Mt. Pleasant News

NORTH LIBERTY ? A study of the feasibility of adding passenger rail to the Corridor remains on track.During a Metropolitan Planning Organization of Johnson County meeting this week in North Liberty, local elected officials agreed to proceed with the third phase of feasibility studies of a passenger rail service connecting Iowa City and North Liberty.?We feel it's an asset. We want to investigate it as much as ...

The enraged father of three daughters sexually abused by Larry Nassar lunged at the former USA Gymnastics national team doctor during a sentencing hearing in a Michigan courtroom on Friday. Court guards pinned him to the ground before he could attack Nassar.The chaotic scene began after sisters Lauren and Madison Margraves had finished reading their victim statements on the second day of hearings at a court in ...

(Reuters) U.S. natural gas production was expected to decline by about 2 percent on Thursday from earlier in the week due in part to an unexpected shutdown of a couple of pipelines in Ohio after a fire early Wednesday, according to Reuters data.The fire and gas release occurred on Tallgrass Energy Partners LP's Seneca Lateral pipe in Noble County in southeast Ohio. There were no injuries or evacuations.The ...

Carl and Maribelle (Schlatter) Lund were married Feb. 2, 1968, at Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church. They have three children: Nancy (Carl) Davis, of Winfield; Debra Lund, of West Branch; and Mike Lund, of Marion, and four grandsons. An open house in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary will be held Sunday, Feb. 11, at the Swedesburg Parish Hall from 3 to 5 p.m. The public is invited to attend. No ...

The Des Moines County Genealogical Society will meet Tuesday, Feb. 6, at the Burlington Public Library at 7 p.m. For questions, contact dmcgs@dmcgs.org or call 319-572-9290. The public is welcome to attend.

WATERLOO ? Hawkeye Community College announces the dean's list for the fall semester.The dean's list is official recognition of outstanding academic accomplishment by full-time students.Ashley DeMeyer, of Mt. Pleasant, made the Hawkeye Community College dean's list.To make the dean's list, an individual must be a full-time student and successfully complete 12 or more credits in the fall or spring semesters ...

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va, (Reuters) - An immigration deal protecting young ?Dreamer? immigrants and allocating additional funds for border security without also addressing family migration and the visa lottery would be a ?non starter,? Republican Mark Meadows, head of the conservative Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Thursday.Meadows said that President Donald Trump could extend ...

Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative is proud to announce the recipients of special scholarships awarded to students from Eastern Iowa who are enrolled in the power line program at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon.One of the 2018 scholarship winners is Randy Young, of New London, for $3,000.The scholarships are funded jointly by Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative and Co-Bank. The scholarship...

MARYVILLE, Mo. ? The Office of the Registrar at Northwest Missouri State University has announced the names of students named to the Academic or President's Honor Roll at the end of the 2017 fall trimester.From Mt. Pleasant, Chloe Haffarnan and Taryne Shull made the honor roll.

LOS ANGELES - A thousand people crowded on a hilltop outside Los Angeles before dawn on Wednesday for one of the best views in America of a rare lunar eclipse called a ?Super Blue Blood Moon,? as the Earth's shadow fell across its natural satellite.Outside the Griffith Observatory, which more commonly draws tourists looking at the city's famous Hollywood sign, people lounged on the grass and peered through ...

IOWA CITY ? Iowa State University's Team PrISUm, which has been building solar cars since 1989, has given the University of Iowa's new solar car team a jump start on building their own car.The ISU team in November donated the aluminum frame and fiber shell from an older solar car to the UI's American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) solar car team. The UI team will use the materials, valued at $17,000, to ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie called on NATO on Wednesday to help stop the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, as the Hollywood star broadened her international efforts to protect women's rights.Jolie, who earlier this week visited a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, made her appeal to the U.S.-led alliance's top decision-making body, the North Atlantic Council, in ...