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OFFBEAT NEWS: More Than 100 Reptiles Found Inside Home To some, the idea of a snake in their house sounds like a nightmare. For one man on Long Island, one wasn't enough. After a break-in…

OFFBEAT NEWS: Unfinished Paint Job Leaves Town With "Sex" Sign The water tower in Sussex, Wisconsin is undergoing renovations. Unfortunately for them, they ran into a hiccup and had to stop painting midway through the…

Newton (NEWT) 42.00 Oskaloosa (OSKA) 31.00 113: Blake Cockerton (NEWT) over   (OSKA) (For.) 120: Josh Diehl (OSKA) over Aren Sorensen (NEWT) (Fall 2:58) 126: Ross Hull (NEWT) over   (OSKA) (For.) 132: Jackson Kargol (OSKA) over…

The Chicago Cubs are having a great season for many reasons. One of the things on the list would be the production from their infield offensively. They've gotten very good contributions from Ben Zobrist and…

In baseball scores from around the area last night: Albia 6, Grinnell 3 Albia 8, Grinnell 2 Bondurant-Farrar 14, Pleasantville 1 (5 innings) Marshalltown 3, Newton 1 (10 innings) Mormon Trail 17, Melcher-Dallas 5 PCM…

Last season's Oakland Raiders were surprisingly effective on both sides of the ball. They improved their scoring defense by 3.3 points per game and their scoring offense by 6.6 points per game over the 2014…

The Denver Broncos lost Peyton Manning to retirement and Brock Osweiler to the Houston Texans. The only quarterback left on their roster, as of this writing, is a guy by the name ofTrevor Siemian. (If…

The latest High School Wrestling rankings were released Thursday by ThePredicament.com and as expected several area wrestlers are ranked among the three classes. Here’s the rundown: In Class 1A, Briar Cochran of Moravia is #4…

Oskaloosa--It was a three-man show for the Statesmen men’s basketball team as it pushed its winning streak to a dozen with a 92-76 Heart of America Athletic Conference victory over #13 MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.). With…