Immigration helped stabilize Ottumwa’s population while other similarly sized towns across Iowa have face rapid population declines, some note.
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U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who since 2022 has been registered to vote in Scott County, earlier this year changed her voter registration back to her Ottumwa home, according to voter records from Wapello County.
More than three months after roughly 200 meatpacking plant workers in Ottumwa were notified that their work visas were being revoked, some have moved, while others have found other immigration statuses to remain and work.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources finalized a discharge permit for the Ottumwa Generating Station, a coal-fired power station, after months of opposition from members of the public and environmental groups.
Environmental groups and members of the public attended the virtual hearing and voiced concerns about living downstream of the plant and the impacts it might have on their health.
More than 200 workers at an Ottumwa meatpacking plan were notified this month by their employer that their work visas have been revoked, and now face potential deportation, according to a union official.
The campaign contributor, Iowa Board of Regents member David Barker, said he is not involved in the day-to-day operations at Indian Ridge Apartments and was unaware the Republican incumbent was living there.
An ethics complaint seeking an investigation into Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ voting address may make handy campaign fodder for Democrats heading into the November election, but little may actually come of it.
Coroner Dan Heavin had the body exhumed in October and turned to anthropology students and faculty at Southeast Missouri State University, a news release from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department said.
Investigators find remains they believe to be of Craig Dee Smith, 40, of Ottumwa.
Also, Cedar Rapids Democrat announces re-election bid for Iowa House
An Iowa man who failed to show up for the guilty verdict at his murder trial has been found and taken into custody, state officials announced Saturday.
A male nurse practitioner who died of a drug overdose at a hospital in Ottumwa sexually assaulted at least nine female patients while they were sedated, hospital and police officials said.
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