About 140 of Jasper County’s estimated 3,000 veterans started to arrive at Newton Senior High School as early 3:30 a.m. to make sure they didn’t miss the final Freedom Flight. Around 20 volunteers served them coffee and donuts and none of the guys or gals going on the trip seemed to mind getting up
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As Newton seeks to become a full-fledged Skilled Iowa Community, both Newton Development Corporation and Newton Chamber of Commerce Executive Directors Frank Liebl and Darrell
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DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa House lawmakers are scheduled to debate a number of one-time spending items including a substantial state contribution toward law enforcement pensions.T
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DAYTON (AP) — Police are searching for a missing central Iowa teen they believe was one of two girls abducted by a man who offered them a ride.Police are searching for 15-year
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MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The state medical examiner’s office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children.Spokeswoman
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BIGGSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Clark Kelly plans to spend a lot of time on the links this spring. The Illinois farmer is plowing the Hend-Co-Hills Golf Course near tiny Biggsville in
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The Newton girls golf team has had a rough season. This is not to say they have played poorly, actually it’s quite the contrary — six different girls have shot in the 40s. How
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In 2009, J.J. Abrams boldly rebooted the Star Trek franchise in an effort to revitalize a product that really hadn’t gone anywhere new in more than a decade. As a Trekker, I o
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MEDIAPOLIS (AP) — An entry from the southeast corner of Iowa has been named best burger in the state.The Des Moines Register says the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association and the Iow
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As a continuation of last week’s column on budgeting, I want to cover entertainment. I was asked by several people, “Don’t you have to miss out on a lot of fun opportunities b
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Eleven years into No Child Left Behind, requiring schools to stop the practice of considering students defective and educate them up to grade level, Iowa remains stuck on the
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Betty Lou George, 70, of Prairie City died Saturday, May 18, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.A funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Pleasant Hill Ch
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Ruth A. Funk, 100, of Newton died on Saturday, May 18, 2013, at Newton Healthcare.A graveside service will be at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday at Newton Memorial Park Cemetery with a coff
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