Obituaries

CEDAR RAPIDS ? Eastern Iowans have a chance to partake in food, football and fundraising this Sunday with Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity's Home Team Huddle fundraiser.Cedar Valley Habitat has participated in the national event since 2009. Area Super Bowl watchers have until 5 p.m. Friday to sign up to have a Super Bowl party, during which hosts collect donations from guests.When a party is registered with ...

LESHNICE, Albania - Many old Albanian Orthodox churches and the art they contain lie in ruins due to decades of neglect but they could attract tourists if they are repaired, according to experts.The government and the Orthodox church itself have started restoring some of the structures that date from the Byzantine period or later in the south of the country.The churches are often in picturesque locations and ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump attacked the integrity of the FBI and Justice Department on Friday in an extraordinary showdown over the expected White House release of a secret Republican memo alleging FBI bias against him in its Russia probe.Trump, who has long been angered over the probe, accused the country's top law enforcement officers - some of whom he appointed himself - of politicizing investigations...

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 ...

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 ...

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.