T-R PHOTO By MIKE DONAHEY The building housing The Optical Center, 116 W. Main St., has looked differently in the last few weeks with a brick replacement project underway. Built in 1892, the multi-story building is owned by Central Iowans Garland and Julie Schossow. It typifies many found ...
Man arrested after restaurant break-in A local man is in the Marshall County Jail after a witness saw him fleeing a restaurant after hours and reported the incident to police. Carlos Mendoza, 21, was arrested earlier this week by the Marshalltown Police Department. Personnel quickly ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices reached a new high in May for the sixth straight month, which may raise fears of another housing bubble roughly a decade after a previous one burst. The Standard & Poor's CoreLogic national home price index, released Tuesday, increased 5.6 percent in May, ...
NEW YORK — Kendrick Lamar's "Humble" is giving the rapper reason to brag: He is the leader of the MTV Video Music Awards with eight nominations. Lamar and his No.1 hit song are nominated for video of the year, artist of the year, best hip-hop video and other prizes. Katy Perry and The ...
Marshalltown voters will go to the polls Aug. 1 to approve or decline a measure to adjust the local option sales tax allocation. The city currently applies annual LOST revenue to 75 percent property tax relief, 20 percent capital improvements and 5 percent any legal purpose authorized by ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's considering either re-nominating Janet Yellen for a second term as Fed chair or replacing her with someone else, possibly Gary Cohn, who leads his National Economic Council. Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal ...
LOS ANGELES — Barbara Sinatra, the fourth wife of legendary singer Frank Sinatra and a prominent children's advocate and philanthropist who raised millions of dollars to help abused youngsters, died Tuesday. She was 90. Sinatra died of natural causes at her Rancho Mirage, California, home ...
Backing up data is a good habit to keep, and the Marshall County Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with another county to safeguard data at Tuesday’s regular meeting. “It’s a boilerplate document provided by Warren County to keep some of their information here,” said ...
DALLAS — Shares of AT&T Inc. rose Tuesday after the company's second-quarter profit and revenue beat industry analysts' projections. The Dallas phone and video company also said that it still expects its $85 billion Time Warner deal to close this year. AT&T bought DirecTV in 2015 and ...
LISBON, Portugal — Organizers say next year's Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Portugal will be hosting the annual event for the first time after Salvador Sobral, the singer representing the country this year, won in 2017. Sobral clinched Portugal's ...
The sweltering heat of summer leads many folks — especially children — to seek bodies of water in which to cool down. Because not everyone can afford to go to waterparks and pools, local businessman Marty Mitchell wants to ensure that at least one day a year, cost is not a barrier in taking ...
WASHINGTON — Prodded by President Donald Trump, a bitterly divided Senate voted, at last, Tuesday to move forward with the Republicans' long-promised legislation to repeal and replace "Obamacare." There was high drama as Sen. John McCain returned to the Capitol for the first time after being ...
SAN ANTONIO — Investigators believe a truck driver accused in the deaths of 10 people found inside a packed, sweltering tractor-trailer is just one member of a larger organization involved in human smuggling that they are looking to identify and dismantle, a U.S. immigration official said ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cranked up the heat Tuesday on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, scorning him as "very weak" and refusing to say whether he'll fire the nation's top law enforcement officer and his onetime political ally. It was an extraordinary public rebuke, and even fellow ...
A Wisconsin company is offering to microchip its employees, enabling them to open doors, log onto their computers and purchase break room snacks with a simple swipe of the hand. Three Square Market, also known as 32M, said more than 50 employees are voluntarily getting implants Aug. 1 at what ...
FRESNO, Calif. — A 14-year-old survivor of a deadly car crash in California that was livestreamed on Instagram said she isn't mad at anyone and doesn't blame the driver. Instead, Manuela Seja blamed social media, which she said has taken over people's lives and is only going to become more ...
MELBOURNE, Australia — The most senior Vatican official ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis made his first court appearance in Australia on Wednesday in a scandal that has stunned the Holy See and threatened to tarnish the pope's image as a crusader against abusive ...
WICHITA, Kan. — Inmates at a Kansas prison housing some of the state's most dangerous criminals twice took control of the prison yard for hours in recent months, setting a fire, trying to create barricades and breaking into a security office, in mass disturbances not previously disclosed by ...
LOS ANGELES — The caller who rang Valerie Sobel's cellphone had a horrifying message: "We have Simone's finger. Do you want to see the rest of her in a body bag?" Then came the sound of her daughter, screaming in terror. "She called me Mom (and said) 'I'm terrified, please help,' " Sobel ...
JERUSALEM — Thousands of Palestinian Muslims prayed in the streets near Jerusalem's most contested holy site Tuesday, heeding a call by clergy to not enter the shrine despite Israel's seeming capitulation when it removed metal detectors it installed there a week earlier. Muslim leaders said ...