Obituaries

LOS ANGELES - CNN is ending its daily Snapchat news show, ?The Update,? launched just four months ago -- after concluding, at least for now, that it couldn't make money on the initiative from advertising under a revenue-sharing model with Snap.?Snap and CNN have built a great partnership over the years and our teams have enormous admiration for each other,? the companies said in a joint statement. ?We plan to ...

City offices will be closed Monday, Jan. 1, in observance of New Year's Day. Garbage collection will be one day later this week.

Executive Vice President Chad Hudson (right) presents Wayland State Bank's donation to the ?Wesleyan We Love Thee? campaign to Jim Pedrick, Iowa Wesleyan University Major Gifts Officer. In presenting the $1,000 check, Hudson said, ?Our officers and employees in Wayland, Mt. Pleasant and Winfield are proud to support Iowa Wesleyan University and the many ways it serves Henry County and the region.?

Residential Christmas tree pickup is scheduled for Jan. 8-11, weather permitting. It will be done in conjunction with normal garbage pickup.All residents of Mt. Pleasant can use this service. Trees need to be placed next to the curb and must not have plastic coverings, decorations or tinsel on them. Residents who do not use the city's garbage collection service may contact City Hall at 319-385-1480 to find out ...

NEW YORK ? Eight northeastern states said on Tuesday they sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force it to impose more stringent controls on a group of mostly Midwestern states whose air pollution they claim is being blown in their direction.In the latest development of a legal saga that began during Barack Obama's presidency, the lawsuit by New York and seven other states challenges a Trump administr...

LONDON (Reuters) ? Former U.S. president Barack Obama said the way people communicate via social media risked splintering society and leaders had to ensure the Internet did not cocoon users within their biases.Obama said in an interview with Britain's Prince Harry, broadcast on BBC radio on Wednesday, that social media should promote diverse views in a way that ?doesn't lead to a Balkanisation of our society.??A...

(The Gazette) In the span of just five days leading up to Christmas, Iowa's grim tally of people killed this year in house fires grew sharply after seven people ? including children ? were killed in two fires in one pocket of Eastern Iowa.The deaths raise concerns among firefighting professionals that too many people are not taking the basic precaution of having working smoke detectors in their homes, and not ...

Red Kettle campaigns in Linn and Johnson counties lagged in fundraising this holiday season, and one Salvation Army official thinks hurricanes and other natural disaster elsewhere in the United States may have been a contributing factor.Capt. Tim North said that as of last week, the Salvation Army of Johnson County had raised about $200,000 of its $365,000 goal for its holiday campaign. He said that was behind ...

Buildings that were part of the former Iowa Army National Guard Armory at The Eastern Iowa Airport have been leased by multiple tenants, including the Iowa State Police, several Cedar Rapids city departments and an agricultural systems integration business.The Cedar Rapids Airport Commission on Dec. 11 approved leases for nearly 36,000 square feet of space in buildings at 10400 18th St. SW that were vacated ...

Iowa ranks among the states with lowest rates of individuals facing homelessness, but state officials said they're working to get more local data and affordable housing.Each year the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) puts out a homeless report to Congress. The report is intended to identify anyone who suffers from homelessness, possible causes and how individuals are being served by local ...