Red Oak News

About 200 soldiers from the Dubuque area are scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan late next year.

Share + Sep 25, 2009 6:09 pm US/Central CHICAGO The former CEO of the shuttered Republic Windows & Doors -- who is accused of scheming to bankrupt his own company -- will be released from prison with ankle monitoring after his bond was reduced by $5 million Friday.

Red Oak Independent School District Board of Trustees has appointed Jon Hooper to fill the board seat left vacant by the resignation of Brent Stanford.

Last winter, in North Side Chicago, Republic Windows abruptly closed, leaving its employees in the lurch.

The owner of Republic Windows and Doors and two other unnamed people conceived and executed a scheme to defraud their creditors, abandon their debts and move hundreds of thousands of dollars of window-making machinery to Iowa, prosecutors said yesterday.

Washington, D.C. - John Norris, a Red Oak, Ia., native who is President Barack Obama's pick for a seat on the commission that regulates electricity and natural gas, pledged Thursday to make it a personal priority to facilitate the development of alternative energy.

Washington, D.C. - John Norris, a Red Oak, Ia., native who is President Barack Obama's pick for a seat on the commission that regulates electricity and natural gas, pledged Thursday to make it a personal priority to facilitate the development of alternative energy.

An Iowa man who broke out of the Montgomery County Jail with the help of his girlfriend has been sentenced for a gun crime.

Anyone thinking Iowa was flat simply needed to do Monday's 72-mile route of RAGBRAI .

A man whose girlfriend was accused of breaking him out an Iowa jail with a sawed-off shotgun has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for possessing the unregistered weapon, authorities announced in a press release.

This big bicycle ride fits Iowa like tight shorts. "It's work ethic - the idea you have fun while working," said Doris Harman, standing in the middle of tiny Henderson's main street, choked with thousands of half-naked people wearing tight shorts.

About 15,000 bicyclists are in Council Bluffs, awaiting the start of the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.

The small town of Red Oak, Iowa, that lost a major manufacturer earlier this year could soon be getting a much-needed boost.

Ready or not, RAGBRAI will hit southwest Iowa next Sunday with all the force of a hungry, thirsty, two-wheeled cavalry.

Here is a story in the Omaha World Herald about a ponzi scheme operator whose first scheme was to publish a book.

Marty Roenigk, 68, co-owner of the 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa and the 1905 Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs, was killed Thursday night in a two-vehicle accident in southeast Iowa near the community of Griswold.

At least nine people died in accidents on Iowa roads over the Memorial Day weekend.

An accident in southwest Iowa killed an Emerson man on Saturday night. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Department said 38-year-old Michael Adkisson lost control of his SUV on 200th Street between Emerson and Red Oak.

A tornado warning is in effect for Page County and western Montgomery County in Iowa.

The mother of an 11-year-old Red Oak, Iowa, girl who died in an all-terrain vehicle crash and the friend who survived spoke about what happened and how they plan to move on.