Shenandoah News

For the Days Inn hotel in Shenandoah, Iowa, the phrase "Sleep tight, dona t let the bedbugs bite" was little more than wishful thinking.

On Sunday, November 1, 2009, a house fire at 1938 C Avenue in Shenandoah claimed the life of 65 year old Karen Kay Beecher.

Shenandoah, Ia. - A Shenandoah woman has died in a house fire. Officials said Karen Beecher, 65, died early Sunday after firefighters found her in a bedroom.

Transforming a kernel of corn into fuel-grade ethanol is nothing new for biofuel producers like Green Plains Renewable Energy.

An ethanol plant's plan to capture and reuse carbon dioxide attracted Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and investors and visitors from Switzerland, Ireland and elsewhere - all to see green slime.

There arena t many musicians more eclectic than or as well-rooted as bassist Charlie Haden .

Spring was really in the hair this week. The clever turn of phrase came from readers including Hilda Brandt and Eric Hansen, Omaha; Steven Ozaydin and Dannie Tolman, Council Bluffs; Jeanene Pummel, Nebraska City; Robert Magee, Lincoln; and Jeff Hiser, Shenandoah, Iowa.

A horse on the road was being blamed for a car crash Wednesday morning near Shenandoah.

A horse on the road was being blamed for a car crash Wednesday morning near Shenandoah.

A horse on the road was being blamed for a car crash Wednesday morning near Shenandoah.

Charlie Haden has many passions in his life - film noir, politics, literature - that inform the various kinds of music he performs.

Need some color? Throw a couple of potted geraniums in the cart. Have a puny pot of petunias on the porch? Pick up a pot of those new Supertunias as replacements.

Marlin L. Tillman is the American Legion Iowa Department Commander. In his younger years, Essex, Iowa-native Marlin L. Tillman jammed with the famed Everly Brothers in Shenandoah, Iowa.

An Iowa man studying photography in Missoula has claimed the $20,000 Montana Cash jackpot from Saturday's drawing.

When the name Charlie Haden comes up, people usually think of the bass player who famously broke the barrier of harmony with Ornette Coleman in the late '50s, or the leader of the Liberation Music Orchestra.

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Classic cars will cruise through Omaha on Thursday as the 2009 MotorIoway 500 vintage vehicle tour gets under way from Council Bluffs.

Railroads have played an important part in moving people and goods in the United States since the mid to late 1800s.

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History will bring the Ice Age to life in Shenandoah, Iowa, on Saturday, May 30 with a day of free public activities based on the nearby Tarkio Valley Ice Age sloth excavations at the Greater Shenandoah Historical Society Museum, 800 West Sheridan Ave.

The selection, hiring and training of the pilot and first officer in a February airline crash that killed 50 people in upstate New York are the focus of a public hearing into the air disaster.