Below are the updated Iowa high school baseball rankings as of this week from the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association. Area schools are denoted in bold. Class 4A Ankeny Centennial Cedar Rapids Prairie Johnston…
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and…
By Natalie Krebs (Radio Iowa) An annual report on child well-being has ranked Iowa sixth in the nation. The annual KIDS COUNT report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows Iowa ranks near the top…
OSKALOOSA -- On this past picture-perfect Saturday, Art on the Square returned for its 54th year. Festivities included over 30 artist booths, an Emerging Artist area for first-time participants, live local musicians from Muse Music…
By Sam Parsons A former Pekin standout pitcher and member of Iowa Western Community College has received the call to be promoted from Triple A to Major League Baseball by the San Francisco Giants. Keaton…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pat Sajak is taking one last spin on “Wheel of Fortune," announcing Monday that its upcoming season will be his last as host. Sajak announced his retirement from the venerable game…
By O. Kay Henderson (Radio Iowa) This week’s Iowa Crop and Weather report from the USDA rates 60% of Iowa topsoil either short or very short of moisture. State Climatologist Justin Glisan says abnormally dry…
OTTUMWA -- The remains of a U.S. Army Corporal from the Ottumwa area who died as a prisoner of war during the Korean conflict were recently identified and will be returned to Iowa for burial. …
Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic is set to be reissued on vinyl on July 28 via Geffen/UMe. First released in 1974, the band's third LP contained one of their best-known hits, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number."…
ABKCO Records has announced plans to reissue 16 titles from The Rolling Stones 1960s Catalog, some of which have been out-of-print for almost four decades, over the next year on 180-gram vinyl. As the first…