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A Centerville woman will spend the rest of her life in prison for killing her husband last year.  47-year-old Barbara Pasa was sentenced Friday (11/15) to life plus 25 years for the May 2018 death…

Hanna Kendall will be Pella’s Tulip Queen for the 2020 Tulip Time.  She was crowned Saturday night (11/16) at Pella Christian High School.  Molly Bolt, Courtney Chaplin, Jocelyn Gritters and Ellie Roorda will be on…

By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts launched an extraordinarily complicated series of spacewalks Friday to fix a cosmic ray detector at the International Space Station. Armed with dozens of dissecting tools, Italian…

The University of Iowa women’s basketball team has the 15th best recruiting class in the country, according to ESPN W Hoop Gurlz.  One of those recruits is from Montezuma.  Forward Shateah Wetering committed to the Hawkeyes…

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR All classes and activities are canceled through Sunday after a threat was made against a northeast Iowa school district. Officials with the Benton Community School District say they’re working with the FBI…

The CMA Awards went down in Nashville earlier this week, and while it was certainly a great show, there was a lot going on in Bridgestone Arena that folks at home didn’t get to see.…

A two day evidentiary hearing to decide if some evidence could be suppressed in Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s murder trial concluded Thursday afternoon (11/14) in Poweshiek County.  Rivera’s defense team wanted to put in evidence an…

By JULIE PACE, BILL BARROW and STEVE PEOPLES WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced Thursday he is running for president, making a late entry into the Democratic race less than three months…

For the second straight year, Oskaloosa’s Faith DeRonde is a first team choice on the Little Hawkeye Conference’s all-conference volleyball team.  This year, the sophomore was a unanimous choice.  The Indians’ Taylor Wills and Jolie…

A Wapello County jury has found an Ottumwa man guilty of second-degree murder in the 2018 killing of another man.  19-year-old Jacob Heckethorn was also found guilty Wednesday (11/13) of assault with intent to commit…