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Fire drills are a routine part of safety preparedness, but a real fire was buring at the Wednesday fire drill at St.Patrick Catholic School in Perry -- the fire of springtime love. The story starts with Kevin McGee, a graduate...
Great places like Perry deserve to have their greatness affirmed and reaffirmed. The city of Perry received the Iowa Great Places designation in 2011 from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, the Iowa Arts Council and the Iowa Great Places...
The Dallas County Foundation (DCF) hosted its annual grant awards banquet Tuesday night in the newly built Country Lane Lodge in Adel, with upwards of 100 people celebrating the countywide spirit of community benevolence fostered by the annual DCF...
Squaring off in June's Republican primary election for the third district Dallas County Board of Supervisors seat will be the three-term incumbent, Supervisor Kim Chapman of Adel, and two challengers for the nomination, businessman Bob Greenway of Van Meter...
A motorist seeking to be courteous to traffic merging on her right accidentally sideswiped a vehicle on her left in the westbound lanes of Iowa Highway 141 Monday afternoon about 3 p.m. "She turned around to come back to the...
BOONE, Iowa -- Six officers of the Boone Police Department have been placed on administrative leave while authorities investigate their fatal shooting Sunday of a knife-wielding man. Boone Police Chief John Wiebold said Timothy Wayne Anderson, 48, of 620 Second St....
Only one singular student out of the 580 who compose the student body of Perry High School participated in Friday's National School Walkout in recognition of the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School mass murder near Littleton, Colo., in...
Saturday night's second annual gala fundraising event, Breathing Life into the Future, filled the Spring Valley Ballroom and Howard Ahmanson Lobby of the Hotel Pattee with gifts, glamor and good feeling in the cause of cystic fibrosis reseach. The glitzy...
An Elkhart man was arrested Friday and charged with sexually assaulting the same juvenile victim in 2010 whom his son allegedly raped in 2008 and 2010. Mark Gordon Parmenter, 54, of 12623 N.E. 64th St., Elkhart, was arrested by the...
The Iowa Public Information Board (IPIB) on Thursday postponed ruling on a complaint filed in February against the city of Dallas Center by Julie Becker of Dallas Center, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for a city council seat there...