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OFFBEAT NEWS: Hotel Rooms For Groundhog's Day Are More Expensive Than For The Super Bowl While football fans anxiously await Sunday's Super Bowl showdown between the Falcons and the Patriots, it seems plenty more people…

The Oskaloosa Area Chamber & Development Group is happy to announce that scholarships will again be available through its Chamber Scholars program, now in its 21st year. High school seniors living in Mahaska County and…

Bob Dylan was awarded  the Nobel Prize in Literature last year and is following that up with a three-CD project, Triplicate, that consists almost entirely of songs recorded by Frank Sinatra. The album includes 30 songs that are divided…

The regional pairing for the Oskaloosa girls’ basketball team came out on Monday afternoon, and the Indians should be excited with the draw. Oskaloosa will get to host the first round of Class 4A Region…

Oskaloosa--William Penn again had big troubles with Baker, but this time around the Statesmen men’s basketball team produced just enough positive plays over 50 minutes of action to come away with a 95-93 double-overtime victory…

OFFBEAT NEWS: State Senator Needed A Raise, Switches Parties Queens state Senator, Jose Peralta, made the announcement that he's joining the Independent Democratic Conference, which is aligned with the GOP. But according to sources, his…

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young has always been an on again, off again band, with most notably in 2016 Nash announcing that Crosby, Stills & Nash would never perform again. But if you ask Neil Young,…

OFFBEAT NEWS: Husband Successfully Gives His Wife A Kidney For Their 20th Anniversary Men out there, good luck topping Scott Chafian's anniversary present. The Suffolk, Virginia man gave his wife Cindy a kidney. Cindy suffers…

David Bowie and Mick Jagger have been the butt of jokes for decades for their video of their cover of "Dancing in the Street". That looks to come to an end, as they have now…

On Tuesday, January 24th, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office received multiple reports of a fire at Lambirth Enterprises located at 1764 Highway G-76 in rural Marion County. Witnesses reported hearing an explosion and then saw…