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Two people arrested during a coordinated search in downtown Spirit Lake last November have again found themselves in the Dickinson County Jail. The Milford Police Department executed a Feb. 12 search warrant for the apartment of 43-year-old Angela Marie Rinkoski in the 1200 block of Sixth Street. The search resulted in multiple drug charges against Rinkoski and 42-year-old Patrick William Miles of Spirit Lake...

An Okoboji woman who drew 2018 headlines for credit card and identity theft has a new case pending. The Spirit Lake Police Department took 50-year-old Michele Zeisler into custody following a traffic stop and the possible presence of methamphetamine at about 1:42 a.m. Monday. She was driving a 2019 Chevrolet Colorado near 15th Street and Hill Avenue at the time...

While actual snowfall was minimal Wednesday, high winds carried multitudes of frozen flakes and reduced visibility to nearly nothing along several stretches of highway in Dickinson County. Wind gusts of 39 mph were recorded near Lake Park that day, but emergency crews braved the blizzard conditions to respond to multiple calls for aid throughout the county. The National Weather Service recorded gusts of 45 mph near Spencer that same day...

Buena Vista County Emergency Management officials have released the name of a Rembrandt Foods employee who was killed in the collapse of a cage system Friday morning. The body of Jesus Lopes was recovered Saturday afternoon and the fatality was confirmed Sunday night. Lopez was from Worthington, Minnesota...

This past week the Senate acquitted President Trump of impeachment charges by holding a sham trial without calling any witnesses or producing any documents. The Trump team stated his actions were proper because they were made "in the public interest." Mr. ...

The Christian right makes up a significant share of the Republican Party, claiming that they share the same values. Feb. 5, in a speech to the Senate prior to the impeachment vote, Sen. Romney stated that being profoundly religious, he could not violate the oath he took to be a fair and impartial juror in the impeachment trial and that the overwhelming facts of President Trump’s obstruction of justice necessitate a guilty vote in the trial. ...

Word of a bomb threat at Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire caused the evacuation of students Tuesday afternoon. Within a matter of hours, the school system posted messages saying the building had been cleared by law enforcement. "Today Graettinger-Terril experienced what many schools have had to deal with in the past — a bomb threat," a post on the school's social media page said. "The threat was made (by) leaving a written message in a restroom."...