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Fisher III scores 21 to lead Salukis past Drake

NORMAL, Ill. — Keith Fisher III had a season-high 21 points as Illinois State narrowly defeated Drake 57-53 on Saturday. Antonio Reeves had 16 points and seven rebounds for Illinois State (9-19, 4-12 Missouri Valley Conference). DJ Horne added seven rebounds. Drake scored 21 second-half ...

Republican senators are being set up by the House

Warning to GOP senators: You’re being set up. House Democrats planned this week’s standoff over witnesses from the very start of their impeachment inquiry. If you doubt that, just ask yourself a simple question: Why did House Democrats not only fail to litigate executive privilege issues ...

Human reclamation through bricklaying

In the 1940s, Steve Shelton’s grandfather dressed up — white shirt, tie, fedora — to take the streetcar to the steel mill where he would change into work clothes, and would shower before dressing up to return home. “There was,” Shelton says, “such dignity in the trades back then.” ...

Catalan secessionists ladle a soup of fiction and paranoia

Beneath the sleek surface of this sparkling Mediterranean metropolis boil passions generated by Spain’s version of identity politics. The passions are aroused by demagogues who hope to shatter a nation. The turmoil in Catalonia — the northeastern of Spain’s 17 regions, which exercise ...

Viaduct accident

Four occupants involved in a two-vehicle collision Tuesday morning on the North Third Avenue viaduct were taken to UnityPoint Health-Marshalltown Emergency Department said Capt. Brian Patterson of the Marshalltown Police Department. One of the four who suffered serious head injuries after ...