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By RAF CASERT THIMISTER-CLERMONT, Belgium (AP) — As a schoolboy three quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshift American cemetery — filled with bodies, some…

Here's the high school basketball schedule for Monday (12/16) Boys & girls: BGM @ North Mahaska Boys only: Ottumwa @ Mt. Pleasant                   Knoxville @ Grinnell Girls only: Sigourney @ Washingtonxosotin…

Oskaloosa High’s boys’ basketball team is still looking for its first Little Hawkeye Conference win of the season.  The Indians lost at Dallas Center-Grimes Friday night (12/13) 78-60.  But Oskaloosa played that game without senior…

A Knoxville man who was found responsible for his mother's death at a civil trial but acquitted at a murder trial is now suing criminal investigators and his father. Forty-seven-year-old Jason Carter filed a federal lawsuit…

A suspicious vehicle Oskaloosa Police spotted early Friday morning (12/13) turned out to be a stolen vehicle.  Around 12:18am, an Oskaloosa Police officer investigated a suspicious vehicle in the 900 block of South Market Street. …

By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) — The death toll in the vaping illness outbreak has topped 50, U.S. health officials said Thursday. The 52 deaths in 26 states are among the 2,409 hospitalized cases…

Sigourney's boys and girls basketball teams are on the road Friday night (12/13) to take on Belle Plaine.  Both the Savages' boys and girls are still undefeated on the season.  You can hear Sigourney High…

Oskaloosa High’s basketball teams travel to Dallas Center-Grimes Friday night (12/13).  Indians boys’ assistant coach DaJuan Foster says DC-G is a program on the rise. "They've got two great guards.  Cole Glasgow and Luke Rankin…

A couple of Democratic Presidential candidates will be in the area on Sunday (12/15).  Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders will hold two rallies on Sunday: one at Fairfield High School at 2:20pm and the other…

Sting is set to receive the Global Citizen Artist Of The Year prize for being a champion of saving the rainforests. The Rainforest Foundation, co-founded by Sting in 1989, is fighting back deforestation and has…