Apr 14, 2013 | The Des Moines Register
The last look at the Peace Tree?
Rumors surfaced that the Peace Tree was gone, taken by winter's ice, and remorse spread among a rugged band of kayakers known as the Red Rock Armada.
Iowa mother fights to keep child in U.S.
An Iowa mother accused of improperly taking her child away from the girl's Swedish-born father faces a March 25 federal court trial to decide whether the toddler must now return to Sweden.
She grew up the daughter of bitterly divorced parents from age 8 in Pleasantville and bounced between their separate households on opposite ends of town.