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Tyson must sell sow-buying unit

Tyson Foods will sell its sow purchasing business to clear federal anti-trust concerns over its pending purchase of Hillshire Brands.

Tyson and the US Justice Department announced a settlement that will allow Tyson to close its purchase of Hillshire on Sept. 27.

Alta man’s sculpture of golf balls shoots around the globe

More Kevin Pingel than Tiger Woods

By DOLORES CULLEN

They complain of being in the dark over sitting, fence, lighting plans

Board tables vote

By WHITNEY ROBINSON

China bans feed additive in US pork imports

By TOM CULLEN

Tyson is scrambling to find foreign buyers after China banned U.S. pork imports over feed additives.

203 students in grades preK-8        

Storm Lake St. Mary’s School reports an increase of 10 students in PreK-12 enrollment for the 2014-15 school year.

Due to the growth in numbers, the parochial school needed to split the fifth grade students into two classrooms and the four-year-old preschool is full with a waiting list.

By WHITNEY ROBINSON

Iowa State University scholars dropped in on local businesses Wednesday to see if they could help improve retail merchandising. Students were paying attention to the front entrance, music, set up, carpet and all around look.

It’s often the little things that makes the cash register ring.

Wanted woman found working at Storm Lake restaurant

Police were dispatched to Arby’s, located on North Lake Avenue in reference to a burglary alarm on Aug. 26 at 8:30 a.m.

Police met with store staff and determined the alarm was accidental.

Beaver freshman relocates to room behind bars after dorm burglaries

A Buena Vista University freshman from North Carolina who just landed on campus landed in jail Tuesday on charges that he burglarized seven dorm rooms on move-in weekend.

Police took a report of several burglaries to dorm rooms in Pierce Hall on the campus of Buena Vista University on Aug. 25 at 4 p.m.

Five area fire departments were dispatched to a fire on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. near Alta, according to the Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Office.

The BV County Communications Center received a call of a building on fire at 172 620th St., just seven miles southwest of Alta.

On arrival of emergency personnel it was determined that a barn containing several large, round bales of hay was fully engulfed in flames.

Program offered to BV County to plant more trees

By WHITNEY ROBINSON

Efforts to plant more trees are underway in BV county while the deadly emerald ash borer nears.

Two larvae collected by a homeowner from a residential tree in Story City have been positively identified as emerald ash borer.