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By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News Roger Pittsenbarger was pleasantly surprised when he received a phone call notifying him that he'd been nominated to receive a Quilt of Valor.Pittsenbarger, who serves as director of Henry County Veteran's Affairs, was at a meeting in Des Moines when his cellphone signaled he had a new voicemail. It was from Jane Messer, a member of the Quilts of Valor Foundation, telling him ...

MEDIAPOLIS ? Pekin?s Cinderella run in the volleyball postseason came to an end Thursday when the Panthers ran into the Mediapolis Bulldogs in the Class 2A regional semifinal.Pekin had previously defeated Cardinal and Sigourney in the playoffs to set up the showdown with Mediapolis. The winner would advance to the regional final for a chance to play at state.The Bulldogs brought a stout 31-7 record into the ...

IRVING, Texas (AP) ? The Big 12 Conference will not split into divisions for football and instead will match its first- and second-place teams when its championship game returns next season.Athletic directors decided on the 1 vs. 2 format after input from the league?s football coaches, the conference announced today.?Given our round-robin, nine-game scheduling model, it is expected the Big 12 champion will be ...

FT. MADISON ? No. 12 New London did what they had to do early in their regional semifinal match against No. 5 Holy Trinity on Thursday night but a Crusader comeback in the first set helped propel HTC to a sweep.The Crusaders came back from a four-point deficit late in the first set to take it 25-21 and won both of the next two games, 25-15, to knock out New London.After quick 3-1 start from HTC to start the ...

Mt. Pleasant's Police Department is looking for a dark green mini van with two black bumpers following a hit-and-run accident.The driver of the van was described as a middle-age white male with facial hair. Police said the van would be missing front driver's side bumper parts.According to the police department's accident report, Shelby Hartman of Morning Sun was driving a 2009 Dodge south on North Broadway ...

AMES (AP) ? The Big 12's oldest coach is about to meet the youngest.Kansas State's Bill Snyder, 78, became just the seventh coach in FBS history to coach at least 300 games at one school earlier this season ? and a win Saturday at Iowa State (1-6, 0-4) would give him 198 career victories, good for 25th all time.Iowa State's Matt Campbell, at 36 the youngest Power Five coach in the country, just finished his ...

There has been a rash of hit-and-run accidents in the past month in Mt. Pleasant, the latest occurring Oct. 29 on East Monroe Street, near its intersection with Haynes Street.According to the police report, a 2012 Ford Focus, owned by Kayla Moorman, Des Moines, was legally parked facing west on Monroe Street.An unknown vehicle struck the rear end of the Focus and left the scene. Damage to the Focus was estimated...

By Jeff Reinitz, Waterloo Courier WATERLOO ? The family of a Waterloo toddler who was strangled to death in 1974 said their load is lighter now that the man who killed her has died in prison.?I'm glad this part of it is over,? said Bill Day, father of 2-year-old of Michelle ?Shelly? Day, whose body was found in a crawl space over Russell James Fitz's bathroom at the Castle Apartments on Commercial Street on ...