Sumner News

Immigration is causing young people in small towns to leave their homes, the authors argue.

In Sumner, Iowa, the biggest export isn't hogs or corn: it's high school grads. Just two in five will still be there ten years after high school graduation.

A hog confinement north of Frederika is destroyed after an Saturday afternoon fire.

A teenager convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of another teen has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Two teens died while traveling on Iowa roads, and three others were injured in an unrelated accident.

An accident involving a go-kart has killed two teenaged boys in Chickasaw County.

Waverly, Ia. - A jury has convicted a northeast Iowa teenager of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of another teen.

Waverly, Ia. - A jury has convicted a northeast Iowa teenager of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of another teen.

A jury has convicted a northeast Iowa teenager of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of another teen.

A jury has convicted a northeast Iowa teenager of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of another teen.

Trial for a northeast Iowa teenager accused of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of another teen is scheduled to begin this week.

Decorah school board members to attend Iowa Association of School Boards district meeting Posted: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 School board members from throughout Northeast Iowa will be in Sumner Wednesday evening.

R. Marcella Wiederstein, 94, of Iowa City, died Friday, May 29, 2009, at Bickford Cottage in Iowa City.