Danville News

Each did not favor the candidate that was behind. In Friday's recount of the Nov.

On Tuesday, more than a dozen elected officials, professionals and citizens attended a meeting to review revised floodplain maps for Des Moines County.

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye After checking the fuel gauge, retired UPS supervisor Roger Junker of Burlington leaps from a crashed UPS truck Monday at the scene of an accident on Y Camp Road in rural Burlington.

Danville Mayor LeRoy Lippert has a deal for the Burlington library board of directors he hopes they can't refuse.

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye Fancy Nancy fans, pictured clockwise from lower left, Kennedy Ritter, 3, of West Burlington; Emma Perdelwitz, 4, of Danville; and Taylor Siegel, 5, of Burlington, listen to a story during the Fancy Nancy Tea Party Saturday at the Burlington Public Library.

A Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning play will hit the Danville Junior High School gym this weekend.

The Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division suspended the liquor license for Danville's Bucktail Lodge effective immediately for failing to maintain an Iowa sales tax permit.

As part of Gov. Chet Culver's 10 percent across-the-board budget cuts Iowa schools will receive $238.5 million less in state aid this fiscal year.

"We're appealing it. That's all there is to it," said Scott Beach, who owns the Bucktail Lodge with his wife, Jan.

Jacob Griffin sometimes can't see the course markings during a cross country race.

In the meantime, authorities have released the name of the woman: Catherine Lea Stinson.

THE DES MOINES COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAYS THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ABOUT 5:45 P.M. ON MONDAY NEAR DANVILLE.

A New London woman was killed when she apparently drove her pickup truck around railroad crossing arms and was struck by a westbound Amtrak train near Danville.

Authorities say a New London woman died after she apparently drove her pickup truck around the crossing arms at some railroad tracks and was hit by an Amtrak train in eastern Iowa.

Grant application due Oct. 1. By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES ccrippes@thehawkeye.com Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission is hoping to expand the scope of its housing program, with the help of a state grant and a small injection of county dollars.

The home of the superintendent will be put on the selling block. Danville School District voters approved Public Measure B on Tuesday, opting to sell the home occupied by Superintendent Steve McAllister.

On Tuesday, Danville School District voters will decide whether to continue paying for the school superintendent's housing.

Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission got its first injection of funds from the program in January 2006.

Normal schedule. Banks -- Closed. Bus lines -- Burlington Urban Service will not operate.

Several southeast Iowa 4-H members earned honors in the 4-H Derby Pig Show Aug. 17 at the 2009 Iowa State Fair.