There was one company in a city associated with Polk County that received an FDA inspection in the third quarter of 2024, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Association.
College tuition fees rose 2.3% in Polk County in the 2022-23 school year, according to the latest disclosure from the National Center for Education Statistics.
An Ottumwa man was sentenced on September 6, 2024, to 40 years in federal prison for sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion of two victims, sex trafficking of one child, enticement and attempted enticement of two minors, and using the internet to facilitate prostitution after pleading guilty to all six charges in April 2024, roughly a week before his trial was scheduled to begin.