07/13/11 NEW ULM - A singer-musician who performed with Harold Loeffelmacher and his Six Fat Dutchmen old-time Band before joining The Lawrence Welk Show will be part of the Bavarian Blast Grand Parade on Sunday afternoon.
07/13/11 ALGONA, Iowa - Power pitching inside the chalked circle and power hitting from the batter's box Wednesday night propelled No. 3-ranked North Sentral Kossuth/Armstrong-Ringsted to the Iowa Class 1A state softball tournament.
07/11/11 Nate McCoy birdied the final hole to win the Iowa Masters golf championship by a shot Sunday at the Veenker course in Ames.
07/09/11 Grand View golfer Kyle Menke birdied the par-5 18th hole at Veenker golf course Saturday, giving him a one-shot lead over Nate McCoy of West Des Moines heading into today's final round of the Iowa Masters.
07/07/11 HANCOCK COUNTY: Rural recycling services have ended. From now on rural residents will have to take their recyclables to town. There will be drop boxes in Klemme and Kanawha at the county sheds. The town of Goodell will continue with its recycling program since it is part of the Wright County Landfill. But rural Goodellians will have to drive to Klemme or Kanawha.
06/29/11 In January, Iowa Parks Bureau Chief Kevin Szcodronski sounded the alarm about reduction in state parks funding. He warned that unkempt hiking paths, out-of-service faculties and days with no staff could become the norm.
06/28/11 Le Mars, Ia. - Not every stop on the Iowa caucuses campaign trail involves hot political rhetoric. Occasionally, there's a chance for small talk and a cool treat.
06/26/11 As Rory McIlroy ran away from the field to win this month's U.S. Open, Nate McCoy watched on television and wondered.
06/25/11 Members of the Junior Red Angus Association took a lunch and history break in Fort Scott earlier this week on their way through the region to learn about red Angus operations.
06/24/11 CARROLL, Iowa - A Twin Cities man accused of killing two Iowa convenience store clerks last fall only smiled Thursday in court as he was convicted of first degree-murder in one of the shooting deaths.
06/24/11 A Minnesota man accused of killing clerks at two Iowa convenience stores in one day has been convicted of first degree-murder in one of the deaths. Michael Swanson of St. Louis Park, Minn., was found guilty Thursday in the Nov. 15 slaying of 61-year-old Shelia Myers in Humboldt.
06/23/11 CARROLL - After an hour of deliberation, a jury of six men and six women found Michael Swanson, 18, of St. Louis Park, Minn., guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in the death of Sheila Myers.
06/21/11 A Minnesota police officer says Michael Swanson's father, an avid hunter, told the officer they kept their guns locked up because they feared their own son...
06/21/11 Michael Richard Swanson's father, an avid hunter, told a police officer who testified this morning that they kept guns in their home locked up because they feared their own son. Swanson trial: Tweets from today's courtroom action Photos: Day 2 of Swanson trial
06/20/11 NEW: A prosecutor asked the jury pool in the murder trial of Michael Richard Swanson if someone with bipolar disorder can know right from wrong. Live coverage from the courtroom Read more about the shootings and Swanson's defense.
06/19/11 The first of two trials for a Minnesota teenager charged in the slayings of two Iowa convenience store clerks last fall is scheduled to begin Monday in Carroll County, Iowa...
06/18/11 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The first of 2 trials for a Minnesota teenager charged in the slayings of 2 Iowa convenience store clerks is scheduled to begin Monday in Carroll County.
06/18/11 The first of two trials for a Minnesota teenager charged in the slayings of two Iowa convenience store clerks is scheduled to begin Monday in Carroll County.
06/09/11 SIOUX CITY - Nativity Parish is hosting a retirement reception for The Rev. Gerald Feierfeil at 1:30 p.m. on June 12 in the Nativity Parish Center. A free will offering lunch will be provided by Sneaky's and the program will begin at 3 p.m.
06/06/11 ALGONA, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. (Pink Sheets: HYEG) announced today further information regarding its corporate finance plans. Ted Hollinger has agreed to sell 15 million shares of his HEC stock to PES, a leading renewable energy developer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ted has been looking for a synergistic company that could fulfill his dreams for HEC. He said that ... | 
