Mt. Pleasant News

Christmas may be over, but the gifts are still coming. On Thursday, Chad Hudson, executive vice president of Wayland State Bank, presented Peggy Knudsen, executive director of Cradel of Hope, with a check for $1,000. The donation was to help the organization continue their work within the community.

LONDON - Britain should charge a 25-pence ($0.34) ?latte levy? on disposable coffee cups to cut down waste and ban them if a recycling target is not met by 2023, a committee of lawmakers said on Friday.Chains Pret A Manger, Costa Coffee, Caffe Nero and Greggs alongside U.S. firm Starbucks are among the biggest coffee-sellers in Britain, rapidly expanding in the last 10 years to meet increasing demand.Although ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia will allow a U.S.-based exploration firm to resume the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, an airline support group told families of the victims on Friday, in a bid to solve one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.Flight MH370, carrying 239 people, disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014. Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened former chief strategist Steve Bannon with legal action over ?defamatory? statements about Trump's son and son-in-law over a meeting with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign.Trump cut ties with Bannon on Wednesday, saying his former adviser had ?lost his mind? in a blistering statement issued after reports of disparaging comments by Bannon in a ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A transsexual woman who used sperm she had banked prior to her sex change to have a baby with her female partner cannot be legally registered as the child's mother, Germany's highest civil and criminal court ruled on Thursday.The Federal Court of Justice, rejected an appeal filed to a lower court by the transsexual woman who wanted to be registered as a second mother of the child, born in ...

LONDON - The dollar held near a four-month low on Wednesday, having declined nearly 3 percent in the last three weeks as investors cut positions before manufacturing data and minutes of a December U.S. Federal Reserve meeting due later in the day.Despite the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax code in 30 years passed by U.S. policymakers in late-December, market strategists are downbeat about the prospects of the ...

With the current rise in opiate use and opiate overdose, Alcohol and Drug Dependency Services of Southeast Iowa is offering a free Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone training. The training will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 23, from 10 to 11 a.m. at Henry County Health Center in Classroom A-1 at the north end of the health center.The training topics will include listing signs and symptoms of an opiate overdose; ...

IOWA CITY ? If anyone is looking for a $1 garbage bin or a $1,250 oil painting, a massive ?garage sale? going on downtown over the next month could be the place to try shopping.International Content Liquidations of Dayton, Ohio, is helping sell off many of the items from the former Sheraton Hotel, 210 Dubuque St., beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday.The liquidation of the hotel's furniture was triggered after ...

(Reuters) Thomas Monson, leader of the Mormon church, has died at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah, the church said on Wednesday. He was 90.Monson became the 16th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the religion is officially known, in 2008. As its leader, members of the faith considered him a prophet who received divine revelations.Monson died late on Tuesday surrounded by his ...

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - El Al Israel Airlines said on Wednesday it will begin nonstop flights between Tel Aviv and San Francisco in the fourth quarter, as it continues to expand into North America.El Al, Israel's flag carrier, said it will fly the route three times a week using new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.It will compete with United, which launched flights between the two cities in 2016 to accommodate ...

The Salem Clover Kids are hosting Pizza Ranch Tip Night on Monday, Jan. 8, from 5 to 8 p.m.The Salem Clover Kids are a 4-H club in Henry County for children kindergarten to third grade. The club meets monthly and goes on field trips, makes projects to take to the fair, conducts science experiments and learns something new. They host Pizza Ranch Tip Night once a year to raise money to support these activities.All...

Thursday, Nov. 2, 1 p.m. gameNorth-South Winners1st: James Graves and Daniel Halker2nd: Doris Dorethy and Natalie CarrollEast-West Winners1st: Janet Ellerhoff and Lois Fort2nd: Amy Cox and Leona DursoMonday, Nov. 6, 9:30 a.m. game1st: Ralph Anderson and Chuck Woodruff2nd: Dave Hutchcroft and Don SchantzThursday, Nov. 9, 1 p.m. gameNorth-South Winners1st: Betty Kilbourn and Lea Bradley2nd: Doris ...