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MEMPHIS, Mo. — A northeast Missouri man wanted for violating probation in Camden County, Missouri, was caught Friday afternoon in Memphis. Scotland County Sheriff Bryan Whitney told KTVO Christopher Daniel Smith, 47, of Alexandria, Missouri, was arrested without incident at 1:15 p.m. Friday on Adams Street. Smith had earlier...

Gayno Smith lived a troubled life. Between moving around the country, not having a consistent place of work, and being dismissed by his family, he did not lead what was considered to be a typical livelihood. According to the Southeast Iowa Union, Smith was "reportedly a quiet, methodical farmhand, expert...

Gerald Ott of Ankeny was an English teacher at Keokuk Senior High School, and for the majority of his career was a staff member of the state teachers union. One of my favorite lines from 19th-century American literature is, “I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it." It's from Walt Whitman (1819-1892).

There’s something about being back at home after a weekend away. I don’t know if it’s just age (yep!) or expanding the work week for a full weekend at Drake, but there’s something about coming back home. The wife met me at the Burlington airport to...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) — The Siemens Gamesa plant in Hutchinson will shut down temporarily starting in July, putting 92 people out of work. The plant assembles nacelles for wind turbines. A news release from Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Inc. calls the shutdown a hibernation. It blames challenges in production demand for the U.S. onshore wind […]

The Siemens Gamesa plants in Hutchinson, Kansas, and Fort Madison, Iowa, will be shut down and most employees will be laid off this summer, company officials said Friday.

DES MOINES — Teamwork really does make the dream work. Not many people gave the New London High School boys track and field team much of a chance coming into the Class 1A state track and meet. All the talk was about Lisbon and star runner Kole Becker and Earlham and their fantastic distance runners. ...

After 12 years spent sitting in a display cabinet as an entire generation of students passed before it, the contents of a time capsule were revealed during an assembly on Friday to North Hill Elementary School students. In 2010, students and teachers at the then-newly opened building filled a treasure...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — The Siemens Gamesa plants in Hutchinson, Kansas, and Fort Madison, Iowa, will be shut down and most employees will be laid off this summer, company officials said Friday. The company, which is based in Spain, said the plants could reopen if market conditions improve, The Hutchinson News reported. The 171 employees […]

CARTHAGE, Ill. — A Hancock County, Illinois jury found a Pontoosuc man guilty in the 2020 beating death of his father. Andrew DeHaven was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday a little after 1 p.m., according to attorneys close to the case. He was on trial for the death of...

Burlington levee idlers had seen many strange craft plugging up and down the Mississippi but few were as unusual as the boat “fetched up” near the gas works building one June morning in 1909. Investigators quickly determined the vessel was a “missionary boat,” powered by the current and...

Siemens Gamesa wind-energy plants in Hutchinson, and Fort Madison, Iowa, will close down while the company waits for new orders. Officials with the company announced Friday that most employees at the two plants will be laid off.

DES MOINES – The old saying is you’re supposed to learn to walk before you run. For Fort Madison’s Tate Johnson, it may have been a dead heat. The senior capped a stellar high school track career with his fastest time ever in the 100-meter dash with 10.89 to finish fifth in the state in Class 3A at Saturday’s IHSAA/IGHSAU State finals at Drake Stadium.

Julie Ann Muñoz, 77, of Fort Madison, IA passed away on May 19, 2022 at her daughter’s home in Iowa City, IA after a long illness. She was in the care of her family and the staff of St. Croix Hospice of Cedar Rapids, IA. Julie was born...

Burlington Mall Gun Show hosted by Militia Armaments Gun Club is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Westland Mall, 550 S. Gear Ave., West Burlington. All-weekend general admission is $10. Transitions DMC, 515 S. Main St., emergency homeless shelter open house is 1-4 p.m. The shelter can house 13 people nightly. The community is invited.

Robert Francis Cochran, 91, of Argyle, Iowa, passed away at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 19, 2022, at the Southeast Iowa Regional Home Health and Hospice Health Center in West Burlington, Iowa. He was born on July 3, 1930, in Farmington, Iowa, the son of Archie Francis and Bertha (Pruett) Cochran....