Mt. Pleasant News

DES MOINES ? Seeking to bypass what could be a protracted court battle, the Iowa House Tuesday voted 94-3 to require the contract to develop standardized tests for K-12 students to go to the University of Iowa testing services.After the Legislature sent out requests for proposals last year, the Iowa Department of Education awarded the contract to Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes of Research.The UI ...

ARLINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said on Thursday the government wants a separate immigration program for agricultural workers.Speaking on the first day of the annual USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum, he said agriculture is caught in the crossfire of the immigration debate. ?The people who come to America to work on farms and ranches are not taking jobs from Americans,? Perdue ...

Education will be at the forefront of discussion during a legislative forum on Saturday, Feb. 24.The legislative breakfast is the second of a four-part series hosted by the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance to bring elected state officials, Sen. Rich Taylor (D-Mt. Pleasant) and Rep. Dave Heaton (R-Mt. Pleasant) together with the public to discuss important topics each month.The Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber ...

Steve Park held the ultrasound wand to his corroded artery on the right side of his neck and pointed to the bundle of nerves magnified on the screen.If Park, a nurse anesthetist at Henry County Health Center (HCHC), were having shoulder surgery, a regional anesthetic could be injected near that bundle of nerves to block the feeling in his shoulder and arm, numbing the nerves for up to 48 hours.This is the ...

The morning commute across Henry County saw a couple of accidents, though neither one of them was because of scattered showers or freezing rain on Tuesday.Brianna Sanders, of Winfield, rolled her car on Highway 78, west of Winfield between Nashua Ave. and Marsh Ave. around 8 a.m.Sanders was reaching for her baby's bottle, who was secured in a car seat in the back seat of the car, when she lost control of her ...

Mt. Pleasant emergency vehicles were called to the scene on Tuesday morning for a roll over with possible entrapment. William Sloan, of Mt. Pleasant was traveling westbound on 275th St. when he lost control of his vehicle and it slid across the road into the south ditch. He was taken by ambulance to HCHC with minor injuries.

NEW LONDON ? After several months of back and forth between the New London School Board and Hackett Construction over the resiliency of patched asphalt of New London's new track, the two parties have finally come to an agreement of an extended five-year warranty on the areas where repairs were made.During the New London School Board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 20, District Superintendent Chad Wahls read the revised ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the creation of a task force to examine how his Justice Department can better combat a wide cross-section of global cyber threats, including efforts to interfere with elections or damage critical infrastructure.The announcement on Tuesday of the new task force came amid renewed concerns about how Russia and foreign adversaries may attempt to use cyber ...

DES MOINES ? Iowa Republicans in 2016 picked him to be the party's presidential candidate.Now Iowa's state Republican Party leaders are calling on Ted Cruz to stand down from his stonewalling of an Iowan's nomination to a federal agriculture department post.The Republican Party of Iowa's leadership committee on Monday sent to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz a letter asking the Texas Republican to stop blocking the nomination...

DES MOINES ? Gov. Kim Reynolds told reporters Monday that Iowa has ?reasonable and responsible? gun laws on the books but needs to take a ?holistic? approach to addressing mental health needs and engaging citizens to report suspicious threats in the wake of last week's mass shooting in Florida.Reynolds opened her weekly news conference by offering ?sympathies and prayers to all those impacted? by Wednesday's ...

Warren Messer swept the sidewalk as snow fell late Saturday morning. Messer spent much of the past couple weeks shoveling nine sidewalks and a few driveways during heavy snowfall. Luckily for him, the rest of the snow melted throughout the day on Saturday and into Sunday.

Snowstorms hit the Henry County area over the weekend by Monday, however, temperatures had rose and the precipitation turned into rain. Mt. Pleasant saw temperatures in the mid-60s by mid-day on Monday.