Obituaries

CEDAR RAPIDS ? Some couples have ?his and hers? towels. Brian and Vicki Norris have his and hers shops.Their new businesses, which share a space at NewBo City Market, opened in September.His shop is Laser Squared, which features laser-engraved vinyl records that he has transformed into clocks and artwork.Her shop is the Tumbled Stone, which sells more than 125 different varieties of tumbled stones ? polished ...

More than 200 officers searched the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, hunting for a gunman who killed a student during a carjacking attempt after a domestic dispute.Search helicopters whirred over Red Butte Canyon, a research area on the east side of the school, where classes were canceled on Tuesday following the shooting on Monday night, authorities said. An overnight ?secure-in-place? ...

MAQUOKETA ? Rose Frantzen sits on a stool in her Maquoketa studio facing a long canvas. She clenches a handful of different sized brushes in her left hand while using the bristles of the brush in her right hand to finesse the outline of a jaw bone.Paper towels with smears of paint and empty tubes are crumpled across the floor. At least 50 canvasses in different stages of completion hang or lean in virtually ...

MARION ? A new exhibit at the Marion Heritage Center allows visitors to walk the roads of Marion's past and with those who traveled them.The ?Good Roads? exhibit opened Sept. 30 and runs through April 29. Admission is free. Researching and compiling the information took David and Lynette Brenzel, who run the center, two years.When Lynette Brenzel started at the Marion Heritage Center, 590 10th St., in 2012, she ...

IOWA CITY ? When almost a decade ago a group of friends from the Iowa City area realized their children were getting older, they began to imagine what their lives would be like once they became empty nesters.Instead of downsizing their homes or moving to a warmer climate, the friends discovered a concept started in Denmark called ?cohousing,? or community living with private homes built around a common space.The...

This month, several locations in the multicounty Big River Iowa Area Team will serve as drop-off sites for the Samaritan's Purse project, Operation Christmas Child, joining nearly 5,000 U.S. locations to collect gift-filled shoe boxes for children in need around the world.During the project's National Collection Week, Nov. 13?20, Mt. Pleasant residents will transform empty shoe boxes into gifts of hope filled ...

Grasshorse Character Animation Studio is holding a presentation by Steve Jennings at the Winfield Legion City Building on Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m.The presentation features ?Past to Future Animation in Winfield.? It is a presentation by the Winfield Historical Society. There will be refreshments.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Regional directors from U.S. Senator Joni Ernst's office will hold traveling office hours throughout the month of November in all 99 counties in Iowa.These staff members will be available in counties throughout the state to assist Iowans with problems or questions about eligibility involving issues like Social Security, veterans' benefits, military affairs, passports, immigration issues and ...

James Harlan Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution met Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Veterans' Hall in Mt. Pleasant. Nineteen members were in attendance. Special ISDAR guests were Marla Suter, State Historian of the Henry Knox Chapter; Carla Huebler, Regent and Registrar of the Henry Knox Chapter; and Ethel Hegeman, of the Hannah Caldwell Chapter Regent in Davenport. Hostesses Carol Klopfenstein, Susan ...

IOWA CITY ? An Iowa City-based medical diagnostics company rooted in the University of Iowa research engine, founded by one of its faculty, and supported in part by its intellectual property resources, soon could make history.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration never before has cleared for front-line patient care an artificial intelligence-based diagnostic device like the one IDx has developed for diabetic ...