Center Point News

Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by Adam Belz . Floodwaters rise into the southeast side of Palo on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.

A Linn County Officer is back at work after a car crash. Colonel John Stuelke was stopped in an unmarked squad car in Center Point Wednesday night.

Posted on Oct 29, 2009 by Jeff Raasch . Two people were taken to hospitals after a car rear-ended an unmarked squad car belonging to the Linn County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday.

Authorities say a Linn County sheriff's deputy and the driver of another car have been injured in a car wreck.

Posted on Oct 27, 2009 by Admin . No one was seriously hurt when a car collided with a school bus loaded with students near Urbana Tuesday morning.

A barrage of gunfire erupted during a robbery attempt in the Center Point area Tuesday night, authorities said today.

The Linn County Sheriff's Office says the southbound lanes of I-380 one mile north of Center Point have re-opened following a semi fire.

Posted on Oct 09, 2009 by Dave Rasdal . What a great tour I had the other day of the new/old barn that has been erected in the last couple of months on the Dusty Sylver and Mike LeClere acreage on the northwest edge of Center Point, Iowa.

Posted on Oct 09, 2009 by Jeff Raasch . Three vehicles collided on an interstate exit ramp near Center Point on Thursday, sending two people to a hospital.

Posted on Sep 15, 2009 by Todd Dorman . After a week of vacation, including a trek to my wife's homeland for her high school reunion, I'm trying to catch up.

Posted on Sep 01, 2009 by Cindy Hadish . You can't go wrong with outdoor activities in September and there are plenty to choose from this month.

August is finally here and that means the 2009 football is nearly underway. Iowa Preps has brought readers our preseason coverage over the last two months and will continue to do so until kickoff for week one.

Posted on Jul 30, 2009 by Jeff Raasch . An 18-year-old male passenger died when the pickup he was in ran off a gravel road and struck a tree near Center Point early Thursday morning.

He was killed just a day after his eighteenth birthday. Jarin Janey died Thursday after an early morning single-car accident in Benton County.

Police investigate at the scene of an attempted break-in at a Center Point storage unit Friday.

Beginning Monday, July 20, North Center Point Rd. will be closed at County Home Rd.

Donald "Buzz" Sawyer, 69, of Center Point, died Tuesday, July 14, 2009, at his home of cancer.

Elvin Mackerman, 75, owner of the Peony Garden in Center Point, is tired. His life's love and work -- cleaning the rows of peonies, showing off the luxurious blooms at the annual Memorial Day open house, dividing the plants and sending them off to buyers in the fall -- has begun to wear him out.

Linn County Sheriff's Department officers investigate a Chevrolet sedan that was driven into the median on Interstate 380 southbound, just north of the Boyson Road exit in Hiawatha, Friday after a several-mile high-speed chase.

On Wednesday, a Dickinson County judge informed Appletree Preschool and Daycare that an injunction had been filed, permanently keeping its owner from providing child care in Iowa.