The Perry News
A number of Dallas County roads remain closed Monday as a result of flooding. The following Dallas County road closures are noted on the Iowa County Engineers Association website.
Beaumont Place, rural Dawson
125th Trail, rural Dawson
D Avenue...
March 15, 2019
A caller said "her 16-year-old daughter had left through the window" and "that her daughter" told her "significant other through a text message that she was leaving to go to a party." Officers responded, and the...
March 14, 2019
A caller "said he needed paramedics due to being very intoxicated and high on marijuana." The caller was "unsure of his exact location but stated he was somewhere in Woodward." The Dallas County Sheriff's office was...
Flooding in the Adel area has impaired the land-based 911 service to the Dallas County Sheriffs Communications Center, according to a statement released Saturday morning by Dallas County Sheriff Chad Leonard.
"Land-based 911 services for Dallas County have been diverted...
Nominations for the 2019 Wall of Witnesses are now being accepted by the Perry Historic Preservation Commission and the Hometown Heritage.
Since resuming additions to the Soumas Court collection of notable figures from Perry history, the partnership of the Perry...
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds issued a disaster proclamation today for Dallas County and 14 other Iowa counties in response to this week's flooding and flash flooding.
The governor's proclamation allows state money to be used to...
March 13, 2019
Shawn Stanton of Hartford was traveling east in the 24000 block of Iowa Highway 44 when his vehicle struck a deer. No injuries were reported. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $1,000.
March 14, 2019
Megan...
Des Moines Water Works CEO and General Manager Bill Stowe, 60, has been diagnosed with "an aggressive form of cancer," according to a letter he directed Thursday to employees of the city water utility.
In the letter, released to the...
Flooding of the North Raccoon River has forced the closure of U.S. Highway 169 to through traffic south of Iowa Highway 44 and north of U.S. Highway 6 as the river reaches and exceeds flood stage.
Water at present is...
March 13, 2019
Leigh Richard Houghton, 53, 307 Story St., Sheldahl, was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A caller said "his vehcle was stolen yesterday from Des Moines, and he is calling...
