FLOODS, FISH, and FOOD. These are just some of the ingredients that allowed local wildlife, and some beginning migratory shore bird arrivals, to focus on food. Where there is food, it seems wildlife will explore and exploit it while it lasts. Flood waters from recent high rain events caused ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Singer Sean Kingston was sentenced to three and a half years in prison Friday after being convicted of a $1 million fraud scheme in which he leveraged his fame to dupe sellers into giving him luxury items that he then never paid for. Kingston, whose legal name is ...
That special time of year is right around the corner — the time when eager, young minds return to the classrooms to further their education. For Marshalltown Community College (MCC), that corner will arrive on Friday, Aug. 22 with student orientation and classes begin Aug. 25. Iowa Valley ...
Denise Williams has written 10 books since launching her writing career in 2020. Her latest “Just Our Luck” is a USA Today bestseller. Set in Des Moines, it’s a steamy romantic comedy. She’ll be on hand to discuss this and her other works from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 28 in the meeting ...
GLADBROOK — Gladbrook firefighters put on a spark of a show for those in attendance at the Gladbrook-Lincoln Ambulance community meet and greet last Sunday by capping off the event with an extraction demonstration in the fire station back parking lot. “Usually, on a scene, you have what ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — As event moderator Tommy Hexter asked the 20 or so people in attendance for Wednesday night’s listening session how many of them had been affected by cancer in one way or another, every hand inside the Meskwaki Tribal Center gymnasium went up. Hexter, the policy ...