Hampton News

A former school in the Hampton-Dumont School will turn into a call center. Monday night, the school board received four bids to purchase the Intermediate School in Dumont.

With shrinking budgets, some school districts are making tough calls on how to save money.

Merle George Strahorn, 70, of Hampton said he was Westbound on 4th Street Southwest on Tuesday afternoon at around 3 p.m. Strahorn said he had a green light as a minivan pulled in front of him onto Mercy Drive in front of Mercy Medical Center North Iowa.

CASCADE, Iowa -- Three spots are available on the Cascade City Council, and incumbents Viva Betzner and William Boffeli believe they're still the right people for the jobs.

A Hampton man faces incest and sexual abuse charges in two cities. Police say Jesus Adam Castorena, 32, was arrested Friday in Storm Lake.

CBS 2 LOCAL NEWS Iowa man charged with incest, sex abuse October 10, 2009 18:15 EDT HAMPTON, Iowa -- A 32-year-old central Iowa man faces incest and sexual abuse charges in two different towns.

By her own admission, Lindsey Valentini's headlong flight into the gourmet tea business did not initially promise a very smooth landing.

Denver-based ProBuild Holdings announced that 39 of its manufacturing facilities achieved the Structural Building Components Association's Structural Component Operations Reaching for Excellence certification at the Elite level.

A Waterloo spice company has announced it is closing to relocate to Nebraska. Palmer House Foods owner Larry Palmer says his company's Iowa location will close today and will relocate to Omaha, Neb., on Tuesday.

The Daughters of the American Revolution plan to grant an historic marker to a Franklin County home built from limestone and walnut in 1854.

Residents of a Des Moines neighborhood rushed out of their homes early Monday after they heard what they thought was gunfire.

Hampton, Ia. - It was 6:15 a.m. when Alberto Francisco Tello Casteneda woke his sister to say he was leaving for work.

Practical Farmers of Iowa will gather from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday at Tom and Irene Frantzen's farm near New Hampton for a tour and discussion.

Polk City Town Square, South Third and Broadway streets, Polk City. 210-8442. Free admission.

Federal immigration authorities have arrested seven illegal immigrants this week in the northern Iowa community of Hampton and plan to deport them, a federal spokesman said Wednesday.

It's a simple equation: You're a store owner who counts on drive-by business. Subtract the drivers, and you're going to lose money.

The NTSB preliminary report on a July accident in Latimer, Iowa indicates the pilot hit powerlines while following his wife, who was driving to the airport to pick him up after flying.

The National Transportation Safety Board is offering more details about a deadly single engine plane crash nearly 2 weeks ago in North Iowa.

The name of the pilot who died in a small plane that crashed in North Iowa Friday afternoon is being released.

A small plane that crashed north of Hampton in Franklin County has claimed the life of a Latimer man.