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Jim Caufield

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Officers of the Perry Police Department stopped and questioned half-a-dozen juvenile males Friday about 7 p.m. after the youths were observed stashing a black backpack in a beanfield near 16th and North streets in Perry. Following a brief investigation, a...
The latest milestone in Perry's flourishing housing market was reached Tuesday when the Perry Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting for two new spec houses in the Sunflower Flats development north of the Perry Elementary School. "This is a...
With first-degree murder charges now filed against Marc and Misty Ray of Perry in connection with the starvation death May 12 of their adopted daughter, Sabrina Ray, 16, the couple loses their legal right to custody of the child's...
A Leon, Iowa, man was arrested late Monday when his vehicle left the roadway and entered the ditch just south of Iowa Highway 141 on County Road P58 near Perry. Marty Allen Adair, 48, 307 N.E. Mill St., Leon, was arrested...
Thursday's ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Hamlin Bell apartment complex in Perry was a capstone on the three-year effort to make the senior housing complex a reality, a project that united the efforts of the city of Perry, Newbury Living...
A vehicle left the roadway and entered the ditch near Perry late Monday when the driver's blood-sugar level caused him to lose control of the vehicle. There were no apparent injuries in the incident, which occurred just south of Iowa...
Perry Crimestoppers is posting a reward of up to $300 for information regarding several recent burglaries. A burglary was reported Sept. 19 at Aspen Retirement Planning Services at 1308 Second St. One or more burglars entered the business by forcing...
The Redfield Volunteer Fire Department responded about 1:15 a.m. Sunday when a large fire was reported at Sheeder Construction Group LLC at 307 Bridge St. on Redfield's west side. A large pile of wooden debris at the site of the...
Many were the beauties of the 2017 Art Harvest Tour, sponsored by the Art on the Prairie Committee, but the works of Joe Warnock, master woodworker and the moving spirit of the Greenwood Works studio at 493 310th St.,...
Prohibition has been a power in Perry society since at least 1869, when the town was  founded and the first church built, the First Baptist Church. At the same time, the devotion of some of the town's residents to beer...