Stories from Tuesday, January 7, 2014

By DANA LARSEN Pilot-Tribune Editor Temperatures plummeted to near-record level Monday, as area communities reported between 15 and 22 below, with wind gusts to 30 m.p.h. and wind chills nearing 50 below. The official low for Storm Lake was -17. The all-time record is -22, set in 1912...

Storm Lake Police have made 18 arrests in a series of drug related investigations that have spanned over nine months. The investigations involved the alleged manufacturing and sale of methamphetamine, the sale of cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana and the use of heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine and prescription pills...