Stiff second half costs Central men’s basketball team STORM LAKE—The Central College men’s basketball team saw a 14-point first-half lead disappear as Buena Vista overwhelmed the Dutch 81-68 in Storm Lake Saturday. Making a 20-7 run six minutes in, the Dutch held a 33-19 advantage with 6:43 left in the half. But Buena Vista answered […]
The South Skunk River in Mahaska County has melted quickly, leaving behind large chunks of floating ice that are attempting to make their way down river. When there is a rapid warm up like we have currently experience in our region, the rivers open up quickly on the banks, leaving the more dense centers to […]
A large swath of the country is at risk of moderate to major flooding this spring, from northeastern Montana through western Wisconsin following the Mississippi River south to St. Louis, National Weather Service flood experts are forecasting. Today the agency released an initial spring flood outlook for this high risk region and will release a […]
Carson McCullers Novelist Carson McCullers (1917-67), noted for her exploration of the dilemmas of modern American life in the context of the twentieth-century South, was born on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia. Her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, published in 1940, delves into the lives of four isolated individuals—an adolescent girl, […]
1930: An incredible warming trend took place across Iowa in mid-February. A blast of arctic cold brought temperatures down to as low as -34 F at Webster City on the 15th, then unseasonably warm weather settled in from the 19th-24th with many stations breaking daily high temperature records on several of those days. On the […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for the final scheduled launch of space shuttle Discovery. Lift off is targeted for 4:50 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 24, to begin the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. A NASA […]
The Department of Defense announced today that Noor Uthman Muhammed was sentenced to 14 years in confinement for providing material support to al-Qaeda and conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization and terrorism. A pre-sentencing hearing took place in a military commission courtroom at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. During […]
WASHINGTON – The government has intervened in a lawsuit against Kellogg Brown & Root Services Inc. (KBR) in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, announced the Department of Justice. The lawsuit was filed in February 2007 by James A. Brady III, a former employee of KBR, and alleges that KBR violated […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting the public to provide input on a plan that will guide EPA’s retrospective reviews of regulations as part of the agency’s response to President Obama’s January 18, 2011 Executive Order (EO) 13563, “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review.” EO 13563 directs each federal agency to consider […]
There are items that link the past to the present like no other. Family Bibles are one such item. Many families have them, and they contain family records for generations. Howard Westercamp is one such owner. He is now in custody of his family’s Bible dating from 1637. The Bible is printed in Dutch and […]
