Danville News

Danville High School boys basketball coach Ken Laffoon is a thinker. He concedes that may be one of the reasons why the Bears ... John Gaines/The Hawk Eye Danville defenders Nathan DeSpain Steven Soukup , Kolton Jackson and Mason Speer swarm around Sigourney's Vaclay Bujnoch in a Class 1A substate final at Oskaloosa.

Steven Soukup was mugged, mobbed and almost tortured on the basketball court Saturday night.

Steven Soukup missed his first two shots, and neither was all that close. Then, he went off, with only the occasional miss to st ... Donald K. Aliprandi/The Hawk Eye Danville's Michael Soukup dishes a pass to his brother Steven Soukup while guarded by Van Buren's Garrett Saunders and Brandon Plecker in a Class 1A district semifinal.

Mr. Jack Raymond Jacobs, 82, of Burlington died at 7:25 p.m. Thursday, February 7, 2013, at his home.