wednesday afternoon and made public on Thursday morning.

Lindsay Zenner admits at the age of 24, sometimes it’s weird to think of herself as a veteran.

Area veterans and their families and friends gathered Monday night for an event at the Municipal Hall in Alta Vista, where Sergeant Gilbert Rosenbaum was awarded a “Quilt of Valor.”

Maybe only those who have been in plays and musicals will appreciate the story, but honestly, half the fun — maybe more — of being a “drama person” is the off-the-wall stuff that takes place at rehearsals.

Chickasaw County officials need to better determine and document the public purpose of certain expenditures, according to Iowa State Auditor Mary Mosiman.

If the Chickasaw County Sheriff’s Office would start patrolling Nashua, it would cost around $200,000 to hire two additional deputies.

Members of “The Addams Family” had their lives change forever over the weekend as Nashua-Plainfield High School students presented the always-fun musical.

Dr. Andy McGuire is fired up for her run for Iowa governor, and she says she gets that way from her conversations with everyday Iowans.

A candlelight vigil in memory of little Sterling Daniel Koehn had just ended Saturday night, and Kim Judge, the Alta Vista woman who organized the event, had but one question as her friends gathered around her.
“Can we cry now?”

Matt Kuhn easily won election to the New Hampton City Council Tuesday night as he garnered 77.9 percent of the vote in the race for an at-large seat.