Boone News

Boone County leaders interviewed former Warren County Assessor David Ellis as a candidate for their vacant assessor post, but instead appointed the person that Warren County leaders courted for Ellis' replacement.

Storm's worst is coming today By WILLIAM PETROSKI, and TOM ALEX * talex@dmreg.com * December 24, 2009 Mother Nature's effort to fluster Iowans' Christmas plans began in earnest Wednesday night as the much-discussed Christmas storm finally struck the state.

Posted on Dec 22, 2009 by Rod Boshart . Jerry Behn Another Republican candidate for governor has ended his 2010 bid.

Edward Carlos Scribbins, 89, of Webster City, died Wednesday December 9, 2009 at Southfield Wellness Community.

Ames, Ia. - Richard Dale Long, 78, of Ames and Benjamin P. Howe, 54, of Boone have been identified as the two people who died in a head-on collision Wednesday on U.S. Highway 30, Ames police said.

Ames police have released the names of 2 people killed in a crash on U.S. Highway 30 near Ames earlier this week.

Also in District 2 are Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Marshall, Mitchell, Pocahontas, Sac, Story, Winnebago, Worth and Wright counties.

Ames, Ia. - Professor Larry Ebbers has stayed at Iowa State University for 44 years, despite offers for better pay at other universities.

The National Weather Service in Des Moines has issued a Flash flood watch for portions of central Iowa.

Ogden, Ia. - A Pottawattamie County jury has convicted a Boone woman of second-degree murder in the death of her husband.

Jury deliberations were set to resume for a Boone woman charged with first-degree murder in the death of her husband.

Finally, the weather has improved and farmers are busy harvesting. The trees are beautiful fall colors.

Nancy M. Crotts, 67, formerly of 221 Harrison Street in Boone, passed away at the Evangelical Free Church Home in Boone on Thursday morning, October 22, 2009 where she had been a resident for the past couple of weeks.

The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld the second-degree murder conviction of a man in the shooting death of a central Iowa sheep farmer.

Boone, Ia. - The body of a hunter from Ames has been found in Boone County. Searchers found the body of Khouan Khamlue, 38, about a mile from where his vehicle was parked on state public hunting grounds.

Jensen The students in Juanita Coulter's first-grade classroom at Jensen Elementary have been learning about the unique and special qualities that make them a one-of-a-kind individual.

17; 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad, 225 10th St., Boone.

There was something poetic about the pouring rain when Union Pacific and Iowa state officials gathered Thursday to dedicate the new Kate Shelley Bridge across the Des Moines River west of Boone, Iowa.

OGDEN, Utah - The new Union Pacific railroad bridge northeast of Ogden will be officially opened and named in a ceremony labeled "not your ordinary ribbon cutting Thursday, Oct.

Carlos Santiago, a student at Boone High, sent me some info about an improv show that Boone students havr put together: WHAT: Deep Thoughts , a improvisation comedy show, in the style of Whose Line Is It Anyway , performed by a number of Boone High School theatre kids.