The latest local news, weather and high school sports from the Heartland

Tuesday, June 18, 2013  The entire 300 block of Main Street will be revitalized.

Friday, May 31, 2013  10-year-old boy finds $10,000 in Kansas City hotel room, turns money over to police

Monday, May 13, 2013  This is the second grant for the Market on Main from John Deere Ottumwa Works

Thursday, May 09, 2013  Horace Mann's principal promised the students she would dress up and dance with the Ottumwa Bulldog is more than $5,000 was raised

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  Beekeeper called to remove hive of 60,000 bees from Utah cabin, a 6-hour job for $600

Monday, May 06, 2013  Lisa Schimmelpfennig’s third grade class at James Elementary School in Ottumwa has read more than 270,000 minutes from October to March

Monday, April 15, 2013  Construction on the Market St. Bridge will start in the next year or two

Tuesday, April 09, 2013  A Wapello County man has won a $30,000 lottery prize.

Wednesday, April 03, 2013  Dance put on by the Heartland Task Force and other sponsors to promote good role modeling.

Tuesday, April 02, 2013  With the grant, a little less than 18,000 pounds of food were purchased

Saturday, March 30, 2013  Ottumwa has some new residents. Over two-thousand rainbow trout were released around eleven am.

Saturday, February 16, 2013  38-year-old Mandy West, of Green Castle scratched her way to a $100,000 prize on a Crossword Doubler Scratchers ticket.

Friday, February 15, 2013  Van Buren High School students participated in "Packing meals for kids against hunger" on Friday

Thursday, February 07, 2013  1865 baseball card found at yard sale sells for $92,000 in Maine auction

Wednesday, February 06, 2013