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Tuesday’s (1/26) high school sports schedule was pretty well wiped out due to the winter storm.  Oskaloosa’s boys and girls basketball games scheduled for Tuesday at Newton will be made up this coming Monday, February…

By JONATHAN DREW and ZEKE MILLER AP - Answering growing frustration over vaccine shortages, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. is ramping up deliveries to hard-pressed states over the next three weeks and expects…

Boys: Pella Christian 74, Indianola 57 Girls: Indianola 68, Pella Christian 43

Voters in Ottumwa and the surrounding area have elected a new state senator.  Republican Adrian Dickey of Packwood defeated Democrat Mary Stewart in Tuesday’s (1/26) special election to select a replacement for Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who…

Iowa’s unemployment rate fell to 3.1% in December, the second-lowest rate in the country, according to data released Tuesday (1/26). Iowa’s rate fell significantly from 3.8% in November and is only slightly above the 2.8%…

Heart lead singer Ann Wilson has dropped her soulful new solo single, "Tender Heart." "'Tender Heart' came out of a personal struggle, but quickly evolved into a greater, more universal meaning," Wilson said about the…

In Division I men’s college basketball, Northern Iowa defeated Coe College 70-60 Monday night (1/25) in an exhibition game in Cedar Falls.  Two former Oskaloosa High stars faced off in that game.  Coe’s Jarad Kruse…

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate for the start of his historic trial, but Republican senators were easing off their criticism…

An attorney for Democratic US House candidate Rita Hart is defending Hart’s decision to appeal her six vote defeat in last November’s election to a US House committee, rather than through the Iowa court system. …

There’s a special election today (1/26) in Wapello, Jefferson, Van Buren and Davis Counties to elect a new State Senator.  Republican Adrian Dickey and Democrat Mary Stewart are running to fill the rest of Mariannette…