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The only 100-meter dash champion in the history of the small western Iowa conference successfully defended his Class 1-A title before claiming the crown in the 200 as well.

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a tornado watch in effect until 9PM for central and eastern Iowa , southern and central Minnesota, and western Wisconsin.

With many dreaming of what they would do with Saturday's $590.5 million Powerball Jackpot, three Iowans came within one number of turning that dream in to a reality.

Anderson said during her time in the office, male staffers used inappropriate and sexist language around her.

Aisha Sabatini Sloan's "The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theatre of Black and White" is not a memoir.

The city of Altoona is unveiling its first public sculpture, an Iowa artist creation that is the first piece to be installed in a new family park.

We've long advocated that health care reform in this country must include a major effort to curb health care cost increases, which have outpaced that of virtually every other vital service or product.

Stacey and Brian Murphy met at the University of Northern Iowa and married in 1996.

Officials say a Dubuque-based call center plans to begin operations in Mason City and hopes to create 135 jobs over the next five years.

An Iowa woman who lost her hearing when a pipe bomb in her mailbox exploded 11 years ago says she hopes the suspect can someday be released and live happily.

The 27th annual Main Street Iowa Awards celebration was held Friday in Des Moines.

From the rotation to each side of the bullpen, the Phillies pitching staff is in flux right now.

A Ku Klux Klan application form has been taped to the locker of a black student at a middle school in the Des Moines suburb of Urbandale.

Funding to expand passenger rail service in eastern Iowa and upgrade rail freight lines in Iowa fell victim to 11th-hour budget wrangling in the Iowa Legislature.

Des Moines University is honoring dozens of people who donated their bodies in the last year for medical education.

Iowa's unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent in April from 4.9 percent in March, according to Iowa Workforce Development on Friday and the number of Iowans working rose last month.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says farmers can sign up for the Conservation Reserve Program beginning Monday.

Garret Oliver has been brewmaster at The Brooklyn Brewery since 1994. He was the brewmaster at Manhattan Brewing before that and has served as editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer , written two other books on beer and continues to make a series of brews that gets all the beer geeks excited.

They stand as tall as the statue of liberty, but some Iowans who live next to them say they don't always make the best neighbors.

A major expansion of the Iowa Speedway in Newton could hinge on whether state lawmakers approve $8 million in additional funding.