Winterset News

The famous Roseman Bridge - cloudy day. Photo: D. Nies I am starting a new, sporadic series of features about interesting places to take your children when a long weekend trip is possible.

A recent inmate of the Madison County Jail is claiming officials did not respond quickly enough to help another inmate who apparently knew he was dying.

Daylight savings time ends on Nov. 1. Remember to turn your clock back before going to bed on October 31.

Winterset, Ia. - An 80-year-old man who faced spending the last years of his life behind bars for the hit-and-run death of a bicyclist died Friday in an apparent suicide.

Winterset police confirmed Friday that a man found dead in a Winterset home is Paul McKinney.

Authorities in Madison County are investigating a body found in a garage Friday morning.

Paul "Jud" McKinney, 80, who was facing charges stemming from the August hit-and-run death of a bicyclist, apparently committed suicide Friday morning at his home in Winterset, local authorities confirmed.

The classic burnished look of an Iowa autumn returned to the state Tuesday, and farmers scrambled into fields to try to catch up on the latest harvest since the early 1970s.

Gov. Chet Culver vowed to balance the state budget without raising taxes. And yet a third or more of Iowa school districts might end up raising property taxes as a direct result of the cut to state school aid ordered by Culver.

Many Iowa school districts will be forced to raise property taxes against Gov. Chet Culver's wishes because their rainy-day funds are too depleted to absorb his 10 percent across-the-board budget cut, education leaders say.

Taste your way around the world in the East Village at the fifth-annual World Food Festival.

Winterset, Ia. - Put Iowa and movies together in the same sentence these days and many people will give the notion a thumbs down.

Day one of the 40th annual Covered Bridge Festival in Winterset kicked off on Saturday.

Friday through Sunday in the East Village, downtown, East Fifth and East Locust Streets.

John Wayne wasn't the only actor with roots in Winterset. His birthplace juts up against property that belongs to Patricia Barry, the television actress who returns to Madison County this weekend for the Covered Bridge Festival.

The Madison County Development Group has become an affiliate member of the Greater Des Moines Partnership, the groups said Friday.

It was a lovely summer morning and the Winterset church was packed - as much as on a typical Easter Sunday.

It wasn't hard to find the house, but when we got there the Duke wasn't home. I'm talking about none other than star of the silver screen John Wayne and my recent search for the home where he was born in Winterset, Iowa, which occurred somewhat by accident.

" A trio of GOP legislators Tuesday proposed statewide content standards for schools, exit tests for graduating seniors and entrance exams for teachers to bolster Iowa's public education system.

The Winterset man arrested this week in the fatal hit-and-run bicycle accident in Warren County has vision problems, an Iowa Department of Transportation official and a family member said Tuesday.