Charlotte News

Officials in the eastern Iowa city of Charlotte have lifted a boil advisory issued last week after the community's water system lost pressure during installation of a new city well.

The city of Charlotte in Clinton County issued a boil advisory Friday after a contractor installing a new city well turned off water to the town to make a connection causing the system to become depressurized.

This week, a Florida community came together to reunite a homeless man with the dog he calls his "heart and soul." Handover, a blue pit bull belonging to James Bryan of Hudson, Fla., went missing on the morning of May 8. Carolyn Texter, a friend of Bryan's who works with animal rescues, began spreading the word about the lost pooch through flyers ... (more)

A Redditor's mom is giving Portland's homeless a little T.L.C. by distributing care bags filled with some of the small comforts of home.

Federal prosecutors say members of a crime ring previously described as stealing more than $75 million by defrauding mortgage lenders also cheated investors, bribed bank employees, laundered money, and dealt drugs.