Independence Monday News Today

Everyone needs their space… regardless of age. The Oelwein Public Library completed some remodeling lately. It’s a glass partition that now separates the children’s section at the north end from

A Northern Kentucky man has been sentenced to life in prison in connection to the 2022 murder of a woman inside an apartment in Independence.

Irvin J. Steffen was last seen at his home in Independence Monday around 6:45 p.m., investigators said in a press release.

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The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help to find two missing minors.

The Examiner • “HEALTH HAZARD CREATED BY OVERLOADED LAGOONS” – The smell of raw sewage in the air is a common happening in the southern sections of the city. So common that the stench created by effluent from two overloaded lagoons and unsanitary procedures practiced by business establishments in Kansas City are causing residents to become ill, some violently.  The health hazard is existing in the area generally bounded on the east by Phelps Road, on the south by U.S. 40, on the nor...