The Sears Hometown store at 507 Iowa Ave. W. is one of 90 across the United States that will be closing in the near future after the decision was announced in a Facebook post last Friday. Craig Johnson, the franchise owner of the Marshalltown location for the last 10 years, said a variety of ...

A fierce wind may have blown off more than a few caps, but it couldn’t keep the 314 seniors who comprise the Marshalltown High School Class of 2022 from walking across Leonard Cole Field and receiving their diplomas on Sunday afternoon. With accompaniment from the MHS wind symphony, the ...

Robbi Kluck’s life ended at a hospital in Des Moines on May 20, but thanks to one final selfless act, five others will continue. “It means a lot. In a way, he’s still living on, and that’s how Robbi always was. He was always helping everybody out,” his father Tim Kluck said. “Even ...

Marshalltown High School went into a shelter in place situation for approximately five minutes on Wednesday afternoon due to a potential threat to the school, according to district officials. The order went into effect at approximately 12:25 p.m., and by 12:30, it had been lifted once law ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Marshalltown man who illegally possessed a 3-D printed Glock switch designed to turn a handgun into an automatic weapon was sentenced to two years in federal prison on Tuesday. Jose Morales-Ramirez, age 20, pled guilty to illegal possession of a machine gun on Jan. 20. ...

The west parking lot at Veterans Memorial Coliseum was temporarily transformed into an event venue Friday evening for the Historical Society of Marshall County’s May program, “A Tribute to Marshall County Veterans.” People sat in their camping chairs and stood attentively as they listened ...