Obituaries

The Houghton Knights of Columbus recently ran a Knights of Columbus Food for Families food drive seeking cash donations for area food pantries.The Houghton #3905 council teamed up and matched cash donations with Holy Trinity Schools, who raised $900 at the elementary school in West Point, as well as holding special collections at mass in Houghton and St. Paul.In total, the Houghton Council donated $1,500 to the ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump, a strong supporter of gun rights, planned to meet on Wednesday with parents, students and teachers who have been victims of gun violence, including those affected by last week's school shooting in Florida.The White House meeting comes a day after Trump said his administration would take steps to ban bump stocks, an accessory that enables a rifle to shoot hundreds of ...

(Reuters) Staff members will return to work on Friday at the Florida school where a gunman shot and killed 17 people in the deadliest shooting ever at a U.S. high school, district officials said, with students expected back next week.Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland near Fort Lauderdale will also hold a voluntary orientation for students and parents on Sunday and hopes to have students resume ...

Henry County Extension will host a Seed Treatment Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at the Henry County Extension Office.Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the course runs from 9 to 11 a.m. There is a registration fee. To register or to obtain additional information about the CIC, contact Traci Vantiger at the ISU Extension and Outreach office in ...

Iowa already has had two large multivehicle pileups this year, icy conditions could create more driving hazards in the next few days.The Iowa Department of Transportation on Monday urged drivers to evaluate the need to be on the road during poor winter driving conditions.A fast-moving snowstorm caused multiple crashes Saturday in Iowa, including a 70-car pileup on Interstate 35. That interstate also was the ...

The community meal this week will be a potluck. Bring a dish to share if possible.

IOWA CITY ? The University of Iowa Athletic Department increased its share of women participating on Hawkeye teams last year after a federal investigation.But large boosts to the rosters of rowing, women's cross country and women's track feed criticisms the UI may be padding women's teams when it should add a new sport.Women made up 50.8 percent of UI's student-athletes in 2016-2017, the university reported to ...

Editor's note: Gloria Yoder will return next week with more Amish Cook stories.I had never heard of Fasnachts until I was an adult.I think I first heard the term when an Amish Cook reader wrote in asking if she had a recipe for it. She didn't and she hadn't heard the term, which was one more early lesson for me as to how widely varied Amish culinary customs are from community to community.Amish in Ohio, ...

SEOUL - South Korea and the United States will announce plans before April for a postponed joint military drill, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday.Seoul and Washington had agreed to postpone the regular joint military exercise until after the Winter Olympics and Paralympics being hosted in South Korea, which end on March 18.After the decision to delay the joint exercise, North Korea agreed to hold ...

LONDON - There were no survivors among the 65 passengers and crew on an Iranian plane that ploughed into a mountain top, where most of the bodies lie buried under snow, the first rescue team to reach the wreckage said on Tuesday.The Aseman Airlines plane disappeared from radar screens 50 minutes into Sunday's flight from Tehran to the southwestern city of Yasuj. Iranian military located the wreckage in the ...