When Kelli Thurston and her husband Tommy graduated from Iowa State University in 2011, the couple, both of whom grew up in Marshalltown, moved to southern Indiana and quickly realized how much they missed Iowa as they were 11 hours away from friends and family. When an opportunity arose for ...

By her own admission, Marshalltown Area United Way Executive Director Kendra Sorensen runs on coffee and passion. The caffeine fuels her drive to help others succeed. Perhaps she coached your child in sports, has sat next to you at a Rotary or Assistance League of Marshalltown meeting, or ...

For Alexa McCulley, each day at MARSHALLTOWN Company brings a wealth of problem-solving opportunities and challenges as an industrial engineer for the local business, and as she says, she wouldn’t want to have it any other way. “It’s challenging. I like to be challenged,” she said. ...

It’s been only a few months since Kim Jass-Ramirez took over as the CEO for the Marshalltown YMCA-YWCA, and she couldn’t be more excited to learn and grow alongside the organization as she gets settled in and they embark on their new strategic plan. Previous CEO and now Marshall County ...

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen offered firm, upbeat reassurances to rattled bank depositors and investors Thursday, even as American financial institutions and European agencies ordered fresh rescue efforts following the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history. Questioned ...

GENEVA — Fears about the world banking system spread to Europe on Wednesday as shares in the globally connected Swiss bank Credit Suisse plunged and dragged down other major European lenders in the wake of bank failures in the United States. At one point, Credit Suisse shares lost more than ...