This is an occasional article about a Marshalltown family during World War II written by Steve Jones, a 1975 Marshalltown High School grad and son of Randall Jones. It was a time of apprehensions and uncertainties. Eighty years ago, millions of American families stared at the empty chairs at ...

An 18-year-old has been arrested for his alleged role in an August drive-by shooting after a lengthy investigation by the Marshalltown Police Department. On Aug. 29 at 9:37 p.m., officers and medical responders were dispatched to the area of North Street and North 1st Avenue in Marshalltown ...

The anonymous, unexpected donation in the Salvation Army of Marshalltown Red Kettle was not the traditional, hoped-for gold bar. It was still gold, but in a different form - a pendant necklace . . . and it came with six diamonds. The 14K pendant was dropped in the Red Kettle manned by Envoy ...

Stations KCRM 96.7FM (English) and KDNH 101.5FM (Spanish) out of Marshalltown provide around-the-clock religious programming in an approximate 10-mile radius, plus online streaming. Twenty years ago, on Dec. 23, 2003, KCRM first went over the air from a small studio on E. Main Street. The ...

HULL — Earlier this week, Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) announced that he would seek re-election to a third term serving Iowa’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. “Our country is in tough shape. Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress created the worst inflation ...

MONTOUR — Twenty-five years ago on the first Wednesday in January, a couple of former Montour residents, Joyce Wiese and Clifford “Mitch” Downs, organized a group of Montourites to meet at the Maid-Rite restaurant in Toledo for breakfast. This developed into meeting every month on the ...