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Firefighters battling the Crabapple Fire that broke out Saturday afternoon amid gusty winds were able to get the blaze under ...

The deaths of Betsy Arakawa and her husband Gene Hackman continue to trouble me — for they are a sad indictment of a society ...

Protests in Davenport about federal cuts, the opening of an African American museum in Waterloo, a Sioux City refugee ...

Martin Marty, a West Point native and influential religious scholar, died recently in Minneapolis. The Lutheran pastor was an ...