Rockwell City woman killed in Missouri crash
A Rockwell City woman was killed and her husband was seriously injured in a fiery crash on a Missouri highway on Saturday. Two other women were also killed in the collision. Vicki Harper, 76, of Rockwell City, died, according to published reports and family acquaintances. Her husband, Steven Harper, 72, of Rockwell City, was seriously injured. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that he was airlifted to Bryan West Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. A passenger who was in the Harpers’ vehicle, 67-year-old Marcine Usher, of Harlan, also died in the crash. Marvies ...
New EMS coordinator starts in Webster County
Webster County’s new emergency medical services coordinator is now on the job. Scott Richard is filling a new position created as a result of the March 2025 voter approval of a property tax to support emergency medical services. Richard was introduced during Wednesday’s meeting of the county’s Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council. He is a native of Minnesota, who has been a paramedic for 30 years. During that time he has worked for several different agencies. For the last 15 years he had been a paramedic for UnityPoint Health - LifeFlight. He has also been an EMS ...
Walking on the Dragoon Trail
Following in the footsteps of a famous military battalion of U.S. Dragoons that rode through Iowa in the summer of 1835, historian Kevin T. Mason recalls how he was able to retrace this expedition almost two centuries later by walking 371 miles on the Dragoon Trail. A University of ...
Threat prompts security measures at Algona schools
ALGONA — Bishop Garrigan High School received a phone call at about 11:48 a.m. Wednesday from an unidentified male who said he planned to come to the school with a gun, according to a statement on the Algona city government web site. The school immediately began lockdown procedures at Seton Elementary and the Bishop Garrigan campus. Algona Community Schools also began sheltering in place in all school buildings as a safety precaution. Due to a multi-agency training exercise being held nearby, many additional law enforcement agencies were able to help provide a presence at various ...
