Spencer News

Richard Harrison R.H. Metier passed from among us on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 of Binswanger's syndrome at the Tompkins Health Center at Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge.

Services for Paul Edward Strautz, 91, of Marshall, formerly of Spencer, Iowa, will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Grace United Methodist Church in Spencer.

Students who have completed grades six through eight are invited to attend the Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Corporation's fifth annual Entrepreneurship Academy, held July 9-13 at Iowa Lakes Community College in Spencer.

Arson and burglary charges are filed by the O'Brien County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday.

I grew up in Carroll County, Iowa, where I met my wife, Beth. We married in 1988 and moved to Emmetsburg in 1990.

The Spencer Police Department said the complaint led to the execution of a search warrant in the 500 block of East 3rd Street, in Spencer.

With rains continuing through much of Thursday, the numbers are constantly changing, but as of this morning, Spencer, Iowa had just more than two inches.

A Spencer man is charged after leaving the scene of a single vehicle accident. At 12:39 Shortly after midnight Tuesday, the Clay County Sheriffs Office was dispatched to 310th Street and 320th Avenue, south of Lost Island.

A rare flesh-eating bacteria survivor described her ordeal Tuesday at the Nebraska Medical Center.

Five vehicles are involved in a noon hour mishap Monday afternoon at the South "T" in Spencer.

Six area teens are involved in a Thursday evening mishap. The O'Brien County Sheriff's Office says 18-year-old Albert Hank Voss IV of Hartley was heading south on 100th Avenue, two miles south of Moneta, shortly after 8:30 in a 2001 Ford pickup.

The National Sheep Symposium will bring top sheep production experts from across the United States to the Clay County Fairgrounds in Spencer, Iowa on July 27 and 28.

Kudos for one Spencer, Iowa, law enforcer for his role in coordinating a massive search for an autistic girl, who had wandered away from her home, last summer.

After several months of voting, three deserving students have been selected to receive a total of $10,000 in college scholarship funding.

Early Thursday morning, a Clay County Deputy conducted an investigation of a suspicious vehicle stopped on the shoulder of the roadway.

Auditions for the SCT Production of "West Side Story" will take place this coming week.

A Guam son who helped to manage President Barack Obama's campaign on Guam and Obama's campaign headquarters in Spencer, Iowa, in 2008, plans to announce Monday that he's running for Guam's congressional delegate seat.

Letter carriers across the nation will be taking part in the 20th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive this weekend.

The Spencer City Council approves a housing development land and grant funding agreements with SMU and Spencer Area Jobs Trust.

Republican Congressman Steve King has released a list of eight debates that he is proposing to be held across Iowa's new 4th District with his Democratic challenger, Christie Vilsack.