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Last night's performance of The Music Man , at Maplewood's Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts, shone with all the brass and glitter of a school band coronet.

The Iowa Juvenile Home in Toledo plans to once again raise their Avenue of Flags on campus ground for the Memorial Day weekend.

When he returned, he found his roof was ripped off, but he said the most severe damage is inside his home.

Key legislators and Gov. Terry Branstad expressed optimism Monday that progress was being made to forge a "hybrid" health care compromise that would merge elements of the governor's "Healthy Iowa" plan with Senate Democrats' desire to expand Medicaid to cover low-income, uninsured Iowans.

One likely topic for Gov. Terry Branstad's weekly news conference underway now likely will be the firing of an Iowa Senate Republican communications staffer who claimed she was the target of sexual harassment.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service.

President Bill Clinton walks to the White House Rose Garden to deliver a statement on the impeachment inquiry on Dec.

Gov. Scott Walker embarks on a speaking frenzy this week. He's set to keynote huge Republican gatherings in Connecticut and New York City, then head back to the Midwest to be the star of a GOP gathering in Iowa.

Severe storms rolled through the Plains and Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged buildings and roofs near Oklahoma City.

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.